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Wednesday, June 4, 2008

Re: [chottala.com] Reality is nothing but a collective hunch

The so called inefficient dishonest unfaithful illieterate half literate money looter politicians have made the constitutional system this CTG  form with non political non experienced non elected persons to rule the country & to conduct the fair & neutral MP election.

So brother Mr Gopal it is better you ask the God to create wise & efficient  faithful & honest politicians & political leaders for Bangladesh &  to rule Bangladesh  or to send again the Lord Clive to save the democrcacy for lawful adminstration... 

--- On Thu, 5/6/08, gopalsengupta@aol.com <gopalsengupta@aol.com> wrote:

From: gopalsengupta@aol.com <gopalsengupta@aol.com>
Subject: [chottala.com] Reality is nothing but a collective hunch
To: mukto-mona@yahoogroups.com, khabor@yahoogroups.com, chottala@yahoogroups.com, notun_bangladesh@yahoogroups.com, hazarikaa@hotmail.com, vinnomot@yahoogroups.com, uttorshuri@yahoogroups.com
Date: Thursday, 5 June, 2008, 10:48 AM

The military backed caretaker government has completed 6 times more than its mandate.  Despite fighting political storms, present caretaker government has reached the last leg of its tenure is a testimony to the ability of the neutral caretaker government to run a public mandated government. It's is to reminded that this is for the first time in our 37 years history after the liberation, unelected people have run the state machinery beyond lawful mission having no clear visions which have broken midway over the issue of Statehood.  

This long term will definitely be matter of joy for caretaker government.Now they have faced with number of issues like rising inflation and price rise, continuing face-off with the political parties, which provide the outside prop to the government.

The facts are in front of them. One don't need to be intellectual to understand the number games of Bangladeshi politics. Nobody knows better than military backed government. Now it all depend on them how the advisors manage the required numbers in the next national parliament. Mind you, it won't be easy.

Gopal Sengupta from Canada on E-mail: gopalsengupta@ aol.com


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Re: [chottala.com] Mass arrest

The CTG or any Government must needs to remember that its duty is to protect the people its duty is to provide the people jobs or food shelter & medicine & before arresting any body it is essential duty to the CTG  & lawful authority to tell them what crime or what illegal works they have done?? 

Firstly it is needed before arresting any body  to notify them & to  warn them after that if any body violets instruction & violets the rules of law then  the lawful authority can arrest them with court order for lawful trial.

 

........

--- On Thu, 5/6/08, gopalsengupta@aol.com <gopalsengupta@aol.com> wrote:

From: gopalsengupta@aol.com <gopalsengupta@aol.com>
Subject: [chottala.com] Mass arrest
To: mukto-mona@yahoogroups.com, notun_bangladesh@yahoogroups.com, khabor@yahoogroups.com, chottala@yahoogroups.com, vinnomot@yahoogroups.com, Diagnose@yahoogroups.com, uttorshuri@yahoogroups.com, hazarikaa@hotmail.com
Date: Thursday, 5 June, 2008, 9:39 AM


A man, while being taken to jail from the court on Tuesday, tries to pacify his daughter as she bursts into tears after seeing him, one of hundreds detained by the police in blanket arrests.
— Indrajit Ghosh

Mass arrest


The front-page photo of New Age (June 4) says it all. How things have 'improved' under the military-driven caretaker government and how 'pro-people' the non-political policymakers are!
   They are as fascist and ruthless, if not worse than the politicians they claim trying to rectify. In the process only the poor and hapless are bearing the brunt.
   Isn't this have been the case always?
   Tanvir Rahman
   Dhaka University, Via SMS
   

* * *

   What terrible crime did the poor man commit and what right do the so-called neutral caretaker government have to make the little girl witness her father being taken away like this?
   Sabrina
   Dhaka, Via SMS
   
* * *

   The other day, the home affairs adviser
   commented that the mass arrests are being made 'in good faith'. I dare the adviser to say it again standing in front of the wailing little girl we see on the front-page photograph of New Age.
   Habibur Rahman
   On e-mail
   
* * *

   That a picture says a thousand words is so accurate was once again proved by the photo of the man, one of the unfortunate victims of the ongoing mass arrest, and his daughter.
   Khondokar Nurul Amin
   Gulshan, Dhaka, on e-mail
   
* * *

   I felt very shocked by the newspaper reports on mass arrest by the police. We have invested little in social improvement. It is a wake-up call for all of us. It will take a lot of effort, time and energy to improve the situation. How can we solve a problem when we are not able to recognise it? The
   government need to wake up and reasses the situation.
   Gopal Sengupta
   Canada

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Re: [chottala.com] Parasites can't run the country: Khaleda

Ms. dina

 

Now it is proved that higher educated or PHD holders are fit for teaching or doing job, not  fit for run the country.    



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From: dina khan <dina30_khan@yahoo.com>
To: chottala@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Thursday, June 5, 2008 9:36:28 AM
Subject: Re: [chottala.com] Parasites can't run the country: Khaleda

If illiterate, half educate & inexperienced persons can do horrible politics to do breaking works burning works closing works for destroying the administration for democracy

Then

Why are they parasites the higher educated PhD educated people??

Why can't they run the country & can not do trialing works reforming works for restoring the administration for democracy???

Really this CTG have to now need to face so many challenges including price hiking.

The great challenges are needed to prove whether are the CTG really parasites or would be the real efficient lawful administrators to do lawful trial against the corruption, to do reformation in all sections & to create efficient clean politicians for electing MP at the next MP Election for the National Assembly to form the Real Lawful Democratic Government for Establishing lawful Administration to rule the country efficiently? ? 

 



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From: Mohammad Sobhan <sobhanma_asme@ yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: [chottala.com] Parasites can't run the country: Khaleda
To: chottala@yahoogroup s.com
Date: Tuesday, 3 June, 2008, 4:02 AM

HI- Moderator

What she(Khaleda) can term her two sons ? There are
parasites who will run the country but what about her
sons and BNP ministers convicted of corruption.

Regards.

