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Thursday, January 10, 2013

[chottala.com] Re: No pepper spray on teachers please (Re: [baaiwdc_comm] Sheikh Hasi na punished teachers with Peeper Spray (First time in Bangladesh))



Dear Readers,

Yes - teachers, when protesting peacefully, should definitely not be pepper-sprayed, but nobody should support destroying or burning of any public or private property in the process of protesting. We witnessed in the past the painful events of burning bus drivers to death inside their vehicle during street protests. Destroying property is not a protest, rather a criminal act. Only enemies of Bangladesh can do and support criminal activities like that. 
 
With best regards,
Muktijodha Emarat Hossain Pannah
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Dr. Em Pannah
Doctor of Management (Cybersecurity, Privacy, and Identity Theft), MS, MSc., CISSP, CAP, CISM, NSA-IAM, NSA-IEM, Foundations of Cybersecurity
Cybersecurity Professional, Textbook Writer/Publisher, and Adjunct Assistant Professor in USA
Primary email: epannah@yahoo.com | Secondary email: em.pannah@faculty.umuc.edu
Primary phone: (443) 690-3955 | Secondary phone: (301) 358-9232
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From: Mohiuddin Anwar <mohiuddin@netzero.net>
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Sent: Thursday, January 10, 2013 11:33 PM
Subject: Re: No pepper spray on teachers please (Re: [baaiwdc_comm] Sheikh Hasi na punished teachers with Peeper Spray (First time in Bangladesh))

 
We won't be surprised if Hasina punish the demonstrators with Napalm Bomb.
Please donot try to accuse the demonstrating teachers, they didn't attack the Police rather
their demonstration was totally peaceful(according to press report).
Bangladesh Police know it very well how to please the government but never
try to please the people who pay for their salary.

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Subject: No pepper spray on teachers please (Re: [baaiwdc_comm] Sheikh Hasina punished teachers with Peeper Spray (First time in Bangl adesh))
Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2013 15:20:00 -0800 (PST)

 
Read Readers,

It is extremely painful to see that my colleagues (teachers) in Bangladesh are being pepper-sprayed by Police when I am enjoying so much of freedom of speech in USA - this brutal act of Bangladeshi Police should be stopped immediately.

All citizens should have rights to protest against anything they do not like, but the process of protesting should not obstruct others right. Our (both Citizen and Police) problem is that we frequently cross the limit.

Protesting citizens destroy properties (breaking/burning national assets like vehicles - no matter it is owned publicly or privately - it is national asset in both the cases), obstruct others from their free movement. 
 
While police should allow citizens to protest peacefully when the protesters are not un-rully, but our Bangladeshi Police sometimes fail to show tolerance to its citizens, and use lethal force unnecessarily.
 
I argue to our mass media (Newspapers, Television Stations, Radio Stations, NGOs, etc.) to conduct educational sessions so that both citizens and police understand their rights and real limits.
 
Thirty lacs shaheeds and numerous mothers/sisters/wives/daughters have not sacrificed their life/chastity for our teachers (the bone of any nation) to be pepper-sprayed if they did not break law.
 
With best regards,
Muktijodha Emarat Hossain Pannah
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Dr. Em Pannah
Doctor of Management (Cybersecurity, Privacy, and Identity Theft), MS, MSc., CISSP, CAP, CISM, NSA-IAM, NSA-IEM, Foundations of Cybersecurity
Cybersecurity Professional, Textbook Writer/Publisher, and Adjunct Assistant Professor in USA
Primary email: epannah@yahoo.com | Secondary email: em.pannah@faculty.umuc.edu
Primary phone: (443) 690-3955 | Secondary phone: (301) 358-9232
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Sent: Thursday, January 10, 2013 4:57 PM
Subject: [baaiwdc_comm] Sheikh Hasina punished teachers with Peeper Spray (First time in Bangl adesh)

 
 
আন্দোলন দমনে নতুন সংযোজন পিপার স্প্রে
সাখাওয়াত কাওসার
 
সরকারবিরোধী আন্দোলনকারীদের মোকাবিলায় এবার পুলিশ ব্যবহার করছে মানব দেহের জন্য অত্যন্ত ক্ষতিকর 'পিপার স্প্রে'। মানবদেহের অত্যন্ত সংবেদনশীল ইন্দ্রিয় 'চোখ' টার্গেট করেই মূলত এই স্প্রে তৈরি করা হয়েছে। স্বাস্থ্য বিশেষজ্ঞরা জানিয়েছেন, এই স্প্রে চোখের কর্নিয়ার জন্য অত্যন্ত ক্ষতিকর। একাধিকবার এই স্প্রে চোখে লাগলে এক পর্যায়ে চোখ অন্ধ হয়ে যাওয়ার সম্ভাবনা রয়েছে। চোখের জন্য অত্যন্ত ক্ষতিকর হওয়ায় বিশ্বের উন্নত দেশগুলো রায়ট কন্ট্রোলের ক্ষেত্রে এই স্প্রে থেকে বিরত থাকছে। তবে আমাদের দেশে পুরোপুরি উল্টো। পুলিশ সদর দফতর সূত্রে জানা গেছে, জামায়াত-শিবিরকে মোকাবিলা করার জন্যই মূলত কিছু দিন আগে বিদেশ থেকে এই স্প্রে আমদানি করা হয়েছে। সাম্প্রতিক সময়ে বিভিন্ন আন্দোলনে জামায়াত-শিবিরের ইন্ধন থাকার অভিযোগে ওই কর্মসূচিগুলোতেও এই পিপার স্প্রে ব্যবহার করার সিদ্ধান্ত নেওয়া হয়েছে। এরই অংশ হিসেবে গতকাল জাতীয় প্রেসক্লাবের সামনে এমপিওভুক্তির দাবিতে শিক্ষকদের আন্দোলনে ঢাকা মহানগর পুলিশের (ডিএমপি) সদস্যরা এই স্প্রে ব্যবহার করে। এদিকে উইকিপিডিয়া থেকে জানা গেছে, 'পেনাসাইল ক্লোরাইড' নামক রাসায়নিক পদার্থ থেকেই তৈরি করা হয় এই 'পিপার স্প্রে'। এই স্প্রে চোখে লাগলে মুহূর্তের মধ্যেই চোখ দিয়ে পানি ঝরবে, চোখে জ্বালাপোড়া এমনকি কিছু সময়ের জন্য চোখ অন্ধ হয়ে যেতে পারে। পিপার স্প্রে'র গায়ে নির্দেশিকা হিসেবে পাগলা কুকুর ও ভয়ঙ্কর জীবজন্তু থেকে আত্দরক্ষার জন্যই ব্যবহারের কথা উল্লেখ করা হয়।

ঢাকা বিশ্ববিদ্যালয়ের ঔষধ ও প্রযুক্তি বিভাগের অধ্যাপক আ ব ম ফারুক বাংলাদেশ প্রতিদিনকে জানান, পিপার স্প্রে চোখের কর্নিয়ার টিস্যুগুলো নষ্ট করে ফেলে। এই স্প্রে'র দ্বারা ক্ষতিগ্রস্ত ব্যক্তি চোখে ঝাপসা দেখতে পারেন। মানবদেহের অন্যান্য অংশের কোনো টিস্যু ক্ষতিগ্রস্ত হলেও তা ঔষধের মাধ্যমে পুনরায় ঠিক হওয়ার সম্ভাবনা থাকে। তবে চোখের কর্নিয়ার ক্ষতি হলে তা কখনো ঠিক হওয়ার সম্ভাবনা নেই। তিনি আরও বলেন, বিশ্বের উন্নত দেশগুলো রায়ট কন্ট্রোলের ক্ষেত্রে অনেক আগে এই পিপার স্প্রে ব্যবহার করত। তবে চোখের জন্য এটি অত্যন্ত ক্ষতিকর হওয়ায় ওই দেশগুলোতে আর পিপার স্প্রে ব্যবহার করা হয় না। এক্ষেত্রে আইন প্রয়োগকারী সংস্থাগুলো অন্য কিছু ব্যবহার করতে পারে।

