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Wednesday, December 21, 2011

Re: [chottala.com] Zia and Declaration of Independence



Mr. Abdul Mannan,
 
Like millions of Bangladeshis I heard Major Zia's declaration of Independence from Kalurghats Shadhin Bangla Betar Kendra. No historian can deny this plain truth. If anyone wants to hide this truth from our history they are worst class Razakar and I hate them.
"Ek Zia Lokantore,  Lokkho Zia Ghore Ghore"
 
M.Anwar
Washington, DC
USA

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Date: Tue, 20 Dec 2011 13:43:43 +0600

 

Prothom Alo published a feature by me on December 17, 2011 on Chittagong 1971. The feature was intended for publication on the Victory Day, but they were running short of space. The December 17 article was edited and part of it was shredded. Quite a few readers sent me mail why I omitted the Zia part of Declaration of Independence? I explained to them what went wrong with P. Alo. I submitted the same article with a different title to Daily Purbokone of Chittagong and they published it on December 16, 2011 in their supplement. For the benefit of the readers I am attaching the PDF format of the article so that readers can go through my original text, if they wished and remove any misgiving. P. Alo is in the habit of doing such things.

Regards and warm wishes.

Mannan

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Fw: [chottala.com] Re: Demo against Tipaimukh in front of U.N .Jan 10



If you love our motherland Bangladesh,  please support this major demonstration against Tipaimukh in front of U.N. regardless of your party affiliation. Even followers of India friendly Hasina regime also requested to support this demonstration. After all Bangladesh belongs to all Bangladeshis we all love our motherland. Ruling Awami Leaguers should not stay silent about the deadly Dam.
We all should be united to face this challenge.
 

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Subject: [chottala.com] Re: Demo against Tipaimukh in front of UN Jan 10
Date: Wed, 21 Dec 2011 07:11:49 -0500

 



On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 6:26 PM, Masud Ali <ibnmasum@gmail.com> wrote:

Demo against Tipaimukh in front of UN Jan 10

Dec 20, 2011

The International Farakka Committee at an emergency meeting yesterday in New York decided to holdthe demonstration on January 10 Tuesday, in front of the United Nations Head quarters in NY to protest against Indian Tipaimukh Dam demanding stoppage of its construction and make ahuman chain, according to a message received in Dhaka.
The meeting was presided by Atiqur Rahman Salu, Chairman of the IFC. The meeting was addressed by prominentcommunity leaders and activists. The meeting was moderated by Dr. Shah Alam,adviser, and Assistant Secretary General, Gias Ahmed and Organizing Secretary, Ataur Rahman cooperated.

The meeting was attended and addressed by engineers, business men, activists, journalists, and various localcommunity leaders of the Bangladeshi regional organizations.IFC New York has urged to all the organizations in USA, Canada, Bangladesh and elsewhere to make their own protest rally demonstration, human chain, and send a letter to theworld leaders and also send fliers to stop the Tipaimukh Dam, said a pressrelease issued by Atiqur Rahman Salu.


On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 7:53 PM, Masud Ali <ibnmasum@gmail.com> wrote:
Assalamu Alaikum!
Sorry for late response. Thanks for your�articles. We published hose in www.bdinn.com
 
Masud Ali
 
 

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On Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 9:05 AM, abid bahar <abid.bahar@gmail.com> wrote:

Tipai project may trigger strong tremor, tsunami, fears expert

Posted by: "Isha Khan" bdmailer@gmail.com bd_mailer

Sun Dec�11,�2011 9:50�am (PST)



Tipai project may trigger strong tremor, tsunami, fears expert

The proposed Tipaimukh Dam project taken by the Indian government may
trigger a massive earthquake in the region claiming around 30 million
people in Bangladesh, fears an expert.

The Tipaimukh Dam site is located in a zone highly vulnerable to
tremor. A series of massive earthquakes occurred in the zone in the
last 110 years,� Dr SI Khan, former UN water and environmental expert,
told a roundtable in the city on Sunday.

He said a 500-foot depth water reservoir will be created due to the
construction of Tipaimukh Dam which will pile a pressure of 160 tonnes
in per square metre beneath the dam, unleashing a massive earthquake
in the region.

�A strong tremor will damage the dam sending its water downstream
which will ultimately wash away people in the Meghna basin. There�s
also a possibility of more devastating tsunami,� Dr Khan told the
roundtable.

International Farakka Committee (IFC), New York, and IFC Bangladesh
jointly organised the roundtable titled �Tipaimukh Dam: Options for
Bangladesh� at the National Press Club.

Chaired by IFC Bangladesh president and former Vice Chancellor of
Jahangirnagar University Dr Jasim Uddin Ahmed, the roundtable was
addressed, among others, by language movement veteran Abdul Matin, Dr
Zafarullah Khan, secretary general of IFC, New York, Syed, Tipu
Sultan, Engr Abdul Quader and New Nation editor Mostafa Kamal
Majumder.