Mohammed

--- Syed Aslam <Syed.Aslam3@ gmail.com> wrote:

> *Parasites can't run the country: Khaleda*
> *Sun, Jun 1st, 2008 7:41 pm BdST*
> *Suman Mahmud
> bdnews24.com chief political correspondent*
>
> Dhaka, June 1 (bdnews24.com)â€" Former prime minister
> Khaleda Zia demanded
> Sunday that the state of emergency be lifted by the
> end of the month and
> elections be held by October, during her first court
> appearance after her
> arrest and detention last year.
>
> She also accused the caretaker government of
> perpetuating its rule by sheer
> force.
>
> "The government is sheltering the corrupt while
> raising slogans against
> them," Khaleda alleged. "But these parasitic
> elements or agents can't run
> the state of affairs."
>
> The BNP chairperson asked her party leaders and
> supporters to consolidate
> their unity at all costs, and called upon all other
> political parties to
> remain united.
>
> Khaleda made the comments in court Sunday by
> permission of judge Khandaker
> Kamal Uzzaman who presided over the first hearing on
> charge-framing against
> Khaleda in the Niko graft case.
>
> It was Khaleda's first public statement since her
> arrest and detention on
> Sept 3, 2007.
>
> The judge fixed June 8 for the next hearing.
>
> The former PM was taken from special jail to the
> nearby Special Judge's
> Court-9, located on the Sangsad Bhaban complex,
> shortly after 11am.
>
> Donning a chiffon sari, Khaleda greeted all on
> entering the court.
>
> The BNP chairperson claimed that the allegations
> brought against her are
> false and the case was filed on purpose. She urged
> the authorities to
> withdraw the case.
>
> Khaleda described the proceedings in the special
> court as an in-camera
> trial. She also condemned the inclusion of such
> cases under the emergency
> powers rules.
>
> Demanded a trial in a conventional court, she said:
> "I have worked for the
> country. I did no unjust act. I want justice. We
> don't need security. I am
> ready to accept the verdict delivered by an open
> court."
>
> "We cannot be tamed by the filing of cases against
> us," she added.
>
> The BNP chairperson demanded withdrawal of the state
> of emergency within the
> month, and elections by October.
>
> "Participation of all political parties in the
> election has to be ensured,"
> Khaleda said.
>
> Criticising the present government, Khaleda said:
> "In 18 months this
> government has taken the country 20 years back. They
> are turning Bangladesh
> into a failed state. They will have to account for
> this. No power is
> permanent."
>
> Comparing her own tenure to the present situation of
> the country, the former
> prime minister: "We worked for the country. "
>
> "There was much development in the country during
> our tenure. What is the
> condition of the country now?"
>
> "The prices of essentials are beyond the reach of
> people. People are dying
> of starvation. The government has taken no action
> regarding this. The
> government should be tried for such deaths. However,
> the government is busy
> filing false cases against politicians. "
>
> Khaleda also expressed concern at the shrinking of
> the country's labour
> market. "Now we are about to lose the labour market
> in different countries
> including the Middle East."
>
> "Trade and commerce has collapsed. The economy has
> collapsed."
>
> On the judiciary, Khaleda told the court: "During
> our tenure the judiciary
> was free. Now the judiciary is not free. The judges
> have to follow orders."
>
> She claimed again that her case had no merit.
>
> The BNP chief alleged that 1/11 was part of a
> conspiracy. "It was staged for
> a conspiracy. But whatever happens must happen
> through the parliament."
>
> "They wanted to 'minus' the two of us," she said of
> the government's briefly
> attempted 'minus two' policy, allegedly designed to
> take Sheikh Hasina and
> Khaleda Zia off the political scene through exile.
>
> "But they could not do that."
>
> Khaleda was taken back to the special jail at about
> 1.45pm.
>
> Advocate Khandaker Delwar Hossain, acting as
> Khaleda's counsel, told the
> court: "We have not received the documents of the
> case. In such a situation
> the case proceedings cannot start."
>
> Co-accused in the case, former law minister
> barrister Moudud Ahmed also
> questioned the legality of the case.
>
> "If awarding a contract to Canadian oil and gas
> company Niko Resources was
> against the state's interest, why had the caretaker
> government not cancelled
> the agreement?" he asked.
>
> Two separate cases involving Niko have been filed
> against former prime
> ministers Hasina and Khaleda, and were taken up by
> the court on May 26.
>
> Although Hasina was produced in the special court on
> that day to face
> charges, Khaleda was absent on the plea that she was
> indisposed.
> http://www.bdnews24 .com/details. php?cid=3& id=53844
>
>
http://www.independ ent-bangladesh. com/200806026075 /country/ parasites- cant-run- the-country- khaleda.html
>

Eng. Mohammad Abdus Sobhan
Former Chairman ASME Saudi Arabia
(C&W P Chapter)
and
Business Development Manager
TS&OS (Technical Support and Operational Service Co. Ltd.)
214 -25, Bergamot Ave
Etobicoke, ON M9W 1W4
Canada.
Tel- 416 238 7930

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[chottala.com] Reality is nothing but a collective hunch

The military backed caretaker government has completed 6 times more than its mandate.  Despite fighting political storms, present caretaker government has reached the last leg of its tenure is a testimony to the ability of the neutral caretaker government to run a public mandated government. It's is to reminded that this is for the first time in our 37 years history after the liberation, unelected people have run the state machinery beyond lawful mission having no clear visions which have broken midway over the issue of Statehood.  

This long term will definitely be matter of joy for caretaker government.Now they have faced with number of issues like rising inflation and price rise, continuing face-off with the political parties, which provide the outside prop to the government.

The facts are in front of them. One don't need to be intellectual to understand the number games of Bangladeshi politics. Nobody knows better than military backed government. Now it all depend on them how the advisors manage the required numbers in the next national parliament. Mind you, it won't be easy.