ডিএমপির উপ-কমিশনার (মিডিয়া) মাসুদুর রহমান বলেন, 'জননিরাপত্তা এবং রায়ট কন্ট্রোলের জন্যই কাঁদুনে গ্যাস ব্যবহার করে পুলিশ। পিপার স্প্রে কাঁদুনে গ্যাসের একটি সংস্করণ। এতে মানব দেহের খুব একটা ক্ষতি হয় বলে আমার জানা নেই।'
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[chottala.com] Agartala Conspiracy Case and Sheikh Mujibur Rahman

Yeah but Member of Assembly and a Constitutional Lawyer of Sh. Mujib Mr. Khwaja Khairuddin was an uncle of one of my cousins (the wife of Ahmed Raza Chaudhry that was killed by Pakistan Army because all secret Meetings of Sh. Mujib had taken place at her posh Bungalow in Dhonmondi) and we met in his Dhaka Flat in August 1971, he had told me, there was no speck of Evidence that Sh. Mujib could be convicted of Treason in Agartala Case or in March, 1971 riots.
I have no idea what are you now digging out of his grave. Why don't you just shut up stupid ...!
Sh. Mujib was and is Founder of Nation and you can not take that away from him bastard.

--- In chottala@yahoogroups.com, Isha Khan wrote:
>
> Dear Fazlul Aziz Bhai
>
> Thank you for clarifying your position that you supported the independence
> of Bangladesh, but in the process you opposed Awami League's dependence on,
> or surrender to India, and you are right, it is very near my position that:
> We wanted independence for one reason, but India wanted to divide Pakistan
> for a different reason.
>
> The issue needs to be analysed from the considerations of (i) 1757 Polashi
> War (or, actually, 'no-war' conspiracy), which you mentioned (ii) the
> independence movement to free India (or South Asia) from colonisation (iii)
> the Pakistan movement in British India and creation of Pakistan (iv) the
> anti-people policies of Pakistan Govt giving rise to aspiration of freedom
> amongst the people of the then East Pakistan (v) the Bangladesh
> independence movement, Pakistan govt's genocide in East Pakistan in
> 1971 leading to independence war and achievement of independence in 1971
> (vi) the Indian policies and covert activities to divide, destroy and
> subjugate Pakistan and (vii) the correctness or incorrectness of the
> processes of achieving and defending the independence of Bangladesh.
>
> These are of course time consuming discussions, which I intend to do when I
> find time. For now, what Isha Khan Bhai usually refers to as 'Memory Lane',
> I will refer to you the following:
>
> "After the Congress sponsored agitation against the partition of Bengal
> (1905) an All India Muhammadan Educational Conference was held at
> Shahbag in
> Dhaka , capital of the then East Bengal
> and Assam Province in the year
> 1906. The conference was sponsored by
> Nawab Khwaja
> Salimullahthe
> Nawab of Dhaka. The
> conference was inaugurated on 27 December 1906 and continued till 29
> December 1906 as Conference on Education. The inaugural session was chaired
> by Nawab Justice Sharfuddin, the newly appointed justice of Calcutta High
> Court.
>
> On 30 December 1906 political session of the conference took place. It was
> chaired by Nawab
> Viqar-ul-Mulk.
> In this session a motion to form an All India Muslim
> League (AIML) was
> proceeded. Initially a party styled as
> *All India Muslim Confederacy* was discussed. But, in the process the name *All
> India Muslim League*, proposed by Nawab Khawaja Sir Salimullah Bahadur and
> seconded by Hakim Azmal Khan, was resolved in the meeting. All delegates
> were registered as members of the proposed party led by Janab
> Muhsin-ul-mulk and Janab Wakar-ul-mulk was Joint Conveners.
> AIML was first Muslim political party in the history of India. From the
> even date Muslims of all Indian provinces were under the mainstream
> political umbrella of Muslim League until independence achieved in the year
> 1947 under the leadership of Muslim League."
>
> The above quote is from:
> (please click to read)
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_India_Muhammadan_Educational_Conference
>
> (please click to see the picture of the participants of All India
> Muhammadan Educational Conference, which was held at
> Shahbag in
> Dhaka , capital of the then East Bengal
> and Assam Province in the year
> 1906. In this conference All India Muslim League (AIML) was formed with
> Janab Muhsin-ul-mulk (Nawab in Shimla, Himachal Pradesh) and Janab
> Wakar-ul-mulk (Nawab in Meerut, Uttar Pradesh) as Joint Conveners)
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Muslimleague.jpg
>
> Very best wishes
>
> Zoglul Bhai
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Isha Khan
> Date: Mon, Jan 7, 2013 at 12:16 PM
> Subject: Fwd: Agartala Conspiracy Case and Sheikh Mujibur Rahman
> To:
>
>
> ------ Forwarded message ----------
>
> From:
> Date: Mon, Jan 7, 2013 at 4:53 AM
>
> Subject: Re: Agartala Conspiracy Case and Sheikh Mujibur Rahman
>
>
> I have been enjoying the enlightened debate on the Agartala Conspiracy
> Case (ACC). Thanks to all.
>
> The involvement of India, with its intelligence agency RAW, in Bangladesh
> affaires cannot be ignored. India's primary objective had been to break or
> weaken Pakistan, which was achieved in 1971. The secondary aim is to
> integrate Bangladesh with its northeastern region for political, economic
> and strategic reasons. .
>
> I would not give the entire credit of the creation of Bangladesh to India.
> As Zoglul Bhai always says, India helped us for one reason while the
> Bengalis fought for independence for another reason.It would be undermining
> the sacrifices made by our freedom fighters.
>
> Again, Pakistan is not a country to be trusted. In the facade of an
> Islamic swallow headed and self-seeking politico-military leadership of
> West Pakistan that helped the Indian design. Also, by giving full credit to
> India we would be ate, it had committed, one of the most heinous crimes in
> history against fellow Muslims. It is no better there today. Yet, I find
> some conscientious Pakistanis now speaking the truth about 1971,
> and strongly feel that they owe an apology to the Bangladeshis.
>
> I was born in a conservative and strong pro-Pakistan family, yet I believed
> that East Pakistan would be sooner or later, because the Two Nations
> theory became irrelevant. The TN theory was good for
> 30s<#13c13a7214f4b8d7_13c12271e65bc45c_>and
> 40s <#13c13a7214f4b8d7_13c12271e65bc45c_> for the realization of separate
> homelands for the Muslims. Over the years, however, it became illogical,
> impractical and useless due to the stupid, swallow-headed,
> self-seeking Pakistani leadership who never took Bengalis to be their
> equal. They forgot that it was these Bengalis who overwhelmingly voted for
> separate homeland in 1946, not them. True, India continued to add fuel the
> whole process, to suit its own agenda.
>
> The cumulative effect of deprivation and suffering found voice in late