Dr SI Khan, in his keynote address, said the Indian government seems
set to go ahead with its plan to build the controversial Tipaimukh Dam
on the Barak River in Manipur. �But, this is a violation of
international law.�

�According to the international water-related laws and conventions, no
country can carry out such activity on common rivers, as there is
always the chance of harming the downstream countries,� he said.

Dr Khan said as per the World Convention on Dams, if a country wants
to build a dam with a height over 15 metres and minimum water
reservoir capacity of 3 million cubic metres on a common river, the
project must be acceptable not only to the government(s) but also the
people of its river basin.

Referring to the article 9 of the Ganges Treaty of 1996 signed by
India and Bangladesh, he mentioned that the treaty says �Guided by the
principles of equity, fairness and no harm to either party, both the
governments agree to conclude water Treaties/Agreements with regards
to other common rivers.�

Dr Khan, also vice president of the International Farakka Committee,
said although the height of the proposed Tipaimukh Dam is 163 metres
and its water reservoir capacity would be 1.5 billion cubic metres,
India has not shown any willingness to negotiate with downstream
Bangladesh.

According to the Helsinki Convention, he said, upstream countries
cannot carry out any such activities that might adversely affect the
environment and biodiversity of the downstream counties. But, India
has taken a controversial move (Tipai project) that will spell
environmental disaster for Bangladesh.

Dr Khan suggested forming a regional river commission through mutual
understanding with neighbouring countries to meet the water problems
in South Asia.

He also said another river commission should be formed for the common
Barak-Meghna River basin to resolve the ongoing debate over the
Tipaimukd Dam project.

Before implementation the Tipai project, Dr Jasim Uddin Ahmed
suggested conducting a joint survey guided by the United Nations to
assess the environmental and socioeconomic impacts of the dam.

He also urged the government to build a strong unity involving all
sections of people to resist the Indian move, keeping in mind the
national interest.

http://www.unbconnect.com/component/news/task-show/id-65078

On Sun, Dec 11, 2011 at 11:23 PM, abid bahar <abid.bahar@gmail.com> wrote:

Indian Water Aggression and Call for Boycotting Indian Goods to Save
Bangladesh*

By Abid Bahar, Canada

Indian government's continued arrogance to share the international River
Gange's water causes great loss and desertification in the North West of
Bangladesh. Now India is building Tipaimuk dam to block the North East of
Bangladesh. India already built or in the process of building many more
smaller bridges on rivers entering Bangladesh. Bangladesh is helpless. It
needs your help.

Save Bangladesh

(1) For the past 30 years we have seen, demonstrations, organizing seminars
and sending protest letters do not work with the stubborn India. Let�s go
for a boycott movement of Indian goods. Let�s observe it from August 16-23,
let�s observe Indian Water aggression and boycott of the Indian goods week
(Bharotio Ponnoborjon shopta).

(2) This should be observed every year and we will demand August 16 as a
national holiday. This week will be to mourn the man-made disaster in the
making in Bangladesh.

(3) The peaceful observation is our cold war response to India. It is our
call for freedom from Indian aggression. We know the first war was fought
against Pakistan now this is against the arrogant Indian government. This
is because only the boycott of multi-million dollar Indian goods in
Bangladesh remains Bangladesh's only option to stop India's criminal
activities against Bangladesh aimed at turning it into a desert/ dependent/
a failed state/ a bottomless basket case.

(4)This should be a grassroots movement. Political parties of color and
kind can join in the movement but it should continue to remain a pro-people
movement and definitely a nonviolent movement.

The date I propose is also to remember Bhasani�s first launch of the
protest march to Rajshahi in the late summer of 1976. The difference is
that this will be a week long activity which should have cultural groups
and cultural activities, the recitation of poems about desertification and
the effect of arsenic poison due to man-made evils. It should also include
drama activities and seminars to inform and attract the mainstream youth.
It can include the symbolic game playing with imported Indian rotten eggs.
The game will be hitting egg by the egg marble game and activities should
be reported to news papers. The seminars will demand the government to
strengthen the border from smuggling of Indian goods by rebuilding our BDR
force and the army. In all this, Indian people should know that
Bangladeshis are not against them but its government�s destructive and
arrogant policy against Bangladeshi people's future.

(5) I recommend that the Poinoo Borjon Shopta should be observed from
Tatulia to Taknaf. This seems to be the time to act before Bangladesh
becomes South Asia's "Desert Ethopia" and India's banana republic.

(6) We the patriotic Bangladeshis have to keep the pressure up on India and
India's friendly foreign governments against India's actualization of the
barbaric "India Doctrine" and against the desertification of Bangladesh.
Volunteers from local to national level should continue to lobby
internationally. We know Bangladesh already has many sons and daughters
working hard on lobbying against this evil design by India.

(7) The point is India can not do anything it wants. The mighty America
couldn't do anything against the patriotic and conscious Cubans, despite
the fact that they also have many Moin U (puppets) Mir Jaffors who
regularly receive horses. It is also because in our time we live in a
global village. Only pressure from average Bangladeshi people at home and
abroad will demonstrate to the pro-Indian governments including the last
caretakers that Bangladesh has the backbone to survive.

