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Sunday, July 29, 2012

[chottala.com] Targeted Massacre of Minorities in Assam



Targeted Massacre of Minorities in Assam
By Dr. Habib Siddiqui, USA

South Asia is really going to the dogs or so it appears these days. When we thought that we had seen enough of a pogrom directed by the Rakhine extremists and Burmese authorities against the Rohingyas of Arakan state of Burma (Myanmar), we are forced to witness yet another massacre of unarmed civilians in the state of Assam.

Assam, located next to Bangladesh on the north-east corner of India, has a long history of recurring violence targeting minority Bengali-speakers. In 1983 Nellie massacre when Indira Gandhi ruled India, the pogrom, carried out with crude weapons in a matter of a few hours, left some 5,000 people dead. The killers didn't even spare young babies.

At the heart of Assam's troubles is a debate over the "infiltration" by outsiders, which has led to ethnic tension between the state's so-called indigenous population and Bengali-speaking people who have settled there for generations. Overlooked in this debate is the fact that all these territories were once part of British India with people – both Assamese and Bengali – living on either side of today's border that separates Bangladesh (formerly East Pakistan/ East Bengal) from the state of Assam in India. The Assamese were mostly illiterate people and so many Indians (mostly from the province of Bengal) were brought in to work as engineers, doctors, administrators, clerks, railway workers and other government related jobs. Many of the Bengali-speaking famers were also brought in to boost rice production in the area, especially around the 'chars' (river islands). Having lived there for generations, these so-called migrants are as Indian (in today's parlance) as the ethnic Assamese or the tribes-people in the state.

Unfortunately, the ensuing change in demography, rivalry for land, dwindling natural resources and livelihood, and intensified competition for political power between the ruling party and the separatists has added a deadly force to the issue of who has a right to Assam. It is all about xenophobia. Successive Congress governments have used Assamese/Bengali Muslims as little more than a vote bank without recognizing their rights.

After the Nellie massacre and 1983 elections, India's federal government tried to placate local sentiments by signing an accord with the All Assam Students Union (AASU) in 1985 which was leading the pogrom against the Bengali-speaking settlers there. The hard-line Assamese, however, later described the 1985 accord as a "betrayal" and decided to wage an armed campaign against India to secede from India.

Twenty nine years after the Nellie massacre, a group of the separatist United Liberation Front of Assam (ULFA) is now negotiating with Delhi, asking for more concrete protection for indigenous populations against what they falsely describe as "relentless illegal migration from across the border".

The Bengali-speaking people in Assam have also become more assertive these days with the formation of the Assam United Democratic Front under a charismatic leader which seeks to protect the rights of minorities and their periodic ousting from settlements through violence. In 2011, it emerged as the main opposition to Assam's ruling Congress party, winning three times the number of seats won by regional Assamese parties and the Hindu nationalist BJP, which promotes Hindutva.

It is this emerging political prowess of the Bengali people in Assam which is being exploited as a boogeyman by the ruling Congress party and the Hindu extremists to promote or be indifferent to periodic rioting that engulfs the region. Four years ago, the Indian Army had to be called in to stop blood-letting. More than 100 Bengali Muslims were killed in one such raid at Bansbari, a makeshift camp for displaced Muslims in 1993.

The latest pogrom has affected four districts of western Assam, where the Bengalis (mostly Muslims) are pitted against tribes-people such as the Bodos, Rabhas and Garos. In Kokrajhar, the Bodo heartland, Muslims are regularly attacked by Bodo separatist rebels and this periodically erupts into full-scale riots. This latest conflict has left about 40 dead (all Bengali-speaking Muslims) and displaced tens of thousands.

As noted by Indian political commentator Aijaz Zaka Syed, "As usual, Muslims were caught in the deadly games of the Congress and assorted separatist groups. Our Hindutva benefactors added fuel to the fire by raising the specter of invasion by Bangladeshi Muslims. The same drama is being re-enacted today with consequences that could be even deadlier. Yet unlike in the past, this conflict isn't communal or religious in nature. It's an economic struggle for the land and dwindling natural resources."

In this latest pogrom, entire villages have been burnt down while the state administration remains curiously clueless and indifferent. Delhi insists Assam chief minister Tarun Gogoi is "monitoring the situation" and doing everything possible to restore peace. "This is little comfort to the community, though, which increasingly lives in fear, worrying the worst may be yet to come. Gogoi is yet to visit the affected areas. Not even a flying, whirlwind tour for the cloistered satrap," writes Syed.