Gopal Sengupta from Canada on E-mail: gopalsengupta@aol.com

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[chottala.com] Mass arrest


A man, while being taken to jail from the court on Tuesday, tries to pacify his daughter as she bursts into tears after seeing him, one of hundreds detained by the police in blanket arrests.
— Indrajit Ghosh

Mass arrest


The front-page photo of New Age (June 4) says it all. How things have 'improved' under the military-driven caretaker government and how 'pro-people' the non-political policymakers are!
   They are as fascist and ruthless, if not worse than the politicians they claim trying to rectify. In the process only the poor and hapless are bearing the brunt.
   Isn't this have been the case always?
   Tanvir Rahman
   Dhaka University, Via SMS
   

* * *

   What terrible crime did the poor man commit and what right do the so-called neutral caretaker government have to make the little girl witness her father being taken away like this?
   Sabrina
   Dhaka, Via SMS
   
* * *

   The other day, the home affairs adviser
   commented that the mass arrests are being made 'in good faith'. I dare the adviser to say it again standing in front of the wailing little girl we see on the front-page photograph of New Age.
   Habibur Rahman
   On e-mail
   
* * *

   That a picture says a thousand words is so accurate was once again proved by the photo of the man, one of the unfortunate victims of the ongoing mass arrest, and his daughter.
   Khondokar Nurul Amin
   Gulshan, Dhaka, on e-mail
   
* * *

   I felt very shocked by the newspaper reports on mass arrest by the police. We have invested little in social improvement. It is a wake-up call for all of us. It will take a lot of effort, time and energy to improve the situation. How can we solve a problem when we are not able to recognise it? The
   government need to wake up and reasses the situation.
   Gopal Sengupta
   Canada

Re: [chottala.com] Parasites can't run the country: Khaleda

If illiterate, half educate & inexperienced persons can do horrible politics to do breaking works burning works closing works for destroying the administration for democracy

Then

Why are they parasites the higher educated PhD educated people??

Why can't they run the country & can not do trialing works reforming works for restoring the administration for democracy???

Really this CTG have to now need to face so many challenges including price hiking.

The great challenges are needed to prove whether are the CTG really parasites or would be the real efficient lawful administrators to do lawful trial against the corruption, to do reformation in all sections & to create efficient clean politicians for electing MP at the next MP Election for the National Assembly to form the Real Lawful Democratic Government for Establishing lawful Administration to rule the country efficiently?? 

 



--- On Tue, 3/6/08, Mohammad Sobhan <sobhanma_asme@yahoo.com> wrote:
From: Mohammad Sobhan <sobhanma_asme@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: [chottala.com] Parasites can't run the country: Khaleda
To: chottala@yahoogroups.com
Date: Tuesday, 3 June, 2008, 4:02 AM

HI- Moderator

What she(Khaleda) can term her two sons ? There are
parasites who will run the country but what about her
sons and BNP ministers convicted of corruption.

Regards.

Mohammed

--- Syed Aslam <Syed.Aslam3@ gmail.com> wrote:

> *Parasites can't run the country: Khaleda*
> *Sun, Jun 1st, 2008 7:41 pm BdST*
> *Suman Mahmud
> bdnews24.com chief political correspondent*
>
> Dhaka, June 1 (bdnews24.com)— Former prime minister
> Khaleda Zia demanded
> Sunday that the state of emergency be lifted by the
> end of the month and
> elections be held by October, during her first court
> appearance after her
> arrest and detention last year.
>
> She also accused the caretaker government of
> perpetuating its rule by sheer
> force.
>
> "The government is sheltering the corrupt while
> raising slogans against
> them," Khaleda alleged. "But these parasitic
> elements or agents can't run
> the state of affairs."
>
> The BNP chairperson asked her party leaders and
> supporters to consolidate
> their unity at all costs, and called upon all other
> political parties to
> remain united.
>
> Khaleda made the comments in court Sunday by
> permission of judge Khandaker
> Kamal Uzzaman who presided over the first hearing on
> charge-framing against
> Khaleda in the Niko graft case.
>
> It was Khaleda's first public statement since her
> arrest and detention on
> Sept 3, 2007.
>
> The judge fixed June 8 for the next hearing.
>
> The former PM was taken from special jail to the
> nearby Special Judge's
> Court-9, located on the Sangsad Bhaban complex,
> shortly after 11am.
>
> Donning a chiffon sari, Khaleda greeted all on
> entering the court.
>
> The BNP chairperson claimed that the allegations
> brought against her are
> false and the case was filed on purpose. She urged
> the authorities to
> withdraw the case.
>
> Khaleda described the proceedings in the special
> court as an in-camera
> trial. She also condemned the inclusion of such
> cases under the emergency
> powers rules.
>
> Demanded a trial in a conventional court, she said:
> "I have worked for the
> country. I did no unjust act. I want justice. We
> don't need security. I am
> ready to accept the verdict delivered by an open
> court."
>
> "We cannot be tamed by the filing of cases against
> us," she added.
>
> The BNP chairperson demanded withdrawal of the state
> of emergency within the
> month, and elections by October.
>
> "Participation of all political parties in the
> election has to be ensured,"
> Khaleda said.
>
> Criticising the present government, Khaleda said:
> "In 18 months this
> government has taken the country 20 years back. They
> are turning Bangladesh
> into a failed state. They will have to account for
> this. No power is
> permanent."
>
> Comparing her own tenure to the present situation of
> the country, the former
> prime minister: "We worked for the country. "
>
> "There was much development in the country during
> our tenure. What is the
> condition of the country now?"
>
> "The prices of essentials are beyond the reach of
> people. People are dying
> of starvation. The government has taken no action
> regarding this. The
> government should be tried for such deaths. However,
> the government is busy
> filing false cases against politicians. "
>
> Khaleda also expressed concern at the shrinking of
> the country's labour
> market. "Now we are about to lose the labour market
> in different countries
> including the Middle East."
>
> "Trade and commerce has collapsed. The economy has
> collapsed."
>
> On the judiciary, Khaleda told the court: "During
> our tenure the judiciary
> was free. Now the judiciary is not free. The judges
> have to follow orders."
>
> She claimed again that her case had no merit.
>
> The BNP chief alleged that 1/11 was part of a
> conspiracy. "It was staged for
> a conspiracy. But whatever happens must happen
> through the parliament."
>
> "They wanted to 'minus' the two of us," she said of
> the government's briefly
> attempted 'minus two' policy, allegedly designed to
> take Sheikh Hasina and
> Khaleda Zia off the political scene through exile.
>
> "But they could not do that."
>
> Khaleda was taken back to the special jail at about
> 1.45pm.
>
> Advocate Khandaker Delwar Hossain, acting as
> Khaleda's counsel, told the
> court: "We have not received the documents of the
> case. In such a situation
> the case proceedings cannot start."
>
> Co-accused in the case, former law minister
> barrister Moudud Ahmed also
> questioned the legality of the case.
>
> "If awarding a contract to Canadian oil and gas
> company Niko Resources was
> against the state's interest, why had the caretaker
> government not cancelled
> the agreement?" he asked.
>
> Two separate cases involving Niko have been filed
> against former prime
> ministers Hasina and Khaleda, and were taken up by
> the court on May 26.
>
> Although Hasina was produced in the special court on
> that day to face
> charges, Khaleda was absent on the plea that she was
> indisposed.
> http://www.bdnews24 .com/details. php?cid=3& id=53844
>
>
http://www.independ ent-bangladesh. com/200806026075 /country/ parasites- cant-run- the-country- khaleda.html
>