> 60s<#13c13a7214f4b8d7_13c12271e65bc45c_> in
> East Pakistan. For Bengalis, the nationwide
> anti.-Ayub<#13c13a7214f4b8d7_13c12271e65bc45c_>movement turned to the
> demand for autonomy, and finally
> independence. Sheikh Mujib <#13c13a7214f4b8d7_13c12271e65bc45c_> took
> advantage of the time and came out with the 6 Points. A couple of former
> Bengali CSPs <#13c13a7214f4b8d7_13c12271e65bc45c_>, including AMA
> Muhit<#13c13a7214f4b8d7_13c12271e65bc45c_>, made claims
> to pen the 6-Point. I even heard a suggestion that it was
> Altaf<#13c13a7214f4b8d7_13c12271e65bc45c_>
> Gauhar <#13c13a7214f4b8d7_13c12271e65bc45c_>, the powerful
> Information Secretary of President
> Ayub<#13c13a7214f4b8d7_13c12271e65bc45c_> Khan,
> who masterminded the idea, under instruction from his boss, so that
> Mujib<#13c13a7214f4b8d7_13c12271e65bc45c_>could be branded a
> separatist. By first reading, those points would appear
> absurd, but they had undergone many changes since. The agitated Bengalis
> liked them, without even realizing what the points contained and how they
> could be implemented. They were made to believe that only 6 Points could
> solve their problems with the Punjabis.
> Mujib<#13c13a7214f4b8d7_13c12271e65bc45c_>became the voice for the
> Bengalis.
>
> At that juncture, Ayub <#13c13a7214f4b8d7_13c12271e65bc45c_> decided to
> institute the ACC, perhaps to divert the attention of the nation from
> intense anti-Ayub <#13c13a7214f4b8d7_13c12271e65bc45c_> agitation
> throughout Pakistan. I may give a little background to the ACC that I know.
>
> Bengali Lieutenant Commander Moazzem <#13c13a7214f4b8d7_13c12271e65bc45c_>
> Hossain <#13c13a7214f4b8d7_13c12271e65bc45c_> of Pakistan Navy initiated
> the independence movement from his drawing room in Karachi in early
> 50s<#13c13a7214f4b8d7_13c12271e65bc45c_>.
> With a few low level officers and men of army, navy,
> airforce<#13c13a7214f4b8d7_13c12271e65bc45c_>and civil service, he
> discussed the idea of forming a liberation army on
> the style of Indian National Army of
> Subhas<#13c13a7214f4b8d7_13c12271e65bc45c_>
> Bose <#13c13a7214f4b8d7_13c12271e65bc45c_>. The limitation of a serving
> military person did not take it far. He was out of the country for training
> for a few years. Upon return, he was posted to
> Chittagong<#13c13a7214f4b8d7_13c12271e65bc45c_>in early
> 60s <#13c13a7214f4b8d7_13c12271e65bc45c_> and restarted his secret
> contacts. With a view to seeking external help, he reportedly contacted the
> Indian intelligence in Dhaka which advised him to get political support.
> Few politicians took him seriously, some even called him a madcap.
> Commander Moazzem <#13c13a7214f4b8d7_13c12271e65bc45c_> did not trust
> Sheikh Mujib <#13c13a7214f4b8d7_13c12271e65bc45c_>, for whatever reasons,
> yet Mujib <#13c13a7214f4b8d7_13c12271e65bc45c_> was said to be the only one
> to have reacted positively. It was then he decided to contact the Indian
> authorities directly.
>
> According to one version, Mujib <#13c13a7214f4b8d7_13c12271e65bc45c_> went
> upto <#13c13a7214f4b8d7_13c12271e65bc45c_>
> Kasba<#13c13a7214f4b8d7_13c12271e65bc45c_>in
> Comilla <#13c13a7214f4b8d7_13c12271e65bc45c_> but did not cross the border.
> Two aides of Moazzem <#13c13a7214f4b8d7_13c12271e65bc45c_>, Steward
> Mujibur<#13c13a7214f4b8d7_13c12271e65bc45c_>
> Rahman <#13c13a7214f4b8d7_13c12271e65bc45c_> and Ali
> Reza<#13c13a7214f4b8d7_13c12271e65bc45c_>,
> went to Agartala <#13c13a7214f4b8d7_13c12271e65bc45c_> and contacted
> the Chief Minister. Prime Minister Nehru declined support at that stage. He
> was afraid of China, which was a close ally of Pakistan, and the debacle of
> the 1962 Indo-Chinese war was still fresh in his mind. As a respected
> non-aligned leader then, he did not want to take open criticisms for
> involving another country's break-up .
>
> It could be possible that Mujib <#13c13a7214f4b8d7_13c12271e65bc45c_> did
> visit Agartala <#13c13a7214f4b8d7_13c12271e65bc45c_> at some
> point. According to a senior army officer, Sheikh
> Hasina<#13c13a7214f4b8d7_13c12271e65bc45c_>said to him that upon
> return from
> Agartala <#13c13a7214f4b8d7_13c12271e65bc45c_> her father entered the house
> through back door the moment Pakistani intelligence came from the front. It
> could also be possible that today's
> Awami<#13c13a7214f4b8d7_13c12271e65bc45c_>leaders want to give credit
> to their leader for the ACC---something like
> the declaration of independence of
> Bangladesh.Interestingly<#13c13a7214f4b8d7_13c12271e65bc45c_>,
> Steward Mujib <#13c13a7214f4b8d7_13c12271e65bc45c_> was killed by
> Awami<#13c13a7214f4b8d7_13c12271e65bc45c_>elements immediately after
> the
> independece <#13c13a7214f4b8d7_13c12271e65bc45c_>.
>
> Commander Moazzem <#13c13a7214f4b8d7_13c12271e65bc45c_> was picked up from
> his residence in Dhaka in December 1967, helped by a Bengali intelligence
> officer Captain Nurul <#13c13a7214f4b8d7_13c12271e65bc45c_> Islam
> Shishu<#13c13a7214f4b8d7_13c12271e65bc45c_>(later General and
> Minister) and was detained. Despite extreme torture on
> him, the authorites <#13c13a7214f4b8d7_13c12271e65bc45c_> could not get
> much information. When released after 14 months, he was physically broken
> and a stickman. Commander Moazzem <#13c13a7214f4b8d7_13c12271e65bc45c_> was
> gunned down by the Pakistanis in front of his residence in Dhaka on March
> 26, 1971. He remained an unsung hero. Sheikh
> Mujib<#13c13a7214f4b8d7_13c12271e65bc45c_>never talked about him, less
> his own role in the ACC became marginalized.
>
> Amidst the intense anti-government poetical movement,
> Ayub<#13c13a7214f4b8d7_13c12271e65bc45c_>Khan decided to start the
> sedition case in June 1968, styled as the
> Agartala <#13c13a7214f4b8d7_13c12271e65bc45c_> Conspiracy Case with a view
> to sensationalizing the issue. In the original charge sheet, Commander
> Moazzem <#13c13a7214f4b8d7_13c12271e65bc45c_> was the Number One accused,
> most others being low level officials. However, the case
> "Moazzem<#13c13a7214f4b8d7_13c12271e65bc45c_>vs. State" appeared
> ridiculous and weak.
> Ayub <#13c13a7214f4b8d7_13c12271e65bc45c_> then came up with his supposed
> brilliant idea of implicating Sheikh
> Mujib<#13c13a7214f4b8d7_13c12271e65bc45c_> in
> it, ostensibly to finish the Bengali leader once for all. It backfired. The
> entire East Pakistan, including such
> anti-Awami<#13c13a7214f4b8d7_13c12271e65bc45c_>figures as
> Bhasani <#13c13a7214f4b8d7_13c12271e65bc45c_> and
> Nurul<#13c13a7214f4b8d7_13c12271e65bc45c_>
> Amin <#13c13a7214f4b8d7_13c12271e65bc45c_> stood behind Sheikh
> Mujib<#13c13a7214f4b8d7_13c12271e65bc45c_>and supported him.
> Mujib <#13c13a7214f4b8d7_13c12271e65bc45c_> became a fairy tale hero.
> Ayub<#13c13a7214f4b8d7_13c12271e65bc45c_>had to withdraw the case. We
