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Re: [chottala.com] Re: Indian BSF does not kill the Chines ,but kill our people maintaining continuity, is it symbol of 'friendship'? ????????

Indian BSF use to kill Bangladeshi people who cutivate their land in bangladesh area.Indiam BSF kill them without any provocation.

M ASHRAF <mashrafis@yahoo.com> wrote:
in reply to that message i'm writing that never chinese people enter
into india illegaly for goods or any other things except
bangladeshis. bangladeshis take products into india and bring
products from india. all time those are not legal. they take risks
in that. even indian people do not come to our country. so the
trafickers have made them as sitting duck.

--- In chottala@yahoogroups.com, Salahuddin Ayubi <ayubi_s786@...>
wrote:
>
> Mr. Islam,
> They did not kill East Pakistanis when we
> were part of Pakistan because then they used to get
> and instant reply. Now our political leadership is
> spineless and weak and shit scared of India and that
> is why they are killing bangladeshis. In BAL period of
> administration once our BDR gave appropriate reply to
> BSF and our Hashu Apa immediately sacked the BDR chief
> for his insolence. After that our BDR never tried to
> be insolent.
> Salahuddin Ayubi
> --- "Md. Aminul Islam" <aminul_islam_raj@...>
> wrote:
>
> > dear all,
> > do you notice it the Indian BSF do not kill the
> > bordering chines . Even it does kill the Pakistanis
> > so frequently.But why they kill us maintaining
> > continuity, is it symbol of 'friendship'.??Is it a
> > new definition of friendship?or duty of good
> > neighbor.?
> >
> >
> >
> > ---------------------------------
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[chottala.com] Re: Indian BSF does not kill the Chines ,but kill our people maintaining continuity, is it symbol of 'friendship'? ????????

in reply to that message i'm writing that never chinese people enter
into india illegaly for goods or any other things except
bangladeshis. bangladeshis take products into india and bring
products from india. all time those are not legal. they take risks
in that. even indian people do not come to our country. so the
trafickers have made them as sitting duck.

--- In chottala@yahoogroups.com, Salahuddin Ayubi <ayubi_s786@...>
wrote:
>
> Mr. Islam,
> They did not kill East Pakistanis when we
> were part of Pakistan because then they used to get
> and instant reply. Now our political leadership is
> spineless and weak and shit scared of India and that
> is why they are killing bangladeshis. In BAL period of
> administration once our BDR gave appropriate reply to
> BSF and our Hashu Apa immediately sacked the BDR chief
> for his insolence. After that our BDR never tried to
> be insolent.
> Salahuddin Ayubi
> --- "Md. Aminul Islam" <aminul_islam_raj@...>
> wrote:
>
> > dear all,
> > do you notice it the Indian BSF do not kill the
> > bordering chines . Even it does kill the Pakistanis
> > so frequently.But why they kill us maintaining
> > continuity, is it symbol of 'friendship'.??Is it a
> > new definition of friendship?or duty of good
> > neighbor.?
> >
> >
> >
> > ---------------------------------
> > Be a better friend, newshound, and know-it-all with
> > Yahoo! Mobile. Try it now.
>
>
> Send instant messages to your online friends

http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com
>


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[chottala.com] Police Atrocity in India : five killed Bhagalpur [Bihar]

Bhagalpur toll five as youth dragged from house by police, shot dead

Patna, (Bihar Times): A day after the killing of three people in the police firing in Kahalgaon block of Bhagalpur district a young boy, Mohammad Khairuddin (18) alias Khairu, was dragged from his house, beaten in full public view by the police and then shot dead. Another person Mohammad Aslam suffered serious injuries in the process. The whole event was captured by a camera person and subsequently shown by a television channel.

Saturday was the day of police going berserk. According to the local residents a police party led by the deputy superintendent of police broke into several houses and indiscriminately started beating the people. They wanted to take the 'revenge' for the attack on police by the mob on Friday. With the death of one person in hospital the death toll in Friday's police firing rose to four. Thus the toll in the two days of violence rose to five.

Just after the killing of Khairu the town turned into a battleground with mob torching two hospitals, government vehicles etc. Home secretary Afzal Amanullah, who along with ADG, Abhayanand, went to Kahalgaon, said that the government had ordered the transfer of the SDO, DSP, BDO and officer-in-charge. He also said that the government would pay compensation of Rs one lakh each to all the four persons who died in police action on Friday and Saturday.

Bhagalpur is not the only place going without power for the last many months. Power shortages have sparked protests in many places and Bihar State Electricity Board offices have been ransacked in at least two dozen districts in the last few weeks.

The two days of police action has given fresh ammunition to all political parties. But what is causing concern is that in Bhagalpur and other district towns not only the opposition parties but even the activists of the ruling BJP and Janata Dal (United) are taking part in the protest against the administration.

