Banner Advertise

Monday, April 19, 2010

[chottala.com] [notun_bangladesh] Legality of International Tribunal act 1973



 
 
By the same token, the formation of armed Gestapo wing
Al-Bador Bahini during the occupation regime in 1971 by
Jamaate Islami was totally illegal, .... The Bangladesh became
independent on 25th March 1971. Any collaboration with the
foreign occupation army of Pakistan  was an act of treason
after 25th of March 1971. Jamaat's crimes thus include:
Crime against humanity, Crime against Bangladesh, aiding and
abetting genocide and greatest mass-rapes in the history ....
 
The Al-bodor vis-a-vis Islami Chattro Sangho's hands were so
much tainted with blood that when it re-surface in late
seventee's it changed it's name to Shibir .......

Ali Ahsan Mohamed Mujaheed,
the Al-bodor Chief ....
 
 Present leader of the terrorists
Matiur Rahman Nizami  the
main organizer of Al-bodor Bahini.
 
 
Related articles:
বিচার শুরুর আগেই আসামি বলছে, 'আমি কলা খাইনি'
যুদ্ধাপরাধীর বিচার
 
 
 
Mon April 5, 2010 - 1:41am BdST
 
  A perfect crime?

link:http://priyo.com/news/2010/apr/05/38163.html

'পত্রিকার কাটিং বা ছবি দালিলিক সাক্ষ্য' -বিচারপতি গোলাম রব্বানী

Link: http://www.shaptahik.com/v2/?DetailsId=3373

 

যুদ্ধাপরাধ : বিশেষ ট্রাইব্যুনাল - প্লিজ, কথা বলবেন না...

Link: http://www.shaptahik.com/v2/?DetailsId=3375

 বিস্তারিত...


---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Abdul Mannan Azad <mannanazad@yahoo.com>
Date: Apr 19, 2010 1:01 PM
Subject: [notun_bangladesh] Legality of International Tribunal act 1973
To: Dahuk Yahoogroups <dahuk@yahoogroups.com>, Notun-Bangladesh YahooGroups <notun_bangladesh@yahoogroups.com>, History Islam <history_islam@yahoogroups.com>
Cc: sonarbangla Yahoogroups <shonar-bangla@yahoogroups.com>

 


__._,_.___


[* Moderator�s Note - CHOTTALA is a non-profit, non-religious, non-political and non-discriminatory organization.

* Disclaimer: Any posting to the CHOTTALA are the opinion of the author. Authors of the messages to the CHOTTALA are responsible for the accuracy of their information and the conformance of their material with applicable copyright and other laws. Many people will read your post, and it will be archived for a very long time. The act of posting to the CHOTTALA indicates the subscriber's agreement to accept the adjudications of the moderator]




Your email settings: Individual Email|Traditional
Change settings via the Web (Yahoo! ID required)
Change settings via email: Switch delivery to Daily Digest | Switch to Fully Featured
Visit Your Group | Yahoo! Groups Terms of Use | Unsubscribe

__,_._,___

[chottala.com] Indian Perspective on War Crimes Trial in Bangladesh



From Genocide to Justice?

Anshuman Behera
Research Assistant, Institute for Conflict Management

 

After 39 long years, the Bangladesh Government is all set to bring the War Criminals (WCs) of 1971 to justice. In its election manifesto the Awami League leader and its Prime Ministerial candidate, Sheikh Hasina, had made it crystal clear that the men who collaborated with the Pakistan Army and Government in the genocide of an estimated 3 million people during the Liberation War, and in the use of rape and collective slaughters as instruments of state policy, would finally be taken to account.

 

With a clear mandate in the election of December 2008, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has moved decisively to fulfil this commitment, within her larger initiatives to reverse the politics of extremism and political violence that had progressively come to dominate her country. There is a significant overlap between the two objectives – curtailing Islamist extremism and terrorism, and bring the WCs to justice – since the principal players in both are the same. The Tribunal, which is mandated to trail and prosecute the WCs, was constituted on March 25, 2010. The Government had also appointed an investigative and research organisation, the War Criminals Fact Finding Committee (WCFFC), which handed over a list of WCs and documented evidence in support of charges against them, on April 4, 2010. According to the convener of the WCFFC, M. A. Hassan, the documentation comprehended 18 books, the names and addresses of 1,775 alleged WCs, and detailed accounts of crimes, including mass killings. On March 23, moreover, reports indicated that the Government had approved a list of war criminals prepared by the National Security Intelligence (NSI) and the Criminal Investigation Department (CID).