> know the rest of the story.
>
> Sheikh Mujib <#13c13a7214f4b8d7_13c12271e65bc45c_> definitely was an
> ambitious and opportunist leader. He sided with the Pakistanis when he
> found a promise of fulfilling his ambition with them. He went with the
> Indians when it suited his personal agenda of taking credits.Tere was also
> a duality in his character. Overtly, he portrayed himself to be a loving,
> generous and patriotic leader. Inside, he was unforgiving, non-tolerant of
> opposing voices and ruthlessly dangerous. Examples are too many to cite
> here.
>
> Regards,
>
> Obaid <#13c13a7214f4b8d7_13c12271e65bc45c_>
> Chowdhury<#13c13a7214f4b8d7_13c12271e65bc45c_>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Isha <#13c13a7214f4b8d7_13c12271e65bc45c_> Khan
> To: undisclosed-recipients:;
> Sent: Sat, Jan 5, 2013 10:32 pm <#13c13a7214f4b8d7_13c12271e65bc45c_>
> Subject: Re: Agartala <#13c13a7214f4b8d7_13c12271e65bc45c_> Conspiracy Case
> and Sheikh Mujibur <#13c13a7214f4b8d7_13c12271e65bc45c_>
> Rahman<#13c13a7214f4b8d7_13c12271e65bc45c_>
>
> Dear Zoglul <#13c13a7214f4b8d7_13c12271e65bc45c_>
> Bhai<#13c13a7214f4b8d7_13c12271e65bc45c_>
>
> We are more in agreement than you realise<#13c13a7214f4b8d7_13c12271e65bc45c_>.
> I concluded with the following statement: *"The mistake was not for
> deciding to cut loose from Pakistan, but for being so naive and seeking to
> liberate Bangladesh with the support of the government of Hindustan."*
>
> India wanted to divide Pakistan not simply for
> geo<#13c13a7214f4b8d7_13c12271e65bc45c_>-political
> reason. The Chanakya <#13c13a7214f4b8d7_13c12271e65bc45c_> legacy of the
> Indian elite's mind-set also wanted to ensure that the separation should be
> a very bloody and vicious one. They wanted to show the world that Muslims
> cannot rule themselves and the Muslims of the sub-continent will be better
> off if they submit to the Indians. It was also necessary to show to the
> millions of Muslims in India that they are lucky indeed that they are
> citizens of India and not Pakistan. The Indians did everything in their
> power to ensure that the separation of Bangladesh from Pakistan should take
> place through the most bitter and vicious struggle possible so that the
> memory of those atrocities could be used to
> legitimise<#13c13a7214f4b8d7_13c12271e65bc45c_>the suppression of
> islam <#13c13a7214f4b8d7_13c12271e65bc45c_> in Bangladesh, just as the
> Zionists use the memory of the Nazi Holocaust to oppress the Palestinians
> and deprive them from their right of self determination and their right of
> return.
>
> We need to make a clear distinction of the population of Bangladesh. The
> Hindus of Bangladesh never wanted a separate and independent Bangladesh and
> if they are given the choice they will vote to a man for merger with India.
> No one should be surprised at this claim of mine. The Hindus of
> Bangladesh by forming an alliance called the
> Hindu-Bouddhya<#13c13a7214f4b8d7_13c12271e65bc45c_>-Christian
> Parishad <#13c13a7214f4b8d7_13c12271e65bc45c_> has publicly shown that they
> have no qualms in forming alliance with Christians and Buddhists against
> the Muslims of Bangladesh.
>
> The Muslims of Bangladesh should have
> excercised<#13c13a7214f4b8d7_13c12271e65bc45c_>more caution and should
> not have conspired and schemed in league with
> Indian intelligence agents and politicians before 1971. The Muslim
> politicians and intellectuals of Bangladesh displayed extreme
> naivity<#13c13a7214f4b8d7_13c12271e65bc45c_>when they decided to
> embrace the very same Indians who were refusing right
> of self dtermination <#13c13a7214f4b8d7_13c12271e65bc45c_> to the Muslims
> of Kashmir. Do the Muslims of Bangladesh pray to a different
> Ilaha<#13c13a7214f4b8d7_13c12271e65bc45c_>than the
> Kashmiri <#13c13a7214f4b8d7_13c12271e65bc45c_> Muslims? What makes the
> Bengali Muslims more deserving of Indian Sympathy?
>
> It is rather unfortunate that a large section of the educated Bengali
> Muslim elite saw themselves more as Bengalis and less as Muslims and they
> did not even bother to find out how the Indian political regime were
> treating the Kashmiri <#13c13a7214f4b8d7_13c12271e65bc45c_> Muslims. These
> Secular-Bengali-Muslims were so blinded by their hatred for
> islam<#13c13a7214f4b8d7_13c12271e65bc45c_>that they were even
> oblivious to the fact that the Bengali Muslims in West
> bengal <#13c13a7214f4b8d7_13c12271e65bc45c_> were facing far greater
> discrimination than the discrimination they faced within Pakistan. They
> totally forgot the extreme form of discrimination under the upper-caste
> Hindu Bengali bhadroloks <#13c13a7214f4b8d7_13c12271e65bc45c_> before 1947.
> It was not wrong to seek a separate and independent Bangladesh, but to seek
> independence with the help of India was a totally imbecile and unforgivable
> course of action. What is happening inside Bangladesh today vindicates the
> fact that it was utterly foolish to seek independence with Indian
> help. What happened in Peelkhana
> <#13c13a7214f4b8d7_13c12271e65bc45c_>should be enough to convince even
> the most
> Indophile <#13c13a7214f4b8d7_13c12271e65bc45c_> and ultra-secular
> Bangladeshi Muslims, that given the opportunity India would love to rule
> the Muslims of Bangladesh with the same iron hand that they have been using
> against the Kashmiri <#13c13a7214f4b8d7_13c12271e65bc45c_> Muslims for the
> last sixty years.
>
> However, I do not and cannot blame anyone for seeking Indian help
> after 25th<#13c13a7214f4b8d7_13c12271e65bc45c_>March 1971. But those
> who schemed and conspired with India before 1971,
> cannot be and should not be forgiven, simply because of the fact that, had
> they not done so, the need for seeking Indian help in 1971, would not even
> have arisen.
>
> With best wishes and kind regards,
>
> F <#13c13a7214f4b8d7_13c12271e65bc45c_> M<#13c13a7214f4b8d7_13c12271e65bc45c_>
> Aziz <#13c13a7214f4b8d7_13c12271e65bc45c_>
>
>
> On Sun, Jan 6, 2013 at 12:30 PM, Isha
> <#13c13a7214f4b8d7_13c12271e65bc45c_>Khan
> wrote:
>
> > Zoglul <#13c13a7214f4b8d7_13c12271e65bc45c_> Husain<#13c13a7214f4b8d7_13c12271e65bc45c_>wrote:
> >
> > Thank you for your views. I was commenting on the report of the Northeast
> > Today, circulated by Isha <#13c13a7214f4b8d7_13c12271e65bc45c_> Khan,
> > about the acceptability of the narratives and stories of the report. I said
> > that the event of Agartala <#13c13a7214f4b8d7_13c12271e65bc45c_> visit
> > was true, at least partially, as far as I understood, but the accounts in
> > the report in this context need evidence to be acceptable.
> >
> > You have, however, embarked on a different discussion altogether. You seem
> > to be saying that Bangladesh movement was an Indian agenda, and so it was
> > wrong to join the independence movement. But my views on the subject are