Bindeshwari Jha, a BJP activist, did not mince a word to tell a television channel as to why only the DSP and SDO have been transferred when the district magistrate and superintendent of police were present at the time of police firing. Meanwhile, railway minister Lalu Yadav is rushing to Bhagalpur from Delhi.

What is strange is that on Saturday police were let loose when the home secretary and ADG were in the town to take the stock of the situation.

Also read the story :

Bhagalpur cop atrocity incident: Human Rights team begins inquiry ...

Bhagalpur cop atrocity incident: Human Rights team begins inquiry ... Pak did not commit the "original sin" of bringing nuclear weapons: Aslam ( ANI ...
in.news.yahoo.com/070903/139/6k9uy.html - 38k - Cached - Similar pages - Note this

The Asian Age - Enjoy the difference

Mohammed Khairo (18) was killed and another identified as Mohammed Aslam injured when the police opened fire on a mob that set ablaze the government ...
www.asianage.com/presentation/leftnavigation/news/india/youth-dies-as-cops-open-fire-on-bihar-mob.aspx - 24k - Cached - Similar pages - Note this

Eerie calm in Kahalgaon-Patna-Cities-The Times of India

Mohammad Asif nodded. "We did not take out the 'tazia' procession because we feel ... in his twenties, said and added another local, Mohammad Aslam, ...
timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Cities/Patna/Eerie_calm_in_Kahalgaon/articleshow/2719613.cms - 1 hour ago - Similar pages - Note this

IndianExpress.com :: 'We gave up land for power plant, now they ...

Kahalgaon's Ramdev Mandal speaks for his dusty town in Bhagalpur district where, ... Mohammad Aslam, the 32-year-old who worked as a labour hand, ...
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Mourning Bihar town refuses to observe Muharram | Indian Muslims

Patna : Tension still runs high in Kahalgaon town of Bihar's Bhagalpur district ... IN the process, another Muslim youth, Mohammad Aslam, suffered serious ...
www.indianmuslims.info/news/2008/jan/20/mourning_bihar_town_refuses_observe_muharram.html - Similar pages - Note this
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[chottala.com] Saudi Arabia : Forced annulment keeps couple apart

Forced annulment keeps couple apart

Photo: Mansour Al-Timani and daughter, Noha, age 2; courtesy of The Saudi Gazette.

By DONNA ABU-NASR, Associated Press Writer Sun Jan 20, 4:14 PM ET

RIYADH, Saudi Arabia - Two years ago, a knock on Fatima and Mansour al-Timani's door shattered the life they had built together.

It was the police, delivering news that a judge had annulled their marriage in absentia after some of Fatima's relatives sought the divorce on grounds she had married beneath her.

That was just the beginning of an ordeal for a couple who — under Saudi Arabia's strict segregation rules — can no longer live together. They sued to reverse the ruling, publicized their story and sought help from a Saudi human rights group.

But the two remain apart and Fatima said she is considering suicide if her recent appeal to King Abdullah does not reunite her with her husband.

"Only the king can resolve my case," Fatima told The Associated Press by telephone in a rare interview. "I want to return to my husband, but if that is not possible, I need to know so I can put an end to my life."

Fatima's case underscores shortcomings in the kingdom's Islamic legal system in which rules of evidence are shaky, lawyers are not always present and sentences often depend on the whim of judges.

The most frequent victims are women, who already suffer severe restrictions on daily life in Saudi Arabia: They cannot drive, appear before a judge without a male representative, or travel abroad without a male guardian's permission.

Recently, the king did intervene and pardon another high-profile defendant — a rape victim who was sentenced to lashes and jail time for being in a car with a man who was not her relative.

The two cases have brought Saudi human rights once again into the international spotlight, revealing not only the weakness of the kingdom's justice system, but the scant rights of Saudi women.

"When I heard that the (rape victim) was pardoned, I couldn't believe it. My case is so much simpler than hers, since my divorce is invalid," Fatima said.

Fatima said her husband, a hospital administrator, followed Saudi tradition in asking her father for permission to marry her in 2003.

"My brother reported good things about him, so my dad accepted his proposal," said Fatima, a computer specialist who was 29 when she married.

She said her father knew that Mansour came from a less prominent tribe than hers, but that he did not mind because he "cared about the man himself."

A few months after the wedding, several of Fatima's relatives, including a half brother, persuaded her father to give them power of attorney to file a lawsuit demanding an annulment, she said.

Then her father died, and Fatima said she had hoped the case would be dropped.

But on Feb. 25, 2006, police knocked on the couple's door to serve Mansour with divorce papers — which said his marriage had been annulled nine months earlier.