 

Crucially, unlike any earlier regime at Dhaka, the Sheikh Hasina Government has placed law enforcement and intelligence agencies on an alert to prevent alleged WCs from fleeing Bangladesh during the trials.

 

Reinforcing these moves, the Government also plans to deploy some six million Ansar (Village Defence Party) members countrywide to combat militancy and improve law and order, creating conditions for the smooth conduct of the proposed trials.

 

These are giant steps, after decades of collusion by successive regimes, but a backlash is already forming. Sheikh Hasina has repeatedly warned that Islamist fundamentalist political formations such as the Jamaat-e-Islami (JeI), one of the principal actors in the 1971 genocide, and powerful pro-Pakistan groups such as the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP), under the leadership of former Prime Minister Begum Khalida Zia, Sheikh Hasina's arch rival, will do everything in their power to scuttle the trials. Addressing her countrymen, party workers and ministers on March 27, 2010, Shiekh Hasina warned,

As the process of the trial of war criminals started, a conspiracy is being hatched by certain quarters against it. You have to remain vigilant to prevent any sort of conspiracy in the greater national interest... those who have politically rehabilitated the war criminals after the brutal assassination of Bangabandhu [Sheikh Mujibur Rehman] along with most of his family members may try to create instability in the country ahead of the trials.

On April 11, she added, further,

...the intention of the Opposition against the Government is to protect the war criminals. They have adopted the same way to protect the war criminals as they did to save the killers of Bangabandhu (Sheikh Mujibur Rehman).

The political Right in Bangladesh is whipping up a propaganda campaign claiming that the Sheikh Hasina regime is trying to `muzzle' the Opposition by abusing legal processes and the "farce of war crimes".

 

However, State Minister for Law, Qamrul Islam, reiterated, on March 30,

We have no political motive. We would certainly maintain international standards in the trial process and would be transparent... Despite repeated calls to cooperate with the Government for trying war criminals, the opposition party [BNP] and the JeI leaders are hatching a conspiracy to foil the process by making audacious remarks. The Government would certainly try the war criminals within its tenure despite all kinds of obstacles."

The JeI has more than one reason to attempt to thwart the war crimes trials. The top JeI leadership stands accused, and, if convicted, would permanently lose the right to contest elections to Parliament and other local bodies. A senior JeI leader conceded, on March 24, that "there is possibility that a number of Jamaat leaders might be detained on charge of war crimes after the investigation." Other Jamaat leaders have also voiced concern about the start of the trial process and possible detention.

 

Noted Bangladesh watcher Hiranmay Karlekar argues, further, that the Jamaat, along with its student's wing, Islami Chhatra Shibir (ICS or Shibir), constitute the matrix within which terrorist organizations like Harkat-ul-Jihad-al-Islami Bangladesh (HuJI-B), Jama'atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB), Jagrata Muslim Janata Bangladesh (JMJB) and Ahle Hadith Andolan Bangladesh (AHAB) evolved. Leaders like Mufti Abdul Hannan and Bangla Bhai aka Siddiqul Islam, `Operations Commanders' of the HuJI-B and JMJB respectively, till their arrest and eventual executions, Abdur Rahman of JMB, Muhammad Asadullah al-Galib of AHAB, graduated either from the Jamaat or the Shibir or both. The war crimes trials would, in fact, constitute a major setback to the entire spectrum of Islamist extremist groups in Bangladesh.

 

Significantly, the Government has also taken the initiatives to investigate a number of Non- Governmental Organisations (NGOs) that emerged during the BNP-JeI coalition regime between 2001 and 2006. It is believed that the huge funding the Jamaat gets from Islamic fundamentalist and extremist groups abroad is channelled through these NGOs. Investigations of these NGOs could cripple the Jamaat's operations.

