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Monday, May 18, 2009

[chottala.com] She gets 216 Kathas, can I get just 6 ? writer Orpi Ahmed earnestly request our prime minister?



She gets 216 Kathas, can I get just 6? Writer Orpi Ahmed earnestly requests our Primr Minister who promised to change the life of ordinary people !
 
 
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[FutureOfBangladesh] FW: [ALOCHONA] Engineers, Doctors are corrupted!!! _ Minister Syed Ashraf



How does he know about the Engineering Universities, Medical Collages and Agricultural Universities to produce educated corrupted engineers, doctors and agriculturists? Did he study in any of the institutions? Does by any means he attached himself with any research work dealing with what institutions make how much corruptions?
 
For my entire life, I am hearing that the Engineering University is a place of model education. No corruptions did ever touch this institution while many other institutions, even a lot of them surrounding it had a lot of corruptions, either among the students or among the administrations.
 
Starting from the Pakistan time, years after the years, all kinds of junk politicians, would create their cadres among the students of the Universities and of the colleges, with a view to motivating them to ill purposes, but those screwed up politicians could not touch the grounds of the institutions of real learning such as the Engineering University and Colleges, PG and Medical colleges, and the Agricultural University and the colleges; for a main reason that the highest class students go in those institutions, with a sole ambition of  studying, learning, and for becoming the legitimate future professionals. No one goes there to be politicians.
 
Anybody please just tell me an absolute truth, who are more corrupted in Bangladesh? The politicians? or the Professionals like engineers, doctors, health professionals,  and agriculturists?
 
I am not saying that there are no corrupted professionals or there are no honest politicians. All I am saying that if you make a statistical measurement, you will see the statistical curve of the measurement will go in opposite directions for the Bangladeshi professionals and the Bangladeshi politicians.  Thirty years ago or before, people could feel the contributions of the politicians but today people feel that the country will run a lot better without any politicians. Politician are the ones who are spoiling the country by all means. But if you observe for the same period, you will see that Bangladesh could not produce the food for 65 to 70 millions people of the country. A number of people would die by hunger. Today Bangladesh is feeding 150 million people with a lot more and lot better food supply. Who made this to happen? Politicians or the agriculturists, engineers, and professionals of the host of disciplines? Thirty years ago, people would left and right immaturely, child and mother mortality was at the peak. Today all kinds of mortalities due to disease and disadvantage have reduced drastically. Who made it happen? The politicians or the doctors, health professionals, and health researchers? Thirty years ago or before, how many buildings were there to live or work, and how many roads were there to drive? How many today? Were all those built just by the politicians? Engineers, designers, constructors, mentors etc. all worked hard to make all these happen.
 
If all professionals were only corrupted, then how all these achievements happened? Please provide the information about how much political achievements have happened in last several decades?

 



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From: engrmhkhan@yahoo.com
Date: Sun, 17 May 2009 12:08:27 -0700
Subject: [ALOCHONA] Engineers, Doctors are corrupted!!! _ Minister Syed Ashraf
 

Dear Brothers & Sisters,

 

Greetings from the heart of Bangladesh.

 

We are shocked after reading the news on The Daily Amardesh. Please find the link below,

 

http://www.amardeshbd.com/dailynews/detail_news_index.php?NewsID=224112&NewsType=bistarito&SectionID=home

 

According to the news, LGRD minister Syed Ashraful Islam has made comments that Engineering Universities, Medical Collages and Agricultural Universities produces educated corrupted engineers, doctors and agriculturist.

 

Are we really non-sense? We all know who pressurize, order, control and collect money through engineers, doctors and agriculturist?

 

The answer is very easy most of them are the backbencher ministers, MPs, businessmen, contractors, political leaders etc. I am 100% sure if Honorable Minister wants LGRD ministry will be less corrupted ministry of BD Gov within next 5 years.

