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[chottala.com] Saudis Campaign Against Child Marriage

Saudis Campaign Against Child Marriage

By  Hassan Abdo, IOL Correspondent

A group of Saudi women activists have launched a nationwide campaign to enact a law criminalizing child marriages in Saudi Arabia.

Well, the Saudis are at it again.

 

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"There is no Shari`ah ruling against setting a marriage age for girls," said Al-Fenesyan.

JEDDAH — Shocked by stories of young girls being married off to men at the age of their fathers, a group of Saudi women activists have launched a nationwide campaign to enact a law criminalizing child marriages in the conservative kingdom.

"The idea of the campaign came out after child marriages have become rife in Saudi Arabia," Fawziya Al-Oyouni, president of the Saudi society for defending women's rights, told IslamOnline.net on Friday, September 19.

The activists are planning to file a petition with the Saudi Justice Ministry on  September 23, to demand a law criminalizing the marriage of girls under 17.

"The petition will demand setting the marriage age for girls at 17," the society said in a statement.

Oyouni said child marriages often end up in tragedies.

She cited the case of a 16-year-old who has tried to commit suicide after she had been married off to a man in his 70s.

"A 10-year-old child also became a divorcee," said Oyouni.

The issue of child marriages has sparked a headed debate in Saudi Arabia after local papers reported cases of young girls who had been married off to men as old as their fathers.

Last month, the mother of an eight-year-old girl filed a suit to divorce her daughter, who was married to an old man by her father without the child's knowledge.

In many child marriages, girls are given away to older men in return for hefty dowries or as a result of long-standing custom in which a father promises his daughters and sons to marriage while children.

According to local statistics, in the most of these cases, the marriage is concluded without the girls knowledge or consent.

Awareness

Saudi scholars don't see a problem with enacting a law fixing the marriage age for girls.

"There is no Shari`ah ruling against specifying the marriage age for girls," said Dr. Saud Al-Fenesyan, a former rector of the Shari`ah Faculty in the Imam Muhammed bin Saud University.

"Setting the age of 17 or 18 for the marriage of girls is permissible according to the Hanafi school of thought, which is applicable in many man-made laws."

There are no laws in Saudi Arabia defining the minimum age for marriage.

Though the girl must give her consent to the marriage, some marriage officials set the term aside.

A United Nations report on child marriage in 2005 found that 100 million girls were expected to marry by the age of 18 before 2015.

The worst countries for child marriage were Niger, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Afghanistan, India and Bangladesh.

Zuhair Al Harthi, a spokesman for the Saudi human rights authority, believes that laws would not end the phenomenon.

"This issue first requires raising awareness of the parents," he told IOL.

 
 
 
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Hijab in Beijing olympic:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qcWwjrfn26w

 

Roqaya Al-Gassra of Bahrain, who won her 200-meter heat by a good margin in 22.76, runs with all of her body covered, except her face. She wears a stretchy head covering, long sleeves and pants. When she crossed the finish line, she fell to her knees and kissed the track.
 

WINS HER HEAT in full Hijab!

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Bahrain's Roqaya al-Gassra, right, and Russia's Aleksandra Fedoriva compete in a women's 200-meter 2nd round heat during the athletics competitions in the National Stadium at the Beijing 2008 Olympics in Beijing, Tuesday, Aug. 19, 2008. (AP Photo/Greg Baker) — AP

 

 

 

 

 


 

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RE: [chottala.com] A nice interview of Engr. Sajeeb Wajed Joy - he has again proved that he is not the grandson only (family relation wise) - but also the bonafide political inheritor of the father of Bangalee nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman

I think we need to build the democracy where all grassroot peoples' representatives can take part in everyday state policy. I have a model that I am presenting below for the consensus building of the common mass.
 
WHAT EXIT STRATEGY SHOULD BE FOR THE C.T.G. & MILITARY?