 

Crucially, since the Jamaat has been the gateway of Pakistani interests in Bangladesh since and before the war years, as well as the principal instrument of Pakistan-backed militant and terrorist activities, it is evident that Pakistan will not easily accept the war crimes trials.

 

Unsurprisingly, the Jamaat is resorting to every possible means to obstruct the trial process. Of all such initiatives, the most important involves its students' wing, the ICS, which is trying to provoke violence. The Rajshahi University murder, on February 9, 2010, is a case in point. An activist of the Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL), Faruk Hossain, was killed by cadres of the ICS at Rajshahi University, and another 100 were injured in overnight clashes between the BCL and ICS. Though the Government controlled the situation, arresting some 437 ICS cadres after February 9, the impact of the violence that followed the killing, particularly on the functioning of educational institutions, is still perceptible.

 

Further, the Jamaat, along with BNP lawmaker, Abdul Wadud, has been accused by a parliamentary body, on March 10, of instigating unrest and violence in the Hill Districts, with the assistance of Pakistan's Inter Services Intelligence (ISI). Some of the recent Jamaat activities have prominently included:

 

March 4: Kishoreganj Police arrested two JeI cadres, RamjanAli and AzizulHuq, of the Kishoreganj District unit while leading a procession in the town protesting against the Government.

 

March 11: The Police recovered 37 handmade bombs from a sand heap outside district JeI office at Bhadughar of Brahmanbaria District.

March 22: The JeI cadres assaulted a freedom fighter, his wife and son and set ablaze his house at Kashidangi village under Baliadangi sub-district of Thakurgaon District.

 

March 28: JeI Secretary General Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mojaheed warned the Government of an `explosive situation' if his party leaders and workers were roped in on "imaginary charges". The warning came in the wake of wide speculations that JeI leaders would soon be brought to the dock on charge of war crimes.

 

April 9: Police arrested four cadres of JeI and ICS as they took out a procession in the city streets violating Section 144 imposed by Barisal District Police Commissioner.

 

The BNP is also exerting all possible pressure on the trial process. Initially, the party left its closest ally, the JeI, to face the music on its own. However, once the Government's initiatives surged forward, the BNP sought increasingly to confuse the issue. In its official statement on the war criminal trials, the Party's General Secretary, Khandakar Delwar Hossain stated, on April 2, "The Government has stepped away from the trials of the war criminals and now they are holding the trials of the crimes against humanity, deviating from the election manifesto". He also questioned the formation of a special tribunal to carry out the trial. Ironically, one of the senior leaders Khandakar Mosharraf Hossain of the BNP, on March 31, alleged that Sheikh Hasina had given shelter to war criminals: "…the BNP demands the trail of Sheikh Hasina as she joined hands with the war criminals and provided them shelter."

 

Despite BNP-JeI opposition, the trial process is moving forward. In one instance, cases have been filed against 19 alleged war criminals, including JeI leader Maulana A.K.M. Yusuf, on February 17, 2010. On March 24, just before the formation of the WCT, JeI leaders Mohammad Kamaruzzaman and Addur Razzaque were barred from going abroad. On April 7, 14 people, including an advocate Muslem Uddin, an Awami League law maker were sued for their alleged involvement in war crimes.

 

Though the Government's commitment to take the war crimes proceedings quickly forward is evident, there are powerful forces of subversion that continue to operate in Bangladesh. Despite tremendous strides forward on a multiplicity of fronts over the past year, the country remains fragile and susceptible to destabilization. The BNP-JeI combine retain the backing of the Pakistani intelligence and military establishment, and, apart from directly compromising Pakistani influence in Bangladesh, the war crimes threaten to bring a close focus on Pakistan's hideous record in 1971 – something Islamabad has, astonishingly, been able to brush under the carpet for nearly four decades. While the JeI and its linked radical Islamist terrorist network has suffered tremendous reverses over the past years, the Party retains substantial grassroots influence, a nationwide institutional infrastructure, and a strong cadre base. The 2008 elections have been an enormous defeat for the BNP-JeI combine, but the struggle to stabilize this troubled country is far from over. It remains to be seen whether the war crimes trials will secure greater stability, or provoke a confrontation that can undermine the incipient gains of the past year. http://www.satp.org/satporgtp/sair/index.htm

 

 



__._,_.___


[* Moderator's Note - CHOTTALA is a non-profit, non-religious, non-political and non-discriminatory organization.