"We were shattered. How did this happen? Why?" Fatima asked.

Under Saudi law, a woman needs the permission of her family to marry.

Saudi lawyer Abdul-Rahman al-Lahem, who used to represent the couple, said local interpretations of Islamic law hold that relatives of a married couple have the right to seek an annulment if they feel the marriage lowers the extended family's status.

He said authorities are reluctant to overrule such annulment orders, believing they are private matters within extended families.

Fatima took the couple's 2-year-old daughter and 4-month-old son to live with her mother, who had persuaded her to let Mansour deal with the legal issues on his own.

But after three months without her husband, Fatima and the children sneaked out of her mother's house and flew with Mansour to the western seaside city of Jiddah, where they sought to live in anonymity.

Saudi police soon discovered them and imprisoned the family for living together illegally.

"The police told me I either return to my (mother's) family or go to jail," Fatima said. "I chose jail."

"My children and I were thrown in a cell with women sentenced for pushing drugs, practicing witchcraft and behaving immorally," Fatima said. Authorities allowed her to send her daughter back to live with her father, but the infant stayed with Fatima in jail.

"He learned to speak in jail, he learned to walk in jail and his teeth came out in jail," she said.

Meanwhile, Mansour went to court to appeal the divorce ruling, but a Riyadh appeals court upheld the decision in 2007.

Last September, the head of a prominent Saudi human rights group reportedly asked the kingdom's highest court to review the case.

Bandar al-Hajjar, head of the National Society of Human Rights, submitted two Islamic studies concluding that the divorce was invalid, according to the Arab News, a Saudi English-language daily.

The studies, conducted by Islamic researcher Adnan Al-Zahrani and Bassam Al-Bassam, a counselor at the Court of Cassation in Mecca, said that if a woman's legal guardian represented her at the original wedding, then other relatives have no right to object to the marriage based on compatibility.

Both studies concluded that Fatima married Mansour with her father's permission, and that only the wife can decide whether she wants her marriage annulled, the paper reported.

Despite their legal fight, Fatima and Mansour remain apart.

After nine months in jail, Fatima moved to an orphanage where she and her son share an apartment with several other women.

Fatima said she is holding out hope the king might pardon her, and recognize her as "married to Mansour, before God."

"I love him more than ever. He's the only one who has stood by me," she said.

"Say 'No' To Forced Divorce - 'Yes' to Reforms" http://www.petitiononline.com/no24orce/petition.html

For a complete media documented history of the Fatima and Mansour Al-Timani case visit:
http://muslimahwritersalliance.com/mwa-community/al-timani_case_chronology.htm

An unidentified Saudi doctor is seen in this Oct. 23, 2007, ...  
An unidentified Saudi doctor is seen in this Oct. 23, 2007, file photo taken in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, hospital. Some Saudi women, including a woman divorced against her wishes and her husband's, are frustrated with the kingdom's judicial system — one based on Islamic law in which judges have broad discretion and that many say ignore women's interests. (AP Photo/Hasan Jamali)
 
... its 2000 campaign, highlighting the human rights situation in Saudi Arabia. ... Write to the Saudi Arabian authorities and ask them to: ...
web.amnesty.org/library/Index/ENGMDE230102000?open&of=ENG-2D2 - 25k - Cached
 
 

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[chottala.com] Scholarships in Saudi Arabia

Syed Mirza <mirza.syed@gmail.com> wrote:

Turkman is damn right. These Bangladeshi muslim scholars if they are trained by any Saudi University, they will become terrorist's leader just like the Maulana Abdur Rahman ( a graduate from Medina University), remember that JMB guru who was hanged for his jihadi leadership in BD?  So, don't be fooled by Saudi's luring, these people are biggest hypocrites. Saudi is the God-father of all Islamic jihadis terrorists.
 
Syed Mirza


 
On 1/21/08, S Turkman <turkman@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
This is how countries get Saudi-trained Wahabi Mollaas. Bangladesh should refuse to issue passports to anyone receiving such sholarship. Its against the National Interest of the country. When Moslims of Bangladesh not Wahabi, why they have to be trained by Wahabis?

mokarram hossain <mokarram76@yahoo.com> wrote:
pls follow the link
http://www.kaust.edu.sa/students/King-abdullah-scholars.aspx
-------------------------------------
The KAUST Discovery Scholarship is the general
scholarship program
of the King Abdullah University of Science and
Technology (KAUST).

This program is designed to ensure that any highly
talented student
who is qualified and eligible to enroll in KAUST will
receive full
financial support while at the University. Those who
receive a
Discovery Scholarship will receive full tuition
support, a living
stipend, and summer and career enrichment programs.