If the local Assamese administration and the federal Indian government are serious about the well-being of Assamese/Bengali Muslims as well as other communities living in Assam, they should take steps to cool down this simmering volcano that erupts from time to time. Lasting peace in Assam cannot happen when xenophobia is promoted. Period!

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Dr. Habib Siddiqui
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[chottala.com] Abul still a minister?



Abul still a minister?



http://www.prothom-alo.com/detail/date/2012-07-30/news/278015
http://jugantor.us/enews/issue/2012/07/29/news0584.htm
http://sonarbangladesh.com/blog/post/121149
http://dailynayadiganta.com/details/60669

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Re: [chottala.com] Arundhati Roy on why India sucks



Please see the massacre in Myanmar

Please see the massacre in Myanmar, links are:
http://www.columnpk.com/muslim-massacre-in-myanmar-dr-asjad-bokhari/

--- On Sun, 7/29/12, Isha Khan <bdmailer@gmail.com> wrote:

From: Isha Khan <bdmailer@gmail.com>
Subject: [chottala.com] Arundhati Roy on why India sucks
To:
Date: Sunday, July 29, 2012, 4:36 AM

 

Arundhati Roy on why India sucks

See video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=egM3haO8Rnc&feature=player_embedded



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[chottala.com] সরকারের জনস ;মর্থন ৫ ভাগ 51; নেই ॥ এরশাদ( Hasina's popular support went down to 5 percent according to her polit ical partner HoMo Ershad)