> > different. I express it with one sentence, which is: We wanted independence
> > for one reason, but India wanted to divide Pakistan for a different reason.
> > It of course needs a long discussion to elaborate and explain, starting
> > from 1757 if you like, as you have tended to do. No doubt, you have your
> > arguments too. I leave the discussion for some other time.
> >
> > On Sun, Jan 6, 2013 at 12:28 PM, Isha<#13c13a7214f4b8d7_13c12271e65bc45c_>Khan
> > wrote:
> >
> >> F <#13c13a7214f4b8d7_13c12271e65bc45c_> M<#13c13a7214f4b8d7_13c12271e65bc45c_>
> >> Aziz <#13c13a7214f4b8d7_13c12271e65bc45c_> wrote;
> >>
> >> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XstW0q0efY4
> >>
> >> When the Agartala <#13c13a7214f4b8d7_13c12271e65bc45c_> Conspiracy
> >> was initially announced most people of Bangladesh did not immediately
> >> assume that it was a ploy of the West Pakistani ruling elites to send
> >> Mujib <#13c13a7214f4b8d7_13c12271e65bc45c_> behind bars, because he was
> >> the most vocal campaigner against discrimination. The civil and political
> >> environment in those days were not even remotely comparable to 1975 when
> >> Mujib <#13c13a7214f4b8d7_13c12271e65bc45c_> got rid of Seraj<#13c13a7214f4b8d7_13c12271e65bc45c_>
> >> Sikder <#13c13a7214f4b8d7_13c12271e65bc45c_> with a press release that
> >> Sikder <#13c13a7214f4b8d7_13c12271e65bc45c_> was shot while trying to
> >> escape from police custody. In late Sixties rule of law was very much
> >> alive and the political activists did not have to worry about summary
> >> execution without trial by law enforcement agents.
> >>
> >> If the Government of Pakistan did not have foolproof evidence and a solid
> >> case against Sheikh Mujib <#13c13a7214f4b8d7_13c12271e65bc45c_>, they
> >> would not have allowed the defendants to engage barristers from England as
> >> defence <#13c13a7214f4b8d7_13c12271e65bc45c_> counsels. The proceedings
> >> of the tribunal were held in open court and national and international
> >> press were given free access to witness and report on the unfolding
> >> cortroom <#13c13a7214f4b8d7_13c12271e65bc45c_> drama.
> >>
> >> When more than one of the accused publicly admits that they were involved
> >> in a conspiracy and they support their statements with details of
> >> activities, meetings and contents of discussions held, there are no
> >> justifiable grounds for not believing the people who were involved and
> >> admit openly that they were involved. Room for expressing doubts could only
> >> exist if the accused were equally divided with one half claiming that there
> >> was a conspiracy and they took part in it and the other half made the
> >> counter claim that there were no conspiracy and those who claim of
> >> conspiracy are lying. So far none of those involved in the conspiracy
> >> has claimed that the co-conspirators who admitted involvement are guilty of
> >> outright and outrageous lies.
> >>
> >> Contrary to what most Bangladeshis believed in 1969, the Agartala<#13c13a7214f4b8d7_13c12271e65bc45c_> Conspiracy
> >> Mamla <#13c13a7214f4b8d7_13c12271e65bc45c_> was not a Mithya<#13c13a7214f4b8d7_13c12271e65bc45c_>
> >> Mamla <#13c13a7214f4b8d7_13c12271e65bc45c_>. The real mithya<#13c13a7214f4b8d7_13c12271e65bc45c_>element was the propaganda we all believed: the
> >> Agartala <#13c13a7214f4b8d7_13c12271e65bc45c_> Mamla<#13c13a7214f4b8d7_13c12271e65bc45c_>was
> >> mithya <#13c13a7214f4b8d7_13c12271e65bc45c_> mamla<#13c13a7214f4b8d7_13c12271e65bc45c_>and it was a Machiavellian ploy by the West Pakistanis to silence
> >> Mujib <#13c13a7214f4b8d7_13c12271e65bc45c_> by putting him behind bar.
> >>
> >> That the Government of Pakistan had a very robust case was revealed by
> >> Abdul Gaffar <#13c13a7214f4b8d7_13c12271e65bc45c_> Choudhury<#13c13a7214f4b8d7_13c12271e65bc45c_>in an article published in the London
> >> *Janomot <#13c13a7214f4b8d7_13c12271e65bc45c_> *sometime in the mid
> >> Nineties. In that article AGC <#13c13a7214f4b8d7_13c12271e65bc45c_>described how and why the procession towards the
> >> Kurmitola <#13c13a7214f4b8d7_13c12271e65bc45c_> Cantonment was organised<#13c13a7214f4b8d7_13c12271e65bc45c_>and how
> >> *Lal <#13c13a7214f4b8d7_13c12271e65bc45c_>-Moulana<#13c13a7214f4b8d7_13c12271e65bc45c_>
> >> Bhasani <#13c13a7214f4b8d7_13c12271e65bc45c_> *was brought on board and
> >> why he agreed to lead the procession and march towards the Dhaka
> >> Kurmitola <#13c13a7214f4b8d7_13c12271e65bc45c_> Cantonment where the tial<#13c13a7214f4b8d7_13c12271e65bc45c_>was being held. To cut a long story short as soon as the
> >> Awami <#13c13a7214f4b8d7_13c12271e65bc45c_> league leadership realised<#13c13a7214f4b8d7_13c12271e65bc45c_>they were going to lose the case because of the overwhelming weight of
> >> evidence, they decided that the only option left is to prevent the trial
> >> from proceeding any further. The rule of law was stopped from taking its
> >> course by unleashing the rule of mob: a mob that has stirred up by
> >> concocting a false narrative. Some AL activists rushed to see Bhasani<#13c13a7214f4b8d7_13c12271e65bc45c_>and were able to convince him that the case was fabricated case. The highly
> >> emotional popular leader Bhasani <#13c13a7214f4b8d7_13c12271e65bc45c_>was easy to convince and did not posses the lawyers training to ask
> >> the pertinent questions. Bhasani <#13c13a7214f4b8d7_13c12271e65bc45c_> agreed
> >> to lead the procession and the rest is history.
> >>
> >> Even thogh <#13c13a7214f4b8d7_13c12271e65bc45c_> AGC<#13c13a7214f4b8d7_13c12271e65bc45c_>mentioned names of some AL leaders who went through the light bulb moment
> >> and decided to act, and the decision was to use Bhasani<#13c13a7214f4b8d7_13c12271e65bc45c_> as
> >> the spearhead of their tactical human-procession weapon to stop the trial,
> >> the real mastermind behind these decisions were the Indian master planners
> >> of the Agartala <#13c13a7214f4b8d7_13c12271e65bc45c_> Conspiracy.
> >>
> >> The Agartala <#13c13a7214f4b8d7_13c12271e65bc45c_> Conspiracy was not a
> >> conspiracy that was hatched inside the brains of Bangladeshi activists and
> >> politicians. With the benefit of hindsight it is fairly obvious that the
> >> Bagladeshi <#13c13a7214f4b8d7_13c12271e65bc45c_> players were the pawns
> >> and the real master planners were agents of the Indian intelligence
> >> organisation <#13c13a7214f4b8d7_13c12271e65bc45c_> RAW. An intelligence
> >> organisation <#13c13a7214f4b8d7_13c12271e65bc45c_> that gets its agenda
> >> and marching orders from the prime minister of India. From the book by
> >> Basant <#13c13a7214f4b8d7_13c12271e65bc45c_> Chaterjee<#13c13a7214f4b8d7_13c12271e65bc45c_>(Inside Bangladesh Today) we now know that
> >> Pondit <#13c13a7214f4b8d7_13c12271e65bc45c_> Nehru has been scheming
