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Dear Mr. Azad et al.,

I personally do not like interest still I support Dr. Yunus because he did not take interest to make money for himself rather to make the Grameen Bank project sustainable.
I appreciate concern of Badruddin Umar for Bangladesh but it is very easy to write article and at the same time it hard to work with people at root level. Reality do not match with book in to many cases. Dr. Yunus has chosen the hardest work.
I admit that the impact of microcredit on economy is not that great but it has considerably
reduced extreme poverty which the critics of Yunus could not do. Only bad people do not get noble prize. Can you tell Nelson Mandela, Yasser Arafat, Rabindrabnath Tagore and many others as agent of imperialist USA. It is because of Dr. Yunus the image of the country became very good in the world and Bangladesh could do lot of business using this image and using Dr. Yunus. Unfortunately people who talk against Rajakars because they were against and are against Bangladesh state are following rajakars by distorting the image of the country. Very unfortunately Sheik Hasina (although she is the daughter of great Bangabandhu) is nurturing those antistate people.


 Mahboob

 

The story of Dr. Yunus and Grameen Bank

badruddin.umar's picture
Wed, 27/04/2011 - 12:17am | by badruddin.umar
The government of Bangladesh did not snatch away Nobel Peace Prize from Dr. Muhammad Yunus which was bestowed on him by the imperialist powers, and in any case they have no power to do so.

They simply have removed him from his post of managing director of Grameen Bank on legal grounds. This was done according to the rules of the Bangladesh Bank and the law of the land. The merit of this action was examined by the High Court, where Yunus filed a case appealing against the government decision. The High Court dismissed the writ after hearing from both sides. The case has been dismissed again by the Supreme Court as well.

The said action of the government against Yunus was taken for certain irregularities committed by him and it is a domestic matter of Bangladesh. We find that those imperialist powers, particularly the US government and the Clinton clique, who manipulated the Nobel Prize for Yunus, have very sharply and bitterly reacted against this decision of the government.

For a long time we have been critically analysing the activities of Yunus and the Grameen Bank just for the reason that very tall claims are being made on behalf of the Bank and for himself by Yunus. He claims to have invented a theory which says that the right to secure loan is a 'birth right' of man. He claims that by extending loan to the poor, he has been successful in alleviating poverty in Bangladesh to a large extent and by 2030 he would send poverty to the museum as a relic of the past. While making this obviously ludicrous claim he exposes himself as a person who miserably fails to understand that poverty is not a thing, it is not an archaeological artefact, but the result of relations which exist between people in the course of production and other social affairs.

The Grameen Bank undoubtedly is a successful operator of small loans to rural poor like many NGOs, and has established a record in this which is far better than the ordinary commercial banks. For this achievement the Grameen Bank may be awarded an international award for its success in managing small loans. But it must be emphasised that it has nothing to do with peace. Moreover, Yunus himself was never found to protest against any kind of repressions on the people which are perpetuated by government agencies and other predator social forces. He was never found to utter a word against military interventions, aggressions and predatory wars of imperialists on countries of Asia, Africa and Latin America. He was never found to play any role in easing tensions or establishing peace between conflicting interests and groups in Bangladesh or anywhere else. He actually had never anything to do with peace. On the contrary, he had always fraternised with those who make wars and disturb peace at home and abroad. In spite of this he was awarded Nobel Prize for peace by the imperialist cliques to promote their political and other interests in Bangladesh. It was no surprise that he was given the Nobel Prize in 2006 suddenly on the eve of the military takeover of the administration in January, 2007.

Yunus managed the affairs of the Grameen Bank as an autocrat and like any other autocrat he had no compunction in committing irregularities. He was not accountable to anybody and did everything in a cavalier manner. He exercised the authority of appointing all employees and even directors. His appointment as Managing Director of the Bank had always been basically an act of his own, and in these matters the role of the Board of Directors was nominal. He took all major decisions over the head of the Board of Directors of which he was not a member. If the relation of Managing Director and the Board of Directors is examined, it will be found to be a very extraordinary arrangement. The Board always acted as an utterly subservient body to the Managing Director.

In all regards, the rules of Grameen Bank were extraordinary and the concessions granted to it by the government in conducting its affairs was in contradiction with all banking practices followed in this country. However, these administrative matters including the rules of conducting the business of Grameen Bank are not a matter of our real concern and we leave it to the Enquiry Committee which has been instituted by the government to investigate into the affairs of the Bank. Our real concern is the situation on the ground.

Here it is not possible to detail the consequences of small loan business of the Grameen Bank. But one thing must be made clear. We are not opposed to small loans or micro credit, because such loans are desperately needed by the rural poor, particularly the peasants and artisans who are engaged in production. Rural money lenders had always acted as such loan-giving agents for centuries during the feudal period and they still continue to do so. Fraudulently and mischievously, Yunus is glorified as the first 'banker to the poor' who has redeemed the poor of the countryside, particularly the poor women whereas the fact is that the traditional rural moneylenders have historically performed the task of lending to the poor. Even the NGO's who were launched by the then World Bank President Robert Macnamara in the '70s started lending to the poor before the establishment of the Grameen Bank.