সরকারের জনসমর্থন ৫ ভাগও নেই ॥ এরশাদ
 
স্টাফ রিপোর্টার ॥ পদ্মা সেতুসহ বিতর্কিত নানা ইস্যুতে সরকারের জনপ্রিয়তা কমেছে বলে মন্তব্য করেছেন মহাজোটের অন্যতম শরিক নেতা ও জাতীয় পার্টির চেয়ারম্যান হুসেইন মুহম্মদ এরশাদ। তিনি বলেছেন, মানুষ এই সরকারকে চায় না। ৫ শতাংশ জনসমর্থনও বর্তমান সরকারের নেই। সরকার যুদ্ধপরাধীদের বিচার ও পদ্মা সেতু নিয়ে ব্যস্ত। শেষ পর্যন্ত পদ্মা সেতু নির্মাণ ও যুদ্ধাপরাধীদের বিচার করতে পারবে কিনা এ নিয়ে সন্দেহ আছে।
রবিবার ডিপ্লোমা ইঞ্জিনিয়ার্স ইনস্টিটিউশন মিলনায়তনে জাতীয় পার্টি ঢাকা মহানগর দক্ষিণ আয়োজিত ইফতার মাহফিল ও আলোচনাসভায় প্রধান অতিথির বক্তব্যে তিনি এ আশঙ্কার কথা বলেন।
এরশাদ বলেন, ভেজাল খাদ্যের কারণে জাতি আজ নিঃশেষ হয়ে যাচ্ছে। জাতীয় সংসদে আলোচনায় এ কথা বার বার বলেছি। কিন্তু সরকারের এদিকে ভ্রূক্ষেপ নেই। সরকারের ব্যস্ততা অন্যদিকে। আজকাল বাংলাদেশ ব্যাংকেও জাল টাকা ধরা পড়ছে। এটিএম বুথ থেকে অহরহ জাল টাকা পাওয়া যাচ্ছে। এই প্রেক্ষাপটে আমরা যাব কোথায়?
এরশাদ বলেন, দেশে হাজারো সমস্যার মধ্যে সরকার আবারও ক্ষমতায় যাবে এ স্বপ্নে বিভোর। বর্তমান সরকার মানুষের কথা ভাবে না। আল্লাহর কথাও ভাবে না। তারা নিজেদের নিয়ে সব সময় ব্যস্ত। এ অবস্থা চলতে পারে না। বাস্তবতা হলো সরকারের ধারণা নেই তাদের জনপ্রিয়তা আগের চেয়ে অনেক কমেছে। মাঠ পর্যায়ে গেলে বিষয়টি অনুমান করা যায়।
সাবেক এই রাষ্ট্রপতি বলেন, সামনে আমাদের তিনটি নির্বাচন। গাজীপুর উপনির্বাচন, রংপুর সিটি কর্পোরেশন নির্বাচন ও জাতীয় সংসদ নির্বাচন। প্রত্যেক নির্বাচনে জাতীয় পার্টি পৃথকভাবে অংশ নেবে। তিনি নেতাকর্মীদের উদ্দেশে বলেন, নির্বাচনে অংশ নিতে আমরা প্রস্তুত। প্রার্থীদের বিজয়ী করতে তোমাদের ঝাপিয়ে পড়তে হবে।
মানুষ এই সরকারকে চায় না এমন মন্তব্য করে এরশাদ বলেন, জাতীয় পার্টিকে দেশর মানুষ ক্ষমতায় দেখতে চায়। তাই এখন মানুষ জাতীয় পার্টিকে বার বার স্মরণ করছে। আমরা সবার কাছে যেতে পারলে ক্ষমতায় আসতে পারব। দেশের নৈতিক অবক্ষয় হয়েছে এ কথা উল্ল্যেখ করে এরশাদ বলেন, টাকার কাছে আমরা আল্লাহকে ভুলে গেছি। মানবতা ভুলে গেছি। তাই সবার কাছে আমার আবেদন, আল্লাহকে স্মরণ না করলে ও নৈতিকতা ঠিক না হলে জাতি হিসেবে আমরা একদিন ধ্বংস হয়ে যাব।
আগামী জাতীয় সংসদ নির্বাচনের কথা উল্লেখ করে এরশাদ বলেন, আপনারা প্রস্তুত থাকলে জাতীয় পার্টি নির্বাচনে জয়ী হবে। আবারও ক্ষমতায় আসবে। ক্ষমতায় গেলে আমরা দেশ ও জাতির সেবা করতে চাই। সকল সঙ্কট দূর করে দেশকে সুখী ও সমৃদ্ধ করতে চাই।
আলোচনায় বক্তারা আগামী জাতীয় সংসদে জাতীয় পার্টির পক্ষ থেকে ভেজাল খাদ্য রোধে মৃত্যুদ-ের বিধান রেখে কঠোর আইন প্রণয়নের দাবি জানান। পাশাপাশি মাদক রোধের আইন কঠোর করার কথা বলেন অনেকে। জাতীয় পার্টি ঢাকা মহানগর দক্ষিণের সভাপতি এ্যাডভোকেট কাজী ফিরোজ রশিদের সভাপতিত্বে বক্তব্য রাখেন দলের প্রেসিডিয়াম সদস্য কাজী জাফর আহমেদ, মহাসচিব এবিএম রুহুল আমিন হাওলাদার। উপস্থিত ছিলেন, জিয়াউদ্দিন আহমেদ বাবলু, আহসান হাবিব লিংকন।


 


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Re: [chottala.com] Arakandesh will be liberatede by the Rohinga Muslims



Was'nt that the same tune sung by the tribes in Bangladesh...may be then Chittagong Hill Tarct should be an Independent country..these Islamic fundamentalist ..and the Tribes both are being manipulated by the same It is same ISREALIs at the bottom...Go for it as long as you are to consider the other options..

Playing this game is dangerous....part of the blame goes to BNP and AMIR KHASRU Lead BNP..

Debasish Barua


From: Mohiuddin Anwar <mohiuddin@netzero.net>
To: mukto-mona@yahoogroups.com; unitycouncilusa@gmail.com; guhasb@gmail.com; kamalctgu@gmail.com; chottala@yahoogroups.com; ovimot@yahoogroups.com; syed.aslam3@gmail.com
Sent: Saturday, July 28, 2012 6:52 PM
Subject: [chottala.com] Arakandesh will be liberatede by the Rohinga Muslims

 
Burma's Buddhist terriorists attacking Rohinga muslims. Rohinga muslims need a seperate
homeland called Arakanstan. To liberate their homeland from Buddhist occupation, they need
Bangladeshs moral support. As muslim brothers we must support their rights od self rule and
human rights. Biddist terrorists killed and expelled thousands of Rohinga Muslims because of
weak response from seculare Hasina regime. Once this regime goes ,we hope Rohingas will
be supported for their cause by Bangladeshi government with peoples support.
 