> >> since August 1947 to reclaim East Bengal and once again make it an integral
> >> part of Undivided India.
> >>
> >> The long-term master plan to recalim<#13c13a7214f4b8d7_13c12271e65bc45c_>East Bengal was always there since August 1947, but the reclamation
> >> project suddenly became extreme urgent for the Indian Political High
> >> Command after the debacle of the 1962 Indo-China War. In that war India was
> >> utterly humiliated by the Chinese Army. The Indian defence<#13c13a7214f4b8d7_13c12271e65bc45c_>completely collapsed and the Chinese were able to march down into the Assam
> >> plain without any Indian resistance whatsoever. The entire state machinery
> >> collapsed and panic set in. The Chinese were stunned and surprised and
> >> decided that enough is enough, a jesson<#13c13a7214f4b8d7_13c12271e65bc45c_>has been taught and unilaterally withdrew their forces.
> >>
> >> The fact that Mujib <#13c13a7214f4b8d7_13c12271e65bc45c_> was invited to
> >> Agartala <#13c13a7214f4b8d7_13c12271e65bc45c_> in November 1963, a year
> >> after 1962 war, was not just a co-incidence and in fact carries great
> >> significance. The Bhagya <#13c13a7214f4b8d7_13c12271e65bc45c_>-Bidhata<#13c13a7214f4b8d7_13c12271e65bc45c_>of this
> >> Agartala <#13c13a7214f4b8d7_13c12271e65bc45c_> Encounter was not Bango<#13c13a7214f4b8d7_13c12271e65bc45c_>-bandhu Sheikh
> >> Mujib <#13c13a7214f4b8d7_13c12271e65bc45c_> but Bango-phagus Pondit<#13c13a7214f4b8d7_13c12271e65bc45c_>Nehru and the operational headquarter was not in Dhaka but in New Delhi.
> >> Mujib <#13c13a7214f4b8d7_13c12271e65bc45c_> was only the unwitting
> >> twentieth century Mir Zafar. However, it is necessary to emphasise that if
> >> Mir Zafar knew beforehand that he will be kicked out by Robert Clive, two
> >> years later and that within a decade the Muslim ruling elites of Bengal
> >> will lose all their powers and priveleges, then Mir Zafar would not have
> >> committed Mir-Zafari in 1757. It is high time that the Bangladeshi ruling
> >> elite realise <#13c13a7214f4b8d7_13c12271e65bc45c_> that 1971 was just
> >> another 1757 and the role and mantle of the East India Company on this
> >> occasion was taken over by All India Company.
> >>
> >> In the age of Nawabs and Badshahs, East India Company could get what it
> >> wanted by swindling only a few people at the top. In the modern age
> >> of democracy and elected governments, alien powers need to swindle the
> >> entire voting population in order to achieve their goals. The Indian rulers
> >> based in Delhi successfully managed to swindle the majority of the people
> >> of Bangladesh in the latter half of Sixties. To dupe Mir Zafar East India
> >> Company sent agents dressed as purdah-nashin woman in palanquins to
> >> negotiate and finalise the deal. To dupe the majority of Bangladeshi
> >> Muslims the Indians had to devote much more time, work much harder and
> >> employ more resources. In the Indian game plan for East Bengal, the most
> >> crucial role was played by the Bangladeshi academics and journalists who
> >> consciously opted or unconsciously got ensnared, due to their lack of
> >> historical perspective and short-termism. The first shot in this Indian
> >> game plan was fired by Rehman Sobhan. Rehman Sobhan who was an economist at
> >> the Pakistan Institute of Development Economics was an extremely close and
> >> long-term associate of economist Amartya Sen. The timing of Sobhan's
> >> crucial paper is highly relevant. It was four years after the 1962
> >> Indo-China war and one year after the 1965 Indo-Pak War. And Mujib<#13c13a7214f4b8d7_13c12271e65bc45c_>was invited to India in November 1963, just one year after the 1962
> >> Indo-China War. The entire East Bengal press and political activitists took
> >> the issue on board and soon it snowballed into a secessionist movemen. The
> >> movemnet was co-ordinated and guided behind the scene by RAW. Raw also
> >> provided unlimited financial, intelligence and material support.
> >>
> >> When America decided to build the Panama Canal in 1903, they also decided
> >> to create a new weaker and breakaway state *Panama* by breaking up *
> >> Columbia* and the process was begun by launching and funding a rebel
> >> group to liberate *Panama* from the *despotic* rulers of
> >> Columbia. Similarly, after the humiliating defeat in 1962, the Indian
> >> realised <#13c13a7214f4b8d7_13c12271e65bc45c_> that if they ever have to
> >> fight against China again, they will need a better transport and logistic
> >> infrastructure. The Chicken Neck obstacle had to be removed and
> >> India needed to establish *unfettered road, rail and-river right-of-way
> >> through East Bengal to North East Frontier and Arunachal*. Creation of
> >> Bangladesh was the solution and Awami<#13c13a7214f4b8d7_13c12271e65bc45c_>league under Sheikh
> >> Mujib <#13c13a7214f4b8d7_13c12271e65bc45c_> was the answer to the Indian
> >> prayer. The Agartala <#13c13a7214f4b8d7_13c12271e65bc45c_> Conspiracy
> >> was a tactical element in the long-term North-East Strategic Plan of
> >> India.The Bangladeshi Muslims are the ultimate sacrificial lambs in this
> >> Chanakya <#13c13a7214f4b8d7_13c12271e65bc45c_> inspired game. It is not
> >> yet too late to stop behaving like lambs and start acting like Bengal
> >> Tigers and admit that we made a serious mistake in the Sixties. The mistake
> >> was not for deciding to cut loose from Pakistan, but for being so naive and
> >> seeking to liberate Bangladesh with the support of the government of
> >> Hindustan.
> >>
> >> The video link is provided as a prop to help you understand the mindset
> >> that informed the humiliated Indian Political and Military High Command in
> >> the Sixties.
> >>
> >> F <#13c13a7214f4b8d7_13c12271e65bc45c_> M<#13c13a7214f4b8d7_13c12271e65bc45c_>
> >> Aziz <#13c13a7214f4b8d7_13c12271e65bc45c_>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> On Thu, Jan 3, 2013 at 12:45 PM, Isha<#13c13a7214f4b8d7_13c12271e65bc45c_>Khan
> >> wrote:
> >>
> >>> Foyez Ahmed in his book, 'Agartala <#13c13a7214f4b8d7_13c12271e65bc45c_>
> >>> Mamla <#13c13a7214f4b8d7_13c12271e65bc45c_>: Sheikh Mujib<#13c13a7214f4b8d7_13c12271e65bc45c_>o Banglar Bidroho', Shahitya Prokash, Dhaka, 1994 has a statement from
> >>> Shachindra Lal <#13c13a7214f4b8d7_13c12271e65bc45c_> Sing, former
> >>> Tripura Chief Minister where he said the Sheikh had visited Agartala<#13c13a7214f4b8d7_13c12271e65bc45c_>in 1963.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> On Thu, Jan 3, 2013 at 11:11 AM, Isha<#13c13a7214f4b8d7_13c12271e65bc45c_>Khan
> >>> wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> -------- Forwarded message ----------
> >>>> From: Zoglul <#13c13a7214f4b8d7_13c12271e65bc45c_> Husain<#13c13a7214f4b8d7_13c12271e65bc45c_>
> >>>>
> >>>> Date: Wed, Jan 2, 2013 at 7:10 PM