The NGO's and the Grameen Bank were launched by the imperialists with the active help and co-operation of the government not for alleviating or eradicating poverty. Their principal objective in this was to perpetuate poverty and to distract the attention of the poor from political struggles for changing basic relations of production as well as social relations which create and preserve the conditions of poverty. Here there is no scope for elaborating this point but it is necessary to mention that the greatest noise is made for the Grameen Bank and its so-called mission for eradicating poverty by those who are the recognised enemies of the poor working people of the world including the people of Bangladesh. These noise makers represent the forces which exploit the poor everywhere, twist the hands of poor countries dependent on them and do not have the slightest compunction in wantonly attacking countries which dare to resist their advances. These are the countries which unhesitatingly bomb the poor in other countries and commit genocide as they recently did in Iraq and are currently doing in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Libya.

The reaction of these forces which include imperialist countries like the US, France, Britain, Germany and others of Europe and elsewhere and their lackeys and flunkeys in countries like Bangladesh is a clear indication of the interest which Dr. Yunus serves. It is insane to think that against whose removal from the post of Managing Director of Grameen Bank the imperialist powers are raising a hue and cry can, by any stretch of imagination, be a friend of the poor in any country and who can lead a programme for eradicating or even alleviating poverty of those who are subjected to the worst kind of exploitation by local ruling classes, governments and imperialist powers.

In this context, it is interesting to note that the loanees or borrowers of Grameen Bank, in no area of Bangladesh, has so far brought out any demonstration in favour or Yunus and against the government decision to remove him from the post of Managing Director. Recently, a handout of Grameen Bank says that about three million loanees have signed a protest statement against Yunus' removal. But demonstrations and protest statements are very different acts. It is very easy to get any paper signed by the loanees by local Grameen Bank officials.

And even then, there is no certain evidence that such a statement has actually been signed by 3 million loanees. The whole matter may be a lie and a fraudulent propaganda on behalf of a section of Grameen Bank officials loyal to Yunus.

In spite of this lack of support for Yunus from the Grameen Bank, loanees who are said to be the "real owners" of the Bank, it is amazing to see the kind of international support organised in favour of Yunus. They eulogise the achievements of Dr. Yunus in order of protect his position in the Grameen Bank. Under the presidentship of a former president of Ireland, a 'committee of friends of Grameen' has been formed with its headquarters in Paris. On 30th March in a question-answer session of the French National Assembly, the French foreign minister Alain Juppe said, ''the Grameen Bank's micro credit model has been unanimously recognised as a 'magnificently successful' poverty alleviation tool and replicated across the world, particularly to help empower women in developing countries'' (Daily Star 1.4.2011). This statement of the French minister is no exception. The likes of this statement are being issued regularly by imperialist representatives and their flunkeys in Bangladesh. But the fact is that except the people who issue such statement no one recognises Grameen Bank micro credit model as 'magnificently successful' in alleviating poverty in Bangladesh. No one recognises the role to Grameen Bank in empowering women in Bangladesh.

Women in Bangladesh are subjected to various kinds of exploitations and repressions all over the country, particularly in the rural areas. The poor women in the countryside are still the most oppressed among the people and are regularly victimised by the rural exploiters and oppressors including the mullahs who often deliver fatwas against them. Dr. Yunus of Grameen Bank fame was never found to protest, in any form, against such atrocities.

It does not require any great learning or wisdom to theoretically understand that poverty alleviation and empowerment of woman have noting to do with money-lending business whatever may be the terms of such lending. Even a modest survey of the situation on the ground in the rural areas reveals to any one that there has not been any perceptible poverty alleviation through disbursement of rural credit by the Grameen Bank or any other NGOs, though there may be some exceptional cases where some loanees have been able to improve their financial situation by making clever use of such loans.

No elaborate discussion on the 'achievement' of Yunus is necessary to emphasise the point that his main achievement is management of the lending operation of the Grameen Bank. Its business has been extended to very large areas in Bangladesh, the number of borrowers from the Bank has reached, according to their own statement, up to more than eight million and that through a special mechanism of control its rate or realisation is 98%! This success would not have been possible without massive foreign financial contribution and many special concessions and privileges granted by the government to this Bank which are not available to other commercial banks.

The function of this banking business of Grameen is no different from that of traditional small loan business operated for hundreds of years by rural money lenders called mohajons. Basically, it helps small production carried out by peasants and artisans and various kinds of small scale economic activities. Thus the relentless propaganda carried out by imperialist circles and their flunkeys in Bangladesh has nothing to do with the actual work and 'achievements' of the Grameen Bank and its famous Managing Director Dr. Yunus claims that the eight million loanees are the owners of the Bank and that they are regularly paid dividends. This claim is completely false and fraudulent. Any investigation on the ground reveals that no loanee of the Bank has any ownership document and more of them has any paper related to dividend no one reports to have ever received any dividend. But the stereotyped and ceaseless imperialist propaganda goes on and their international media, both electronic and print, extensively carry out such propaganda to which many well-meaning people fall victims.