* Disclaimer: Any posting to the CHOTTALA are the opinion of the author. Authors of the messages to the CHOTTALA are responsible for the accuracy of their information and the conformance of their material with applicable copyright and other laws. Many people will read your post, and it will be archived for a very long time. The act of posting to the CHOTTALA indicates the subscriber's agreement to accept the adjudications of the moderator]




Your email settings: Individual Email|Traditional
Change settings via the Web (Yahoo! ID required)
Change settings via email: Switch delivery to Daily Digest | Switch to Fully Featured
Visit Your Group | Yahoo! Groups Terms of Use | Unsubscribe

__,_._,___

Re: [chottala.com] Fw: Retailers add to price hike: MCCI, Katalyst organise discussion on study findings!



The main reasons & causes of price hiking are

(A)

i)                   inefficient in management & unproductive activities 

ii)                inefficient in money inflation

iii)              inefficient in production

iv)              inefficient maintained in production cost

v)                 inefficient in money devaluation & money circulation

vi)  Inefficient in planning & executing the plan as efficient planers & executors

 

B)

The leaders who lead & rule Bangladesh are

really Shameless Selfish.

They do not work for the people of Bangladesh.

They Work only for

A)   Look for Self Interest

B)   Increase own Salary

C)   Increase other own Benefits &

D)   Create various unprodutive fields only for their own Interest

Such way

They are creating

1)       Money inflation

2)       Money devaluation &

3)       Hiking price of every thing in the market

 



--- On Mon, 19/4/10, ADAB Nazer <adab.chittagong@yahoo.com> wrote:


From: ADAB Nazer <adab.chittagong@yahoo.com>
Subject: [chottala.com] Fw: Retailers add to price hike: MCCI, Katalyst organise discussion on study findings!
To: "khabor egroup" <khabor@yahoogroups.com>, "uttarshuru" <uttorshuri@yahoogroups.com>, "odaasiaforum" <odaasiaforum@yahoogroups.com>, "odawatch" <odawatch@yahoogroups.com>, "ADB forum" <forumonadb@yahoogroups.com>, "ADB IC NGO Forum on" <icforum@yahoogroups.com>, "ADB southasia forum" <southasia@forum-adb.org>, "adbsafeguard yahoo groups" <adbsafeguards@yahoogroups.com>, "aidaffectiveness e-group" <aideffectiveness-owner@realityofaid.org>, apnetfoodsovereignty@yahoogroups.com, "apnflist" <apnfslist@yahoogroups.com>, Asia-social-movements@yahoogroups.com, baainews@yahoogroups.com, "bccdicommunity news" <bccdicommunity_news@yahoogroups.com>
Cc: "swisscontact" <info@swisscontact-bd.org>, "voice of south" <voice-of-south@yahoogroups.com>, "AAB Asgar Ali Sabree" <asgar@actionaid.org>, "adb AGM" <adbagm@yahoogroups.com>, "adb gender" <genderwg@forum-adb.org>, "ADBEnergy of NGO Forum" <adbenergy@forum-adb.org>, "aideffectiveness" <aideffectiveness@realityofaid.org>, asiacentralasia@christian-aid.org, "chattala" <chottala@yahoogroups.com>, "corruption free" <corruption-free-bangladesh@yahoogroups.com>
Received: Monday, 19 April, 2010, 2:29 PM

 