In this, Bangladesh will not lose anything but will gain everything. If
Gandhi could do it against the mighty British we as a freedom-loving nation
of 144 million importing a substantial amount of Indian third category
goods can do it too. We are going to call it �Water Aggression and
Boycotting Indian Goods week." (Bharito Ponnyo Borjon Shapta)

We are asking people to spontaneously join in the movement. I propose non
political people and professors from Dhaka University and BUET should form
a group to fight and lead this annual event and fight the cold war. If it
slowly turns into a spontaneous movement like our great annual language
day, we wouldn't need any leadership from above.

(8) I suggest that Bangladeshis should also erect a central monument in
Dhaka protesting Indian aggression and have a national museum depicting the
desertification, arsenic poisoning, border killing, water aggression,
dividing the Bengal by erecting a wall, jamming our TV and India�s
systematic anti-Bangladesh policy. I expect the movement against Indian
water aggression will also attract International attention from the
environmental groups as well.

Let's do it now or never!

Let's hear from various Bangladeshi people, including the pro-Indians/
opportunist Bangladeshis what else they think about it. If peace-loving and
patriotic Bangladeshis agree, form your own committee in your city for the
upcoming "Water Aggression and Boycotting of Indian Goods week" from August
16-23. For this you wouldn't need anything except your love for your mother
and Bangladesh, your motherland!

In the article below please see how Palestinians through their grass roots
movement doing the unthinkable

Abid Bahar
Canada

Solutions to Tipaimukh Dam and other problems by India: Listen to Bhasani
Abid Bahar
�There has been protests and demonstrations going on all over Bangladesh and in abroad by Bangladeshis against India's Tipai mukh dan construction. There had been similat protests against Farakka dam previously but little was done by India. For its objective is to turn Bangladesh into a dependent state of India, Bangladesh a "bottomless bascate case".True, India Doctrine dictates India not to listen to Bangladesh no matter what we do, especially when it had Hasina's AL and its giant proi ndian support base, The Daily Star, The Prothom Alo and several other media keep the focus on War crime tribunal etc and the international media ready to listen mosly to what India has to say. .
Despite all that please don't forget India bought almost everything including the power hungry opportunists politicians and the military but except our people. At this juncture of our critical period we must do what Bhasani instructed us such as to use gherao and the boycotting of goods in this case the imported Indian goods in Bangladesh. and gherao Ashuganj port etc. There have been suggestions to burn imported goods from India as a symbolic gesture. I don't encourage Bangladeshis to burn anything especially imported saris. This was not Bhasani's technique. Bhasani's technique was not violent. We can use his idea of having fire in our heart ( Jalao, Jalao, Agun Jalao) techniques to unite the nation against Indian water aggression. Listen to what Bhasani said, " Freedom Struggle continues." True, we fought against Pakistan now we have nonviolent cold war going on against India, "freedom struggle continues".

The following is an article I wrote several years ago on this topic but could still be relevant.

�Indian Water Aggression and Call for the Boycotting of Indian Goods
Link: http://www.bangladesh-web.com/view.php?hidDate=2009-07-09&hidType&hidRecord=273389

On Sat, Dec 10, 2011 at 2:19 PM, Masud Ali <ibnmasum@gmail.com> wrote:

Stop Tipaimukh dam: Farakka Committee

Dec 9, 2011

www.bdinn.com

New York-based International Farakka Committee in open letter on Friday urged the international community to stop India from constructing the Tipaimukh dam upstream the river Barak in India, saying that it is a violation of international laws.

�We, the citizens of Bangladesh and expatriate Bangladeshis, are urging you to stop India from constructing dams on upstream rivers that flow through Bangladesh,� reads the letter the committee issued on Friday.

The letter said that India�s unilateral action to build the dam and to withdraw water of the common river is against international conventions.

It violates the spirit of the Millennium Declaration by member states of the United Nations, which pledges �to stop the unsustainable exploitation of water resources by developing water management strategies at the regional, national and local levels, which promote both equitable access and adequate supplies,� the letter says.

Quoting from different international treaties, conventions and statutes, the letter says, �Construction of the Tipaimukh Dam by India on the upstream of the Barak, which, after entering Bangladesh, continues to flow as Kushiyara and

Surma, will be illegal�unless it is preceded by prior consensus with Bangladesh.�

�Although India has not yet ratified the 1997 Watercourse,� the letter reads, �there is every reason to argue that the convention, being adopted by a vote of 103�3 in the UN General Assembly, is applicable as �evidence of

international customary law� to Tipaimukh or any such project on shared�rivers.�

The letter outlined different adverse impacts of hydroelectric dams, once regarded as clean renewable energy sources.