 

In Bangladesh, the most meritorious students, the proud of nation study Engineering, Medical Science and General Sciences in Engineering Universities, Medical Collages, DU, JU, CU, RU, KU, SUST etc. But relatively less meritorious students i.e. UNO, DC, OC, SP, Secretary and officers of administration, police etc has been enjoying enormous power and wealth than those bright students of nation. How farce! How stupidity!!

 

Hope, honorable Minister will think about the comments again and will find out the real causes of corruption.

 

Thanks & regards,


Engr. Mosharraf H. Khan

 
 
 


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[chottala.com] Reforming BNP by Dr. Abdullah A. Dewan



Reforming BNP
Abdullah A. Dewan

A common trend has emerged between the American Republican party (GOP) and BNP in Bangladesh -- both are in disarray. The former is greatly weakened while the latter is nearly irrelevant as influential opposition voices in each country's policy shaping.

GOP lawmakers have turned their party into a party of "no" by opposing nearly everything President Obama proposes and, in the process, have alienated many moderate Americans. In Bangladesh, BNP sees politicking and conspiracy in everything the ruling party plans to achieve. Isn't it laughable that the opposition party is asking the ruling party -- one that formed the government only four months ago -- to quit governance for its failure to deliver on its election pledges?

After its whopping loss in the November election, the GOP elected former Maryland Lt. Governor Michael Steele as the first ever African American to be the party's national committee chairman. He was expected to revamp the party and expand the base, hoping to improve its standing in both Houses of the Congress in the 2010 mid-term election.

Because of inching increasingly into extreme conservative ideologies, the GOP has lost its clout as a centrist party. In last week's nationwide poll, only 21% Americans identified themselves as Republicans. The exodus from GOP to Independents and Democrats started from President Bush's false pretexts for the Iraq war, which compromised personal freedom in the name of national security (e.g. wiretapping of US citizens), caused unprecedented deficit spending, and pushed many domestic issues further to the right, thus estranging moderate Republicans. A shocking fallout of this is the defection of Senator Arlene Specter of Pennsylvania to the Democratic Party.

This defection strengthened the Senate Democrats closer to a sweeping power in Washington while preventing the remaining 40 GOP lawmakers from being a strong influential force in the Senate. What has all this got to do with Bangladesh politics? Learning how to realign, reform and regroup the party in light of evolving political realities.

While GOP's political setback has resulted from its ideological push to the far right, BNP's downfall was caused by its politicians' reckless indulgence in mis-governance, mischief, and political repression. GOP think tanks are advising the party stalwarts to realign its ideological tenets so as to make it more inclusive to regain its glorious days. The article by David Frum, "How to build GOP," listed in politiconomy.com, may be instructive for BNP as well.

My only rationale for wishing that BNP rebuilds is to see it as an effective political opposition so as to stop AL from drifting into BNP's 2001 -- 2006 misrule era. Organising a month-long countrywide protest and brouhaha for revocation of lease termination notice of Khaleda's house isn't a political strategy -- it's a dumb strategy. Also, organising mammoth gatherings in Paltan Maidan similar to pre-election rallies is good only for show and tell unless the grassroot supporters are rejuvenated. BNP' leadership must realize that political kerfuffle outside the parliament on flimsy issues will only hurt the people's causes and the party's own standing.

Given BNP's thrashing in the last election and AL's governance being much too short to dissect for political advantage, it seems as though BNP leaders are somewhat befuddled as to what issue to raise for energising the downcast base and transforming that into a countrywide agitation. Not surprisingly, even the BNP's alleged "corrupticians" who have resurfaced on bails are also apparently loathe to join the eviction notice revocation movement for various reasons.

Many BNP politicians, instead of actively reorganising the party, are now engaged in internal power struggle to the consternation of grassroot party activists. For example, the rift between Sadeque Hossain Khoka and Mirza Abbas about Dhaka city BNP leadership, allegedly insinuated by Delwar Hossain, couldn't have come at a worse time.

