BTRC fines GP Tk 250 cr for illegal VoIP business
AKTEL fined Tk 5cr for irregularities in subscriber re-registration
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Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission (BTRC) has fined GrameenPhone, country's largest cellular phone operator, Tk 250 crore for providing connectivity to the third parties enabling the use of Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP), said a BTRC press release on Thursday.
According to BTRC the use of VoIP is illegal and unlawful and caused revenue loss to the government. Last year GrameenPhone paid fine of Tk 168.40 crore for similar offences.
An investigation was carried out where the involvement of GrameenPhone was ascertained and the said penalty was imposed. GrameenPhone has already made partial payment of the aforesaid amount and the balance will be deposited to the exchequer shortly.
"We hope that no Telecommunication operator will facilitate any illegal VoIP ventures, directly or indirectly. The operators are expected to cooperate the government in preventing such activities in future," said BTRC Chairman Major General Manzurul Alam in the press release.
UNB, Dhaka adds: Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission (BTRC) has imposed a fine of Tk 5 crore on Telecom Malaysia International (Bangladesh) Limited (TMIB), commonly known as AKTEL, for their unethical subscriber re-registration with counterfeit forms of TMIB.
Earlier, in 2007, TMIB paid a fine of Tk 145 crore for a VoIP related offence.
The BTRC in a press release signed by its Director (Legal and Licensing Division) AKM Shahiduzzaman said Thursday that through investigation it was found that some of the contractors of TMIB were involved in counterfeit subscriber re-registration forms of TMIB in a manner not authorized by law.
TMIB lacked sufficient control mechanism to restrict the misuse of the process by such contractors, which resulted in violation of BTRC prescribed directives. TMIB has already made payment of the aforesaid amount to BTRC (Tk 5 crore), the press release said.
"We hope that no Telecom-munication operator will facilitate any illegal activities directly or indirectly. The operators are expected to cooperate with the Government to prevent such activities in future," said BTRC chairman Maj Gen (Retd) Manzurul Alam.
He warned that none would be spared if found involved in any capacity in the telecommunication related illegal business. | GP fined Tk 250 crore: BTRC | | | | Thu, Aug 14th, 2008 6:42 pm BdST | | | | Dhaka, Aug 14 (bdnews24.com) -- BTRC has fined Grameenphone Tk 250 crore for illegal VoIP business, the second time the country's largest mobile phone operator has been penalised for such rogue activities, the telecom regulators announced Thursday.
GP chief of public relations Syed Yamin Bakht told bdnews24.com that the company had received notice of the fine and had already made a payment.
Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission said the Tk 250 crore financial penalty came as GP provided E1 connectivity to third parties enabling the use of Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP).
BTRC launched a full investigation and confirmed the company's illegal VoIP connectivities after suspicions arose in January this year, the statement said.
In 2007, GP paid a fine of Tk 168.40 crore for similar offences.
BTRC said it trusts that telecommunication operators will refrain from facilitating illegal VoIP ventures, directly or indirectly.
"The operators are expected to cooperate with the government to prevent such activities in the future," the statement quoted BTRC chief Manzurul Alam as saying.
The BTRC chairman added that no-one will be spared if found involved in any capacity in the illegal call termination business.
"We deeply regret that such unlawful practices were carried out and not disclosed earlier by Grameenphone, " said Anders Jensen, chief executive of Grameenphone, said in a statement.
"We have cooperated with BTRC in the investigations and the Grameenphone Board also mandated an investigation by an external auditor to look into all aspects of our operations to ensure that we fully comply with all laws and regulations, " he said.