�It has now turned out to be significant generators of greenhouse gases given off by decomposing vegetation in tropical reservoirs. The constant and reliable irrigation hydroelectric dams can waterlog the ground. The water brings underground salt to the surface, which is left behind when the water evaporates.�

�Eventually,� it reads, �The soil becomes too salty for crops to survive. Even the prevention of flood is a mixed blessing. The salt which was once carried downstream by a swollen river replenishing the soil and nutrients, no longer makes its journey to the sea. Instead it clogs up the reservoir.�

�Your excellency,� the letter urges, �We appeal to you, in the name of humanity, for the sake of the environment and ultimately for regional and global security, to stop India from this act of vandalism. We also urge you to demand on India to agree to shared-management of all common rivers in the�spirit of the Millennium Declaration.�


On Sat, Dec 10, 2011 at 2:06 PM, Masud Ali <ibnmasum@gmail.com> wrote:

Web-Seminar in Bangla

Tipaimukh Dam:

Upcoming Disaster for Bangladesh

Saturday, December 10, 2011/8 pm (Eastern Time)

Join Online: www.savebd.com

Call to voice your concern.

Tell the world why Tipaimukh Dam should be stopped

US/Canada: 1-289-444-5223 password - 1111/ UK: +44.792.400.8904 password - 1111

Key-note Presenter:

Dr. Muhammad Saidul Islam

Assistant Professor - the School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Singapore

MA and PhD in Sociology from York University (Canada)

Bachelor degree in Sociology and Anthropology from International Islamic University Malaysia

Research �include environmental sociology and international development with particular emphasis on globalization, global agro-food system, environmental certification and governance, global commodity networks, agrarian change, and gender and labor issues in agro-food industries.

Published over a dozen articles in different peer-reviewed journals including Food Policy, Society and Natural Resources, Journal of South Asian Development, and Asian Profile

Particular interest in Asian Diaspora, power in social organization, and Islam in modernity

Previously taught in the College of William and Mary, one of the top six public universities in the United States, as well as York University

Member of World Aquaculture Society (WAS).

Organised by:� Bangladesh Watch, Canada/ Human Rights Development for Bangladesh (HRDB), USA/SaveBD.com

 



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[chottala.com] Zia and Declaration of Independence ......



Dr. Abdul Mannan
 
How about Zia's first radio announcement in which he
declared himself as the President of Bangladesh?
Has that announcement is preserved, and still available?
 
At 19:45 on 27 March 1971, Major Ziaur Rahman broadcast announcement of the declaration of independence on behalf
of Sheikh Mujibur:(the
 one that we hear about):
 
Why he made announcement in English?
 
Although, he said Joy Bangla.....and asked for
support of the big powers and our neighbour (meaning
India), but he didn't call the masses of Bangladesh
to actively join the armed struggle for the liberation
of Bangladesh ....
 
 
Can you enlighten us on the real perspective of
night of 27th March 1971 vis-a-vis the radio
announcement when the Yahia's crackdown and
killings of Bengali people had already started?
 
 
What do you think of the formal declaration of
"People's Republic of Bangladesh" by the
leaders in Meherpur [ Meherpur District] on April 17th 1971
[Mujibnagar Day] ?
 
What was the historic importance of forming
the provisional goverment in exile and it's subsequent
role in the overall liberation war & the victory of the
People of Bangladesh.
 
Also, it may be worthwhile to discuss the role of
Khondoker Mustaq Ahmed and his attempts to form
a confederation with Pakistan?

Can  Mujibnagar Day be considered as major milestone in our liberation war ?

http://www.thedailystar.net/2005/04/17/d504171501101.htm

bbc bangla mujibnagar day.wmv :
 
Azad
 
On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 2:43 AM, Abdul Mannan <abman1971@gmail.com> wrote:
 

Prothom Alo published a feature by me on December 17, 2011 on Chittagong 1971. The feature was intended for publication on the Victory Day, but they were running short of space. The December 17 article was edited and part of it was shredded. Quite a few readers sent me mail why I omitted the Zia part of Declaration of Independence? I explained to them what went wrong with P. Alo. I submitted the same article with a different title to Daily Purbokone of Chittagong and they published it on December 16, 2011 in their supplement. For the benefit of the readers I am attaching the PDF format of the article so that readers can go through my original text, if they wished and remove any misgiving. P. Alo is in the habit of doing such things.

Regards and warm wishes.

Mannan

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Professor
School of Business
University of Liberal Arts Bangladesh
House # 56, Road # 4/A
Dhanmondi R/A, Dhaka-1209
Bangladesh.
BDT=GMT +5
Working Days Sunday-Thursday
E-mail: abman1971@gmail.com
abdul.mannan@ulab.edu.bd
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Re: FW: [chottala.com] Chittagong 1971



Bhasani, Mujib, Zia and the Birth of Bangladesh
I was in the NAP Muzaffer group and for some reason didn't like Bhasani, but after doing research for my dissertation on Bhasani's life, I found out that without Bhasani, there wouldn't be any independence. I agree with Dr. Sirajudwalla that, Bhasani was a great leader. He was working for 1 point demand from December 1970. He openly declared his 1 point on March 9th and his workers were working underground to actualize it.
Please don't forget, Bhasani was the founder of two very important institutions, Awami League and the Ittifaq, and very closely worked for language rights and the autonomy demand. He helped free Mujib by launching Ghera movement and hitting blows after blows to Ayub the iron man's rule made Mujib to lead the path. Mujib sucessfully launched a civil war mainly by his 7th March speech but the declaration was made by Zia on behalf of Mujib. These are the three great leaders of Bangladesh which the Mujibbadi in disguise intellectuals in their hero worship tendency fail to acknowledge.
For Bhasani, Mujib and Zia's crucial roles during the bloody month of 1971, evidence taken from medias of the time are recored in an article. The article also found the mystery behind Mujib's  negotiation to save Pakistan after 7th March. please read the following article for details:
 