Eng. Mohammad Abdus Sobhan
Former Chairman ASME Saudi Arabia
(C&W P Chapter)
and
Business Development Manager
TS&OS (Technical Support and Operational Service Co. Ltd.)
214 -25, Bergamot Ave
Etobicoke, ON M9W 1W4
Canada.
Tel- 416 238 7930

E-mail: sobhanma_asme@ yahoo.com


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[chottala.com] Is that day faw away ?


 This CTG has sued hasina and khaleda for causing loss to the country by niko and gatko.

 

 But they are causing loss of the country 42 crore a day by the rental power plant ..

 

http://www.thedailysangbad.com/index.php?news_id=8425&nature=1&cat_id=1&date=2008-06-04

 

 Is that day far away when they will be sued for loss of money, health  and work time loss due to long time in the line for buying rice?


 

অদক্ষ তত্ববধায়কদের জন্য দেশের প্রতিদিনের ক্ষতি কত কোটি টাকা?

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Re: [chottala.com] Caretaker government has cheated with the country's people.

How much have the understanding knowledge to the concerned person??

Not known. .However.........

What does mean the Care Taker System  in Bangladesh known to all??

The politicians have made the constitutionally  this CTG system to form with non political & less expeprieced persons to conduct Fair & Neutral MP Election.

Does what mean this CTG system??

If the poticians are honest & efficients then

Why needs CTG??

Why fought they for CTG system to conduct Fair  MP Election ???

 Are they not efficient, faithful & dependable for conducting  Fair MP Election??

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From: tariq matin <emailad4tariq@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: [chottala.com] Caretaker government has cheated with the country's people.
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Date: Tuesday, 3 June, 2008, 7:42 AM

I would like to know what the following sentence by Dina Khan really means:

"Inefficient dishonest Politicians are reponsible for the nonsense activities & creating nation disaster for coming...".
One more question. What is "correct experiency"?


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Date: Sunday, June 1, 2008, 10:07 PM

Reply to Mr Gopal....... .......

Inefficient dishonest Politicians are reponsible for the nonsense activities & creating nation disaster for coming This less experienced CTG on 1/11 to do trial of corruption to do reform in all section to make voter list for conducting fair neutral MP election..

Now This Less Experienced CTG

1) the first duty is to earn Correct Experiency to rule the country facing all problems to do corrcet reform in all sections to do correct lawful trial against correct corruptions to create correct clean efficient politicians 

2) the second duty is to conduct fair & neutral  MP election to elect  clean & efficient MP for the National Assembly.

--- On Sun, 1/6/08, gopalsengupta@ aol.com <gopalsengupta@ aol.com> wrote:

From: gopalsengupta@ aol.com <gopalsengupta@ aol.com>
Subject: [chottala.com] Caretaker government has cheated with the country's people.
To: mukto-mona@yahoogro ups.com, khabor@yahoogroups. com, notun_bangladesh@ yahoogroups. com, hazarikaa@hotmail. com, chottala@yahoogroup s.com, vinnomot@yahoogroup s.com, uttorshuri@yahoogro ups.com
Date: Sunday, 1 June, 2008, 11:30 AM

 
Sir,
The government is conducting activities ignoring the country's constitution and that's why much problems are arising day by day. So the government will have to take decisions according to the directives given in the Constitution. The poverty rate has been increasing since the take over of the caretaker government last year and this government has failed totally to curb the commodity price hike. Political reforms cannot be done imposing it on the parties as political reform is an ongoing process and the parties will bring changes in their party by themselves.In the name of bringing reforms in political parties and other sectors, the caretaker government has cheated with the country's people.
 
My personal appeal to the military backed caretaker government to do all the good it can, by all the means it can, in all the ways it can, in all the places it can, at all the times it can, to all the people it can, as long as ever it can.
 
Gopal Sengupta
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[chottala.com] A mockery of the CTG

Rule of law sounds a mockery in
times of blanket arrests

The total number of people detained by the military-controlled interim government as part of its mass-arrest operations across the country has now topped 14,000 in five days, implying that the average number of arrests has been roughly 3,000 daily since Sunday. While the political parties and the media have identified this move as a tactic of political repression and intimidation, home adviser MA Matin has claimed bona fide intentions only, describing it as a drive against miscreants and criminals. And yet, the inspector general of police, Noor Mohammad, has claimed vociferously that there has been no evidence of a slide in the law and order situation of the country. If such is really the case, how can the government justify such an elaborate detention campaign?
   In fact, these contradictory statements from the adviser and the police chief give lie to the government's purported political innocence in this matter. We see that a majority of those arrested are principally grass roots political leaders and activists, and though the media has repeatedly drawn the targeted nature of these arrests to attention, the government has ignored our calls. On the basis of this and other evidence that has piled up over the past four days, we believe the political parties are right in describing this operation as political repression.
   In the way that the incumbents have enforced their policy of blanket arrests, they have run roughshod on the rule of law, and civil and political rights, arbitrarily applying the emergency power rules to serve what we can only suspect to be a crude political end. Mass arrests make a mockery of the democratic norms and values. In fact, in the view of this paper, the current repression is a manifestation of this military-controlled interim government's inherent fear of, or disdain for, the people, worsened by its unravelling failure to resolve the ongoing political crisis primarily of its own making.
   We observed similar pathological instincts when over 90,000 people were charge-sheeted for the Dhaka University protests that erupted last August, and with more than 30,000 people charge sheeted when clashes broke out in Sadarghat in May this year. Such mass arrests have been routinely abused by successive governments of the past, to serve their own crude political ends, but back then, the accused still had recourse to legal relief in the form of bail and interventions by higher courts to check such abuse. Under emergency power rules, the government is under no compulsion to produce the detained before a magistrate within 48 hours, nor can the accused petition for bail. Given this abysmal state of civil and political rights that this government is using as a weapon, we hear a travesty of democracy and the rule of law, when we hear these concepts propounded and thrown about by the incumbents

 

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An online archive of chronology of events, documentations, audio, video, images, media reports and eyewitness accounts of the 1971 Genocide in Bangladesh in the hands of Paksitani army.