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Bangabandu, Vs. Mousalini of Italy, Striking Similarities: Please Read! Abid Bahar Shahidul Alam's analysis of Bangabandu's Fourth Amendment stated below is correct but is only the tip of Bangabandu's "dictatorship." The use of Mujib dress, Mujib Bahini, lal bahini, rakhi bahini and other paramilitary forces, the extreme hero-worship tendency among its followers, indiscriminate killing of the opponents, arresting even elderly statesman Bhasani, favouratism to its party members, I found so many other similarities with Mousalini, the Italian leader and Spain's Francisco that when I found out I personally was shocked (I was a former Mujib -lover)and have been writing eversince about the sickness. I asked myself, howcome so many similarities in a country far away from Europe. The answer I found is in political Science such a political trend is called Fascism. Mousalini even did similar things like Bangabandu did, the latter standing in the parliament, declared that he couldn't use "Lal Ghora,"which he actually did but he wanted it to be more severe on the opponents. There are so many similarities between Bangabandu's BAKSAL and Sadam's bath party, their boys carrying guns at the university, and now Africa's Mugabe a former freedom fighter, IDI Amin, another freedom fighter, it is unthinkable. Unlike them, after the 7th March Speech, Bangabandu actually collaborated with the Pak Army and stayed the entire period in Pakistan. He never talked about why did he surrender. If Bangabandu's AL didn't have the theoritical backing/blessings from our West Bengali and the Delhi based Dadas that AL is a "progressive force", civil society, fighting against Nizami, Bangabandu the father etc, etc.propaganda by the pro-Indian powerful media, he would be labelled as one of the fighters for democracy who betrayed the nation to turn into a dictator. In Europe the above are called the Fascist leaders. For the sake of knowledge, Social Scientists have to identify this trend and the father of this trend in Bangladesh. It was this type of extremism that led to Mousalini's death, and the end of Francisco. Like Bangabandu, to unite people in the independent Bangladesh he also used extreme nationalism causing the alienation of the tribals. Hasina carries the legacy of Bangabandu. Hasina's AL with its Shaschasevok bahini and its alliance (which is practically the BAKSAL) continues the trend.. Fascism's another characteristic is to give more importance to the party interest to gain power than give importance to national interest. Hasina's year round hartal to tire the nation, caused the cancellation of 1996 election that led to the first coming of the care-taker government and again in 2007 the chaos led to 1/11 and the army backed caretaker government. (1) Please check the following videos to see that until this trend is not discredited, Bangladesh will have no future! It is infactious, nowadays everybody is doing it. (2) I want the readers to also check the similarities between Mujib and Mosoluni. We live in an independent country, the Fascist chaos of madness against order must be stopped. Videos on party initiated violence in Bangladesh:
----- Original Message ---- From: Shahidul Alam <ashahidulbd@yahoo.com> To: notun_bangladesh@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, August 14, 2008 2:46:26 PM Subject: [notun_bangladesh] RE: Sheikh Mujib: A people's dictator | ____________ _________ _________ _________ ______ Subject: Sheikh Mujib: A people's dictator I think Sheikh Mujib's biggest gift is "fourth amendment". He declared himself a president without election and without term limit. A president for life! Life could be very short. If only he knew. Pls read following from a research paper. The fourth amendment has completely changed not only the body, but also the philosophy and character of the original constitution. Articles protecting citizen rights, liberties and freedom are now riddled with limitations, exceptions and qualifications. Parliament Passed the Fourth Amendment without any debate. All 294 members voted in favor. It took less than an hour, to change the physical and philosophical character of the whole constitution. This amendment: (1) changed the system of government, (2) empowered the President to appoint Ministers who are not Parliament Member. (3) made the Prime Minister into the President and Members of the Parliament was deemed to be elected by the people, (4) stated that parliament members elected today shall continue for a term of five years, (5) no term limit was placed on the President, (6) Made the impeachment procedure to remove the President, but made the procedure so difficult that it would make impeachment nearly impossible, (7) stated that the impeachment of the President will need the assent of two-thirds members and the impeachment will need three-fourths members of the Parliament, (8) restored the absolute veto power of the President; (9) created the post of a Vice President, (10) gave the President power to appoint a Vice President, (11) stated that a Council of Ministers will be responsible to the President, (12) Curtailed the independence of the judiciary and took away the power of the Judicial branch to enforce fundamental rights, (13) President to appoint and remove the Chief Justice, High Court Judges, Judicial Officers and magistrates; (14) abolished all Political Parties and introduced one party system; (15) politicized civil servants, (16) created Compulsory Village Cooperative Society, (17) curtailed fundamental rights, liberties and freedom of the Press, (18) Increased the number of districts to 61 and empowered the President to appoint Governors in each district. The fourth amendment is in effect a new constitution altogether. This amendment effectively eliminated all signs of "separation of power". It centralized all power, without any checks and balances, in the hands of the President. It made the Parliament a "rubber-stamp body", a body made up of "elective representatives" in theory but "unrepresentative" in reality. | __._,_.___ [* Moderator's Note - CHOTTALA is a non-profit, non-religious, non-political and non-discriminatory organization.