The Bloody Month of March 1971: From the End of a United Pakistan to the Beginning of Bangladesh
 
 
About Bhasani:
 
Searching for Bhasani Citizen of the World
 
On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 10:07 AM, siraj uddowllah <siraj_58@hotmail.com> wrote:
 

Thanks Mr. Helal U Ahmed,

For your raising the question in the right moment about ignoring the name of the first declarer of independence of Bangladesh by the then Major Ziaur Rahman. We have noticed so many times our so called columnist like A Ga Cha from London and many other learned columnists like him intentionally or unintentionally try to ignore the name of late Ziaur Rahman although mass people of that time listened the voice of Ziaur Rahman from Kalur Ghat Radio Station (commonly known as Kalur Ghat Betar) and thus those so called learned columnist tried to distort the history for their own selfish motivation to mislead and thereby used to bias our future generation only to get some simple benefits. Announcement by Akash Bani Calcutta repeatedly broadcast the declaration of Ziaur Rahman by the news reader late Dev Dulal Bondhopaddya at that time was the clear proof and example of that declaration by Late Ziaur Rahman. As I am now running 72 yrs we were the real history of that time as I after qualifying PSC (presently BCS) got my first posting as lecturer of Pharmacology in Chittagong Medical College at that time were the witness like many others during our time of those incidents. During our student lives as we were follower of Moulana Abdul Hamid Khan Bhasani doing EPSU under leadership of our student leader Rashed Khan Menon in Menon group EPSU, I must say our leader Bhasani should be regarded as the first declarer of independence during Pakistan regime by delivering public speech in his various public meeting asking Bongobandhu Sk. Mujibur Rahman "Sk. Mujib you declare one point instead of your six points". As Bongobondhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman used to respect Moulana Abdul Hamid Khan Bashani who always used to tell him "মুজিব তুমি ছয় দফার বদলে এক দফা দাও"।  Prof. Abdul Mannan being aware of the facts can not deny all these and should not try to make a history of his own.  

Dr. Siraj Uddowllah.


From: huahmed@yahoo.com
Date: Mon, 19 Dec 2011 06:49:40 -0800
Subject: [chottala.com] Chittagong 1971

 

Asslamualaikum Sir.
 
Thank you for enlighten us with the piece of history.
 
Sir, i think you mistakenly forgot to mention about late Ziaur Rahman's declare of independence (once by himself and once on behalf of Bongobondhu) in your article.
 
You may write another one to accommodate the missing parts unless you intend to exclude Zia's role during those unforgettable days.
 
Vala thaikkun.
Helal

From: Abdul Mannan <abman1971@gmail.com>
To:
Subject: [Alapon] Chittagong 1971

 
Link to my column published today in the Daily Prothom Alo. It is Chittagong , 1971.

Warm wishes.

Mannan


http://www.prothom-alo.com/detail/date/2011-12-17/news/209264
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RE: [chottala.com] Chittagong 1971



Thank you sir for your prompt reply. I wonder why Prothom Alo does not want share the truth and only truth with the nation? This action of shredding is totally unethical. I construed to as treason to the mankind and the world. Professor, please keep all these documented for the sake real history in making for future. I know as distinguished professor you are a piller of our society and people like you have to uphold the truth but truth.
Thank you once again.
Hussain Shahadat Suhrawardy
Washington, DC
 

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From: abman1971@gmail.com
Date: Mon, 19 Dec 2011 08:24:33 -0800
Subject: Re: [chottala.com] Chittagong 1971

 
Thanks. I did included in another writing about Zia in of the Victory Day supplement published in the Daily Purbokone of Chittagong. I mentioned that too in P.Alo but they shredded substantial part of my writing.

Warm wishes.

Mannan

On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 6:49 AM, Helal Ahmed <huahmed@yahoo.com> wrote:
 


Asslamualaikum Sir.
 
Thank you for enlighten us with the piece of history.
 
Sir, i think you mistakenly forgot to mention about late Ziaur Rahman's declare of independence (once by himself and once on behalf of Bongobondhu) in your article.
 
You may write another one to accommodate the missing parts unless you intend to exclude Zia's role during those unforgettable days.
 
Vala thaikkun.
Helal

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Subject: [Alapon] Chittagong 1971

 
Link to my column published today in the Daily Prothom Alo. It is Chittagong , 1971.

Warm wishes.