Bangladesh Bank and the government of Bangladesh have removed Yunus from the post of Managing Director. The imperialists are saying that without him Grameen Bank would cease to function as an 'alleviaor of poverty' and will lose its character. It is a completely false and motivated propaganda because, as has been said earlier, it has no such character. What actually may happen after his removal is a series of reforms in Grameen Bank's operational practice which will bring some relief to the borrowers and reduce the profit of the Bank.

It may also reduce the inflow of foreign capital into the Bank and weaken the position of Dr. Yunus as an agent of multinational corporations who promote his 'social business'.

The imperialists, through their massive image-building propaganda have tried to elevate Yunus to the position of a demigod, a redeemer of the poor and the downtrodden. They have tried to portray his activities as a panacea of poverty and a means of empowerment of women. The main objective in building up the image of Yunus in this manner is twofold. First to use him for opening investment opportunities for exploiting surplus from the poor of the country and secondly, and more importantly to use him for political purposes. This became quite obvious when he was awarded the Nobel peace prize in 2006, on the eve of military takeover of the Bangladesh government in which the US and the Europeans had a hand. Subsequently, Yunus attempted to usurp political power taking advantage of the then existing situation by trying to organise his own political party. His attempt failed miserably because of his complete personal inability to understand the political process and to take appropriate stops for building a party. Consequently, he soon proved himself to be a political flop. But the imperialists have not given up the hope of using him as their pawn in the political game which they may need to play in times of crisis. It is for this reason that the Norwegian government, after accusing him of financial dishonesty quickly retracted their position in order to save his image by exonerating him from charges which they themselves made against him.

The consternation in the imperialist circles after the removal of Yunus from the position of Managing Director of the Bank and the lining up of the NGOs and the gentlemen of the Bangladesh civil society behind him has completely exposed the true character of Yunus. It has also exposed the faces of persons and institutions in this country who act in the interest of imperialism as their flunkeys. It has clearly demonstrated that Yunus, the much advertised 'banker to the poor' does not really represent the interest of the poor and the downtrodden in this country, but that of their national and international exploiters and oppressors. Whether may be the conspiracy of the imperialists, it will be difficult for them to use Dr. Yunus, with his "shining" anti-people and anti-poor image, as their political instrument on any future occasion of political crisis.

http://www.priyo.com/blog/badruddinumar/2011/04/27/24519.html

Related:
http://www.sonarbangladesh.com/articles/BadruddinOmar
 
http://www.sonarbangladesh.com/article.php?ID=5015
 
http://jugantor.us/enews/issue/2011/03/06/news0607.php
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http://www.sonarbangladesh.com/article.php?ID=4206
 
 *ড. ইউনূস ও গ্রামীণ ব্যাংকের কর্মকাণ্ড প্রসঙ্গে (১২/১২/২০১০)*
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 http://www.sonarbangladesh.com/article.php?ID=4463
  All about microcredit by M.M. Akash:
http://opinion.bdnews24.com/2011/03/23/all-about-microcredit/

 

 



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Re: [chottala.com] 16,000 Moslims drowned, trying to reach Europe since 1988



Kazi Nazrul Islam said long time back:

'Hindu na Muslim ora Jiggashey kon jon
Bolo dubichey shontan mor maar."


Take care.

M

On Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 12:20 PM, ANDREWL <turkman@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
 

Thanks for letting me know, if Moslims drown in trying to reach Europe, they are Dead Humans but if they succeed, they are persecuted Moslim Minority of Europe, who's Human and Religious Rights are being violoted and Islam is the fastest growing Religion in Europe.
You see, I am only a simple God Loving Moslim and did not know, I have to be a Political Islamic Liar also. Please forgive me for that.