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Dr Aafia Siddiqui was set up, ultimate victim of the American dark side, says her lawyer NEW YORK: A lawyer for Dr Aafia Siddiqui accused the US government on Wednesday of setting up her client by planting evidence on her.
The lawyer, Elizabeth Fink, also accused the US government of trying to poison the court process by leaking information about her client.
Siddiqui was arrested on July 17 with papers describing US landmarks, with bottles and jars of chemicals and with papers telling how to make chemical weapons, said an FBI affidavit filed in federal court in New York.
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Quality less educated politicians have made Bangladesh a world top class corrupted & world top class jobless country & have made worldwide Bangladesh a less quality labor exporting country. Quality less political leaders in Bangladesh are always creating all kind of problems & troubles for the common people whether they are in power or in opposition. CTG being Care Taker it seems that has now become a careless government not for understanding the meaning & aiming of CTG for doing work correctly what its real work? For saving the common people in Bangladesh now needs strong minded quality efficient quality knowledge political leaders of strong principle who can form BAKSAL style administration for creating quality skilled & quality educated political leaders, quality law & quality policy makers quality administrators & other quality professionals to rule the country for building the quality nation by controlling all nonsense quality less talking & nonsense quality less activities of nonsense quality less inefficient persons. For building the nation Bangladesh now needs quality educated quality work knowledge quality leaders. For getting quality work knowledge just the politicians the professional the administration the Judicial & the other work people nation needs to introduce a system for providing quality work knowledge education nation wide to all people.
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Subject: Re: [notun_bangladesh] Re: [chottala.com] Re: PhD/ Dr of Destruction.
To: chottala@yahoogroups.com, notun_bangladesh@yahoogroups.com
Date: Thursday, 14 August, 2008, 1:31 PM
| Gaining so many phd could not get her elected prime minister for the second term. So should we waste time discussing it?
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Subject: [notun_bangladesh] Re: [chottala.com] Re: PhD/ Dr of Destruction.
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Date: Wednesday, August 13, 2008, 11:35 PM
Ph.D./Dr of Destruction. Talking about Hasina, it is not actually money that is required to get an honarary degree but contact which is very important. In Boston there is a virbant AL group led by Kibria and couple of other families that must have helped to contact the university. I am almost certain those were the factors for her receiving the other degrees. What is important is that Bangladeshis should look for how much was spent to attend those unnecassary ceremonies. Again, in Bangladesh political leaders fool ordinary people by using those honarary degrees as being the real ones with logic like, Hasina is really a competent person otherewise howcome she had received so many degrees. In reality, however, Hasina is not a very bright person. We see that in all the pacts she signed that were not carefully articulated. Also Sheikh Mujib's signed Pacts were similar; they are the causes of much problems in today's India-Bangladesh tensed relations, this is especially true in the boundry demarcation. Hasina's Pact with the Tribals caused so much access that she herself refused to execute it. This is not an educated family to act like statesmen/ women. This is a family based its leadership on cheap thrills like gainning credit for signing a pact, gainning honarary Ph.Ds for a show off etc. National interest is not the primary concern to them. Mujib also has an honarary degree not given by any university but by our West Bengali dadas that called him Bangabandu and later on the same dadas helped some Bangladeshis to fight for Bangabhumi. It appears that Bangabandu-bangabhu mi have derived from the same source. Bangladeshis hardly use the word banga until our great leader was qualified to receive this honary title. To the diehard AL hero-worshippers, if you don't say Bangabandu Sheikh Mujib, it is as if you dishonered him by not saying like hazrat. But in 1971 when Mujib send his entire family to the safety of the Paki army and was receving a monthly allowance and left the entire Bangladeshis to face a genocide, surely he lost his title hazrat (the pious one) in the people's heart but still kept his title Bangabandu (the dada's friend). Shall I say more? No, he is already dead! But Mujib's legacy of BAKSAL fascism lives through Hasina. We saw that in Hasina led pre 1/11 death and destructions. Shall we call her the Doctor of Destruction.