Mannan


http://www.prothom-alo.com/detail/date/2011-12-17/news/209264
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[chottala.com] Re: Demo against Tipaimukh in front of UN Jan 10





On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 6:26 PM, Masud Ali <ibnmasum@gmail.com> wrote:

Demo against Tipaimukh in front of UN Jan 10

Dec 20, 2011

The International Farakka Committee at an emergency meeting yesterday in New York decided to holdthe demonstration on January 10 Tuesday, in front of the United Nations Head quarters in NY to protest against Indian Tipaimukh Dam demanding stoppage of its construction and make ahuman chain, according to a message received in Dhaka.
The meeting was presided by Atiqur Rahman Salu, Chairman of the IFC. The meeting was addressed by prominentcommunity leaders and activists. The meeting was moderated by Dr. Shah Alam,adviser, and Assistant Secretary General, Gias Ahmed and Organizing Secretary, Ataur Rahman cooperated.

The meeting was attended and addressed by engineers, business men, activists, journalists, and various localcommunity leaders of the Bangladeshi regional organizations.IFC New York has urged to all the organizations in USA, Canada, Bangladesh and elsewhere to make their own protest rally demonstration, human chain, and send a letter to theworld leaders and also send fliers to stop the Tipaimukh Dam, said a pressrelease issued by Atiqur Rahman Salu.


On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 7:53 PM, Masud Ali <ibnmasum@gmail.com> wrote:
Assalamu Alaikum!
Sorry for late response. Thanks for your articles. We published hose in www.bdinn.com

Masud Ali


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On Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 9:05 AM, abid bahar <abid.bahar@gmail.com> wrote:

Tipai project may trigger strong tremor, tsunami, fears expert

Posted by: "Isha Khan" bdmailer@gmail.com   bd_mailer

Sun Dec 11, 2011 9:50 am (PST)



Tipai project may trigger strong tremor, tsunami, fears expert

The proposed Tipaimukh Dam project taken by the Indian government may
trigger a massive earthquake in the region claiming around 30 million
people in Bangladesh, fears an expert.

The Tipaimukh Dam site is located in a zone highly vulnerable to
tremor. A series of massive earthquakes occurred in the zone in the
last 110 years," Dr SI Khan, former UN water and environmental expert,
told a roundtable in the city on Sunday.

He said a 500-foot depth water reservoir will be created due to the
construction of Tipaimukh Dam which will pile a pressure of 160 tonnes
in per square metre beneath the dam, unleashing a massive earthquake
in the region.

"A strong tremor will damage the dam sending its water downstream
which will ultimately wash away people in the Meghna basin. There's
also a possibility of more devastating tsunami," Dr Khan told the
roundtable.

International Farakka Committee (IFC), New York, and IFC Bangladesh
jointly organised the roundtable titled 'Tipaimukh Dam: Options for
Bangladesh' at the National Press Club.

Chaired by IFC Bangladesh president and former Vice Chancellor of
Jahangirnagar University Dr Jasim Uddin Ahmed, the roundtable was
addressed, among others, by language movement veteran Abdul Matin, Dr
Zafarullah Khan, secretary general of IFC, New York, Syed, Tipu
Sultan, Engr Abdul Quader and New Nation editor Mostafa Kamal
Majumder.

Dr SI Khan, in his keynote address, said the Indian government seems
set to go ahead with its plan to build the controversial Tipaimukh Dam
on the Barak River in Manipur. "But, this is a violation of
international law."

"According to the international water-related laws and conventions, no
country can carry out such activity on common rivers, as there is
always the chance of harming the downstream countries," he said.

Dr Khan said as per the World Convention on Dams, if a country wants
to build a dam with a height over 15 metres and minimum water
reservoir capacity of 3 million cubic metres on a common river, the
project must be acceptable not only to the government(s) but also the
people of its river basin.

Referring to the article 9 of the Ganges Treaty of 1996 signed by
India and Bangladesh, he mentioned that the treaty says 'Guided by the
principles of equity, fairness and no harm to either party, both the
governments agree to conclude water Treaties/Agreements with regards
to other common rivers."

Dr Khan, also vice president of the International Farakka Committee,
said although the height of the proposed Tipaimukh Dam is 163 metres
and its water reservoir capacity would be 1.5 billion cubic metres,
India has not shown any willingness to negotiate with downstream
Bangladesh.

According to the Helsinki Convention, he said, upstream countries
cannot carry out any such activities that might adversely affect the
environment and biodiversity of the downstream counties. But, India
has taken a controversial move (Tipai project) that will spell
environmental disaster for Bangladesh.

Dr Khan suggested forming a regional river commission through mutual
understanding with neighbouring countries to meet the water problems
in South Asia.

He also said another river commission should be formed for the common
Barak-Meghna River basin to resolve the ongoing debate over the
Tipaimukd Dam project.

Before implementation the Tipai project, Dr Jasim Uddin Ahmed
suggested conducting a joint survey guided by the United Nations to
assess the environmental and socioeconomic impacts of the dam.