--- In chottala@yahoogroups.com, Abdul Mannan <abman1971@...> wrote:
>
> Well said Flora.
>
> Mannan
>
> On Fri, Apr 22, 2011 at 2:41 AM, Flora Ghosh <fghosh@...> wrote:
>
> > Dear Mr. Turkman
> >
> > They didn't drown because they were Moslims. It's a pity that human beings
> > drowned, because they wanted to flee from the catastrophy. I'll prefer a
> > caption: 16.000 humane died. We feel for them and their family.
> >
> > Best wishes
> > Flora G. Andersen
> >
> > ----- Original meddelelse -----
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> > *Fra:* S Turkman <turkman@...>
> > *Til:* World_Today@yahoogroups.com
> > *Cc:* WorldMuslimCongress@yahoogroups.com, worldsindhinet@yahoogroups.com,
> > American_Muslims_Today@yahoogroups.com,
> > Islamic_World_Today@yahoogroups.com, Outclass@yahoogroups.com,
> > insaaniyatlist@yahoogroups.com, Z <pakistan-zindabad@yahoogroups.com>,
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> > rawalpindi2@yahoogroups.com, lahore_lahore_hai@yahoogroups.com,
> > APMSO_MQM@yahoogroups.com, urdu@yahoogroups.com,
> > communistpartyofpakistan@yahoogroups.com, alo c <alochona@yahoogroups.com>,
> > t t <tritiomatra@yahoogroups.com>, khabor@yahoogroups.com,
> > bogra@yahoogroups.com, alapon@yahoogroups.com, chottala@yahoogroups.com, 7
> > ro <sa7rong@yahoogroups.com>, awamileague@yahoogroups.com, C C <
> > calcutta@yahoogroups.com>, Afghanistan_Today@yahoogroups.com
> > *Dato:* Ons, 20. apr 2011 08:05
> > *Emne:* [chottala.com] 16,000 Moslims drowned, trying to reach Europe
> > since 1988
> >
> >
> > <http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PWAP/message/29882;_ylc=X3oDMTJzMmhmbW8xBF9TAzk3MzU5NzE1BGdycElkAzE5Mjg4NzMzBGdycHNwSWQDMTcwNTA2NDMwOQRtc2dJZAMyOTg4MgRzZWMDZG1zZwRzbGsDdm1zZwRzdGltZQMxMzAzMjM5ODE1>16,000
> > Moslims drowned, trying to reach Europe since 1988 but millions of others
> > have succeeded. Presently, hundreds of thousands of Foreign Workers from
> > poor countries, who have lost their jobs and are being harassed by Libyan
> > Rebels are also trying to flee to Europe from Libya instead of trying to go
> > back to their countries.
> > --------
> > IMMIGRATION: 800 DEAD IN CHANNEL OF SICILY SINCE JANUARY
> > <http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PWAP/message/29882;_ylc=X3oDMTJzMmhmbW8xBF9TAzk3MzU5NzE1BGdycElkAzE5Mjg4NzMzBGdycHNwSWQDMTcwNTA2NDMwOQRtc2dJZAMyOTg4MgRzZWMDZG1zZwRzbGsDdm1zZwRzdGltZQMxMzAzMjM5ODE1>Posted
> > by: "marco.pertoni@..." marco.pertoni@...
> > <marco.pertoni@...?Subject=%20Re%3A%20IMMIGRATION%3A%20800%20DEAD%20IN%20CHANNEL%20OF%20SICILY%20SINCE%20JANUARY>
> > Tue Apr 19, 2011 11:53 am (PDT)
> >
> >
> > IMMIGRATION: 800 DEAD IN CHANNEL OF SICILY SINCE JANUARY
> > 13 April , 20:06
> >
> > (ANSAmed) - ROME, APRIL 13 - More than 28,000 migrants reached Italy in
> > less than three months, but many (approximately 800, but there are no
> > official figures, so the number may even be greater) have been swallowed by
> > the Channel of Sicily.
> >
> > Hundreds of boats departed mostly from Tunisia, but also from Libya, and
> > some sank with their human cargo.
> >
> > Some 14 shipwrecks have been reported to date, the latest one today: two
> > women drowned in Pantelleria during a landing.
> >
> > Since 1988, according to figures gathered by Fortress Europe, almost 16,000
> > men, women and children died trying to reach Europe by boat. For more than
> > 4,000 of them (4,249) the Channel of Sicily became their grave, while
> > another 186 died sailing from Algeria to Sardinia. More than half of these
> > dead bodies have never been recovered: official statistics mentioned 3,110
> > missing people.
> >
> > http://www.ansamed.info/en/news/ME.XEF92755.html
> >
> >
> >
>
>
> --
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[chottala.com] The story of Dr. Yunus and Grameen Bank by Badruddin Umar



The story of Dr. Yunus and Grameen Bank

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The government of Bangladesh did not snatch away Nobel Peace Prize from Dr. Muhammad Yunus which was bestowed on him by the imperialist powers, and in any case they have no power to do so.

They simply have removed him from his post of managing director of Grameen Bank on legal grounds. This was done according to the rules of the Bangladesh Bank and the law of the land. The merit of this action was examined by the High Court, where Yunus filed a case appealing against the government decision. The High Court dismissed the writ after hearing from both sides. The case has been dismissed again by the Supreme Court as well.

The said action of the government against Yunus was taken for certain irregularities committed by him and it is a domestic matter of Bangladesh. We find that those imperialist powers, particularly the US government and the Clinton clique, who manipulated the Nobel Prize for Yunus, have very sharply and bitterly reacted against this decision of the government.

For a long time we have been critically analysing the activities of Yunus and the Grameen Bank just for the reason that very tall claims are being made on behalf of the Bank and for himself by Yunus. He claims to have invented a theory which says that the right to secure loan is a 'birth right' of man. He claims that by extending loan to the poor, he has been successful in alleviating poverty in Bangladesh to a large extent and by 2030 he would send poverty to the museum as a relic of the past. While making this obviously ludicrous claim he exposes himself as a person who miserably fails to understand that poverty is not a thing, it is not an archaeological artefact, but the result of relations which exist between people in the course of production and other social affairs.