----- Original Message ---- From: Syed Aslam <Syed.Aslam3@ gmail.com> To: chottala@yahoogroup s.com Sent: Wednesday, August 13, 2008 8:40:10 AM Subject: [chottala.com] Re: PhD -Mr. Sabbir wrt: Dear Mr. Sabbir I don't think that a major institution like Boston University (BU) will be driven by money to award those honorary degrees to anyone. They have their own standards on these matters. If you have any concrete facts or info on bribes taken by BU, why don't you publish that with evidences... Where did you see any comparison with Nelson Mandela, Dr.Yunus et el in my post? I had very clearly said that, it was on a point of order..... Hope, you understand that ? My post was intended to nullify the abrupt statement by Mr. Salauddin Ayubi who said " ...... these leaders were not conferred with doctorates? ". [He is the one who has brought Nelson Mandela, Mohathir Mohammed et. el. out of context and thereby perpetuated a hidden comparison through his oblique allusion That gentleman had to do some homeworks and have a little reality check before trying to fodge his position through his stray comments.] BTW, understanding the contemporary history is a difficult matter, it is not just few rhetorics or sloganeering .....! PS: Hasina didn't receive even a single PhD degree. Please don't get confused with a PhD which is normally a earned degree with honorary doctorates.. ..... Thanks for expressing your reactions, anyway. Syed Aslam Re: [notun_bangladesh] Re: FW: [ALOCHONA] Re: [chottala.com] Ph.D. Dear Syed Aslam, May peace be on you. here the main thing is how much money Shekh Hasina spend to get those honourary Degree. Do you really think Hasina is qualified as Nelson Mendala, Dr. Mahathir Mohammad and Dr. Yunus.? and what kind of wellfare hasina did to the society and the country of Bangladesh? Can you mention some of her work which gave her the qualification for Ph. D? ok let me list some here.. 1. Lagatar Hortal 2. Using some special language(Like "Shudkhor") 3. Defining the government house as her pwn house(as a Banga Konna). so please go on .. regards Sabbir Freelance Web Programmer Syed Aslam <Syed.Aslam3@ ...> wrote: Mr. Ayubi On a point of order: Besides many prizes and awards Nelson Mandela has received about 41 honorary doctorates from various Universities around the world. Matahir Mohammad has also received a few honorary doctorates from his native Malayasia & abroad.  Tun Dr. Mahathir Mohamad received
Honorary Doctorate of Knowledge Science from Syiah Kuala University (Unsyiah) ,
By the way, please do not confuse between an earned PhD and an honorary
doctorate. Syed Aslam | |
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Dear Mr. Sabbir It is not "Honourary PhD" either ! Anyway, for the sake of brevity, I will give the reasons given two foreign universities: Hasina was conferred a Doctor of Laws degree, honoris causa, by Waseda University of Japan which described her as a person of 'indomitable courage and fierce determination. And the Boston University, USA put it while conferring an honorary degree of Doctor of Laws on Hasina: In the years following Sheikh Hasina's return home, Bangladesh 'was ruled by an unstable series of overt and covert military regimes. Against this unstable background, there were two constants : the Bengali people and Sheikh Hasina. Neither forgot the democracy to which Bangladesh was born.' ............ These are not my words: I do not belong to any political party, neither a fan or a biographer Hasina Miah. As I see among many idiocyncricies Hasina has doctorate Fantasies too ! Please see my original comments in: If you have any futher questions, please contact the appropriate universities for their reasons.... I am not interested .... Thanks Syed Aslam On 8/14/08, Sabbir Hossain <sabbirhs@yahoo.com> wrote: Dear Sayed Aslam, May peace be on you. ok, it is not Ph. D but an Honourary Ph.D. but please list some of her social work which gives her even eligibility for Honouraray Ph. D. thnaks Sabbir Freelance Software Programmer wrt: Dear Mr. Sabbir I don't think that a major institution like Boston University (BU) will be driven by money to award those honorary degrees to anyone. They have their own standards on these matters. If you have any concrete facts or info on bribes taken by BU, why don't you publish that with evidences... Where did you see any comparison with Nelson Mandela, Dr.Yunus et el in my post? I had very clearly said that, it was on a point of order..... Hope, you understand that ? My post was intended to nullify the abrupt statement by Mr. Salauddin Ayubi who said " ...... these leaders were not conferred with doctorates? ". [He is the one who has brought Nelson Mandela, Mohathir Mohammed et. el. out of context and thereby perpetuated a hidden comparison through his oblique allusion That gentleman had to do some homeworks and have a little reality check before trying to fodge his position through his stray comments.] BTW, understanding the contemporary history is a difficult matter, it is not just few rhetorics or sloganeering .....! PS: Hasina didn't receive even a single PhD degree. Please don't get confused with a PhD which is normally a earned degree with honorary doctorates....... Thanks for expressing your reactions, anyway. Syed Aslam Re: [notun_bangladesh] Re: FW: [ALOCHONA] Re: [chottala.com] Ph.D. Dear Syed Aslam, May peace be on you. here the main thing is how much money Shekh Hasina spend to get those honourary Degree. Do you really think Hasina is qualified as Nelson Mendala, Dr. Mahathir Mohammad and Dr. Yunus.? and what kind of wellfare hasina did to the society and the country of Bangladesh? Can you mention some of her work which gave her the qualification for Ph. D? ok let me list some here.. 1. Lagatar Hortal 2. Using some special language(Like "Shudkhor") 3. Defining the government house as her pwn house(as a Banga Konna). so please go on .. regards Sabbir Freelance Web Programmer Syed Aslam <Syed.Aslam3@...> wrote: Mr. Ayubi On a point of order: Besides many prizes and awards Nelson Mandela has received about 41 honorary doctorates from various Universities around the world. Matahir Mohammad has also received a few honorary doctorates from his native Malayasia & abroad. ![]() Tun Dr. Mahathir Mohamad received
Honorary Doctorate of Knowledge Science from Syiah Kuala University (Unsyiah) ,
By the way, please do not confuse between an earned PhD and an honorary
doctorate. Syed Aslam
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| [Note: In the then East Pakistan Ruqayya Jaffry was known as Roqayya Anwar, and made her contributions during Anti-Ayub movements of sixties] Partitions scar Pakistani woman | | | By M Ilyas Khan
BBC News, Karachi |  Two partitions have left Mrs Jafry with mixed feelings | Ruqayya Jafry, 83, has suffered two geographical partitions in her lifetime. One, in 1947, left her with a sense of partial triumph and a dream that somehow soured too soon. The other, in 1971, gave her a shock from which she is still recovering. Between the two events, she progressed from a student leader to a member of Pakistan's national parliament, where she was instrumental in organising opposition to General Ayub Khan, Pakistan's first military ruler in the 1960s. But she feels her career as a high achiever has done little to ameliorate her own plight as the forgotten matriarch of a divided house. Born in 1925 to a lawyer in Sirajganj town of Rajshahi in East Bengal, Mrs Jafry spent the prime of her youth organising the women students' wing of the All India Muslim League in Calcutta, where she went to college. The best years "My father was a colleague of known Muslim League leaders like Fazlul Haq and Husyn Shaheed Suhrawardy. When they visited Rajshahi, they used to stay at our residence. So I grew up in a dense political environment." She studied up to high school at home, in