Army backed CTG assumed power a year and a half ago while a general election was promised to be held within two years. It seems that the CTG has kept its promise and is trying to meet the originally promised milestone for election. However, it is observed that both the army and CTG are facing a host of problems in making the election happen in due time. Various political parties are buzzing differently. Some of them declared the election boycotts, some of them are putting hard and fast conditions, and some of them are asking to release their favorite people who are now under government custody for the charges of monetary corruptions. Grabbing political power by the military of the country is the highest form of political corruption. But the most arrogant behavior of the incumbent administration, the most dubious activities of the President, and the most destructive activities of the opposition compelled the highest fire-power of the country to step in to stop all those nonsense activities and save the people of the country from the extreme violence orchestrated by the so called politicians of both major parties.
After taking over the administrative power, both the CTG and the military, made a lot of mistakes one after the other. One dreadful mistake was lingering the monetary corruption drive for too long time without starting immediate due process for trial and punishment. Monetary corruptions are criminal offenses that had to be tried promptly by the law of the court, and move on. This is haunting this government severely. How come so many people are imprisoned without convicting any of the corrupted politicians? The government is releasing these corrupted politicians now without any legal due processes. So, what does that mean? Are they all innocent? If so, why they were in prison in the first place? If they were guilty, they must be punished. But why they are being released if they were suspected to be guilty when they were arrested? Does it mean that this government is whimsical? Where did the law and fairness go? All the mistakes done by the government have eroded the high praise that they won by significantly improving the law and order situation of the country.
No one in the world is without any errors, and not everybody has the utmost efficiency in their jobs. While the CTG and Army had no previous experience of running a country, they are expected to make some mistakes, but that should not let the sky fall. Solutions have to be searched by the government as well as everybody else in the country. It is the duty of all citizens of the country to try to help the government whatever way they can, and the government should make the environment such that people can interact with the government facing no troubles. Otherwise, a peaceful transition of power won't happen.
The present government is composed of two components, a civil CTG and an armed Military. Army came to power in the form of physical takeover, just short of declaring Martial Law. Improving the Law and order situation throughout the country is real praiseworthy. The country must have, for all times, this type of excellent law and order situation, no matter, who rules or what type of government runs the country. If the government can not provide law and order, everything of the country falls into the puddle. Until RAB was formed, the street thugs, hoodlums, private tax collectors, robbers, and illegal arm bearers would reign the entire country, bypassing the government. Sometimes these bad elements would even have the influence on the government and the government would have to favor them. That situation has been tackled wisely by the present government and so the people of the country started liking this government quite well. However, the CTG or the Army can not rule the country for too long time. But it is also true that the people of this country have not seen this sort of peace in law and order for the past several decades. Should people give it away soon? I don't think anybody would like to do it. So, what is the solution that this present government should look for such that a peaceful transfer of power would happen and the similar law and order, as we have today, will continue in the future days also?