Recipients of the KAUST Discovery Scholarship
represent future
leaders in science, engineering and technology.

KAUST will offer Discovery Scholarships to all KAUST
students � an
exceptional level of support intended to attract
gifted and talented
students from Saudi Arabia and from other countries
around the world.

KAUST will offer a pre-enrollment version of this
general
scholarship program to students attending
first-university or
bachelor's degree programs. KAUST will provide
financial support to
pre-enrollment Discovery Scholarship recipients at
their home
institutions prior to the University's opening. Upon
graduation,
these students will enter KAUST as master's degree
students in
September 2009 and 2010 to complete their graduate
studies on a
fully funded scholarship.

Recipients of the KAUST Discovery Scholarship
represent future
leaders in science, engineering and technology.

Students may apply for a KAUST Discovery Scholarship
directly, or
they may be nominated by a professor at their
institution.

The 2007 KAUST Discovery Scholarship application cycle
has closed.
The next cycle will begin in early 2008. Please check
the KAUST
Website for further updates as they become available.

For more information, please review KAUST's list of
frequently asked
questions about the KAUST Discovery Scholarship.
============================================
KING ABDULLAH SCHOLAR AWARD
The King Abdullah Scholar Award is conferred upon
outstanding
doctoral students to support their continued research
efforts. As
recipients of the most prestigious KAUST scholarship
award, King
Abdullah Scholars represent a new age of visionary
researchers,
those that will have a major impact on the future of
science,
engineering and IT and will be a driving force for
global
innovation. King Abdullah Scholars are a
"young-scholars" version of
KAUST's King Abdullah Professors. The selected
scholars will embody
the highest level of academic and leadership potential
and will
represent the aspirations and values of KAUST at their
home
institutions.

As recipients of the most prestigious KAUST
scholarship award, King
Abdullah Scholars represent a new age of visionary
researchers.

The Award consists of generous funding for up to four
years to
continue the scholar's research project, a living
stipend and travel
funds.

The scholars will serve as "Ambassadors" at global
research and
technical conferences and workshops. The King Abdullah
Scholars will
be invited to participate in joint research projects
on the KAUST
campus and to take an active role mentoring KAUST
Discovery
Scholarship recipients at joint enrichment workshops
focused on
leadership and academic excellence.

Upon completion of their doctoral degrees, KAUST may
offer King
Abdullah Scholars research and post-doctoral
opportunities on the
KAUST campus, thereby creating opportunities for
exceptional,
innovative researchers and professors that will
advance the long-
term vision and goals of KAUST.

KAUST will invite select universities to nominate
scholars for the
King Abdullah Scholar Award.

For more information, please review KAUST's list of
frequently asked
questions about the King Abdullah Scholar Award.

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[chottala.com] Selim Al Deen : A tribute by EKUSH, The newspaper of the west, www.21tube.com

Dear Readers
Our January 2008 issue is out. Please pick up a copy from your local Bengali stores in LA or visit
our Newspaper site at www.ekush.info . We have a video site where we post some of our local activities,
visit us at www.21tube.com or www.ekushtube.com

Selim Al Deen: A tribute by EKUSH, USA

http://www.youtube.com/swf/l.swf?video_id=LCpk24CRhhA Part-1

http://www.youtube.com/swf/l.swf?video_id=E1-_llfpug8 Part-2

http://www.youtube.com/swf/l.swf?video_id=QVm-UB1sC0M Part-3

http://www.youtube.com/swf/l.swf?video_id=SkUu4ZMTa5I Part-4

http://www.youtube.com/swf/l.swf?video_id=UJlvZ8gs5og Part-5
 

From our latest video archive, here are some links. Please visit and comment.

Highlights of the January Ekush Newspaper: Please Click:
http://www.youtube.com/swf/l.swf?video_id=eSgrvXWL-68&rele

Sidr Relief Efforts by ATN Bangla & Bangladesh Center:
http://www.youtube.com/swf/l.swf?video_id=g1Sr9r8rbtw&rele

One of us is not here anymore: Remembrance of Milu Bhai
http://www.youtube.com/swf/l.swf?video_id=ND7fFI_UYnw&rele

Bangladeshi Improvised Drama: Bangladesh Academy Presents
http://www.youtube.com/swf/l.swf?video_id=Enh0KR7B16A&rele


One Sunday Afternoon with Dr. Q. Nasir Uddin:
http://www.youtube.com/swf/l.swf?video_id= tSPiFWO_3Uo&rele

Goodbye 2007 & Eid Reunion: Please Click:
http://www.youtube.com/swf/l.swf?video_id=Cjb7VDLFjrQ&rel