The Grameen Bank undoubtedly is a successful operator of small loans to rural poor like many NGOs, and has established a record in this which is far better than the ordinary commercial banks. For this achievement the Grameen Bank may be awarded an international award for its success in managing small loans. But it must be emphasised that it has nothing to do with peace. Moreover, Yunus himself was never found to protest against any kind of repressions on the people which are perpetuated by government agencies and other predator social forces. He was never found to utter a word against military interventions, aggressions and predatory wars of imperialists on countries of Asia, Africa and Latin America. He was never found to play any role in easing tensions or establishing peace between conflicting interests and groups in Bangladesh or anywhere else. He actually had never anything to do with peace. On the contrary, he had always fraternised with those who make wars and disturb peace at home and abroad. In spite of this he was awarded Nobel Prize for peace by the imperialist cliques to promote their political and other interests in Bangladesh. It was no surprise that he was given the Nobel Prize in 2006 suddenly on the eve of the military takeover of the administration in January, 2007.

Yunus managed the affairs of the Grameen Bank as an autocrat and like any other autocrat he had no compunction in committing irregularities. He was not accountable to anybody and did everything in a cavalier manner. He exercised the authority of appointing all employees and even directors. His appointment as Managing Director of the Bank had always been basically an act of his own, and in these matters the role of the Board of Directors was nominal. He took all major decisions over the head of the Board of Directors of which he was not a member. If the relation of Managing Director and the Board of Directors is examined, it will be found to be a very extraordinary arrangement. The Board always acted as an utterly subservient body to the Managing Director.

In all regards, the rules of Grameen Bank were extraordinary and the concessions granted to it by the government in conducting its affairs was in contradiction with all banking practices followed in this country. However, these administrative matters including the rules of conducting the business of Grameen Bank are not a matter of our real concern and we leave it to the Enquiry Committee which has been instituted by the government to investigate into the affairs of the Bank. Our real concern is the situation on the ground.

Here it is not possible to detail the consequences of small loan business of the Grameen Bank. But one thing must be made clear. We are not opposed to small loans or micro credit, because such loans are desperately needed by the rural poor, particularly the peasants and artisans who are engaged in production. Rural money lenders had always acted as such loan-giving agents for centuries during the feudal period and they still continue to do so. Fraudulently and mischievously, Yunus is glorified as the first 'banker to the poor' who has redeemed the poor of the countryside, particularly the poor women whereas the fact is that the traditional rural moneylenders have historically performed the task of lending to the poor. Even the NGO's who were launched by the then World Bank President Robert Macnamara in the '70s started lending to the poor before the establishment of the Grameen Bank.

The NGO's and the Grameen Bank were launched by the imperialists with the active help and co-operation of the government not for alleviating or eradicating poverty. Their principal objective in this was to perpetuate poverty and to distract the attention of the poor from political struggles for changing basic relations of production as well as social relations which create and preserve the conditions of poverty. Here there is no scope for elaborating this point but it is necessary to mention that the greatest noise is made for the Grameen Bank and its so-called mission for eradicating poverty by those who are the recognised enemies of the poor working people of the world including the people of Bangladesh. These noise makers represent the forces which exploit the poor everywhere, twist the hands of poor countries dependent on them and do not have the slightest compunction in wantonly attacking countries which dare to resist their advances. These are the countries which unhesitatingly bomb the poor in other countries and commit genocide as they recently did in Iraq and are currently doing in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Libya.

The reaction of these forces which include imperialist countries like the US, France, Britain, Germany and others of Europe and elsewhere and their lackeys and flunkeys in countries like Bangladesh is a clear indication of the interest which Dr. Yunus serves. It is insane to think that against whose removal from the post of Managing Director of Grameen Bank the imperialist powers are raising a hue and cry can, by any stretch of imagination, be a friend of the poor in any country and who can lead a programme for eradicating or even alleviating poverty of those who are subjected to the worst kind of exploitation by local ruling classes, governments and imperialist powers.

In this context, it is interesting to note that the loanees or borrowers of Grameen Bank, in no area of Bangladesh, has so far brought out any demonstration in favour or Yunus and against the government decision to remove him from the post of Managing Director. Recently, a handout of Grameen Bank says that about three million loanees have signed a protest statement against Yunus' removal. But demonstrations and protest statements are very different acts. It is very easy to get any paper signed by the loanees by local Grameen Bank officials.

And even then, there is no certain evidence that such a statement has actually been signed by 3 million loanees. The whole matter may be a lie and a fraudulent propaganda on behalf of a section of Grameen Bank officials loyal to Yunus.

In spite of this lack of support for Yunus from the Grameen Bank, loanees who are said to be the "real owners" of the Bank, it is amazing to see the kind of international support organised in favour of Yunus. They eulogise the achievements of Dr. Yunus in order of protect his position in the Grameen Bank. Under the presidentship of a former president of Ireland, a 'committee of friends of Grameen' has been formed with its headquarters in Paris. On 30th March in a question-answer session of the French National Assembly, the French foreign minister Alain Juppe said, ''the Grameen Bank's micro credit model has been unanimously recognised as a 'magnificently successful' poverty alleviation tool and replicated across the world, particularly to help empower women in developing countries'' (Daily Star 1.4.2011). This statement of the French minister is no exception. The likes of this statement are being issued regularly by imperialist representatives and their flunkeys in Bangladesh. But the fact is that except the people who issue such statement no one recognises Grameen Bank micro credit model as 'magnificently successful' in alleviating poverty in Bangladesh. No one recognises the role to Grameen Bank in empowering women in Bangladesh.