Retailers add to price hike

MCCI, Katalyst organise discussion on study findings


Higher margins charged by retailers are partly to blame for a price hike in essential commodities, according to a study released yesterday.
The study said retailers count high profit-margins because of high fixed costs, transportation costs and their obligations to make informal payments.
“We have that retailer's margins are higher than wholesaler's margins for various essential commodities,� said Selim Raihan, co-researcher of a study on 'Price Volatility: Issues and Concerns'.
Raihan, associate professor of economics at Dhaka University, and Bazlul Haque Khondker, professor of economics at Dhaka University, jointly conducted the study that was unveiled at a discussion at the Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce and Industry (MCCI).
MCCI and Katalyst jointly organised the programme where former Bangladesh Bank governor Dr Salehuddin Ahmed and daily Prothom Alo Editor Matiur Rahman also spoke.
MCCI President Anis Ud Dowla chaired the programme where discussants said volatility and a rise in food prices erode the purchasing capacity of consumers, especially hardcore poor and industrial workers, directly contributes to a spike in inflation and reduces real GDP. They also said volatility in food prices affects businesses and government policies.
Discussants linked various factors to volatility and the rise in domestic food prices.
The control of supplies of essential items, such as sugar, edible oil and pulses, by a few players, a lack of effective local and international market price monitoring systems by the government and a presence of middlemen in the supply chain contribute to commodity price volatility.
Participants also blamed the presence of informal payments, huge import dependency on some essential food items, such as edible oil, a lack of data on the demand for essentials and a weak legal framework for the hikes.
“Bangladesh is a small open economy where the domestic market does not determine prices alone. We also import inflation,� said the former BB governor.
“We should examine both the domestic supply chain and import price in monitoring the prices of essentials. We need to monitor prices effectively,� he said, suggesting involving the local governments in price watch.
He said the government should not intervene in the market to control prices without any rules.
“Rather, it should share information on price movement with consumers,� said the former central bank chief.
Ahmed also favoured opening a commodity stock exchange as a means to restraining price volatility and for the speedy passage of the Competition Law to prevent cartels and other practices.
He also said steps should be taken to raise people's purchasing capacity and give wider scopes to generate income.
Matiur Rahman, the editor and publisher of Prothom Alo, said the government should take measures to reduce the margin of middlemen.
The price of an item goes up by 40 percent in the intermediary stages between production and remarketing, Rahman said.
He said the present government made several commitments, including bringing down the prices of essentials to within purchasing capacity and curbing extortion.
“It has been about 16 months of the government. But it is yet to show any visible result,� Rahman said. “It appears that the government has failed to keep the prices of essentials stable.�
Anis Ud Dowla said the prices of essential commodities fluctuate every now and then due to a lack of an effective price monitoring system
S M Nazer Hossain,
Central EC Member,
Association of Development Agencies in Bangladesh(ADAB)
1/E(1st floor) Uttar Adabor, Dhaka-1207, Bangladesh
Tel: 880-2-9126358, Fax: 880-2-8117756, 01713110054, 01726757788( Director)


 

__._,_.___


[* Moderator�s Note - CHOTTALA is a non-profit, non-religious, non-political and non-discriminatory organization.

* Disclaimer: Any posting to the CHOTTALA are the opinion of the author. Authors of the messages to the CHOTTALA are responsible for the accuracy of their information and the conformance of their material with applicable copyright and other laws. Many people will read your post, and it will be archived for a very long time. The act of posting to the CHOTTALA indicates the subscriber's agreement to accept the adjudications of the moderator]




Your email settings: Individual Email|Traditional
Change settings via the Web (Yahoo! ID required)
Change settings via email: Switch delivery to Daily Digest | Switch to Fully Featured
Visit Your Group | Yahoo! Groups Terms of Use | Unsubscribe

__,_._,___

[chottala.com] Urgent clarification from Postmater General



[chottala.com] Fw: Retailers add to price hike: MCCI, Katalyst organise discussion on study findings!