Genocide

"…… we were told to kill the hindus and Kafirs (non-believer in God). One day in June, we cordoned a village and were ordered to kill the Kafirs in that area. We found all the village women reciting from the Holy Quran, and the men holding special congregational prayers seeking God's mercy. But they were unlucky. Our commanding officer ordered us not to waste any time."

Confession of a Pakistani Soldier

kill29 Genocide

It all started with Operation Searchlight, a planned military pacification carried out by the Pakistan Army started on 25 March, 1971 to curb the Bengali nationalist movement by taking control of the major cities on March 26, and then eliminating all opposition, political or military, within one month. Before the beginning of the operation, all foreign journalists were systematically deported from Bangladesh. The main phase of Operation Searchlight ended with the fall of the last major town in Bengali hands in mid May.

According to New York Times (3/28/71) 10,000 people were killed; New York Times (3/29/71) 5,000-7,000 people were killed in Dhaka; The Sydney Morning Herald (3/29/71) 10,000 - 100,000 were killed; New York Times (4/1/71) 35,000 were killed in Dhaka during operation searchlight.

The operation also began the 1971 Bangladesh atrocities. These systematic killings served only to enrage the Bengalis, which ultimately resulted in the secession of East Pakistan later in December, 1971. The international media and reference books in English have published casualty figures which vary greatly; 200,000–3,000,000 for Bangladesh as a whole.

There is only one word for this: Genocide.

Genocide in Bangladesh, 1971

pakistani-army-shooting.jpgThe mass killings in Bangladesh (then East Pakistan) in 1971 vie with the annihilation of the Soviet POWs, the holocaust against the Jews, and the genocide in Rwanda as the most concentrated act of genocide in the twentieth century. In an attempt to crush forces seeking independence for East Pakistan, the West Pakistani military regime unleashed a systematic campaign of mass murder which aimed at killing millions of Bengalis, and likely succeeded in doing so.

In national elections held in December 1970, the Awami League won an overwhelming victory across Bengali territory. On February 22, 1971 the generals in West Pakistan took a decision to crush the Awami League and its supporters. It was recognized from the first that a campaign of genocide would be necessary to eradicate the threat: "Kill three million of them," said President Yahya Khan at the February conference, "and the rest will eat out of our hands." (Robert Payne, Massacre [1972], p. 50.) On March 25 the genocide was launched. The university in Dacca (Dhaka) was attacked and students exterminated in their hundreds. Death squads roamed the streets of Dacca, killing some 7,000 people in a single night. It was only the beginning. "Within a week, half the population of Dacca had fled, and at least 30,000 people had been killed. Chittagong, too, had lost half its population. All over East Pakistan people were taking flight, and it was estimated that in April some thirty million people [!] were wandering helplessly across East Pakistan to escape the grasp of the military." (Payne, Massacre, p. 48.) Ten million refugees fled to India, overwhelming that country's resources and spurring the eventual Indian military intervention. (The population of Bangladesh/East Pakistan at the outbreak of the genocide was about 75 million.)

The gendercide against Bengali men

The war against the Bengali population proceeded in classic gendercidal fashion. According to Anthony Mascarenhas:

There is no doubt whatsoever about the targets of the genocide. They were: (1) The Bengali militarymen of the East Bengal Regiment, the East Pakistan Rifles, police and para-military Ansars and Mujahids. (2) The Hindus — "We are only killing the men; the women and children go free. We are soldiers not cowards to kill them …" I was to hear in Comilla [site of a major military base] [Comments R.J. Rummel: "One would think that murdering an unarmed man was a heroic act" (Death By Government, p. 323)] (3) The Awami Leaguers — all office bearers and volunteers down to the lowest link in the chain of command. (4) The students — college and university boys and some of the more militant girls. (5) Bengali intellectuals such as professors and teachers whenever damned by the army as "militant." (Anthony Mascarenhas, The Rape of Bangla Desh [Delhi: Vikas Publications, 1972(?)], pp. 116-17.)

Mascarenhas's summary makes clear the linkages between gender and social class (the "intellectuals," "professors," "teachers," "office bearers," and — obviously — "militarymen" can all be expected to be overwhelmingly if not exclusively male, although in many cases their families died or fell victim to other atrocities alongside them). In this respect, the Bangladesh events can be classed as a combined gendercide and elitocide, with both strategies overwhelmingly targeting males for the most annihilatory excesses.

London, 6/13/71). The Sunday Times….."The Government's policy for East Bengal was spelled out to me in the Eastern Command headquarters at Dacca. It has three elements:

1. The Bengalis have proved themselves unreliable and must be ruled by West Pakistanis;
2. The Bengalis will have to be re-educated along proper Islamic lines. The - Islamization of the masses - this is the official jargon - is intended to eliminate secessionist tendencies and provide a strong religious bond with West Pakistan;
3. When the Hindus have been eliminated by death and fight, their property will be used as a golden carrot to win over the under privileged Muslim middle-class. This will provide the base for erecting administrative and political structures in the future."

Bengali man and boys massacred by the West Pakistani regime.

