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Monday, November 9, 2009

[chottala.com] Re: Book review: Subir Bhoumik's India backed Shanti Bahini



Book review: Subir Bhoumik's  India backed Shanti Bahini
 
Abid Bahar
 
The book "India backed Shanti Bahini" by Subir Bhaumik exposing India and the Shanti Bahini operations is a new addition to what MBI Munshi's "India Doctrine" already exposes about Indian policy in the region that certain Indian leadership desires and it is active in keeping smaller countries of the region under its domination through creating chaos. Unfortunately through the Congress Party lense Hasina's Bangladesh AL government sees things differently in the Chittagong Hill Tracts.
Bhaumik's book particularly shows the mentality of the Congress Party, a self proclained progressive party, the latter claims it promotes Ghandi's non violence that is peace not war. In Reality however, the attitude of domination through starting a war or conflict has been prevailing from Nehru's time. It is evident in its occupation of smaller nations of South Asia. Such Indian Congress syndicate's mentality demonstrates as if Indan leadership is not happy keeping its vast delit majority under the much hated caste domination, and that Indian Congress's caste leadership needed to promote its caste philosophy in the regional level among nations and consequently poisoning the harmony among nations. Under the circumstances,to bring peace and harmony in the region the formation of a loosely comprised South Asian Federation with Sri Lanka, Meldivp, Bangladesh, Nepal, Pakistan, Bhutan and Afganistan is much needed.
*The Formation of a South Asian Federation Needed
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Subject: [BdOsInt Monitors] India backed Shanti Bahini

 

India backed Shanti Bahini
 
By Subhra Kanti Gupta

Kolkata, Nov 9 (bdnews24.com)--Indira Gandhi was voted out of power in 1977, just when India's external intelligence organisation, R&AW, was preparing to substantially step up its backing for the Shanti Bahini, says Subir Bhaumik in his just-released book "Troubled Periphery:Crisis of India's Northeast".

Bhaumik, a journalist and academic researcher for three decades, has provided graphic details of the R&AW's involvement in the Chittagong Hill Tracts and Burma's Kachin Hills in his latest book. But he makes it clear the "orders came right from the top" and were not operations generated by the agency.

"The immediate provocation for the Indian sponsorship of the Shanti Bahini guerrillas .. was the military coup that killed Sheikh Mujibur Rehman and many members of his family. To Indira gandhi, this coup was a political defiance of India .

"Within a week of the coup, senior R&AW leaders arrived in Tripura's capital Agartala with a clear brief for their subordinates: Get
those Chakma leaders who want to fight Bangladesh."

Bhaumik's findings is based on detailed interviews of Shanti Bahini guerrilla commanders and R&AW officials and the book is replete with such references.

One Shanti Bahini leader tells Bhaumik about the quality of Indian training.

"The Indian training was intensive and tough as the instructors had served with military units in Nagaland and Mizoram. The leadership element of the course was gruelling and involved war games and dummy attacks.

"The instructors would observe how we went about the attack and whether we had absorbed the theoretical lessons. They would severely admonish us if we were found lacking. They always reminded us of the maxim that you bleed less in war if you train well in peace."

Indira Gandhi's election defeat in 1977 saved Bangladesh, then grappling with mutinies and domestic unrest, from huge trouble, suggests Bhaumik.

"Just when the Shanti Bahini were told to prepare for the big push forward and that India would support a strength of 15000 guerrillas came the news of Mrs Gandhi's election debacle and the Congress defeat...

"It is not clear how far Mrs Gandhi wanted to go and it is possible that, after the liberation of Bangladesh, she could see the value of a successful foreign campaign could boost her dropping popularity back home.

"But her defeat changed the course of events . The R&AW plans to intensify the guerrilla war in Chittagong Hill
Tracts were put on hold when Morarji Desai took over as Prime Minister. The R&AW topbrass were categorically told to lay off from CHT."

Bhaumik's book says the support to Shanti Bahini was resumed when Mrs Gandhi came back to power--but by then, the Bahini was in the throes of a fratricidal war that led to the assasination of its chief M N Larma.