He also urged the government to build a strong unity involving all
sections of people to resist the Indian move, keeping in mind the
national interest.

http://www.unbconnect.com/component/news/task-show/id-65078

On Sun, Dec 11, 2011 at 11:23 PM, abid bahar <abid.bahar@gmail.com> wrote:

Indian Water Aggression and Call for Boycotting Indian Goods to Save
Bangladesh*

By Abid Bahar, Canada

Indian government's continued arrogance to share the international River
Gange's water causes great loss and desertification in the North West of
Bangladesh. Now India is building Tipaimuk dam to block the North East of
Bangladesh. India already built or in the process of building many more
smaller bridges on rivers entering Bangladesh. Bangladesh is helpless. It
needs your help.

Save Bangladesh

(1) For the past 30 years we have seen, demonstrations, organizing seminars
and sending protest letters do not work with the stubborn India. Let's go
for a boycott movement of Indian goods. Let's observe it from August 16-23,
let's observe Indian Water aggression and boycott of the Indian goods week
(Bharotio Ponnoborjon shopta).

(2) This should be observed every year and we will demand August 16 as a
national holiday. This week will be to mourn the man-made disaster in the
making in Bangladesh.

(3) The peaceful observation is our cold war response to India. It is our
call for freedom from Indian aggression. We know the first war was fought
against Pakistan now this is against the arrogant Indian government. This
is because only the boycott of multi-million dollar Indian goods in
Bangladesh remains Bangladesh's only option to stop India's criminal
activities against Bangladesh aimed at turning it into a desert/ dependent/
a failed state/ a bottomless basket case.

(4)This should be a grassroots movement. Political parties of color and
kind can join in the movement but it should continue to remain a pro-people
movement and definitely a nonviolent movement.

The date I propose is also to remember Bhasani's first launch of the
protest march to Rajshahi in the late summer of 1976. The difference is
that this will be a week long activity which should have cultural groups
and cultural activities, the recitation of poems about desertification and
the effect of arsenic poison due to man-made evils. It should also include
drama activities and seminars to inform and attract the mainstream youth.
It can include the symbolic game playing with imported Indian rotten eggs.
The game will be hitting egg by the egg marble game and activities should
be reported to news papers. The seminars will demand the government to
strengthen the border from smuggling of Indian goods by rebuilding our BDR
force and the army. In all this, Indian people should know that
Bangladeshis are not against them but its government's destructive and
arrogant policy against Bangladeshi people's future.

(5) I recommend that the Poinoo Borjon Shopta should be observed from
Tatulia to Taknaf. This seems to be the time to act before Bangladesh
becomes South Asia's "Desert Ethopia" and India's banana republic.

(6) We the patriotic Bangladeshis have to keep the pressure up on India and
India's friendly foreign governments against India's actualization of the
barbaric "India Doctrine" and against the desertification of Bangladesh.
Volunteers from local to national level should continue to lobby
internationally. We know Bangladesh already has many sons and daughters
working hard on lobbying against this evil design by India.

(7) The point is India can not do anything it wants. The mighty America
couldn't do anything against the patriotic and conscious Cubans, despite
the fact that they also have many Moin U (puppets) Mir Jaffors who
regularly receive horses. It is also because in our time we live in a
global village. Only pressure from average Bangladeshi people at home and
abroad will demonstrate to the pro-Indian governments including the last
caretakers that Bangladesh has the backbone to survive.

In this, Bangladesh will not lose anything but will gain everything. If
Gandhi could do it against the mighty British we as a freedom-loving nation
of 144 million importing a substantial amount of Indian third category
goods can do it too. We are going to call it "Water Aggression and
Boycotting Indian Goods week." (Bharito Ponnyo Borjon Shapta)

We are asking people to spontaneously join in the movement. I propose non
political people and professors from Dhaka University and BUET should form
a group to fight and lead this annual event and fight the cold war. If it
slowly turns into a spontaneous movement like our great annual language
day, we wouldn't need any leadership from above.

(8) I suggest that Bangladeshis should also erect a central monument in
Dhaka protesting Indian aggression and have a national museum depicting the
desertification, arsenic poisoning, border killing, water aggression,
dividing the Bengal by erecting a wall, jamming our TV and India's
systematic anti-Bangladesh policy. I expect the movement against Indian
water aggression will also attract International attention from the
environmental groups as well.

Let's do it now or never!

Let's hear from various Bangladeshi people, including the pro-Indians/
opportunist Bangladeshis what else they think about it. If peace-loving and
patriotic Bangladeshis agree, form your own committee in your city for the
upcoming "Water Aggression and Boycotting of Indian Goods week" from August
16-23. For this you wouldn't need anything except your love for your mother
and Bangladesh, your motherland!