Bengali man and boys massacred by the West Pakistani regime. Younger men and adolescent boys, of whatever social class, were equally targets. According to Rounaq Jahan, "All through the liberation war, able-bodied young men were suspected of being actual or potential freedom fighters. Thousands were arrested, tortured, and killed. Eventually cities and towns became bereft of young males who either took refuge in India or joined the liberation war." Especially "during the first phase" of the genocide, he writes, "young able-bodied males were the victims of indiscriminate killings." ("Genocide in Bangladesh," in Totten et al., Century of Genocide, p. 298.) R.J. Rummel likewise writes that "the Pakistan army [sought] out those especially likely to join the resistance — young boys. Sweeps were conducted of young men who were never seen again. Bodies of youths would be found in fields, floating down rivers, or near army camps. As can be imagined, this terrorized all young men and their families within reach of the army. Most between the ages of fifteen and twenty-five began to flee from one village to another and toward India. Many of those reluctant to leave their homes were forced to flee by mothers and sisters concerned for their safety." (Death By Government, p. 329.) Rummel describes (p. 323) a chilling gendercidal ritual, reminiscent of Nazi procedure towards Jewish males: "In what became province-wide acts of genocide, Hindus were sought out and killed on the spot. As a matter of course, soldiers would check males for the obligated circumcision among Moslems. If circumcised, they might live; if not, sure death."

Robert Payne describes scenes of systematic mass slaughter around Dacca (Dhaka) that, while not explicitly "gendered" in his account, bear every hallmark of classic gender-selective roundups and gendercidal slaughters of non-combatant men:

Bengali intellectuals murdered and dumped at dockside in Dacca.In the dead region surrounding Dacca, the military authorities conducted experiments in mass extermination in places unlikely to be seen by journalists. At Hariharpara, a once thriving village on the banks of the Buriganga River near Dacca, they found the three elements necessary for killing people in large numbers: a prison in which to hold the victims, a place for executing the prisoners, and a method for disposing of the bodies. The prison was a large riverside warehouse, or godown, belonging to the Pakistan National Oil Company, the place of execution was the river edge, or the shallows near the shore, and the bodies were disposed of by the simple means of permitting them to float downstream. The killing took place night after night. Usually the prisoners were roped together and made to wade out into the river. They were in batches of six or eight, and in the light of a powerful electric arc lamp, they were easy targets, black against the silvery water. The executioners stood on the pier, shooting down at the compact bunches of prisoners wading in the water. There were screams in the hot night air, and then silence. The prisoners fell on their sides and their bodies lapped against the shore. Then a new bunch of prisoners was brought out, and the process was repeated. In the morning the village boatmen hauled the bodies into midstream and the ropes binding the bodies were cut so that each body drifted separately downstream. (Payne, Massacre [Macmillan, 1973], p. 55.)

Strikingly similar and equally hellish scenes are described in the case-studies of genocide in Armenia and the Nanjing Massacre of 1937.

How many died?

Bangladeshi authorities claim that 3 million people were killed, while the Hamoodur Rahman Commission, an official Pakistan Government investigation, put the figure as low as 26,000 civilian casualties. The fact is that the number of dead in Bangladesh in 1971 was almost certainly well into seven figures. It was one of the worst genocides of the World War II era, outstripping Rwanda (800,000 killed) and probably surpassing even Indonesia (1 million to 1.5 million killed in 1965-66).

As R.J. Rummel writes:

The human death toll over only 267 days was incredible. Just to give for five out of the eighteen districts some incomplete statistics published in Bangladesh newspapers or by an Inquiry Committee, the Pakistani army killed 100,000 Bengalis in Dacca, 150,000 in Khulna, 75,000 in Jessore, 95,000 in Comilla, and 100,000 in Chittagong. For eighteen districts the total is 1,247,000 killed. This was an incomplete toll, and to this day no one really knows the final toll. Some estimates of the democide [Rummel's "death by government"] are much lower — one is of 300,000 dead — but most range from 1 million to 3 million. … The Pakistani army and allied paramilitary groups killed about one out of every sixty-one people in Pakistan overall; one out of every twenty-five Bengalis, Hindus, and others in East Pakistan. If the rate of killing for all of Pakistan is annualized over the years the Yahya martial law regime was in power (March 1969 to December 1971), then this one regime was more lethal than that of the Soviet Union, China under the communists, or Japan under the military (even through World War II). (Rummel, Death By Government, p. 331.)

People regard that the best option is to regard "3 million" as not an absolute but an arbitrary number. The proportion of men versus women murdered is impossible to ascertain, but a speculation might be attempted. If we take the highest estimates for both women raped and Bengalis killed (400,000 and 3 million, respectively); if we accept that half as many women were killed as were raped; and if we double that number for murdered children of both sexes (total: 600,000), we are still left with a death-toll that is 80 percent adult male (2.4 million out of 3 million). Any such disproportion, which is almost certainly on the low side, would qualify Bangladesh as one of the worst gendercides against men in the last half-millennium.

Who was responsible?

"For month after month in all the regions of East Pakistan the massacres went on," writes Robert Payne. "They were not the small casual killings of young officers who wanted to demonstrate their efficiency, but organized massacres conducted by sophisticated staff officers, who knew exactly what they were doing. Muslim soldiers, sent out to kill Muslim peasants, went about their work mechanically and efficiently, until killing defenseless people became a habit like smoking cigarettes or drinking wine. … Not since Hitler invaded Russia had there been so vast a massacre." (Payne, Massacre, p. 29.)

There is no doubt that the mass killing in Bangladesh was among the most carefully and centrally planned of modern genocides. A cabal of five Pakistani generals orchestrated the events: President Yahya Khan, General Tikka Khan, chief of staff General Pirzada, security chief General Umar Khan, and intelligence chief General Akbar Khan. The U.S. government, long supportive of military rule in Pakistan, supplied some $3.8 million in military equipment to the dictatorship after the onset of the genocide, "and after a government spokesman told Congress that all shipments to Yahya Khan's regime had ceased." (Payne, Massacre, p. 102.)

hindu-racism.jpgThe genocide and gendercidal atrocities were also perpetrated by lower-ranking officers and ordinary soldiers. These "willing executioners" were fuelled by an abiding anti-Bengali racism, especially against the Hindu minority. "Bengalis were often compared with monkeys and chickens. Said Pakistan General Niazi, 'It was a low lying land of low lying people.' The Hindus among the Bengalis were as Jews to the Nazis: scum and vermin that [should] best be exterminated. As to the Moslem Bengalis, they were to live only on the sufferance of the soldiers: any infraction, any suspicion cast on them, any need for reprisal, could mean their death. And the soldiers were free to kill at will. The journalist Dan Coggin quoted one Punjabi captain as telling him, 'We can kill anyone for anything. We are accountable to no one.' This is the arrogance of Power." (Rummel, Death By Government, p. 335.)