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Subject: [mukto-mona] Fwd: [chottala.com] Islamic militants take aim at Myanmar
Date: Sat, 28 Jul 2012 12:38:25 -0400

 
 
Islamic militants take aim at Myanmar

By Jacob Zenn

After decades of isolation under military rule, Myanmar is opening to foreign investment and forms of democracy for the first time in a generation. The reform process, however, is now being attended by unanticipated consequences and influences, both internally and from abroad, that could undermine the country's new trend towards openness.

Recent sectarian fighting between Muslims and Buddhists in Myanmar's western Rakhine State has caught the attention of militant Islamists in South and Southeast Asia. Since May, the amount of jihadi propaganda directed towards Myanmar, a country previously unknown in the world of jihadi antagonists, has surged as perhaps thousands of Muslim Rohingyas have been forced to flee the country.

Tensions between the ethnic Rohingya and Rakhine populations in Rakhine State were mostly kept under wraps under Myanmar's previous ruling military junta. Violence erupted on May 28 after an ethnic Rakhine woman was raped and murdered allegedly by three Rohingyas in Rakhine State, and the government was unprepared for the inter-ethnic violence that soon transpired.

A cycle of violence between the two groups has since resulted in widespread arson attacks and hundreds of murders. Perhaps thousands of the 800,000 Rohingyas living in Rakhine State have recently fled to Bangladesh, which many Myanmar citizens claim is the Rohingyas' true homeland.

The violence occurs at a time of growing regional instability in the pivot area where South and Southeast Asia meet, namely the areas along the Myanmar, Bangladesh, and India's Assamese borders. At the same that Muslim Rohingyas and Buddhist Rakhines clashed in Myanmar, fighting erupted between Muslims and Hindus in India's Assam State.

Since mid-July, more than 30 people have been killed and 150,000 displaced in Assam as riots devolved into open conflict between indigenous tribes such as the Bodos and Muslim settlers in the state's Kokrajhar and Chirang districts. As in Myanmar where the Rohingyas are considered illegal Bangladeshi settlers, the Muslims targeted in Assam are accused of being ethnic Bengalis from Bangladesh.

Bangladesh has the highest population density of any country and is woefully ill-equipped to deal with an influx of refugees from Myanmar and India. Bangladesh is home to a population of 160 million people in a country the size of the US State of Iowa, which in contrast has a population of only three million people.

Bangladesh also has its own homegrown problems with Muslim extremist groups, including the Hizb ut-Tahrir, which authorities banned in 2009. The head of the Indian Mujahideen (IM), Yasin Bhatkal, is believed to be hiding in Dhaka and Chittagong, Bangladesh's two largest cities, allegedly with the help of Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) spy agency.

The Bangladesh government now runs the risk of being perceived by militant Islamists as selling out fellow Muslims, a sentiment expressed in a recent surge of jihadi propaganda condemning it for not doing enough to help the inrush of refugee Rohingyas.

As is often the case with jihadi statements, the videos and essays propagated by militant Islamists about recent events in Myanmar are more rhetoric than substance. Playing up the victimhood narrative, they apparently hope to incite the global Muslim community, or ummah, and win new recruits to their wider cause against enemy "infidel" governments and countries.

While secular Bangladesh has been a target of Islamists for years, Myanmar is apparently a new member of the "infidel" club of countries that propagandists threaten in response to its treatment of the Rohingyas. Given the Myanmar military's ongoing challenges of trying to pacify internal insurgencies, including a major unresolved conflict in northern Kachin State, it is likely unprepared to raise its counter-terrorism capabilities to prevent a possible retributive plot against the country.

The most recent militant statement to target Myanmar came from Lebanon's Hezbollah, which on July 23 said in an official statement:
"The regime-owned killing machine relentlessly works on striking Muslims in different regions, with Rohingya at the forefront...This is a new racial purification trend against Muslims."
On July 20, the Taliban released a more vitriolic statement saying:
The Muslims of [Myanmar] have been facing such oppression and savagery for the past two months never previously witnessed in the history of mankind.

Mercilessly burning children, women and men like toasting sheep on fire is not only against every known law but something no man with any conscious can ever accept but unfortunately the Muslims of [Myanmar] are targets of such a gross crime. Not only that, but they are also being expelled from their lands, forcefully ejected from their homes, their wealth is being usurped and their honor looted while the whole world turns a blind eye to their plight.

The Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, besides considering this crime a black scar on the history of mankind, calls on the government of [Myanmar] to immediately put a stop to this savagery and barbarism and halt such heart rending historical violations against humans and humanity. They should realize that this is not only a crime against the Muslims of [Myanmar] but against all humankind and especially an unforgivable crime against the entire Muslim world�[1]
On July 16, The Global Islamic Media Front (GIMF), the European propaganda arm in support of al Qadea and other radical Islamic organizations, issued a recent question and answer essay called "The Genocide against the Muslims in [Myanmar]" on the jihadist website al Fidaa:
Why did this genocide begin? The Buddhist Rakhine killers placed the dead body [of the raped and killed Rakhine woman] near a Muslim village without any knowledge of the murder. The Buddhist Rakhine and Burmese (Myanmar) authority accused Muslims of killing the woman. As a result, three innocent Muslim youths were arrested. One was beaten to death, and the other two were sentenced to death by the court. The government has shown the world that they created a fake issue to instigate a real event against Muslims.

How did this genocide start and what happened afterwards? On June 3, 2012, eight Muslim pilgrims along with one escort, one bus helper, and one woman were killed by a Rakhine mob in Taungup township in southern Arakan [Rakhine] State. Five others escaped the massacre�The gang of Rakhine terrorists stopped the bus, which had the license plate 7 (Ga) 7868, at an immigration gate, and called, "Come down all, if there are any foreigners," while holding lethal weapons�Then, they started to beat the Muslim pilgrims and dragged them from the bus to the road, where an organized gang of more than 300 Rakhine terrorists beat the Muslims until they died. The gang had been standing at the immigration gate, but no authorities came out to stop the massacre. [2]
These messages and interpretations of events are starting to cause regional ripple effects. On July 13, 300 members of the Islamic Defenders Front (FPI) and Jemaah Anshorut Tauhid (JAT) in Indonesia threatened to storm the Myanmar embassy in Jakarta. One protest leader said over a loudspeaker: "If embassy officials refuse to talk with us, I demand all of you break into the building and turn it upside down � Allahu Akbar � Every drop of blood that is shed from a Muslim must be paid back. Nothing is free in this world � FPI is ready to wage jihad � Go to Myanmar and carry out jihad for your Muslim brothers."

On July 6, the al-Faruq Foundation for Media Production released an Arabic-language video called "Solidarity With Our Muslim Brothers in Arakan (The Tragedy of [Myanmar])" on the Ansar al-Mujahideen Forum. The propaganda film includes a historical narrative focusing on Muslim victimhood played over images of brutalized Rohingyas, although some of the images appear not to have come from the recent violence. The video's narrative includes a passage that says:
They steal the money of the Muslims and they steal their crops and they prohibit the Muslims from communicating with people from other countries. They also prevent the marriages of Muslims and they put a lot of obstacles in the way of Muslim marriages. This is not all as there is a lot of injustice that you can't even imagine and all forms of torture. So where are the defenders of the human rights in the 20th century and where the people who fight for freedom and democracy. This awful silence indicates the acceptance and supporting of this because it is Muslim blood that is being shed and since it is a Muslim blood, then the blood is cheap like the blood of Muslims of 'Arakan', Palestine, Kashmir and Chechnya and everywhere else.
These and other statements have put the Rohingyas' plight on the radar of many Islamist militant groups. While their propaganda is directed at militants from all regions, some of the groups who have issued statements on Myanmar are clearly trying to recruit disenfranchised Rohingyas to their radical causes.

They have a potential galvanizing figure. One ethnic Rohingya, Abu Zar al-Burmi, is believed to be the mufti, or religious scholar, for the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan based in the Afghanistan-Pakistan border region. Without roots in any nation, as Rohingyas are not allowed citizenship in Myanmar or Bangladesh, al-Burmi has promoted the creation of a global Muslim community which exists without respect to international borders.

The growing inter-religious fighting and spillover humanitarian crises in Rakhine and Assam States is exerting new pressures on Bangladesh, Myanmar, and India. As the violence spirals and governments fail to restore order and dispense of justice for crimes committed, the situation could quickly become a new regional, if not international, security dilemma.

For their part, Islamist militants have shown they are prepared to exploit the plight of the Rohingyas for their own radical purposes, while neither Myanmar nor Bangladesh have demonstrated they are able to manage the crisis at a local or national level. Should the crisis escalate and become an effective recruiting tool for transnational Islamist militant groups, the international community will one way or another eventually be dragged into the mire.