It is real hard to find out any real and practical solution to keep peace as well as to get the democracy back. However, we need to make transition, and we must keep peace in the country by maintaining the law and order situation. How it can be achieved?
The existing political parties have already shown that they are extremely party aligned and the party leaders are not open enough to cooperate with the other parties. It has been seen in the past that the political parties are after their part interests only and not for the benefit of the people of the country. In this situation, if those old parties come to power again, definitely there will be no peace. In order to establish the legacy of the lasting peace in the country, there has to have some other ways, and some other means that the present government has to follow during the power transfer.
Government should form search committees, commissions, and enlightened groups to look for various options how the democracy can be established and the law and order can be maintained unconditionally. We lost already a lot of lives, properties, economic progress, fames, and fortunes because of the chaos, conflicts, and lawlessness in the country for quite a long time. Let's not repeat those unfortunate happenings in our country again. Reconciliation, Unity, Mutual Understanding, Ethics, Respect for Law, and to avoid all anarchism for ever can bring the country together towards a lasting peace. The traditional democracy is good where society is bonded and do not erupt suddenly with tiny bit of sparks hitting somewhere in the country. Bangladesh is still far away from reaching to that state. A lot of cultural and social traditions and bindings make that to happen. We need some time to learn those things.
Reforming the administrative structure of the government is necessary to be able to perform good governance for the country. One suggestion would be to modify the administrative structure of the government from one layer to three different layers. If the multi-layer government could be instituted, it would be very beneficial for the general public in order to be able to provide public administration services effectively creating a check and balance amongst the layers.
The first layer shall be county level, second layer shall be the district level, and the third level shall be the federal level for the entire country. Each level shall have the fully independent government, not being the part of the other levels. All districts shall be divided into four, five or six counties. Thereby the whole country would be divided into about 250 to 300 counties. Set up a local government for each county. This local County Government shall be responsible for all local administrations such as local legislative houses, local administrative boards, police, court, schools, land record and revenue, real estate development and zoning, taxation, business licensing and controls, roads, bridges, and other development works, hospitals, transportation, safety, security, public welfare, child protection, social work, industry, fishery, animal husbandry, agricultural, forestry, mining, water, electricity, gas, and other supplies, etc. All elementary, middle, and high schools in the county shall be run with the personal property taxes and other taxes collected form the county including the grants from the district government and federal government. All other components of the county government shall be run by the tax collected from the residents and businesses of that county plus the district and federal government grants and aids.
Let the District Administrations have the coordination, training and supervisory duties to look after the county administrations. District administrative employees shall be highly trained and well rounded professionals but the District Government shall be lean, less people but highly efficient at work with impressive compensation. The District Government shall have the administrative council and legislative bodies including the counterparts of each of the departments of the counties. Only at times of need they should deploy their respective teams to help the counties, should any need or crises arise. District administration should be able to collect moderate amount of tax from the incomes of the citizens and businesses in the district. Districts may set up model institutes, extra-ordinary schools and colleges. The universities shall be run by the districts. Inter-county commerce shall be controlled by the district. Districts shall build all transportation and communication highways, railways, airports, river and water development projects, research institutes, large scale hospitals, highway traffic police, district courts, district prisons, utility oversight boards, regulatory bodies, parks, museums, zoos, etc.
The federal government shall be the ultimate administrative, legislative, and regulatory body in the country. The administrative head may be a president or a prime minister based on whether parliamentary or presidential democracy is chosen by the people of the country. It can be decided by the polls or primary elections. Federal Government shall be in charge of key issues of the nation such as Military, Money, Foreign Policy, Inter-District and Foreign Commerce, National Affairs & Policies, Drug and Gangs Control, National Safety-Security-Homeland Protection, Industry Regulation, Financial & Market Economy Safeguarding, Deregulating and Privatizing Public Utilities, Foreign Aid Collection-Distribution-Payment, National highways & Transportation, and establishing Counterpart Departments to train and provide supports to the same in the district governments and in the county governments. Two tier legislative houses (upper & lower) would prepare laws of the country.
Why should we have this three tier governments in lieu of the present on tier Government of Bangladesh? The main reason is the focus of the government. It is always better to be the master of a trade instead of being the jack of all trades. When a one tier government takes care of all affairs in a nation, none of the affairs can be taken care of well. It puts the government into the situation of the jack of all trades. If the government has three tiers/layers then each layer can focus on the issues differently. The local government can take care of all peoples' affairs in its own territory such as public protection, law & order, schools, real estates, businesses, banking, transports, roads & highways, agriculture, industry, markets, health, hospitals, child welfare, land, forestry, fishery, animal husbandry, minerals, mining, and so on and so forth.
When area becomes smaller, most people know each other. Almost everyone knows who is a good person and who is a bad person. With this public knowledge, people can elect or select good people in the politics and administration. Bad, greedy, thugs, and cheats can be stopped this way to take the advantage of coming into politics and ruining the political environment. While public is administered by all these local county governments, the district and federal government can focus on support and policy making jobs. Since the district and federal government will not directly handle the real estates, properties, industries, and public directly, it will provide them an opportunity to be less greedy for real estates, properties, bribes, and hoarding. Also, the law & order and public protection services will be provided by the local government and so the district and federal government won't have to spend too much time on these crucial issues which will provide a very good opportunity to spend more time on researching and making public policies for the national stability and upliftment. The federal government will also get more opportunity to interact with the foreign government and international institutions such as IMF, World Bank, UNO, and other international organizations. This will greatly facilitate the federal government in bringing more international helps to build and progress the nation.