New Year Resolution..what is yours? Part-1 Please Click:
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More Video links:
M Hamid in LA & Local Activities:
http://www.youtube.com/swf/l.swf?video_id=XDzbwprQ2-g&rel -part 1
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http://www.youtube.com/swf/l.swf?video_id=nSJ1dM3A-wo&rel part 3 & Uttorn
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http://www.youtube.com/swf/l.swf?video_id=wxvIpEn6CUQ&rel part 6
 
Thank you all.
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[chottala.com] Policy Innovation - President's Office and its role in our democracy

Policy Innovation - President's Office and its role in our democracy
We think our democratic system will be strengthened by two specific reform that relates to the office of the president - the way we elect President and the job description of the President
 
 
The office of the president represents the unity of the country where everything ends as far as state power is concerned. However, the way we have conceptualized the presidents responbilities and role in the governance structure needs further look.
 
The problem:
We think our lawmakers and policymakers had trouble with the idea of the President within a parliamentary system. Many parliamentary democracies have monarchy at the helm of the state power. These monarchs have become symbolic in most of the cases. Japan, Britain, Malaysia, Thailand, etc are few examples.
 
When designing our system in the light of those systems, our policymakers had trouble about how to handle the symbolic nature of those monarchs. The result is what we have today.
 
The basic assumption of designing the office of president in the light of those symbolic monarchs is faulty. It is faulty in two counts, at the least. First, Monarchs provide a fixed stability to the statecraft, since it is based on genetic lineage. Second, the monarchs are revered by the populace since the system relates to some historic precedence - though different in different countries. These two aspect of monarchs as head of state is most valuable where they exists.
 
However, when we tried to copy that - we could not ensure none of these two advantages. It is not possible. These two advantages - fixed stability through genetic lineage and reverence coming from history - both are inherent to the monarch system. Current day presidents office can not be designed to facilitate those two. It has to be recognized clearly. It seems that the designers did not quite understand this inherent problem with the current system. Its a problem that needs to be fixed.
 
The solution:
 
So, what are we suggesting? Do we need a monarch if we want a sound parliamentary system?
 
Nope.
 
The solution is NOT to try to copy our presidents office in the light of monarch which is mainly symbolic. You can not elect a person to become a symbolic force and give you the stability that monarchs give.
 
Rather you have to look for alternate. Here is a possible solution that seems reasonable to us. We think it is worth debating.
 
First of all, we would not be able to impose 'fixed stability' upon presidents office by electing a president. Inherently or theoretically, it is not possible. So, we should not try to achieve that. Rather we should try to achieve a competing value which is more important. We should design the presidents office that gives us dynamic stability. In other words, we would like our president's office to give the state a 'dynamic stability' instead of 'fixed stability'.
 
Secondly, we should give the president the reverance that the office needs. In monarch's case, it comes from history. But in our presidents case, that is not possible. So, we should give him people's mandate. But this mandate should not be similar to the prime ministers mandate who gets elected through MPs. When both president and prime minister gets elected by same group of people, it gives the wrong signal. Either these two elected official will compete each other for power or one of them will have to become powerless. In our case, the second was deemed necessary. But we think there are better options.
 
Let us discuss these two issues one by one.
 
President's Office should provide the country dynamic stability:
 
In monarch case, the fixed stability comes from the genetic lineage. But its not possible for presidents. So, the president has to provide stability through policy - which we call dynamic stability. We think its a superior system compared to the fixed stability. If one examines the policy areas of the state, if you are asked to choose several policy areas, what will be those? We think we can safely choose defence, education, planning ministries which needs long term vision. So, the president should be given these three or any other combination of ministries. The president will conduct the ministries through expert appointments. 
 
President's Office should provide the country a place of reverance:
 
In monarch case, the reverance comes from historical lineage or events. But its not possible for presidents. So, the president has to achieve reverance through an alternate mechanism. We think the best way to get that is to elect the president through representatives of the societies. An electoral college can be formed to elect the president. This electoral college can consists of all the business chamber executive bodies, all the local government bodies, all the professional bodies, all the trade union bodies. This list can be extended if necessary. And the election commission office will be mandated to maintain an updated list of this electoral college.
 
 
We offer this draft plan for reform of presidents office for the experts, think-tanks and above all, politicians to consider. Whether it is done now or later, that will be a different question. But we think the ideas are worth the time for some brainstorming. A process of dialogue should start that will give us a meaningful office of president. But whatever the reform measures are, the presidents office should not be empowered to dismiss the parliament. In other words, the office of president should not be allowed to disturb the parliamentary democracy in any gross way.
 
 
If you thought some of the ideas are worth of your reading time, please forward it to others. If you have an ear to the columinsts in regular traditional media, please forward it to them. If you have an ear to the journalists and news editors of the electronic media, discuss it with them. Hope they would look at the suggestions and give due diligence. 
 