It says that R&AW's Agartala station chief at that time, Parimal Ghosh even resolved this fratricidal conflict by drafting an agreement between the two Shanti Bahini factions.

Ghosh in 1971 was close to General (then Major) Ziaur Rahman and operated under his pseudonym Captain Hossain Ali.

As a BSF officer, he fought at the Shuvapur bridge with the Mukti Fauj.

Bhaumik also details how the R&AW won over the Kachin Independence Army (KIA) and started giving them weapons -- just to ensure they would not back any Northeast Indian rebel groups anymore.

The man instrumental in this operation was one of the most successful R&AW operatives , B.B.Nandi, who had also served as their station chief in Dhaka.

During Nandi's tenure as station chief at Bangkok, he developed close links with the Burmese underground groups, specially the Kachins.

Bhaumik says that Nandi even planted a R&AW communications team at the KIA headquarters in the early 1990s, from where they monitored the China-bound movements of the northeast Indian rebels .

After retirement, Nandi became a fierce critic of the R&AW and the Indian government when Delhi started befriending Burma's military junta and the BNP-Jamaat combine in Dhaka.

Bhaumik's book , published by Sage, details the major issues of conflict in northeast India -- land,language, leadership, ethnicity, ideology , religion -- and offers a policy framework for resolving the crisis.

It says the region suffers from severe "democracy and development deficit" and argues that a secular and democratic Bangladesh and a truly federal and democratic Burma is crucial to the stability of India's Northeast.



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Re: [chottala.com] Re: [Sonar Bangladesh] BREAKING NEWS>>> Nizami Elected as Jamaat Ameer again



Nov.09/2009.
Yangon,Mayanmar.
 
Mr.Syed Aslam
You got it all wrong.Mowlana M.Nizami should be condemned for fleeing from the war field.It has been proven that if there was no Pakistan existed Bangladesh could never be born.Atleast not  by the  opportunists like you.Within India atleast 9 states trying for their freedom.Kashmiri's trying more than 50 years.Sacrificing their lives.Still Freedom is Door ost.India has occupied Talpatti a vast Island by Sundarbon.Occupying our vast ocean area in violations of international norms and rules.People like you are the Agents  of who every body can identify .Why don't you find the common unity and bonds among all Bangladeshi for the developments of Bangladesh?Don't you know Europeans they fought each other thirty years War and two world war.Still they can work together to kill Muslims and  to dominate world.Also for nuclear proliferations,climate change issues and also to helping poor countries as well.Why Shuarer Bacha's like me and you can not work together to eliminate poverty,ignorance,corruptions and so on.Why looking for Divisions instead of Unity?
Fi-Amanillah.
Sincerely,
Mir Dost Mohammad Khan
A Bangladeshi Patriot and an American as well.


From: Syed Aslam <Syed.Aslam3@gmail.com>
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Sent: Wed, November 4, 2009 10:54:40 PM
Subject: [chottala.com] Re: [Sonar Bangladesh] BREAKING NEWS>>> Nizami Elected as Jamaat Ameer again

 

This means that Jamaate Islami  is still deeply  inundated under it's Al-Badari
legacy.....mr nizami's role as the Izlami Chattro Sangha vis-a-vis Al-Badar
chief in 1971 to serve Yahia' occupation  regime will continue be the hidden
undertone of Jamaat's politics no matter what lebash it project to the
people of Bangladesh .....Once a traitor always a traitor ....No amount of hell-fire
can purify such an infected brain: The traitor's criminal condition emanates from
deep-rooted obsession to use Islam for political gains.
 
It may be mentioned here that, mr nizami and his Jamaate Islami has never
apologized to the people of Bangladeh  for it's murderous anti-people activities
in 1971 rather try to justify it's misdeeds in the name of "political difference" !
 
Syed Aslam
 
 
  
On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 8:55 AM, hasan md <hasan_eu@yahoo. com> wrote:
mr nizami has been elected as Jamaat Amir again 
 
hasan

 
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