Aside from governance, this three tier government system in the country will provide a great opportunity to the people of the country to run the country with less dependence and helps from the politicians. It has been seen in the past that the election and politics in the third world countries in Asia and Africa has become the means of grabbing the state power and hoarding the wealth of the nation. When politicians fail, military takes over, and do the same thing. So, it is necessary to reduce the dependence of the public on the politicians and on the military of the country for public administration. A one tier government grabs all affairs of the administration in the country and so leaves no alternatives to public other than fully to depend on who grabbed the power (politicians or military). Alternatively, in the three tier/layer government, the local county government is composed of mainly the locally known famous persons regardless of their political affiliations. Military take over of the local government is highly unlikely mainly because the military always belongs to the central government and at the time of national crises, military takes over the central government.
If t three tier governments exist, even if the military takes over, the local government must remain functional and the military won't have enough manpower and resources to replace all the local civil governments to local military governments. So, even in the event of military takeover, all public will be basically administering the local county civil governments. This will affect very less the public and business lives of the country. Country will remain lot more stable as far as the public lives, economic and business operations. Moreover, a head of the county can be elected by the local people of the county who will better know who is a good leader, good social worker, honest, and basically a good person, no matter what party he/she is in or even an independent person. This way if the county people locally employ 250 to 300 county heads (with designation such as administrator, supervisor, chairman, president or CEO) in the entire country and they are given the status of being the member of parliament then this group of county administrators initially can engage into discussions with the present CTG and military rulers to formulate a permanent settlement on the transfer of power of the federal government to a settled civilian federal government.
If this power transfer job is handled by the political parties only, definitely there will be a lot of games on muscle, greed, power grabbing strategies, chaos, confusions, and it is feared that the pre one eleven situation will come back again to the country. This must be avoided al all costs by all patriotic honest people of the country. Only the dishonest traitors, cheaters, hoarders, and musclemen will be benefited by the repetition of the situation of pre-one eleven. The old politicians are all corrupt, dubious, inefficient, greedy, and outrageously dishonest. It is only hope that the new politicians out of new blood will emerge in future in the country to take the country into the right direction but it will definitely not happen if the pre-one eleven situation comes back in the country.
So, the suggestion to the CTG and the Military Government leaders to think about and form this three tier/layer government in the country before transferring the power to any other government. Elections did never solve our national problems, and will never do it unless it is done properly in a proper environment. Definitely elections will be needed for us to assume the democratic government but the situation of Bangladesh is at present in such a condition that a mere election will not resolve our acute national strife.
We must first put the nation in order. Create appropriate situation which I believe can be achieved by establishing this three tier government in the country now, leaving behind all other national power transfer activities. It is almost guaranteed that if it is not done today, it will never be done by the other governments in future mainly for the reason that the present condition of Bangladesh will not support or give birth to selfless politicians, rather will all be corrupt. The corrupt politicians will not adopt the three tier/layer government because it will stop them from looting and hoarding the state money and properties and will not provide the scope of reigning with their own gang of terrors and tax collectors (chadabuz). A country like ours must avoid going down the spirals of these unfortunate pitfalls for ever. It must be stopped somewhere and try to re-run with fairness, honesty and aptitude. The political bullies keep the good and honest people to take part in administration of the country politically or otherwise. So, if their scope of capitalizing the political muscle in public administration, they will try to adjust themselves also. So, let us try to establish these institutions for the good governance of the country before any other changes.
Let the public administration be run by these local governments for a test period of two, three or five years to see how effectively they are running the administration. In the mean time let all these 250 to 300 honest and independent county heads attend the temporary parliament and give their consensus on future national adoptions, policies and changes for the country; and see where they can take us. We have seen the politicians for long time; let us give chance to the independents to give a test run for the bright and stable future of our country.
If this process can be established, it will be the real people's participatory democracy, in essence what democracy really means (people's participation). In the current forms of party oriented democracy, either American style Presidential form of democracy, or the British style paliamentary democracy, people really participate only once during the election, while the members get elected in the house of reprsentatives. Afterwards, during the entire term of 4 years or 5 years, whatever be each country's rule, the common people of the country have no direct participation in the political process. Being the owner of the country, they just get ruled by the opportunist influentials instead of getting the chance of ruling their own country. Only they can barely beg something to their own elected representative, but most of the time, it does not work. Usually the representatives do not show up much in their own constituencies to see the problems of the people. Most of the time they live in the capital. Lobbies, rich corporations, foreign pressure, opportunists, and most of all the corrupt politicians ruin the welfare of the country.
If the party does not dictate, many sharp individuals will take politics as the profession, build themselves sincerely like other professionals do, and since everybody wants the own good, these people will be the keeper of beneficial public policies in the country and will certainly do good to the public, who essentially the people who they live with, and will get better in their actions day by day. Often times the party bullies the good non-aggressive but tolerant people and hire the musclemen to be powerful against the other parties. In a non-party system, this will stop for ever. Good people will come to politics, make it as life long career, do good for the people around, provide the chances to others to come in politics too; because most people someday will come to their committees as member by turns.
The committee members from all over the country, will be able to decide on the issues (political, administrative, judgemental, national security, physical planning, infrastructure improvement, national development, etc.) in each committee separately in each locality, send their decisions through the internet expeditiously to the upper levels; letting their decisions to know to all layers of the committees upto the top layer in the center of the country. The top management and administrative people in the country will thereby know the public support, that will help them to know instantaneously what to do in crafting the policies based on the public supports, and run the country smoothly, without rifting or creating the future turmoils, avoiding the ones that happened in the pre 1/11 period.