keeping with the Muslim sensitivities of the time. But then opportunities opened up to her. The nearest girls' college was in Calcutta, and there was no separate hostel for Muslim girls. "My father could never have agreed to send me there," she says. To her good fortune, the Bengal government set up what was then called a purdah (veil) college, the Lady Brabourne College, which also had a hostel. The college was established in 1939, the year Mrs Jafry finished her high school studies. Permission from her parents to attend was not long in coming. She considers the following eight years as the best part of her life. "I cherish every moment of that life," she says. "There was freedom, and a lot of work to do. Transport was cheap, there was a tram service, and there were friendly people all around. I cannot recall a single Calcutta street, lane or by-lane where I did not leave my footprints." 'Triumph robbed' During this period, she emerged as a student leader, social worker, newspaper columnist, election campaigner and a broadcaster. She also fell in love with a fellow student leader from West Bengal, whom she married in 1946. The partition of India in 1947 brought triumph, but there was a sad subtext to it. "Calcutta and Assam, which we had always considered a part of the eastern wing of our new country (Pakistan), went to India." Her group had to shift to Dacca, the capital of East Pakistan (later to become Bangladesh), which few of them had seen before.  Mrs Jafry was a student leader, social worker, columnist, broadcaster and MP | "There was a feeling that we had been robbed of a part of our victory, but not the entire victory. We had achieved something too. "But the secession of Bangladesh in 1971 was a full blown shock, in which we lost everything." She feels the seeds of secession were sown as early as 1948, when united Pakistan's first governor-general, Mohammad Ali Jinnah, told a students' gathering in Dacca that only Urdu would be the national language of Pakistan. This gave birth to the Bangla language movement, and agitation erupted in 1951, causing political re-alignments that led to the complete elimination of the Muslim League from East Pakistan. Mrs Jafry, then running a school in Dacca and raising a family, joined Suhrawardy's Awami League and was also quietly working in the background for this new movement. In 1962, she was able to beat Gen Ayub's restrictions on political parties and was elected to a women's seat in the national parliament, where she emerged as a firebrand campaigner for Bengali rights. 'Secession scars' "I spent three years at the parliament trying to tell the rulers they should not spend all the East Pakistani money for development in West Pakistan. I tried to warn them that there was already smoke in East Pakistan, and there would soon be fire." But in the West Pakistan of the 1960s, no one seemed to be in the mood to heed such advice. When Bangladesh seceded, she suffered a nervous breakdown and was in hospital for several weeks.  Mrs Jafry was a member of Pakistan's national parliament | As a member of parliament, Mrs Jafry had her first chance to visit West Pakistan, where all the infrastructure of state she had fought for was located. The parliament then used to meet in the city of Rawalpindi. She didn't like the place much. "The first thing I noticed here was that men looked at women with lust, something I had never experienced in Bengal. And then there was bonded labour due to the domination of feudal lords." But this is the land where she has remained. She was widowed in 1956, and married a West Pakistani journalist 10 years later. A widow again, she now lives in Karachi with two daughters, while her only son and the rest of the family live more than 3,000 miles away, in her native Bangladesh. "Often, I lie awake all night, thinking about my life. I have much to thank for, but the divisions I have suffered hurt me. They prick my heart." 