Eyewitness accounts

The atrocities of the razakars in killing the Bengalis equaled those of their Pakistani masters. An excerpt from an article written in the Azad, dated January 15, 1972, underscores the inhuman atrocities of the Pakistani troops and their associates, the razakar and al-Badr forces:

'….The people of Narail can bear witness to the reign of terror, the inhuman atrocities, inflicted on them after (General) Yahya let loose his troops to do what they would. After March 25, many people fled Jessore in fear of their lives, and took refuge in Narail and its neighboring localities. Many of them were severely bashed by the soldiers of Yahya and lost their lives. Very few people ever returned. Bhayna is a flourishing village near Narail. Ali Akbar is a well-known figure there. On April 8, the Pakistani troops surrounded the village on the pretext that it was a sanctuary for freedom fighters. Just as fish are caught in a net so too were the people of this village all assembled, in an open field. Then everyone- men, women, and children–were all forced to line up. Young men between the ages of 25 and 30 were lined up separately. 45 people were shot to death on the spot. Three of Ali Akbar's brothers were killed there. Ali Akbar was able to save himself by lying on the ground. But no one else of that group was as fortunate. Nadanor was the Killing field. Every day 20 to 30 people were taken there with their hands tied behind their backs, and killed. The dead bodies would be flung into the river. Apart from this, a slaughter house was also readied for Bengalis. Manik, Omar, and Ashraf were sent to Jessore Cantonment for training and then brought to this slaughter house. Every day they would slaughter 9 to 12 persons here. The rate per person was Taka ten. On one particular day, 45 persons were slaughtered here. From April 15 to December 10, the butchery continued. It is gathered that 2,723 people lost their lives here. People were brought here and bashed, then their ears were cut off, and their eyes gouged out. Finally they were slaughtered… : The Chairman of the Peace Committee was Moulana Solaiman. With Dr. Abul Hussain and Abdul Rashid Mukhtar, he assisted in the genocide. Omar would proudly say, "During the day I am Omar, at night I am Shimar( legendary executioner famous for extreme cruelty). Don't you see my dagger? There are countless Kafirs (heretics) on it."

Chuknagar: The largest genocide during the Bangladesh Liberation War in 1971

chuknagar Genocide

Chuknagar is a small business town located in the Dumuria Thana of Khulna district and very close to the India Bangladesh border. In 71 thousands of refugees gathered in Chuknagar to go to Kolkata. According to a conservative account around ten thousand people were in Chuknagar waiting to cross the border.

In the early morning of May 10, the fatal day around 10am two trucks carrying Paki troops arrived at Kautala (then known as Patkhola). The Pakis were not many in number, most possibly a platoon or so. As soon as the Paki trucks stopped, the Pakis alighted from the truck carrying light machine guns (LMGs) and semi automatic rifles and opened fire on the public. Within a few minutes a lively town turned into a city of death.

The accounts of the two hundred interviewees were same. They differed only in details. "There were piled up dead bodies. Dead Kids' on dead mum's laps. Wives hugging their beloved husbands to protect them from killer bullets. Dads' hugging their daughters to shield them. Within a flash they all were just dead bodies. Blood streamed into the Bhadra river, it became a river of corps. A few hours later when the Paki bastards ran out of bullets, they killed the rest of the people with bayonet."

Source: Muntassir Mamun, The Archive of Liberation War, Bangabandhu and Bangladesh Research Institute

Further Documents and facts

  • Statistics Of Pakistan's Democide: Estimates, Calculations, And Sources - R. J. Rummel
  • Genocide 71
  • Massacre of Dhaka University students
  • Torture Cells
  • Killing Zones
  • Operation search light
  • Mass grave found in Bangladesh - Tribune India August, 1999
  • An Army Insider's Honest Expose of Atrocities in East Pakistan Debacle
  • Unearthing the killing fields in Mirpur Dhaka for mass graves - evidence of genocide
  • Genocide Seminar on Bangladesh 2007: An unprecedented step by a US
    Bangladesh Genocide Study Group at Kean University

    Denials

    According to Gregory H. Stanton, President, Genocide Watch there are eight stages of a genocide. All of them are evident in the genocide commited by the Pakistan forces. The last of the eight stages is denial:

    It is among the surest indicators of further genocidal massacres. The perpetrators of genocide dig up the mass graves, burn the bodies, try to cover up the evidence and intimidate the witnesses. They deny that they committed any crimes, and often blame what happened on the victims.

    Articles

  • The Mathematics of a Genocide - Abul Kasem
  • Nights and Days of Pakistani Butchers - Abul Kasem
  • Remembering 25th March: The Darkest Night - Dr. Ajoy Roy
  • Violation of Human Rights and Genocide in Bangladesh -M. Maniruzzaman Mia
  • Tale of an abandoned monument: Madhuri Lata still whimpers for her martyred husband and relatives
  • Never again? Genocide since 1945 - Scott Lamb
  • Century of Genocide: Critical Essays and Eyewitness Accounts: Chapter 9: Genocide in Bangladesh - Rounaq Jahan.
  • Sen. Edward Kennedy on the Hindu Genocide in East Bengal '71
  • Genocide 1971: What does the world know about it? - Dr. Mohammad Omar Farooq

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    * Genocide images 1, 2, 3 (Viewers discretion advised)

    * Slaughter Ground

    * Destruction by Pakistan army

    Source: Gendercide Watch, Muktadhara, Kothon, Bangladesh 1971

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    [chottala.com] Possible vice presidential candidates [Democrat and Republican]

     

    Obama seals nomination: 'This is our moment'

     
    Reuters

    FACTBOX: Possible Democratic vice presidential candidates

    1 hour, 52 minutes ago

    (Reuters) - Sen. Barack Obama of Illinois, who will claim the Democratic presidential nomination on Tuesday, has taken the first small step toward choosing a running mate.