Although over 1100 politicians have applied for dismissal of their corruption charges as being politically motivated, by my last review not too many of BNP's corrupticians would qualify for dismissal of their cases. Therefore, BNP would be well advised to boot out all its corrupt politicians from the party and replace them with young and well qualified ones for rebuilding the party.

Gaining the people's confidence in the party will require repeated, unqualified apology to the people about the Zia family and BNP politicians' indiscretions. The party, in line with popular demand, should also oppose issues such as the recently passed local government act, tax free car imports for MPs, dismissal of corruption cases against politicians by short-circuiting the legal process, and so on. All these measures may help in rebranding the party and save it from its increasing isolation, irrelevance and slow extinction.



Dr. Abdullah A. Dewan, founder of politiconomy.com, is Professor of Economics at Eastern Michigan University.

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[chottala.com] Disband DGFI, RAB: Human Rights body



Report says police killings widespread in Bangladesh

AP, DHAKA
Tuesday, May 19, 2009, Page 6

Bangladesh's security forces have killed more than 1,000 people in extrajudicial slayings during the past five years, an international human rights group said in a report released yesterday.

Human Rights Watch called for the government to investigate the deaths and bring those responsible to justice.

"If you are a soldier, a member of the Rapid Action Battalion or the intelligence services, or a police officer, you can get away with murder in Bangladesh," said Brad Adams, Asia director of Human Rights Watch.

The security forces break the law "in the gravest manner without ever facing any consequences," Adams said.

New York-based Human Rights Watch released a report yesterday titled Ignoring Executions and Torture: Impunity for Bangladesh's Security Forces.

Faruk Khan, a senior member of Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's Cabinet, said the government did not support extrajudicial killings and would investigate the allegations.

"The government is determined to prevent such incidents," said Khan, a former army officer. "If anyone is found guilty of such killing, proper action will be taken."

Crime suspects in Bangladesh are often killed while in custody in incidents authorities usually describe as "crossfire." Local watchdogs say the shootouts are staged and amount to little more than executions.

Odhikar, a Bangladeshi rights group, says 14 people have been killed while in custody so far this year, according to a tally gleaned from media reports.
http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/world/archives/2009/05/19/2003443942

Rights group slams Bangladesh state 'murders'

AFP - ‎13 hours ago‎

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Bangladeshi security forces stand guard in Dhaka

 

DHAKA (AFP) — Unlawful killings by security forces are routine in Bangladesh and detainees are regularly subjected to severe beatings, sexual violence and ...

Watchdog slams Bangladesh forces for human rights abuses

Monsters and Critics.com - ‎3 hours ago‎
Dhaka - A New York-based rights watchdog on Monday slammed Bangladesh's leading intelligence agency and an anti-crime force for massive human rights ...

More than 1000 killed in Bangladesh extra-judicial slayings: report

GulfNews - ‎12 hours ago‎
AP Dhaka: An international human rights group says Bangladesh's security forces have killed more than 1000 people in extra-judicial slayings during the past ...

Bangladesh: Executions, Torture by Security Forces Go Unpunished

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If you are a soldier, a member of the Rapid Action Battalion or the intelligence services, or a police officer, you can get away with murder in Bangladesh. ...

Rights group urges Bangladesh to end unlawful killings

Reuters - ‎10 hours ago‎
DHAKA, May 18 (Reuters) - US-based Human Rights Watch urged Bangladesh's democratically elected government on Monday to end alleged impunity for unlawful ...

Mon, May 18th, 2009 9:31 pm BdST
 
New York, May 18 (bdnews24.com)—A New York-based human-rights watchdog has recommended that the military's intelligence wing DGFI and elite anticrime force RAB be disbanded "given their long history of arbitrary arrests, torture, and extrajudicial killings".

"Or, at the very least, an independent commission be set up to assess their performance, identify and recommend for dismissal of officers believed to be responsible for serious human rights violations," Human Rights Watch said in a report released on Monday.