Women in Bangladesh are subjected to various kinds of exploitations and repressions all over the country, particularly in the rural areas. The poor women in the countryside are still the most oppressed among the people and are regularly victimised by the rural exploiters and oppressors including the mullahs who often deliver fatwas against them. Dr. Yunus of Grameen Bank fame was never found to protest, in any form, against such atrocities.

It does not require any great learning or wisdom to theoretically understand that poverty alleviation and empowerment of woman have noting to do with money-lending business whatever may be the terms of such lending. Even a modest survey of the situation on the ground in the rural areas reveals to any one that there has not been any perceptible poverty alleviation through disbursement of rural credit by the Grameen Bank or any other NGOs, though there may be some exceptional cases where some loanees have been able to improve their financial situation by making clever use of such loans.

No elaborate discussion on the 'achievement' of Yunus is necessary to emphasise the point that his main achievement is management of the lending operation of the Grameen Bank. Its business has been extended to very large areas in Bangladesh, the number of borrowers from the Bank has reached, according to their own statement, up to more than eight million and that through a special mechanism of control its rate or realisation is 98%! This success would not have been possible without massive foreign financial contribution and many special concessions and privileges granted by the government to this Bank which are not available to other commercial banks.

The function of this banking business of Grameen is no different from that of traditional small loan business operated for hundreds of years by rural money lenders called mohajons. Basically, it helps small production carried out by peasants and artisans and various kinds of small scale economic activities. Thus the relentless propaganda carried out by imperialist circles and their flunkeys in Bangladesh has nothing to do with the actual work and 'achievements' of the Grameen Bank and its famous Managing Director Dr. Yunus claims that the eight million loanees are the owners of the Bank and that they are regularly paid dividends. This claim is completely false and fraudulent. Any investigation on the ground reveals that no loanee of the Bank has any ownership document and more of them has any paper related to dividend no one reports to have ever received any dividend. But the stereotyped and ceaseless imperialist propaganda goes on and their international media, both electronic and print, extensively carry out such propaganda to which many well-meaning people fall victims.

Bangladesh Bank and the government of Bangladesh have removed Yunus from the post of Managing Director. The imperialists are saying that without him Grameen Bank would cease to function as an 'alleviaor of poverty' and will lose its character. It is a completely false and motivated propaganda because, as has been said earlier, it has no such character. What actually may happen after his removal is a series of reforms in Grameen Bank's operational practice which will bring some relief to the borrowers and reduce the profit of the Bank.

It may also reduce the inflow of foreign capital into the Bank and weaken the position of Dr. Yunus as an agent of multinational corporations who promote his 'social business'.

The imperialists, through their massive image-building propaganda have tried to elevate Yunus to the position of a demigod, a redeemer of the poor and the downtrodden. They have tried to portray his activities as a panacea of poverty and a means of empowerment of women. The main objective in building up the image of Yunus in this manner is twofold. First to use him for opening investment opportunities for exploiting surplus from the poor of the country and secondly, and more importantly to use him for political purposes. This became quite obvious when he was awarded the Nobel peace prize in 2006, on the eve of military takeover of the Bangladesh government in which the US and the Europeans had a hand. Subsequently, Yunus attempted to usurp political power taking advantage of the then existing situation by trying to organise his own political party. His attempt failed miserably because of his complete personal inability to understand the political process and to take appropriate stops for building a party. Consequently, he soon proved himself to be a political flop. But the imperialists have not given up the hope of using him as their pawn in the political game which they may need to play in times of crisis. It is for this reason that the Norwegian government, after accusing him of financial dishonesty quickly retracted their position in order to save his image by exonerating him from charges which they themselves made against him.

The consternation in the imperialist circles after the removal of Yunus from the position of Managing Director of the Bank and the lining up of the NGOs and the gentlemen of the Bangladesh civil society behind him has completely exposed the true character of Yunus. It has also exposed the faces of persons and institutions in this country who act in the interest of imperialism as their flunkeys. It has clearly demonstrated that Yunus, the much advertised 'banker to the poor' does not really represent the interest of the poor and the downtrodden in this country, but that of their national and international exploiters and oppressors. Whether may be the conspiracy of the imperialists, it will be difficult for them to use Dr. Yunus, with his "shining" anti-people and anti-poor image, as their political instrument on any future occasion of political crisis.

http://www.priyo.com/blog/badruddinumar/2011/04/27/24519.html

Related:
http://www.sonarbangladesh.com/articles/BadruddinOmar
 
http://www.sonarbangladesh.com/article.php?ID=5015
 
http://jugantor.us/enews/issue/2011/03/06/news0607.php
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* ** **গরিবদের 'পরিত্রাতা' মুহাম্মদ ইউনূসের উন্মোচিত স্বরূপ (০৫/১২/২০১০*)<http://www.sonarbangladesh.com/article.php?ID=4206>
http://www.sonarbangladesh.com/article.php?ID=4206
 