In the article below please see how Palestinians through their grass roots
movement doing the unthinkable

Abid Bahar
Canada

 
 
 
Solutions to Tipaimukh Dam and other problems by India: Listen to Bhasani
Abid Bahar
 There has been protests and demonstrations going on all over Bangladesh and in abroad by Bangladeshis against India's Tipai mukh dan construction. There had been similat protests against Farakka dam previously but little was done by India. For its objective is to turn Bangladesh into a dependent state of India, Bangladesh a "bottomless bascate case".True, India Doctrine dictates India not to listen to Bangladesh no matter what we do, especially when it had Hasina's AL and its giant proi ndian support base, The Daily Star, The Prothom Alo and several other media keep the focus on War crime tribunal etc and the international media ready to listen mosly to what India has to say. .
Despite all that please don't forget India bought almost everything including the power hungry opportunists politicians and the military but except our people. At this juncture of our critical period we must do what Bhasani instructed us such as to use gherao and the boycotting of goods in this case the imported Indian goods in Bangladesh. and gherao Ashuganj port etc. There have been suggestions to burn imported goods from India as a symbolic gesture. I don't encourage Bangladeshis to burn anything especially imported saris. This was not Bhasani's technique. Bhasani's technique was not violent. We can use his idea of having fire in our heart ( Jalao, Jalao, Agun Jalao) techniques to unite the nation against Indian water aggression. Listen to what Bhasani said, " Freedom Struggle continues." True, we fought against Pakistan now we have nonviolent cold war going on against India, "freedom struggle continues".
 
The following is an article I wrote several years ago on this topic but could still be relevant.
 
 Indian Water Aggression and Call for the Boycotting of Indian Goods
Link: http://www.bangladesh-web.com/view.php?hidDate=2009-07-09&hidType&hidRecord=273389

On Sat, Dec 10, 2011 at 2:19 PM, Masud Ali <ibnmasum@gmail.com> wrote:

Stop Tipaimukh dam: Farakka Committee

Dec 9, 2011

www.bdinn.com

New York-based International Farakka Committee in open letter on Friday urged the international community to stop India from constructing the Tipaimukh dam upstream the river Barak in India, saying that it is a violation of international laws.

'We, the citizens of Bangladesh and expatriate Bangladeshis, are urging you to stop India from constructing dams on upstream rivers that flow through Bangladesh,' reads the letter the committee issued on Friday.

The letter said that India's unilateral action to build the dam and to withdraw water of the common river is against international conventions.

It violates the spirit of the Millennium Declaration by member states of the United Nations, which pledges "to stop the unsustainable exploitation of water resources by developing water management strategies at the regional, national and local levels, which promote both equitable access and adequate supplies," the letter says.

Quoting from different international treaties, conventions and statutes, the letter says, 'Construction of the Tipaimukh Dam by India on the upstream of the Barak, which, after entering Bangladesh, continues to flow as Kushiyara and

Surma, will be illegal unless it is preceded by prior consensus with Bangladesh.'

'Although India has not yet ratified the 1997 Watercourse,' the letter reads, 'there is every reason to argue that the convention, being adopted by a vote of 103–3 in the UN General Assembly, is applicable as "evidence of

international customary law" to Tipaimukh or any such project on shared rivers.'

The letter outlined different adverse impacts of hydroelectric dams, once regarded as clean renewable energy sources.

'It has now turned out to be significant generators of greenhouse gases given off by decomposing vegetation in tropical reservoirs. The constant and reliable irrigation hydroelectric dams can waterlog the ground. The water brings underground salt to the surface, which is left behind when the water evaporates.'

'Eventually,' it reads, 'The soil becomes too salty for crops to survive. Even the prevention of flood is a mixed blessing. The salt which was once carried downstream by a swollen river replenishing the soil and nutrients, no longer makes its journey to the sea. Instead it clogs up the reservoir.'

'Your excellency,' the letter urges, 'We appeal to you, in the name of humanity, for the sake of the environment and ultimately for regional and global security, to stop India from this act of vandalism. We also urge you to demand on India to agree to shared-management of all common rivers in the spirit of the Millennium Declaration.'


On Sat, Dec 10, 2011 at 2:06 PM, Masud Ali <ibnmasum@gmail.com> wrote:

Web-Seminar in Bangla

Tipaimukh Dam:

Upcoming Disaster for Bangladesh 

Saturday, December 10, 2011/8 pm (Eastern Time)

Join Online: www.savebd.com

Call to voice your concern.

Tell the world why Tipaimukh Dam should be stopped

US/Canada: 1-289-444-5223 password - 1111/ UK: +44.792.400.8904 password - 1111

Key-note Presenter:

Dr. Muhammad Saidul Islam

Assistant Professor - the School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Singapore

MA and PhD in Sociology from York University (Canada)

Bachelor degree in Sociology and Anthropology from International Islamic University Malaysia

Research  include environmental sociology and international development with particular emphasis on globalization, global agro-food system, environmental certification and governance, global commodity networks, agrarian change, and gender and labor issues in agro-food industries.

Published over a dozen articles in different peer-reviewed journals including Food Policy, Society and Natural Resources, Journal of South Asian Development, and Asian Profile

Particular interest in Asian Diaspora, power in social organization, and Islam in modernity

Previously taught in the College of William and Mary, one of the top six public universities in the United States, as well as York University

Member of World Aquaculture Society (WAS).

 

Organised by:  Bangladesh Watch, Canada/ Human Rights Development for Bangladesh (HRDB), USA/SaveBD.com









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