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Thursday February 23 2012 21:42:12 PM BDT
By Tamim Choudhury, USA
Is Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina an asset of the Indian government? According to India Today, the Indian Army's Military Intelligence Directorate warned Ms. Hasina on late December that Islamists within the Bangladesh Army were planning a coup. In case the coup succeeded, India had a military contingency plan to evacuate the Prime Minister, her cabinet, and key Awami League figures. Indian helicopter gunships would launch from airbases in West Bengal and Tripura into Dhaka to provide operational air cover. Landing zones and evacuation sites were selected in and around Dhaka for the air corridor. As the coup never took place, the people of Bangladesh were spared from this spectacle.
What sort of special relationship does Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's government have with India that the regional power would invest so much to rescue her? After Awami League's ascension to power in 2009, what has India received? The Titas River in Brahmanbaria has been blocked by a road buildup so that heavy Indian trucks can pass by, thanks to an experimental transit facility. Even though several environmentalists are concerned that India's construction of Tipaimukh Dam on Barak River will adversely impact lower Bangladesh, the Prime Minister's adviser Gowher Rizvi asserted that these notions are groundless. After video emerged of an alleged Bangladeshi cattle smuggler being stripped and beaten by India's Border Security Force, Awami League General Secretary Syed Ashraful Islam remarked that these are everyday occurrences and will continue in the future. In return of this massive generosity by Awami League, what exactly are they receiving?
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"If, despite their [BSF personnel] efforts [of exercising restraint], they get into a situation where they are threatened and their lives are in danger, then they will use the force available to them to save their lives or the lives of their companions. That means they will fire," Bansal told Press Trust of India news agency.
According to the rights organisation Odhikar, 203 people lost their lives in BSF firing near the border between 2009 and 2011.
None of the killings occurred in a situation in which the Indian guards' lives were at stake.
Triggering a controversy, Bansal had earlier said firing by BSF along the border with Bangladesh cannot stop completely.
The BSF chief, however, made it clear that firing will be the last resort and that the force has put in a number of measures to avert casualties.
His remarks came a day ahead of a meeting between Indian Home Minister India P Chidambaram and Bangladesh Home Minister Shahara Khatun. When the two ministers meet, Shahara is expected to raise the issue of BSF firing and killing of Bangladeshi civilians along the border.
Yesterday the BSF director general said, "They [BSF personnel] will fire with the available weapon... it may be non-lethal, it may be lethal... every patrol company will have both weapons but if a person is under attack and he is holding a rifle, he will fire his rifle.
"Even that firing he will do as far as possible with the intent not to kill but if casualties occur... we will have to tolerate it as an inescapable alternative," he said.
"It gives me no pleasure in killing any civilians. We have the best of relations with Bangladesh. We want to improve those relations... but we certainly cannot sacrifice the lives of our officers and men and we also have to complete our mandate, which is border guarding and, therefore, we are trying to strike a difficult balance between completing our task with as little force as possible," Bansal said.
He said the BSF is sending a fresh lot of non-lethal weapons to 23 border posts along the Bangladesh border. However, he claimed that since the time BSF decided to exercise "restraint" while dealing with cross-border movements, criminals have become bolder.
"They are coming in larger numbers... sometimes even 300-400 at a time. They are breaching the fence with the confidence that they can get away with it... Cattle smuggling is being attempted with much greater openness," Bansal said.
"Some people say these are cattle traders and that BSF is killing them. My question is what trade is done in the middle of the night? From dusk to dawn, on the entire Bangladesh border we declare curfew and no movement is permitted. Whether Indian or Bangladeshi, he has no business to be there... So, to say that these people are innocent traders is not a very convincing argument," he said.
The DG said the BSF has asked the Border Guard Bangladesh to ensure strict vigil in vulnerable areas during the nights.
He claimed that since Chidambaram's visit to Bangladesh in July last year and subsequent order to exercise maximum restraint on the Bangladesh border, shooting incidents have come down by "about 70 percent".
Meanwhile, Home Minister Shahara Khatun reached New Delhi yesterday afternoon leading a 12-member delegation including Gowher Rizvi, international affairs adviser to Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, Bangladesh High Commissioner to India Tariq A Karim, and Home Secretary Mustaq Ahmed.
Before the talks with her Indian counterpart, Shahara is expected to call on Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh at his residence around 10:00am today.
Home secretaries of the two countries held a preparatory meeting yesterday at the Indian home ministry ahead of the talks between the two home ministers.
Meanwhile, an official statement of Indian government last night said Chidambaram and Shahara would have one-on-one meeting before the delegation-level talks today.
Issues on security, border management and enhanced cooperation between the police and law enforcement agencies of the countries will be high on the agenda.
India's National Security Adviser Shivshankar Menon, Home Secretary RK Singh and Foreign Secretary Ranjan Mathai would be in the Indian delegation.
The meeting of the home ministers of Bangladesh and India take on the added significance with the presence of Gowher Rizvi and Indian National Security adviser Shivshankar Menon, said officials who regularly attend ministerial-level talks between the two sides.
This clearly indicates that the home minister-level talks would focus on all issues relating to security cooperation between the two sides, especially the drives against terrorists and criminals.
Sources have said India is likely to ask Bangladesh to consider imposing night curfews along the border to prevent movement of people as India has done.
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We Bangladeshis are more patriotic than Indians. We don't want to become vassal state of either Pakistan or India.