 *ড. ইউনূস ও গ্রামীণ ব্যাংকের কর্মকাণ্ড প্রসঙ্গে (১২/১২/২০১০)*
<http://www.sonarbangladesh.com/article.php?ID=4266>
 
http://www.sonarbangladesh.com/article.php?ID=4266
 
* **ড. ইউনূস ও গ্রামীণ ব্যাংকের কর্মকাণ্ড প্রসঙ্গে-২ (১৯/১২/২০১০) *<http://www.sonarbangladesh.com/article.php?ID=4323>
http://www.sonarbangladesh.com/article.php?ID=4323
 
* **ড. ইউনূস ও গ্রামীণ ব্যাংকের কর্মকাণ্ড প্রসঙ্গে-৩ (০৪/০১/২০১১) *<http://www.sonarbangladesh.com/article.php?ID=4463>
 
 http://www.sonarbangladesh.com/article.php?ID=4463
  All about microcredit by M.M. Akash:
http://opinion.bdnews24.com/2011/03/23/all-about-microcredit/

 

 



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Re: [chottala.com] What did they do in 1971?



 Mr. Mannan

Feedback of your weekly appears in today's Janakantha http://www.dailyjanakantha.com/news_view.php?nc=16&dd=2011-04-24&ni=56568

Will you please analyze?

Whether present finance minister and present government administration is worthless, inefficient or not?

At Potenga in Chittagong one kg rice was sold at 50 paisa.

Now one kg rice at Chittagong is Tk50 – 52 Tk.

In Bangladesh one US dollar was equivalent to TK 4 and 70 paisa.

Now one US dollar is equivalent to Tk 75.00

You know building of strong and stable economy is required of the politician's planed policy for keeping prices of everything stable and under control by

a)      Minimizing cost of production

b)      Increasing rate of production

c)      Decreasing money inflation

d)     Using time and energy correctly and 

e)      Revaluing the value of money

The politicians are busy for making money such as Madam Hasina and Madam Khalida for money when are in power a)     Has increased their salary 100% (Madam Khalida in 2001, Madam Hasina in 2009) and is b)  Increasing tax and vat to collect their increased salary

Such way they are

c)     Creating money devaluation,

d)    Creating money inflation  

e)     Increasing everything high price at rate 100% and more and

f)     Creating and increasing people's disasters at the rate of 100% or more

They also have created poverty, jobless, business less people

I)             destroying share markets,

ii)             Closing mill industries established by Adamjee Ispahany Bowani EPIDC

Destroying economy stability.  

iii)            Not establishing new mill industry and

iv)            Not creating business center for doing own products business

They have made Bangladesh a market of

1)     Other county's low quality product business center

2)     Labors and maid servants exporting country  

They are also planning to destroy Grameen Bank like they have destroyed share market and Adamjee Ispahani mill industry to create more jobless business less people to export them in abroad as labors and maid servants. 

They are creating brainless muscle politicians destroying education environment at schools college universities  

C)     Doing lal nil subuj sada teacher's politics and

D)    Doing Cdal and C league student's politics.

They have already made Government administration of less quality inactive dal and league party administration for doing nothing but harassing the people for money...

 

The column writers are not writing positive and productive for guiding the politicians of taking action for providing the people

A)    Work and technical education

B)    To educate them as technically educated skilled work persons  

C)    To create jobs or business fields

D)     For providing the jobless people job and business

Rather they are writing to creating opportunity so that  

i)              The poor people to be exploited in Bangladesh by NGO and mohajons

ii)             Or

iii)            The poor people to be exported in abroad as labors or maid servants.   

Could you write?

 Are you sure?

 Whether present government administration and its finance minister is worthless in efficient or not?

--- On Mon, 25/4/11, Flora Ghosh <fghosh@webspeed.dk> wrote:


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Received: Monday, 25 April, 2011, 12:09 PM

 
Dear Col. Riaz Jafri (Retd) alias Turkman
 
You have written these two sentences about you. These two sentences show who you are. Are you proud to know Tikka Khan? and you deny the rapists armies act in 1971. I hope the Alle mighty will show his mercy also on you as He does to many others.
 
And one suggestion: You should use this forum to spread peace between different religions and races not to appart them. After all you are 82. It's time to recognise all human being as the children of God/Allah/Bhagaban.
 
"Chief Secretary Muzzafar Hussain had to go through me to see Gen. Farman or Governor Tikka Khan." 
 
"And most of us on the forum only remember the 2 million Bengali women to have been raped by the West Pakistani soldiers!!  As if Pak Army had nothing else to do.  A figure impossible to achieve under the given circumstances and period.  What an irony?!!" - quetions from your mail to Shajia.
 
Flora G. Andersen
 
 
----- Original Message -----
From: S Turkman
Sent: Thursday, April 21, 2011 8:15 PM
Subject: [chottala.com] What did they do in 1971?

 
Please read this statement of a Pakistani retired Colonel ...!

----- Forwarded Message ----
From: Riaz Jafri <jafri@rifiela.com>

Dear Shazia:
 
Since you addressed your post to me, I am obliged to respond.
 
Firstly, about your saying "do good at this age".  What do you mean at this age?  Lady, though I am 82 yet am quite 'young' looking and by the Grace of Allah (SWT) much fitter than many half my age. Those who know me will bear me out on this count, or, you can Google my image (Col. Riaz Jafri (Retd)) to see it for yourself. Next, I don't have to do good at this age ONLY.  Allah be praised HE helped me ALL my life to do good whatever little I could.
 