Retailers add to price hike

MCCI, Katalyst organise discussion on study findings


Higher margins charged by retailers are partly to blame for a price hike in essential commodities, according to a study released yesterday.
The study said retailers count high profit-margins because of high fixed costs, transportation costs and their obligations to make informal payments.
"We have that retailer's margins are higher than wholesaler's margins for various essential commodities," said Selim Raihan, co-researcher of a study on 'Price Volatility: Issues and Concerns'.
Raihan, associate professor of economics at Dhaka University, and Bazlul Haque Khondker, professor of economics at Dhaka University, jointly conducted the study that was unveiled at a discussion at the Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce and Industry (MCCI).
MCCI and Katalyst jointly organised the programme where former Bangladesh Bank governor Dr Salehuddin Ahmed and daily Prothom Alo Editor Matiur Rahman also spoke.
MCCI President Anis Ud Dowla chaired the programme where discussants said volatility and a rise in food prices erode the purchasing capacity of consumers, especially hardcore poor and industrial workers, directly contributes to a spike in inflation and reduces real GDP. They also said volatility in food prices affects businesses and government policies.
Discussants linked various factors to volatility and the rise in domestic food prices.
The control of supplies of essential items, such as sugar, edible oil and pulses, by a few players, a lack of effective local and international market price monitoring systems by the government and a presence of middlemen in the supply chain contribute to commodity price volatility.
Participants also blamed the presence of informal payments, huge import dependency on some essential food items, such as edible oil, a lack of data on the demand for essentials and a weak legal framework for the hikes.
"Bangladesh is a small open economy where the domestic market does not determine prices alone. We also import inflation," said the former BB governor.
"We should examine both the domestic supply chain and import price in monitoring the prices of essentials. We need to monitor prices effectively," he said, suggesting involving the local governments in price watch.
He said the government should not intervene in the market to control prices without any rules.
"Rather, it should share information on price movement with consumers," said the former central bank chief.
Ahmed also favoured opening a commodity stock exchange as a means to restraining price volatility and for the speedy passage of the Competition Law to prevent cartels and other practices.
He also said steps should be taken to raise people's purchasing capacity and give wider scopes to generate income.
Matiur Rahman, the editor and publisher of Prothom Alo, said the government should take measures to reduce the margin of middlemen.
The price of an item goes up by 40 percent in the intermediary stages between production and remarketing, Rahman said.
He said the present government made several commitments, including bringing down the prices of essentials to within purchasing capacity and curbing extortion.
"It has been about 16 months of the government. But it is yet to show any visible result," Rahman said. "It appears that the government has failed to keep the prices of essentials stable."
Anis Ud Dowla said the prices of essential commodities fluctuate every now and then due to a lack of an effective price monitoring system
S M Nazer Hossain,
Central EC Member,
Association of Development Agencies in Bangladesh(ADAB)
1/E(1st floor) Uttar Adabor, Dhaka-1207, Bangladesh
Tel: 880-2-9126358, Fax: 880-2-8117756, 01713110054, 01726757788(Director)



__._,_.___


[* Moderator�s Note - CHOTTALA is a non-profit, non-religious, non-political and non-discriminatory organization.

* Disclaimer: Any posting to the CHOTTALA are the opinion of the author. Authors of the messages to the CHOTTALA are responsible for the accuracy of their information and the conformance of their material with applicable copyright and other laws. Many people will read your post, and it will be archived for a very long time. The act of posting to the CHOTTALA indicates the subscriber's agreement to accept the adjudications of the moderator]




Your email settings: Individual Email|Traditional
Change settings via the Web (Yahoo! ID required)
Change settings via email: Switch delivery to Daily Digest | Switch to Fully Featured
Visit Your Group | Yahoo! Groups Terms of Use | Unsubscribe

__,_._,___

[chottala.com] Mango [1 Attachment]

[Attachment(s) from Shahid included below]

 

 

Attachment(s) from Shahid

1 of 1 Photo(s)


__._,_.___


[* Moderator's Note - CHOTTALA is a non-profit, non-religious, non-political and non-discriminatory organization.

* Disclaimer: Any posting to the CHOTTALA are the opinion of the author. Authors of the messages to the CHOTTALA are responsible for the accuracy of their information and the conformance of their material with applicable copyright and other laws. Many people will read your post, and it will be archived for a very long time. The act of posting to the CHOTTALA indicates the subscriber's agreement to accept the adjudications of the moderator]




Your email settings: Individual Email|Traditional
Change settings via the Web (Yahoo! ID required)
Change settings via email: Switch delivery to Daily Digest | Switch to Fully Featured
Visit Your Group | Yahoo! Groups Terms of Use | Unsubscribe

__,_._,___