Thanks,
KR




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From: enayet_2000@yahoo.com
Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2008 12:03:24 -0700
Subject: [chottala.com] A nice interview of Engr. Sajeeb Wajed Joy - he has again proved that he is not the grandson only (family relation wise) - but also the bonafide political inheritor of the father of Bangalee nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman


I have read Sajib Wade's blog. There is nothing substantiate I can  find which is knowledge-worthy amusing!
 
Seems to me, he is a good person! What bothers me a lot, like his mother, he thinks Bangladesh belong to him. Mujib family can not give up the thought - there is no dynasty, the kingdom or princehood is long dead!
 
In bangladesh, we have feel a debtness towards family-dynasty. The same reason, hasina & khaleda ascended to political stage. We have an emptiness as a country to build any successful leadership. In our political arena, Hasina-Khaleda almost treated a 'peer'.
 
This is saddening! We need to build democracy, and for any democracy, it need strong political party, not just only one Hasina or Khaleda. Or even Sajib or Tareq.
 
Lets have leaders who has a vision of the country!
 
 
 


--- On Tue, 9/23/08, Engr. Shafiq Bhuiyan <srbanunz@gmail.com> wrote:
From: Engr. Shafiq Bhuiyan <srbanunz@gmail.com>
Subject: [Sonar Bangladesh] A nice interview of Engr. Sajeeb Wajed Joy - he has again proved that he is not the grandson only (family relation wise) - but also the bonafide political inheritor of the father of Bangalee nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman
To: BanglaPolitics@yahoogroups.com, banglarnari@yahoogroups.com, bdstudents@yahoogroups.com, bristi_namai@yahoogroups.com, chottala@yahoogroups.com, dahuk@yahoogroups.com, Diagnose@yahoogroups.com, FutureOfBangladesh@yahoogroups.com, khabor@yahoogroups.com, motamoth@yahoo.com, mukto-mona@yahoogroups.com, sa7rong@yahoogroups.com, uttorshuri@yahoogroups.com
Date: Tuesday, September 23, 2008, 4:10 AM

Dear politically conscious writers, readers and common people of Bangladesh,

Please read the very nice, logical & old (was recorded on 23rd Jukly
2007 in USA) interview of Engr. Sajeeb Wajed Joy, which was neither
published nor broadcasted in any media.