> >>>> Subject: RE: Agartala <#13c13a7214f4b8d7_13c12271e65bc45c_> Conspiracy
> >>>> Case and Sheikh Mujibur <#13c13a7214f4b8d7_13c12271e65bc45c_> Rahman<#13c13a7214f4b8d7_13c12271e65bc45c_>
> >>>> To: Isha <#13c13a7214f4b8d7_13c12271e65bc45c_> Khan
>>>> >
> >>>>
> >>>> The link for the report of the Northeast Today should be:
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> http://www.northeasttoday.in/national-news/sheikh-mujibur-rahaman%E2%80%99s-secret-visit-to-agartala/
> >>>>
> >>>> However, it is difficult to know the truth of the Agartala<#13c13a7214f4b8d7_13c12271e65bc45c_>conspiracy case, though it is known that it is partially true, but how much
> >>>> of it is true is difficult to ascertain.
> >>>>
> >>>> Col Shawkat Ali LLB, Dy Speaker and one of the 35 accused in the case,
> >>>> claimed on 22 February 2011 in the parliament that the charges read out in
> >>>> the court were 'accurate'. He wrote two books on the case, one Bangla
> >>>> and one English. I don't know if he claimed the same in these books or
> >>>> whether these books were written before or after his statement in the
> >>>> parliament. And why out of the 35 accused in the case, all those who were
> >>>> living after independence of BD in 1971 or those living today including
> >>>> himself, did not claim it all these 40 years, is a question that is bound
> >>>> to arise.
> >>>>
> >>>> Hasina <#13c13a7214f4b8d7_13c12271e65bc45c_> claimed, as reported on 8
> >>>> March 2010, that Mujib <#13c13a7214f4b8d7_13c12271e65bc45c_> planned
> >>>> separation from Pakistan in 1969 in London. But why didn't she refer to
> >>>> Mujib <#13c13a7214f4b8d7_13c12271e65bc45c_>'s visit to Agartala<#13c13a7214f4b8d7_13c12271e65bc45c_>in 1963? And again, why didn't she or anyone else say it all these years
> >>>> since independence? Please see:
> >>>> Mujib <#13c13a7214f4b8d7_13c12271e65bc45c_> planned separation from
> >>>> Pakistan in 1969: Hasina <#13c13a7214f4b8d7_13c12271e65bc45c_>
> >>>>
> >>>> http://www.thaindian.com/newsportal/politics/mujib-planned-separation-from-pakistan-in-1969-hasina_100331372.html
> >>>>
> >>>> As far as we know, Mujib <#13c13a7214f4b8d7_13c12271e65bc45c_> on the
> >>>> night of 25 March 1971 neither gave any written nor any verbal declaration
> >>>> of independence, even after fervent request by Tajuddin. He also refused to
> >>>> go to India with others or join independence war, though he knew about
> >>>> the military crack down. He waited to surrender as per prior
> >>>> arrangements. In his speech of 7 March 1971, he finished the speech with
> >>>> 'Joy Bangla, Ji-e Pakistan'.
> >>>>
> >>>> In the report of the Northeast Today, it said: 'Of course, Sheikh
> >>>> Mujibur <#13c13a7214f4b8d7_13c12271e65bc45c_> Rahaman was not involved
> >>>> in the Agartala <#13c13a7214f4b8d7_13c12271e65bc45c_> Conspiracy
> >>>> Case-though he was implicated and made Accused No-1 – but at that time he
> >>>> did not come to Tripura. He came only once and that was in 1963." This
> >>>> report contradicts Shawkat's claim of 'accuracy' in the charges.
> >>>> Intelligence officials, and some politicians in cases like these, cook many
> >>>> stories. We need evidence to accept these.
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> ------------------------------
> >>>> Date: Wed, 2 Jan 2013 12:04:01 +0600
> >>>> Subject: Agartala <#13c13a7214f4b8d7_13c12271e65bc45c_> Conspiracy
> >>>> Case and Sheikh Mujibur <#13c13a7214f4b8d7_13c12271e65bc45c_> Rahman<#13c13a7214f4b8d7_13c12271e65bc45c_>
> >>>> From: bdmailer@...
> >>>> To:
> >>>>
> >>>> *Agartala <#13c13a7214f4b8d7_13c12271e65bc45c_> Conspiracy Case and
> >>>> Sheikh Mujibur <#13c13a7214f4b8d7_13c12271e65bc45c_> Rahman<#13c13a7214f4b8d7_13c12271e65bc45c_>
> >>>> *
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> Some historians/writers/concerned persons have wrote about it. In 2010,
> >>>> and on the anniversary of the withdrawal of Agartala<#13c13a7214f4b8d7_13c12271e65bc45c_>conspiracy case a surviving conspirator and Deputy Speaker of the
> >>>> Parliament Colonel Shawkat Ali confessed to the parliament at a point of
> >>>> order that the charges read out to them were accurate, stating that they
> >>>> formed a Shangram Parishad <#13c13a7214f4b8d7_13c12271e65bc45c_> under
> >>>> Sheikh Mujib <#13c13a7214f4b8d7_13c12271e65bc45c_> for the secession
> >>>> of East Pakistan.
> >>>> http://www.bdnews24.com/details.php?id=188118&cid=2
> >>>>
> >>>> *Sheikh Mujibur <#13c13a7214f4b8d7_13c12271e65bc45c_> Rahman<#13c13a7214f4b8d7_13c12271e65bc45c_>'s
> >>>> Secret Visit to Agartala <#13c13a7214f4b8d7_13c12271e65bc45c_>*:
> >>>>
> >>>> He came only once and that was in 1963. Though the specifics of his
> >>>> meetings with Tripura Chief Minister Sachindra Lal<#13c13a7214f4b8d7_13c12271e65bc45c_>Singha will never be known because both Singha and
> >>>> Mujib <#13c13a7214f4b8d7_13c12271e65bc45c_> are long dead and gone,
> >>>> there is nodoubt that the "Bangabandhu" was testing the waters to secure
> >>>> Indian help for his cause.Satya Deb, a former Class IV staff of Smarajit
> >>>> Chakrabarty, the then Sub Divisional Officer of Khowai, West Tripura is
> >>>> among the three living men who had seen Sheikh Mujibur<#13c13a7214f4b8d7_13c12271e65bc45c_>Rahaman during that secret trip to Tripura."It was if I correctly remember
> >>>> in November 1963-according to some it was cool November 3 afternoon-when
> >>>> Sheikh Mujib <#13c13a7214f4b8d7_13c12271e65bc45c_> crossed over the
> >>>> border", said Arun Bhattacharjee, then a clerk at the SDO Khowai
> >>>> office."The way all involved maintained hush-hush and the alacrity in which
> >>>> the entire visit was handled it became clear to us that it was a top secret
> >>>> visit by Sheikh Mujib <#13c13a7214f4b8d7_13c12271e65bc45c_>.It was
> >>>> after a series of discussions with Mujib<#13c13a7214f4b8d7_13c12271e65bc45c_>,
> >>>> Tripura Chief Minister Sachindra Lal<#13c13a7214f4b8d7_13c12271e65bc45c_>Singh accompanied by Chief Secretary B Raman flew to New Delhi to meet
> >>>> Prime Minister Jawhar Lal <#13c13a7214f4b8d7_13c12271e65bc45c_>Nehru."I met the Prime Minister personally as Chief Secretary stayed at the
> >>>> Foreign Secretary's office chamber. We discussed Indian helps for Mujib<#13c13a7214f4b8d7_13c12271e65bc45c_>'s
> >>>> movement.
> >>>>
> >>>> http://www.northeasttoday.in/national-news/sheikh-mujibur-rahaman%E2%80%99s-secret-visitto-agartala/
> >>>>
> >>>> "*Ontoraler Sheikh Mujib <#13c13a7214f4b8d7_13c12271e65bc45c_>*" by Dr
> >>>> Kalidas Baidya (Swadhin Bongobhumi Movement leader), Kolkata, 2005 has the
> >>>> details of Mujib <#13c13a7214f4b8d7_13c12271e65bc45c_>'s connections
> >>>> with the Indian policy makers as early as 1950s.
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>
> >>
> >
>