Some pro-Indians in Bangladesh think it's better to become Korod Rajjyo(Vassal state) of India, I believe you are
not one of them. Do you know without a part of Pakistan during 1947, Bangladesh could have been another Kashmir like state.
Thank Allah that , we have been liberated from both Pakistan and Greater India and remaining as an independent Bangladesh.
There are nations in the modern World where peoples aspiration to become a liberated state never materized, look at
Palestine, Chechniya, Kashmir and many more nations. We became liberated in record time(only 9 months) but
we had to sacrifice 3 million lives for our liberation.
Patriotic Bangladeshis won't tolerate any attempt to make Bangladesh a vassal state of any nation..
FYI: Your Natri Sheikh Hasina has hotline with Pronobda definitely, make no doubt about it.
---------- Original Message ----------
From: Kamal Das <kamalctgu@gmail.com>
To: Mohiuddin Anwar <mohiuddin@netzero.net>
Subject: Re: [mukto-mona] Re: [Ovimot] No Transit fees!
Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2012 21:45:04 +0600
I don't have a hot line with Pranab Mukherjee. Do you?
A saying in Canada goes like this, "A stag has to be cautious if it
shares a bed with an Elephant." If you think, Bangladesh can protect
'her own interest' by returning to the yoke of Pakistan, say it out
loud. Sing in chorus with other rajakers, "Chilam chilam, bhalo
chilam, Pakistaner amale..."
On 2/23/12, Mohiuddin Anwar <mohiuddin@netzero.net> wrote:
> Mr. Kamal Das, My understanding is that, Hasina is giving India more than
> receiving.Do you think it's fair?
> Is there any 'secret understanding' between Hasina and Pronobda(India) ?If
> the answer is yes, than How Bangladesh can protect her own interest ?
>
>
> ---------- Original Message ----------
> From: Kamal Das <kamalctgu@gmail.com>
> To: Mohiuddin Anwar <mohiuddin@netzero.net>
> Subject: Re: [mukto-mona] Re: [Ovimot] No Transit fees!
> Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2012 13:49:47 +0600
>
> Mr. Anwar may note that Sind was the most resourceful satrap of the Persian
> Empire in ancient times. The Muslim rulers also had to pay tax to the
> Ottomans, making India a de facto province of Turkey.
>
>
> On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 1:44 PM, Kamal Das <kamalctgu@gmail.com> wrote:
> There is no evidence that Bangladesh is a 'karod Rajya' of India. I
> suggested a legitimate transit fee. The Govt. of Bangladesh is not guided
> by my wish. Even before Sept. 1965, Indian steamers used to carry goods
> through the river Padma. Was East Pakistan a vassal state of India then?
>
> On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 9:10 AM, Mohiuddin Anwar <mohiuddin@netzero.net>
> wrote:
> Mr. Kamal Das,Do you think Bangladesh receiving legitimate transit fee from
> India according to the agreement of WTO ?Or Do you think a Korod Rajjyo
> should not have that priviledge ?
>
> ---------- Original Message ----------
> From: Kamal Das <kamalctgu@gmail.com>
> To: mukto-mona@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: Re: [mukto-mona] Re: [Ovimot] No Transit fees!Date: Wed, 22 Feb
> 2012 08:44:44 +0600
>
>
> Transit fee should be decided according to international trade rules,
> approved by the World Trade Organization (WTO).
>
> On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 10:40 PM, GT International <gti82@hotmail.com>
> wrote:�
>
> Hello Mr. Mohiuddin Anwar (Dhamad Mia),
> With all due respect, who cares what YOU believe? Do you believe what I
> believe? What kind of a statement is this that as you say "I believe there
> was an agreement before the election that if Awami League captuure state
> power with India's help in return India will be rewarded� free
> transit .Sheikh Hasina kept her promise accordingly". By now you have proven
> beyond any reasonable doubt about your obsession with JAMATi fundamentalist
> and you put nothing but nonsense here everyday. I advise you not to waste
> our time with�your garbage. So why keep on doing this childish
> idiotic game?
> Regards, M.Islam
> To: Ovimot@yahoogroups.com; manik195709@yahoo.com;
> mukto-mona@yahoogroups.com
> CC: chottala@yahoogroups.com; shamsher.mchowdhury@gmail.com;
> notun_bangladesh@yahoogroups.com; Ovimot@yahoogroups.com;
> bd_journalists@yahoogroups.com; abid.bahar@gmail.com
> From: mohiuddin@netzero.com
> Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2012 03:27:52 +0000Subject: [mukto-mona] Re: [Ovimot] No
> Transit fees!
>
> �
> I believe there was an agreement before the election that if Awami League
> captuure state power with India's help in return India will be
> rewarded� free transit .Sheikh Hasina kept her promise accordingly.
> ---------- Original Message ----------
> From: Abid Bahar <abid.bahar@gmail.com>
> To: chottala@yahoogroups.com, �Shamsher M Chowdhury
> <shamsher.mchowdhury@gmail.com>, �notun Bangladesh
> <notun_bangladesh@yahoogroups.com>, �ovimot yahoogroups
> <Ovimot@yahoogroups.com>, bd_journalists@yahoogroups.com, �abid bahar
> <abid.bahar@gmail.com>
> Subject: [Ovimot] No Transit fees!
> Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2012 22:28:28 -0500
>
>
> �
> India paying no Transit fees!
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1AVVIb3O4Ww&feature=related�
> �
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