 
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Re: [chottala.com] Black flags hoisted on DU, RU campuses Demand for Freeing Teachers, Students

The moral duty of the teachers are providing correct update education to the students
1)       To create dedicated minded honest efficient political leaders to lead the country.
2)       To create honest creative law makers for making rules & laws
3)       To create foresighted wise skilled planers for planning.
4)       To create good efficient administrators to rule
5)       To create perfect executors to execute the plan & to build the country for saving the people.  
Not creating by doing nonsense politics in power of 1973  for
1)       suffering the students in season jots
2)       not taken regularly classes
3)       not taken examination in due time & not given result in time
4)      not honored the certificates of the students who are getting after  obtained degree/graduated of Bangladesh University by the University in abroad &  treated as below standard educated persons in comparison with foreign University Graduates  




Syed Aslam <Syed.Aslam3@gmail.com> wrote:
 
Black flags hoisted on DU, RU campuses
Demand for Freeing Teachers, Students
Bangladesh, Friday, January 18, 2008
Dhaka University teachers hoisting a black flag on the roof of the Arts Faculty building yesterday demanding release of their arrested colleagues and a student.
Teachers of Dhaka University (DU) yesterday hoisted a black flag on the Arts Faculty building as an expression of their disappointment and resentment over the "unjustified" detention of four teachers and a student.

Students of Rajshahi University (RU) and family members of 10 RU students and an employee--convicted in the DGFI vehicle torching case--also hoisted black flags above all faculty buildings, demanding their release.

Meanwhile, students of Sirajganj University College and Mirpur Bangla College staged demonstrations yesterday to express solidarity with the movement of DU teachers and students.

DU students also continued their demonstration, demanding the release of the detained teachers and student within January 18 and withdrawal of all cases against them.

Hoisting the black flag around 11:40am, Prof Muhammad Akhtaruzzaman, former general secretary of DU Teachers' Association (Duta), said, "We are disappointed and resentful as our colleagues and a student have been detained unjustifiably."

A requisitioned emergency meeting of the Duta took the decision of hoisting a black flag on the campus on Wednesday night and keep it hoisted until the release of the detainees.

This is the first time that a black flag was hoisted on the campus.

Prof Akhtaruzzaman said, "The government is jeering at us as we have been non-violent, peaceful and obedient to law."

He said it seems that there is a vindictive section in the government, which wants the detained teachers and student to be punished.

If the government tries to repeat what happened in Rajshahi University, where teachers were punished in connection with campus violence in August last year, it will prove the government's reactionary character, he added.

A number of teachers yesterday also wore black ribbons as part of their protest programme.

The Duta meeting had set a new deadline for the release of the detainees within January 23 and decided not to hold any admission test at the university until the arrested teachers and student are freed. The teachers also decided to observe a three-hour token hunger strike at the foot of Aparajeyo Bangla from 10:00am to 1:00pm on January 21.

STUDENTS DEMONSTRATION
DU students under the banner of "Students against Repression" yesterday staged a demonstration on the campus, boycotting classes from 11:00am to 1:00pm. They formed human chains, brought out silent processions and held a protest rally.

Three human chains were formed in front of the Arts Faculty building, Curzon Hall and Institute of Fine Arts around 12:00noon. Hundreds of students spontaneously participated in the programme.

Boycotting classes, the students kept the gates of Curzon Hall, Science Annex building and Institute of Education and Research under lock and key.

DU students had already set today as the deadline for the release of their teachers and fellow student.

Meanwhile, the students alleged that the university authorities cheated them by extending the usual one-day Ashura holiday by another day "to stall" the ongoing demonstrations on the campus.

But DU public relations department Director Ashraf Ali Khan said usually classes remain suspended for two days on the occasion of Ashura while administrative offices remain closed for one day.

The leaders of Students against Repression yesterday met Vice-Chancellor Prof SMA Faiz and demanded that as the guardian of the university he take his stand for the unconditional release of all the detainees by withdrawing the cases.

They warned of violating the Emergency Power Rules if the teachers and student are not released by today.

Later, talking to reporters, Prof Faiz said he is trying to get the detainees released immediately.

Meanwhile, a number of students of Mirpur Bangla College in the city yesterday alleged that a fellow student was intentionally implicated in a case in connection with the August violence after police arrested him.

Our RU correspondent adds: Students of Rajshahi University and Sirajganj University College observed yesterday as a "black day", demanding release of 10 fellow students and an employee convicted in a case filed for torching a vehicle of the DGFI last August when the campus was violent following DU incidents.

Several hundred students and family members of the 11 convicts brought out a procession on the campus in the morning, wearing black badges and holding black flags.