This is published in the toady's (23.9.08) the Daily Amadershomoy
(newspaper of the vested group for special purpose) (PDF file is also
attached).

Interview of Sajeeb W Joy -
http://www.amadersh omoy.com/ online/content/ 2008/09/23/ news0857. htm

In actual fact Joy has again proved that he is not the grandson only
(family relation wise) - but also the bonafide political inheritor of
the father of Bangalee nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman

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[chottala.com] How Stupid Is Sarah Palin?

We have made two consecutive mistakes in the past elections as a nation. We have elected a clueless governor of Texas as President who claimed that trade with Mexico was one of his great achievements dealing with a foreign country. Look where he has taken us! Now we are considering electing a vice president who claims that her trades with Russia, a country she can see from her home with her naked eye, as one of her notable accomplishments dealing with foreign neighbor! And are we falling for her because we are so gullible?
I have a claim to make. My claim is Sarah Palin is plain old Stupid with a capital "S"!!!! No wonder why John Mccain is trying to shield her from the media! Is this one of the reasons why he is trying to focus his attention to Wall Street even though there are only few days left before the election for the Main Street!
If you guys want to know how STUPID the "Palin" lady is then you would feel sorry for the "maverick" John Mccain for picking this airhead. I think even the thought of voting for Palin as the vice president is an insult to intelligence after witnessing her embarrassing episodes with the media. You have to watch the interview with Katie Couric to get a feel for the incompetence of Sarah Palin. Here is an excerpt from the interview:

Couric: You've said, quote, "John McCain will reform the way Wall Street does business." Other than supporting stricter regulations of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac two years ago, can you give us any more example of his leading the charge for more oversight?

Palin: I think that the example that you just cited, with his warnings two years ago about Fannie and Freddie - that, that's paramount. That's more than a heck of a lot of other senators and representatives did for us.

Couric: But he's been in Congress for 26 years. He's been chairman of the powerful Commerce Committee. And he has almost always sided with less regulation, not more.

Palin: He's also known as the maverick though, taking shots from his own party, and certainly taking shots from the other party. Trying to get people to understand what he's been talking about - the need to reform government.

Couric: But can you give me any other concrete examples? Because I know you've said Barack Obama is a lot of talk and no action. Can you give me any other examples in his 26 years of John McCain truly taking a stand on this?

Palin: I can give you examples of things that John McCain has done, that has shown his foresight, his pragmatism, and his leadership abilities. And that is what America needs today.

Couric: I'm just going to ask you one more time - not to belabor the point. Specific examples in his 26 years of pushing for more regulation.

Palin: I'll try to find you some and I'll bring them to you.

Here is the link :
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/09/24/eveningnews/main4476173.shtm

tariq matin

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[FutureOfBangladesh] Re: [notun_bangladesh] Row over Zia killing - The Independent, Dhaka

Mr. Aslam,

 

In my opinion, yesterday's (25.9.08) input of Arif is perhaps the best on this matter.

It was a very logical, rational, informative input based on confirmed, proven & authentic reference.

 

I hope truth will revail, today or tomorrow.

 

Devil can fool 'some' people for 'some' time, but not 'all' the people for 'all' the time.

 

Again, thanks to Arif for this nice input.

 


"Sustha thakon, nirapade thakon ebong valo thakon"

Shuvechhante,

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NEW ZEALAND.