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[chottala.com] The begums and the two giants



The begums and the two giants

Jan 9th 2013, 10:24 by T.J. | BANGKOK

The Economist

SITTING squarely in the most densely populated part of the planet, the extent of Bangladesh's physical isolation is staggering. The country shares a 4,100km (2,550-mile) border with India, the world's fifth-longest. Yet the militarised, two-metre-high fence on the Indian side ensures that one half of Bangladesh's 64 districts—those bordering India—are also its poorest. Matters are even worse in Bangladesh's south, where watchtowers and a security fence built by its other neighbour, Myanmar, make the border as impenetrable as the one that once separated the two Germanys during the height of the cold war.

One would think that overcoming this isolation might long have been a political priority in Bangladesh. It has not. The Awami League, which now runs the government, has longstanding friendly ties with India. But in a country with a strong tradition of anti-Indian sentiment, the sympathetic view of India has always been a hard sell with the voters. And so, for far too long, Bangladesh's political parties have been unable to keep the India question from spoiling domestic politics.

Where it was once seen as the benevolent midwife of independent Bangladesh, India has somehow come to look more like an evil stepmother, decades after it helped what was then East Pakistan break away from West Pakistan, in 1971. For its part, India has often treated Bangladesh with negligence and high-handedness. Might the rise of China be enough to change old habits?

For much of the past four decades, foreign policy in Bangladesh meant simply: relations with India. Foreign policy never mattered a great deal in electoral contests between Sheikh Hasina of the governing Awami League (AL) and Khaleda Zia of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP), the leading ladies who have taken turns at running Bangladesh since 1991.

Voters still do not care much. But for the first time—the fifth round of Hasina v. Zia, which is to be held by January 2014, the arch-rivals appear keen to use Bangladesh's strategic location on the Bay of Bengal to connect their nation to the neighbourhood.

In practice that means securing concessions from China and India. The diplomatic thaw in Myanmar, which had seemed like a permanently missing link between South Asia and South-East Asia, has raised the worry that it might steal a march on Bangladesh in the ongoing race to connect the vast crescent of land that stretches from the Indian state of Assam all the way to Singapore.

If history were to be the guide, Khaleda Zia would be the next prime minister and her party, the BNP, would form the next government; no government in Bangladesh has ever won a second term. But Mrs Zia faces an uphill battle: She faces corruption charges (a conviction would bar her from running) and her exiled son—who is also her party's heir-apparent—faces criminal charges. The outcome of war-crimes trials in Dhaka, which are expected to be wrapped up before the end of the year, might conceivably result in the execution of the entire leadership of the Jamaat-e-Islami, Mrs Zia's main electoral ally. And yet the BNP's popularity has risen sharply since mid-2010, with 39% of respondents saying in a recent opinion poll they would vote for the BNP (nearly twice as many as in mid-2010, compared with 42% for the AL).

Last year Mrs Zia made weeklong visits to China and India, which her supporters have been keen to trumpet as a sign of things to come. The AL government of course regards the opposition leader's flying about with derision.

In China, Mrs Zia and Xi Jinping, then China's leader-in-waiting, vowed to establish closer links between the Chinese Communist Party and the BNP—a curious relationship, which had Western diplomats in Dhaka speculating long before the local press heralded the full-scale arrival of the Chinese in Bangladesh. China's relations with the BNP do not carry the same baggage as those with the AL, which claims responsibility for winning secession from Pakistan, which has been a Chinese ally since before 1971. China refused to recognise Bangladesh as a sovereign country until August 1975, when Sheikh Mujibur Rahman—the country's independence leader, its first president and the father of the Sheikh Hasina—was assassinated).

China has already pledged to help build the world's longest river-crossing, to span the Padma, and a deep-sea port at Sonadia island, off the coast of Cox's Bazar in south-eastern Bangladesh. The port could serve the landlocked parts of India, Myanmar and China. China is also keen to establish a road- and rail-link to connect Chittagong in Bangladesh with the Chinese city of Kunming, via Myanmar. Despite the long border with India, China is Bangladesh's biggest trading partner and supplier of arms.

Connecting China with Bangladesh via Myanmar is rather tricky though. The high-security fence that separates them has the distinction of being the only fortified international border that suits the purposes of both sides. Bangladesh and Myanmar are unified in their desire that the fence must stand tall and prevent the exodus of Rohingyas from Myanmar, as happened in the 1990s. (While Myanmar seems none too hospitable towards its Rohingya population, it does want to retain control over their movements.)

India is sure to wonder where this is going. Could Mrs Zia revive the "Look East" policy of her previous term as prime minister, in 2001-06? In an article published by the Institute for Defence Studies and Analysis, a think-tank in Delhi, Mrs Zia wrote that benefits of her policy could "not be overemphasised", noting that it was in Bangladesh's strategic interest to look for allies and economic opportunities in fast-growing South-East and East Asia.

Sheikh Hasina, on the other hand, has placed Bangladesh firmly under India's (and, by extension, America's) security umbrella. India views Bangladesh through a trio of security concerns—illegal migration into India of Bangladeshis, cross-border terrorism and territorial disputes along the 4,100km border. Sheikh Hasina has been a willing partner in attempting to address these issues. Most notably perhaps, her government has cracked down on a fringe of Islamic extremists that flourished under the BNP government. India must fear that under Mrs Zia Bangladesh may yet again strike dubious alliances and upgrade political ties with China.

The stakes are high. India's unspoken nightmare is that Mrs Zia may take action where Sheikh Hasina has not, by offering China the use of an airbase and coastal access in Bangladesh. Sheikh Hasina's government did agree last October to let China disburse a $200m soft loan to build an airport at Cox's Bazar. But it appears unlikely that Sheikh Hasina will risk alienating her traditional ally, India, by using China for anything more than building stuff.

Meanwhile India has found it hard to make real progress on its thorny bilateral issues. Water-sharing, land demarcation and the killing of Bangladeshis by Indian border forces have remained problems beyond resolution (India's Border Security Forces killed 48 Bangladeshis in 2012). Mamata Banerjee, the chief minister of West Bengal, an Indian state with which Bangladesh shares a 2,216km (1,377-mile) border, rejects the kind of compromises that would be needed to resolve most border-related issues.

Sheikh Hasina has agreed to allow India to use its territory for transit. But the absence of proper roads makes the concession meaningless. And so India has been making plans without Bangladesh to secure access to its landlocked north-eastern states, via Myanmar. It is developing a deep-sea port in Sittwe, the capital of Rakhine state in Myanmar. The port is 500-odd km from Kolkata, India's main port on the Bay of Bengal and part of India's so-called Kaladan Multi-Modal Transit Transport Project—a gateway to India's landlocked north-eastern states. Rather conveniently, Sittwe is also close to Myanmar's massive Shwe gasfield. The idea will be to run a canal, highway and possibly a pipeline from Sittwe to a newly constructed river port in Myanmar's Chin state, and then on to the border with the Indian state of Mizoram. The project is expected to become operational by mid-2013. And so Bangladesh looks likely to be left in its isolation.

In a bid to boost economic co-operation, connectivity and "shared prosperity" with the ASEAN states, India's foreign ministry flagged off a three-week car rally in Jakarta late last year. The rally ran through Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, Cambodia, Vietnam, Laos and re-entered Thailand before following the route of an Indian-sponsored highway through Myanmar to enter the Indian state of Nagaland and then reach a finish line at Guwahati, the capital of Assam.

Bangladesh, the route would suggest, is not part of the Indian plan. And so it stews, between West Bengal and the curl of the north-east, like an appendix to the region's new prosperity.

http://www.economist.com/blogs/banyan/2013/01/bangladesh-and-its-near-abroad

 



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