They boycotted classes for two hours and hoisted black flags at all faculty buildings.

The family members of the convicted students criticised the RU authorities for not taking any step for their release.

Our correspondent in Sirajganj reports: Around 200 students of Sirajganj University College formed a human chain on the campus, protesting arrest of the DU teachers and a student and demanding their unconditional release immediately.


 
 

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[chottala.com] Re: [notun_bangladesh] FW: LabAid Cardiac Hospital: The real story behind the fancy Ads!

Dear Bari Bhai

While expressing my deepest condolence and sympathy to you and family for the tragic death of your beloved Dad at the hands of the "BASTARD BUTCHER BLOOD MONGER KILLER SO CALLED DOCTORS OF LAB AID".

I reality these doctors are worst then blood sucking vampiers and know nothing but money and money.There are several hundred such untold stories of inhuman brutality against these Bastard Doctors clan of our country for which petients take the pain to go to big neighbour to spend hard earned foreign currency. Allhough it is questionable that whether they get the right treatment or not in India but one thing for  sure that they get a very good smiling welcome plus human service from all quarters of treatment aginst money opfcourse !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Friends,I wish to pose a serious question to the new governm,ent who waged a serious war aginst all types of corruption and wrong doing down from Formalin in fish,spurious drugs,contaminated food items etc etc why they dont see these white collar Bastard crminal doctors who are spilling the blood of innocents and minting money ???????????????????????

May I draw the attention of the Advisor in charge of Health to be honest and make a serous enquiry and bring to book the blood thirsty vampires and also make "Seal Gala" the tainted  "Lab Aid" for good to set an example to the wrong doers to behave else face the same consequences. Uness we start taking such action crimes in this sector will devour the nation to die helpless .

What is the reaction and role of the Bangladesh Medical Association of Bangladesh????? Will they as like the past stand like rock behind their criminal colleagues(refer to one lady Obstertician for whose negilgence a young Lady Banker died few years back) ????????????

We must do something against all these criminals including other criminals in other fields as well to tame the bloody corrupted literate powerfull segments of the society who virtually squander,loot and destroys all sanity and taosting drinks on the plight of the people. I mean the politicians(thieves and thugs and goons),bureaucrat (theives and connivers of many many wrong doings),business elites(touts/smugglers money launderers).

Friends, long time back I wrote in this blog proposing  "Capital  Punishment" to any convict accused of any crimes that relates to above mentioned crimes. To my understanding to size up the whole scale wrong doers including their connivers do deserve this punishment since their act(s) are causing death and immense suffering to millions of the country.

I would to join Bari bhai to request you all of all blogs to wage a war against the such criminals with specifice reference to "Lab Aid Hospital". By thus we will be doing some justice to ourselve as a faithfull citizen.

Regards to all

Faruque Alamgir

Bari Ahmed Wasimul <awbariuk@yahoo.com> wrote:
Dear Mr. Rashid

This is not the first case at Lab Aid. I also another
case and may be others also.

Lab Aid is a commercial business and they show no
sympathy to any family as they think it's not their
job. Even you can't take the death body out of the Lab
Aid if you do not fully pay or clear the bills. They
receive cash only and no cheque from general people.

This is really SHAME and I wish you will recover the
pain soon. But like you, I am also requesting all
please do not go to Lab Aid. It's better to go India,
Bangkok or Singapore or even PG Hospital.

Reagrds

Bari
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--- mamunur rashid <rickon_22@yahoo.com> wrote:

> What a Shame! This is the real scenario of
> Bangladeshi
> Doctor's.We should Hang them.
>
>
>
> --- MunTasiR SaNiaT <msaniat@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> > Dear all,
> >
> > My intuition of sending this e-mail
> to
> > you is to raise my
> > voice against LabAid Cardiac
> > Hospital and provide a real
> > picture about LabAid, so that the
> > LabAid hospital change
> > their attitude with their future
> > customers.
> >
> > Please read the attached news paper
> > article which was
> > published on The Daily Janakantha on
> 19
> > Dec, 2007, also,
> > please see the actual condition of my
> > father while he was
> > under treatment at LabAid Cardiac
> > Hospital :
> >
> >
> > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gnJZIg_x1KI
> > (CAUTION: This
> > video is very graphical!)
> >
> > The person that you are watching on
> > this video is not in this
> > world anymore! He died on 11 Nov,
> 2007
> > at LabAid Cardiac
> > Hospital, Dhaka , Bangladesh while
> > treating under Prof.(Dr.)
> > Baren Chakrabarti, Prof. (Dr.) M.
> > Matiur Rahman (who is
> > actually not a professor, but using
> > this fancy title) and
> > Prof. (Dr.) Ali Hossain (the best
> > doctors in our country with
> > some fancy fake title.!!!).
> >
> > We trusted the fancy ads of LabAid,
> > also trusted the fancy
> > titled doctors and nurses. But look
> at
> > the real picture of
> > LabAid's CCU Bed No. 8. After the
> > surgery they left my father
> > on the bed without any proper
> > attention. The LabAid doctors
> > are so busy to catch another new CCU
> > patient, which they
> > forget about stitching the surgery
> area
> > of the current
> > patient. Look at the blood all over
> the
> > bed! Look at.. how
> > clean LabAid's CCU unit is!
> >
> > I raised my voice when I saw the real
> > picture of LabAid. For
> > raising my voice I got slapped on my
> > face in front of the all
> > the people by the LabAid G.M. Mr.
> Imran
> > Chowdhury.
> >
> > I am sure LabAid doctors who were
> > involve with my father's
> > treatment has got a good amount of
> > share from the bill, but
> > can they really tell that the
> > hospital/or even the doctor's
> > has done a proper treatment for that
> > helpless guy Mr. A. K.
> > M. Fazlul Haq (my father)? He was
> just
> > lying on the CCU Bed
> > No. 8 helplessly for 15 days and
> > expecting his sons, also the
> > doctors will take care of him
> properly.
> > We have done our part
> > from the bottom of our heart; we were
> > ready to spend all of
> > our savings and everything to get a
> > proper treatment for our
> > father, because he is our father who
> > took care of us
> > properly. But Mr. or Ms. Lab Aid
> > administrators....Have you
> > guys taken care of my father
> properly?
> > I am sure you did not,
> > because I am the one who is one of
> your
> > victims. How come a
> > person who didn't even have any heart
> > surgery or any type of
> > major surgery, but got a bill for 5
> and
> > Half lac taka (BD Tk.
> > 5,00, 000.00, AU$8,155.00,
> > US$7,288.00)???
> >
> > Dr. Lutfor Rahman (Head of LabAid's
> > Cardiac Hospital ) (I am
> > pointing you because you are the
> golden
> > son of our country),
> > do you guys still wanna claim that
> > Heart Surgery is cheaper
> > in Bangladesh now? On 11 Nov, 2007
> > when my auntie (Ms.
> > Sharmin Naaz, Assitt. Commissioner of
> > Taxes, Bangladesh
> > Govt.) went to see with you regarding
> > my father's bill that
> > time you mentioned about your
> > contribution in Bangladesh . You
> > were also talking about you can make
> 1
> > lac take in a matter
> > of second. Well, done Dr. Lutfor
> > Rahman...Well done! We're
> > really proud of your contribution (?)
> > to our country! Here is
> > one of your biggest contributions to
> > our country's medical
> > history which was published on the
> > Daily Janakantha on 19
> > Dec, 2007 -- ("Lab Aid has become a
> > human killing machine"
> > The Daily Janakantha, 19 Dec, 2007")
> >
> > Life is very interesting Dr. Lutfor
> > Rahman! When we lost our
> > love ones then we feel for it, but
> then
> > we forget about it.
> > Instead of forgetting about my
> father's
> > death, I want to
> > raise my voice against LabAid
> Cardiac
> > Hospital and request
> > all of you to "STOP GOING TO THE
> LabAID
> > for any heart
> > treatment" and wanna make those
> doctors
> > to understand that
> > they should not play with any humans
> > life, because no matter
> > how powerful or rich they could be,
> > they will never be able
> > to give a life back to a dead man's
> > life! So, STOP f..ing
> > around with a human life, OKAI Dr.
> > Lutfor Rahman, Prof (Dr.)
> > Baren Chakraborty, also the others
> who
> > are involve in this
> > human killing business!
> >
> > The LabAid hospital needs to know a
> > little bit about the
> > power of Internet in disseminating
> > information. I will
> > request to all of you also do the
> same
> > (when forwarding the
> > article, send CC or copies to the
> > lab-aid related addresses,
> > so that the LabAid individuals feel a
> > little shame every time
> > they receive a copy of this email).
> >
> > Here are the email addresses of the
> > LabAid individuals with
> > their full name:
> >
> > Prof. (Dr.) Baren
> Chakraborty
> > -
> > baren_chakraborty@yahoo.com
> > Prof (Dr.) Matiur Rahman -
> > prof.motiur@labaidgroup.com
> > Dr. Lutfor Rahman -
> > lutfor@labaidgroup.com
> >
>
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Kindest regards

Ahmed Wasimul Bari
Student of DBA Program, Switzerland
MBA(UK), Dip in Mngt.(Canada), MSc & BSc(DU, 1st Class)
Image & HR Consultant
CRO, Center for Research & Studies

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