Phone: 00-64-9-828 2435 (Res), 00-64-0274  500 277 (mobile)
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On 9/26/08, Syed Aslam <Syed.Aslam3@gmail.com> wrote:

Row over Zia killing
STAFF REPORTER, The Independent

A new controversy has surfaced over the killing of Shaheed President Ziaur Rahman following some remarks made by Maj Gen (retd) Syed Muhammad Ibrahim Bir Pratik Tuesday.
"Jatiya Party Chairman and former President Ershad who was the chief of the army during the period, cannot avoid the responsibility of the killing of Zia and he might have a link with the incident, Gen Ibrahim said at a milad mahfil at the residence of late Col Rashid who was hanged on charge of his involvement in killing President Zia.
However, Ershad rejected such a notion alleging that there was a political motive behind the move to implicate him in the assassination of Ziaur Rahman, the founder of the BNP, now being headed by Zia's widow Khaleda Zia.
Talking to The Independent last night Gen Ibrahim, who recently formed a political party named Kallyan Party, said that following the mutiny on May 30, 1981 that resulted in the killing of President Zia, a Court Martial was formed under the provision of the Bangladesh Army Act to try the mutineers.
"During its conduct as well as in the closing chapters of the Court Martial irregularities took place, which were never addressed or rectified. The onus of not checking the irregularities or rectifying those is on the top leadership of the army of those days. The topmost leader cannot escape the responsibility," he said adding that the mutiny was too big an event for the top leaders of the army to ignore.
"Whether the top leadership was involved in it in an indirect manner or whether they knew anything about it, had never been inquired into with adequate transparency and sincerity. Therefore, doubts in the mind of the people continue to be fester till today," he explained.
Demanding the transparent and fair trial of the  assassination of the Ziaur Rahman, Gen Ibrahim also alleged that the family of the late president and the BNP leadership were not that much vocal in trying the killer of Zia.
Talking to a private television channel, former president and Jatiya Party chief Gen HM Ershad denied his involvement, in any way, with the killing of Ziaur Rahman.
When his attention was drawn to the allegation of Gen Ibrahim that Ershad, who was the then chief of the army, cannot escape his responsibilities regarding the killing of president Ziaur Rahman, Ershad said that Gen Ibrahim was misleading the people and he came up with such distorting remarks only to misdirect the present politics.
The JP chief said Gen Ziaur Rahman was a civil administrator then and his party BNP came to power twice while his wife Khaleda Zia was the prime minister of Bangladesh. "Had I been involved in any way with the killing of Ziaur Rahman, she (Khaleda Zia) would have tried me," Ershad said also demanding a full fledged trial of the Ziaur Rahman Killing Case.

 Source:

Dhaka, Thursday 25 September 2008 / 10 Ashwin 1415 / 24 Ramzan 1429
 
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Ershad's rejonder
 
 
 
 





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[FutureOfBangladesh] Khaleda Zia is utmost unhappy for suspicious, treacherous role of her brother - utmost corrupt, BAIMAN, ungrateful, KRITOGHNO Major (Retired or Expelled) Saeed Iskander

Khaleda Zia is utmost unhappy for suspicious, treacherous role of

Her brother - utmost corrupt, BAIMAN, ungrateful, KRIHGNO

Major (Retired or expelled) Saeed Iskander

*Major (Retired) Saeed Iskander is*

· Brother of Khaleda

· Uncle of Tarek & Koko

· Business partner of Tarek & Koko (Manging Partner of Dandi Dying &
other company)

· Ex MP & Vice President of BNP

*But Saeed Iskander did not*

· Meet with Khaleda even after 15 days of her relese from Jail

· Meet with Tarek after hisr relese from Jail & before going
overseas for treatment

· Meet with Koko after hisr relese from Jail & before going overseas
for treatment

· Participated any movement - meeting for release of jailed Khaleda
- Tarek - Koko

*But Saeed Iskander*

· *Enjoyed all type 'cream' when Khaleda was in power*

· *Made billions of Taka by using name of Khaleda - Tarek*

When Khaleda - Tarek - Koko was in Power !!!

*That is why Khaleda is utmost unhappy to her opportunist - corrupt -
ungrateful brother.*

For more detail, please read yesterday's (25.9.08) news published at a
newspapper of Dhaka

Khaleda is utmost unhappy with his brother Saeed Iskander for his
suspicious, treacherous role

http://www.bhorerkagoj.net/online/news.php?id=33394&sys=3


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