Notes:
1. Statement of Islamic Emirate regarding the bloody tragedy of the Muslims of Burma, July 20, 2012.
2. The Genocide Against the Muslims in Burma, Jihadology, July 16, 2012.
3. Solidarity With Our Muslim Brothers in Arakan (The Tragedy of Burma), Jihadology, July 6, 2012.


Jacob Zenn is a political risk analyst and legal adviser based in Washington, D.C., who focuses on militant groups in Southeast Asia, Central Asia, and Nigeria. He can be reached at zopensource123@gmail.com.

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[chottala.com] HC questions Operation Clean Heart immunity



Sunday, July 29, 2012

HC questions Operation Clean Heart immunity


The High Court on Sunday issued a rule upon the government to explain why the Joint Drives Indemnity Act 2003 legitimising Operation Clean Heart should not be declared unconstitutional and illegal.

As per the court direction, the government will have to come up with a reply in six weeks.

Joint drives led by army had run Operation Clean Heart from October 16, 2002 to January 9, 2003 across the country to keep the law and order situation under control.

Around 50 people were reportedly killed in the operation.

The BNP-led 4-party alliance government issued a gazette notification on February 24, 2003 to legalise the Joint Drives Indemnity Act 2003 legitimising Operation Clean Heart.

According to the indemnity act, nobody can challenge the action of joint forces under Operation Clean Heart.

Advocate ZI Khan Panna, an executive member of Bangladesh Bar Council, on July 14 this year filed a writ petition challenging the legality of the indemnity act.

In the petition, he claimed that the law which legitimised the Operation Clean Heart is against the fundamental rights of people.

After hearing the petition, the HC bench of Justice Mirza Hussain Haider and Justice Kazi Md Ejarul Hoque Akond (Sagor) also asked the government to explain why it should not be directed to make a fund of Tk 100 crore for compensation of the victims of Operation Clean Heart.

Secretaries to the ministries of law, home and defence, commander-in-chief of Armed Forces Division and inspector general of police have been made respondent to the rule.

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[chottala.com] Padma Bridge Project: Adviser Moshiur's silence questioned



Padma Bridge Project: Adviser Moshiur's silence questioned


Bangladesh has both financial and technical capabilities to construct Padma bridge, and the government should move ahead confidently and maintaining transparency in the process, without being subservient to donors.

Expressing this view at a seminar in the capital yesterday, economists and engineers suggested that the government stop making contradictory statements about funding the bridge project.

Titled "Technical and Financial Ability of Bangladesh to Construct the Padma Bridge", the seminar was organised by Engineers and Architects for Environment and Development and held at the Institution of Engineers.

Addressing the seminar, economist Anu Muhammad questioned the silence of the prime minister's economic adviser Moshiur Rahman on the Padma bridge project. "He [Moshiur] made the World Bank the lead partner in the project. Then he became the integrity adviser in the project, but now he is not saying anything about the bank's loan cancellation or the project's future," said Anu Muhammad.

He suggested that the government form a national inquiry commission to look into the donor-funded projects and find out if they really aid the country's development.

Economist MM Akash said the government could manage the required funds from part of the remittance and issuing sovereign bonds on the international market. He said 60 percent (or $1.8 billion) of the estimated cost of the bridge -- $2.97 billion -- will have to be spent in foreign currency. The amount can be taken from the $12 billion a year remittance from expatriate Bangladeshi workers, he added.

Kazi Mohammad Shish, former chief engineer of WASA, presided over the seminar, also addressed by AMM Shafiqullah, former vice-chancellor of Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology, and Engineer Sheikh Md Shahidullah.

Meanwhile, Workers Party President Rashed Khan Menon at a roundtable in the city yesterday said, "The World Bank has bluffed people by cancelling its loan, and we should construct the bridge on our own to uphold our self-respect. The roundtable titled "Padma bridge, World Bank and Bangladesh: Form a Massive Uprising", organised by his party was held its office. Menon urged the government to disclose WB graft issues in parliament, and hold talks with all political parties to reach a consensus on building the bridge with local funds.

Criticising media reports on Abul Hossain's resignation as information and communication technology minister, Menon said it seemed to have sided with the WB.

Columnist Syed Abul Maksud said construction of Padma bridge is now a prestige issue for the nation and, the opposition should make constructive observations in this regard. He demanded a full and fair investigation into the corruption charges made by the WB.Manzurul Ahsan Khan, president of the Communist Party of Bangladesh, also spoke at the roundtable.

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