    Obama has asked Jim Johnson, former head of mortgage giant Fannie Mae, to begin research on potential candidates for the No. 2 slot on the ticket, media reports said. Johnson performed a similar task for Democratic presidential nominees John Kerry in 2004 and Walter Mondale in 1984.

    Here is a list of some possible Democratic vice presidential candidates, in alphabetical order:

    * Joseph Biden, 65 - The senator from Delaware, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, is a respected foreign policy expert who would give Obama authority on the issue. But Obama might not want to add a second senator to the ticket, and could be looking for a fresher face to reinforce his message that this election is about change and the future.

    * Wesley Clark, 63 - A retired Army general and former NATO commander who ran unsuccessfully for the presidential nomination in 2004, Clark is a supporter of Hillary Clinton who could help rally the party and provide a boost on national security issues. But he did not run a strong campaign in 2004 and he would be unlikely to generate much enthusiasm among party activists.

    * Hillary Clinton, 60 - Polls have shown strong Democratic support for a "dream team" ticket of Obama and Clinton, his top rival for the nomination. Obama has not ruled out the option, which would help unify the party after a grueling nominating battle. But Clinton also would bring complications, including the return of former President Bill Clinton to the White House. A joint ticket could help attract some of Clinton's supporters -- including women and white working-class Democrats -- who have been reluctant to support Obama.

    * Chris Dodd, 64 - The Connecticut senator, a fluent Spanish speaker and expert in Latin American issues, is the chairman of the Senate Banking Committee and a former foe for the presidential nomination who quickly endorsed Obama after dropping out. He would help bolster Obama's foreign policy and economic credentials, but presents many of the same drawbacks as Biden.

    * Chuck Hagel, 61 - The Republican senator from Nebraska, a conservative Vietnam veteran but outspoken critic of the Iraq war, would help Obama reach out to independents and Republicans and reinforce his promise to bridge partisan divides.

    * Tim Kaine, 50 - The Virginia governor was one of Obama's earliest and strongest supporters and could help him in a state that traditionally has been Republican in presidential elections but has been turning Democratic in recent years.

    * Sam Nunn, 69 - The former Armed Services Committee chairman from Georgia is a respected foreign and military policy voice, but his age and conservative view on some social issues might make him an awkward fit with Obama.

    * Ed Rendell, 64 - The Pennsylvania governor has been one of Clinton's strongest campaigners and he could help woo her supporters and help deliver a key state. A former district attorney and the mayor of Philadelphia, Rendell has executive experience that could help Obama.

    * Bill Richardson, 60 - New Mexico governor, a Hispanic, could help with Latino vote -- the fastest-growing segment of the electorate and a potentially vital voting bloc. A seasoned negotiator, the former energy secretary and U.N. ambassador would also bring foreign policy experience to the ticket as well as inside knowledge of how Washington works.

    * Kathleen Sebelius, 60 - Two-term governor of Kansas could bring some vital elements to the ticket: she's a woman and as the leader of a mostly Republican state has shown she can work across party lines. But she is largely untested on the national stage.

    * Ted Strickland, 66 - The governor of Ohio is another strong Clinton supporter who comes from a battleground state. A former U.S. congressman, the first-term governor is not well-known nationally.

    * Jim Webb, 62 - The first-term Virginia senator, Vietnam veteran and former secretary of the Navy has written seven novels, including "Fields of Fire," considered one of the best novels about the Vietnam War. Webb could help Obama in a state that has turned more Democratic in recent years.

    (Reporting by Deborah Charles and John Whitesides, editing by David Wiessler)

    http://www.reuters.com/article/vcCandidateFeed2/idUSN0342815720080604

    FACTBOX: Possible Republican vice presidential candidates

    Tue Jun 3, 2008 9:20pm EDT
     
     (Reuters) - Republican Arizona Sen. John McCain, who has clinched his party's nomination for the November presidential election, must choose a running mate.

    Following is a list of Republicans who have been mentioned as possible vice presidential candidates, in alphabetical order:

    * Charlie Crist, 51 - The Florida governor helped McCain win the nomination with his endorsement and might help him in an important battleground state that could go either Republican or Democratic in the November election. The charismatic former Florida attorney general, who notched an easy first term gubernatorial victory in 2006, is a vibrant campaigner. But he could face trouble with the more conservative wing of the party because of questions about his views on abortion.

    * Mike Huckabee, 52 - The former Arkansas governor battled McCain for the party's presidential nomination and was the last major candidate to withdraw. The Baptist preacher is a social conservative who has support from the party's evangelical Christian base and is strong in the South.

    * Bobby Jindal, 36 - Louisiana's governor and the first Indian-American elected head of a U.S. state. The Oxford-educated conservative would add youth and diversity to the Republican ticket. His domestic health policy experience would be a plus, but he might be seen as being too young, especially in contrast to 71-year-old McCain.

    * Tim Pawlenty, 47 - The two-term Minnesota governor and early and steadfast McCain supporter could help with a Midwestern battleground state. Pawlenty would appeal to social conservatives but he is not well-known on the national stage.

    * Robert Portman, 52 - A former congressman from Ohio who was the U.S. Trade Representative and budget director under President George W. Bush. A fiscal conservative, Portman could give McCain needed economic policy strength and would help in Ohio -- an important battleground state.

    * Mitt Romney, 61 - The former Massachusetts governor lost the nomination to McCain. But Romney might have problems because of questions about his Mormon faith and because he once supported abortion rights. The businessman, who pumped about $35 million of his own fortune into his presidential bid, could do the same for a vice presidential campaign or help McCain with fund-raising. The former head of a private equity firm who also ran the Salt Lake City Winter Olympics, Romney would bring management experience to the ticket.

    * John Thune, 47 - The senator from South Dakota would appeal to conservatives but McCain may not want to choose another senator as his running mate. After narrowly defeating the leader of the U.S. Senate Democrats, Tom Daschle, in 2004, Thune was seen as a giant killer, which gained him clout in the party. However he is also not very well known nationally.

    (Reporting by Deborah Charles and Peter Cooney, editing by Patricia Zengerle)

    http://www.reuters.com/article/politicsNews/idUSN0340850520080604


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