"The [Directorate General of Forces Intelligence]'s operations should be strictly limited to lawful military intelligence activities and in no circumstances should it have powers to detain or to engage in surveillance of the political opposition and critics of the government."

It said the new government must address impunity to make good on human rights promises.

It also recommended that an action plan be developed to transform them into agencies that operate within the law and with full respect for international human rights norms.

The Bangladeshi government should take urgent action to make good on its campaign promise to end impunity for human rights abuses and to establish the rule of law.

Successive governments have promised but failed to ensure that law enforcement officials and soldiers responsible for abuses are brought to justice, it said.

The 76-page report, "Ignoring Executions and Torture: Impunity for Bangladesh's Security Forces," details the involvement of soldiers, paramilitary officers, and police in so-called "crossfire killings" and other custodial killings, torture, "disappearances," and arbitrary arrests.

It examines a number of cases that have received national and international attention, in which those responsible have not been prosecuted.

Facing constant threats, harassment, and even physical abuse, victims and family members have often been forced to abandon their efforts to seek justice, and the suspected perpetrators have continued serving in the security forces.

"If you are a soldier, a member of the Rapid Action Battalion or the intelligence services, or a police officer, you can get away with murder in Bangladesh," said Brad Adams, Asia director at Human Rights Watch. "But those who kill or torture should be behind bars with other violent criminals."

Over the past five years, the military, the Rapid Action Battalion RAB and the police have been responsible for well over 1,000 killings.

Human Rights Watch and others have long contended that many of these deaths, often described as "crossfire killings," were actually extrajudicial executions of people in custody. Bodies of the victims often had wounds that suggested that they had been tortured.

While there have been far fewer extrajudicial killings since the new government took power in Jan 2009, new cases have begun to emerge in recent weeks and no one has been held accountable for past abuses.

The report highlights the case of Choles Ritchil, a leader of the indigenous Mandi tribe, who was arrested and tortured to death by a group of soldiers in March 2007. It also describes how Khabirul Islam Dulal, a local politician in Bhola district, was tortured by navy officers in front of his family and neighbours a few weeks earlier.

Although witnesses have identified suspects in both cases, no one has been prosecuted and imprisoned.

"The very forces tasked with upholding the law and providing security to the public have become well known for breaking the law in the gravest manner without ever facing any consequences," Adams said.

"Forces such as RAB and the military intelligence agency DGFI have become symbols of abuse and impunity."

The report concludes that Bangladeshi governments since independence in 1971 have been unwilling to prosecute and punish state officers responsible for grave human rights violations.

The problem is one of both law and practice. Alleged human rights violations should be investigated by an independent and neutral body, and archaic laws that shield security officials from prosecution should be amended.

The report urges the government to set up a witness protection program and to prosecute or take disciplinary action against anyone who tries to stop or hinder a criminal investigation.

The situation is partially the result of an outdated legal framework under which law enforcement officers and members of the armed forces are shielded from prosecution.

In violation of international legal standards, article 46 of Bangladesh's Constitution empowers parliament to pass laws that provide immunity from prosecution to any state officer for any act done to maintain or restore order, and to lift any penalty, sentence, or punishment imposed, it continues.

"Soldiers and RAB officers are also protected from the civilian criminal justice system under rules that ensure that they can only be prosecuted in internal courts by their peers through processes that lack independence or impartiality."

"While the civilian courts have jurisdiction over cases involving police officers suspected of involvement in criminal activities, such officers are protected by Section 197 of the Criminal Procedure Code, which requires explicit government approval to prosecute an officer purporting to act in an official capacity."

Several other laws state that no legal action can be taken against a person who in good faith acts to implement any of its provisions, it adds.

"Foreign governments are well aware of the poor human rights record of these agencies, but nevertheless cooperate with and provide training to them."