Next, you asked me to tell you what did we people do in 1971.  It is a long story to tell. A story entirely different to what the Indian influenced  hostile media fed to the world and many gullible and prone to suspicion in Pakistan too accepted it blindly. Probably, I wrote it earlier on some forum that I was GSO-1 (Principal Staff Officer) to late Gen Rao Farman Ali, who was incharge Martial Law Civil Affairs (running the entire civil administration of East Pakistan). Chief Secretary Muzzafar Hussain had to go through me to see Gen. Farman or Governor Tikka Khan.  Believe you me, I am as such witness to many an historic event and privy to some inside stories including that of ZAB.  Someone has questioned on this forum as to why don't we discuss the atrocities, killings and burying alive of the West Pakistanis and Biharis also on the forum? (900 Biharis were stoked alive to the Railway Engines' fire at Santhar Railway Station)  Do you have any idea as to what happened to some of the West Pakistani officers and their families in East Pakistan?  These officers were posted to East Pakistan Rifles (sort of Rangers there), various East Pakistan Regiments stationed in 1971 then,  East Pakistan Regimental Centre at Chittagong, Cadet College Faujdar Ghat, Peelkhana Dacca etc.  They were almost all massacred in the most unimaginable and inhumane manner.  Some of the walls of the rooms were seen splattered with the blood of the children's head smashed against them.  People were buried in the ground with only the heads protruding out on which the Muktis spat, urinated and finally stoned them to death. Women were paraded stark naked forced to keep standing in large cages where they tried (unsuccessfully) to hide their bodies with their hair. The tales are too horrific to continue.
 
And most of us on the forum only remember the 2 million Bengali women to have been raped by the West Pakistani soldiers!!  As if Pak Army had nothing else to do.  A figure impossible to achieve under the given circumstances and period.  What an irony?!!
 
And, what is more astonishing is that some of us are writing on the forum that the same is being repeated in Balochistan now !!  Can any body in his real senses imagine it happening in Baluchistan?  Are we people aware of the strong tribal traditions (honour killing etc.) of Baluchis and Pushtoon in this regard?  Can they allow such a thing to happen to their womenfolk in their midst?  Please ask a Baluchi before you hurt their feelings by uttering such nonsense that could such a thing ever happen in their area?
 
Again, if some of us are bent upon maligning the army, I have a simple question for them.  Agreed, it  happened in erstwhile East Pakistan as it was a military regime then and it looked the other way when it all happened.  But now that we have a duly elected democratic government,  why doesn't it stop the genocide and the rape and what not happening in Baluchistan?  If the army and agencies are involved in such inhuman activities the government should order them to stop it. So simple.  If not, is the government also party to it, in which case it MUST also be maligned and blamed for it.  Why only the army and the agencies?
 
Finally, let me tell you all what I heard Maj Nawaz of 4 Baluch on 19 September 1965 while yelling at his men.  I happened to be with him - don't ask me how and why - in his bunker at the BRB when the field telephone rang up. There was a soldier on the other end who informed him that he had spotted some Indians moving towards Lahore on his right. Maj Nawaz yelled at the top of his voice," Oye Roko unko. Woh Lahore nahin jaa rahey.  Woh hamari maan ki tarf jaa rahey hein.  Woh tumahri banan ki taraf jaa rahey hein. Roko unko".  Maj Nawaz is dead now, but he must be turning in his grave that some of us think that his men are raping their own sisters and mothers in Baluchistan !!!!!
 
Col. Riaz Jafri (Retd)
   
----- Original Message -----


Col sahib:

do good at this age and tell us what did you guys do in 1971?

and do you regret it?


Sent from Shazia's 4G magical iPhone.


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[chottala.com] BCCDI- Bangla School's 2011 and 2012 Programs



Dear
Community Members and BCCDI-Bangla School Well Wishsers,
As all of you know BCCDI every year has to announce its whole year's programs based on; to receive Arlington County grands and Space for the programs form the County. So in conjention to that BCCDI is announcing it's 2011 and 2012 programs which are scheduled as follows
 
 
1. "Upohar Bangladesh Mela-2011, on Saturday and Sunday, June 18 and 19 2011 (Thomas Jefferson Middle School)
2. Community Talent Show-2011, Saturday November 19 2011(TBD)
3. "Victory Day of Bangladesh" December Saturday, 10 or 17 2011 (suggested place Gunstone Community Center)
4. " Pitha- Utshob-2012" January Saturday 28 2012, Place to be announced.
5. "Mother Language Day" February saturday, 18 2012 (Gunstone Theater Hall-1)
6. Independence Day March 24, 2012 TDB
7. Bengali New Year Mela "Asho Hay Novo Borsho" April 14  Saturday  2012
8. "Upohar Bangladesh Mela:" Saturday June 16 2012, (Thomas Jefferson Middle School-Suggested)
 
Sincerely,
Mizanur Bhuiyan
General Secretary
On behalf of BCCDI Board of Directors
703-828-5319


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