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15th August - National Mourning Day. Bangabandhu Parishad New Zealand branch will observe 33rd National Mourning Day & will pay effusive homage & tribute to father of the nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman & will pray for eternal peace for his departed soul & all others who were killed in that black night. 15th August - National Mourning Day - 2008 programme in New Zealand by Bangabandhu Parishad, New Zealand Joy Bangla Joy Bangabandhu 33rd National Mourning Day, 2008 Dear all honest & sincere follower and admirer of Father of the Bangalee nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman Today is the 15th August, the blackest day of Bangladesh and Bangalee nation. In the calendar of Bangladesh, the August 15, is a devastating episode. It is a day to mourn! We mourn the tragedy, as we ought to. The pain goes on increasing with every passing year! This 15th August 2008 marks the 33rd anniversary of the death of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and many of his family members. On this black day in 1975, a small section of hated army personnel killed our father of the Bangalee Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and most of all his family members at his historic residence of 32 number Dhanmondi, Dhaka. Bangabandhu and members of his family were assassinated in three separate attacks on August 15, 1975. The victims include his wife Begum Fazilatunnessa, sons Sheikh Kamal, Sheikh Jamal and nine-year-old Sheikh Russell, daughters-in-law Sultana Kamal, Parveen Jamal, brother Sheikh Naser, brother-in-law Abdur Rab Serniabat, 13-year-old Baby Serniabat, Serniabat's son Arif, Serniabat's four-year-old grand son Babu, a nephew, three guests, four servants, Bangabandhu's nephew Sheikh Fazlul Huq Moni, his pregnant wife Begum Arju Moni, and Bangabandhu's security chief Colonel Jamil Uddin Ahmed, few police officers, and few innocent people at Dhaka. His two daughters -- Sheikh Hasina and Sheikh Rehana escaped the dastardly killing incident as they were then staying outside the country with Dr Wazed Mia. The 15 August tragedy was followed up with the killing of four national leaders in Dhaka Central Jail on November 3, 1975. After the barbaric killings, succeeding governments imposed a restriction on the trial of the killings through enacting the black Indemnity Act. However, after long 21 years, the Awami League government led by Sheikh Hasina (1996-2001) repealed the black law. A murder case was filed on October 2, 1996. In November 1998, the trial court gave its historic verdict, death penalty to 15 culprit former army officers in the Bangabandhu Murder Case. Later, the High Court (HC) upheld the death sentence of 12 killers, five of whom are now in Dhaka Central Jail. The five are They are Syed Farukur Rahman, Bazlul Huda, AKM Mahiuddin, Shahriar Rashid Khan, and Mohiuddin. The condemned who are absconding abroad are Abdur Rashid, Shariful Haque Dalim, Rashed Chowdhury, Nur Chowdhury, Abdul Mazed, and Moslemuddin, while another one, Aziz Pasha, died. This year Bangalee nation and the citizens of Bangladesh (inside and outside of Bangladesh) observes the 33rd death anniversary of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, the founding father of Bangladesh, with some relief and great enthusiasm & determination as in compliance with a recent High Court ruling, the present interim caretaker government on last Sunday (10.08.08) reinstated August 15 as "National Mourning Day", a public holiday & the national flag at half-mast to commemorate the assassination of father of the nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and to pay effusive homage, tribute and respect to Bangabandhu.
Today, as we recall the contributions of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman to our history and the pivotal role he played in the shaping of our destiny. By denying Bangabandhu's supreme sacrifice for the liberation of Bangladesh and welfare of its people is incomparable in history and his rightful place we are only demeaning and degrading ourselves. On this day, we pay our heartiest homage & respect to the contribution and memory of Bangabandhu and others who were brutally killed and pray for the eternal peace of their departed soul. We also demand for executing the court verdict against his condemned assassins without any further delay. We too call upon the present interim government, to declare officially Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman as the father of the nation. On the occasion of the 33rd National Mourning Day, Bangabandhu Parishad, New Zealand branch has arranged a programme, like previous years (since 1999) and will also pay glowing tributes to the memory of the great son and legendary political leader of the sub-continent Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman. - Date: Sunday, 24th August, 2008
· At: Avondale Community Centre, Avondale, Auckland , New Zealand All honest & sincere follower and admirer of the founding father of Bangladesh, Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman -living in New Zealand are cordially invited in this programme. The programme include hoisting of black flag and national flag, religious prayer for his departed soul, discussion meeting. Engr. Shafiqur Rahman Anu, President Dr. Engr. Nazrul Islam, General Secretary, Bangabandhu Parishad, New Zealand Joy Bangla Joy Bangabandhu __._,_.___ [* Moderator's Note - CHOTTALA is a non-profit, non-religious, non-political and non-discriminatory organization.
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