For all of these reasons, senior law enforcement and military officers have never been under strong systemic pressure to ensure that soldiers, paramilitaries, or police officers operate within the law or human rights norms.

They take for granted that they have complete discretion in carrying out their mandate, even if it includes the use of unlawful violence. They send the message to victims that anyone who attempts to hold them accountable will have to pay a high price and that, in any case, the efforts will be fruitless, the report further says.

"Bangladesh's new government, under the leadership of rime Minister Sheikh Hasina, has declared a "zero-tolerance" policy for extrajudicial executions and stated that state officials who engage in such acts will be punished."

There are, however, no indications that the authorities have initiated any serious investigations into past abuses or into credible allegations that several suspects in the February 2009 rebellion and massacre at the headquarters of the Bangladesh Rifles, have been tortured and killed while in custody.


"As a party to the UN human rights conventions, Bangladesh is obliged to ensure that all violations - past and future - are investigated, and that those responsible are brought to justice," Adams said. "If Bangladesh is to become a country in which fundamental human rights are respected and the law is applied equally to the poor and the powerful, the existing culture of impunity has to be torn down.
 


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[chottala.com] <>Tamil Leader Probhakoron killed by Lankan Army



LTEE leader and founder Probhabkaron killed with his family and few more top leader by Sri Lankan Army.
 
It has more:
 
 
১৮ মে, সোমবার (আরটিএনএন)- শ্রীলঙ্কার গেরিলা সংগঠন এলটিটিই এর নেতা প্রভাকরণ সেনা অভিযানে নিহত হয়েছেন। একটি অ্যাম্বুলেন্সে করে দুইজন সহযোগি নিয়ে পালিয়ে যাবার সময় সেনা সদস্যরা তাদের ওপর গুলি চালায়এতে ঘটনাস্থলেই প্রাণ হারান প্রভাকরণ। শ্রীলঙ্কার রাষ্ট্রীয় টেলিভিশন এ কথা জানিয়েছে।


এর আগে শ্রীলঙ্কার উত্তর পূর্বাঞ্চলে চলমান যুদ্ধে তামিল গেরিলাদের নেতা প্রভাকরণের ছেলেসহ চার শীর্ষ তামিল নেতা নিহত হয়েছে বলে দাবি করেছে সেদেশটির সেনাবাহিনী।

 

শ্রীলঙ্কার প্রতিরক্ষা মন্ত্রণালয় জানিয়েছে, দেশটির নিরাপত্তা বাহিনী আজ সোমবার চারজন শীর্ষ তামিল গেরিলার মৃতদেহ উদ্ধার করেছেযার মধ্যে গেরিলাদের প্রধান নেতা ভেলুপিল্লাই প্রভাকরণের ছেলে চার্লস এন্টনি ও রাজনৈতিক শাখার প্রধান বালাসিংগম নাদেশানের লাশও রয়েছে উদ্ধার করা চারটি লাশের মধ্যে অন্য দুইটি লাশ হল এলটিটিই এর শান্তি সচিবালয়ের শিবরত্নম পুলিদেভান এবং সংগঠনটির পূর্বাঞ্চলীয় নেতা এস রমেশ


গতকাল রবিবার এলটিটিইর আন্তর্জাতিক সম্পর্কের প্রধান সলভারাসা পাথমানাথান তামিল গেরিলাদের ওয়েব সাইটে প্রচারিত এক বিবৃতিতে বলেন, আমাদের সামনে এখন একটাই পথ খোলা আছে, তা হল অস্ত্র সমর্পণ করাআমরা নিজেদের অস্ত্র সমর্প করতে চাইযুদ্ধে অনেক প্রাণহানি ঘটেছে, তাকে আর বাড়তে দিতে চাই না প্রভাকরনের মৃত্যুর মধ্যে দিয়ে শ্রীলঙ্কার দীর্ঘ ২৫ বছরের গৃহযুদ্ধ শেষ হচ্ছে বলে ধারণা করা হচ্ছে।



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