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AL and 1/11 nexus: General Masud is still retained in service
http://www.bd-pratidin.com/print_news.php?path=data_files%2F247&cat_id=1&menu_id=1&news_type_id=1&index=8
On Wed, Nov 28, 2012 at 10:59 AM, Isha Khan <bdmailer@gmail.com> wrote:
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From: Zoglul Husain <zoglul@hotmail.co.uk>
Date: Wed, Nov 28, 2012 at 5:36 AM
Subject: RE: AL and 1/11....
To: Isha Khan <bdmailer@gmail.com>
Ershad, however, was in prison for about six years, though in the 'Janata Tower case', but the 1/11 plotters, the national traitors, got away with impunity at least so far. The real plotters of course were Manmohan-Bush and the actual perpetrators were RAW and their lackeys. Apparently, Moeen U and his cohorts were given assurance of safety before Hasina was put in power through the sham election of 2008, in which the results were pre-determined.
The situation seems to have changed now. Hasina et al in BAL have been warning against another 1/11, meaning against them. Moudud et al in BNP and even Ershad in JP have also been harping on the same topic, sometimes in subtle tones, sometimes quite explicitly. There are lots of speculations in Dhaka too.
As things are developing, it is not unreasonable to assume that it may happen anytime. At least we should be prepared both for its happening as well as it being averted. If it happens with cheap slogans without substance, it would not endure.
Whether BNP, BAL or the army is in power next, their political power will survive only if they connect with the people and if they deliver what they promise, at least substantially. Otherwise, they will become unpopular like the present Hasina regime, which usurped power through Manmohan-Bush conspiracy and hence is an illegitimate regime.
We want Freedom, Justice and Development. People will support the govt, which wants these and which is connected with the people. The people will valiantly safeguard their independence and sovereignty and they certainly will win in the end!
Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2012 14:19:36 +0600
Subject: Re: AL and 1/11....
From: bdmailer@gmail.com
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AL kept their word in this regard. Accordingly no case was filed against any of the 1/11 men for violating the constitution, undermining the democratic institutions and various misdeeds.
Similarly nothing was done about Ershad for violating the constitution and promulgating martial law. When Ershad took over power by a coup AL said they were not unhappy. Ershad's misdeeds are now history but AL made him their digit-AL partner.
http://www.bangladeshfirst.com/images/uploaded_images/sheikh-hasina-ershad.jpg
On Sat, Nov 24, 2012 at 9:03 PM, Isha Khan <bdmailer@gmail.com> wrote:
AL and 1/11....
We saw a lot of hamlas and mamlas in last 4 years but we saw no such thing about 1/11 kingpins after AL’s mammoth victory in 2008. AL has comfortably forgotten the hard times created by the 1/11 people. AL’s willful silence and inaction only prove what they told about them. AL said 1/11 was the fruit of their andolon and AL would give them indemnity if they come to power.
Does this once again prove the allegation that 1/11 was an AL conspiracy ?
Zoglul Husain wrote:
Thank you for your views. I was commenting on the report of the Northeast Today, circulated by Isha Khan, about the acceptability of the narratives and stories of the report. I said that the event of Agartala 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 Khan <bdmailer@gmail.com> wrote:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XstW0q0efY4
When the Agartala 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 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 got rid of Seraj Sikder with a press release that Sikder 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, they would not have allowed the defendants to engage barristers from England as defence 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 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 Conspiracy Mamla was not a Mithya Mamla. The real mithya element was the propaganda we all believed: the Agartala Mamla was mithya mamla and it was a Machiavellian ploy by the West Pakistanis to silence Mujib by putting him behind bar.
That the Government of Pakistan had a very robust case was revealed by Abdul Gaffar Choudhury in an article published in the London Janomot sometime in the mid Nineties. In that article AGC described how and why the procession towards the Kurmitola Cantonment was organised and how Lal-Moulana Bhasani was brought on board and why he agreed to lead the procession and march towards the Dhaka Kurmitola Cantonment where the tial was being held. To cut a long story short as soon as the Awami league leadership realised 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 and were able to convince him that the case was fabricated case. The highly emotional popular leader Bhasani was easy to convince and did not posses the lawyers training to ask the pertinent questions. Bhasani agreed to lead the procession and the rest is history.
Even thogh AGC mentioned names of some AL leaders who went through the light bulb moment and decided to act, and the decision was to use Bhasani 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 Conspiracy.
The Agartala 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 players were the pawns and the real master planners were agents of the Indian intelligence organisation RAW. An intelligence organisation that gets its agenda and marching orders from the prime minister of India. From the book by Basant Chaterjee (Inside Bangladesh Today) we now know that Pondit 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 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 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 has been taught and unilaterally withdrew their forces.The fact that Mujib was invited to Agartala in November 1963, a year after 1962 war, was not just a co-incidence and in fact carries great significance. The Bhagya-Bidhata of this Agartala Encounter was not Bango-bandhu Sheikh Mujib but Bango-phagus Pondit Nehru and the operational headquarter was not in Dhaka but in New Delhi. Mujib 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 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 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 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 league under Sheikh Mujib was the answer to the Indian prayer. The Agartala 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 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.
On Thu, Jan 3, 2013 at 12:45 PM, Isha Khan <bdmailer@gmail.com> wrote:
Foyez Ahmed in his book, 'Agartala Mamla: Sheikh Mujib o Banglar Bidroho', Shahitya Prokash, Dhaka, 1994 has a statement from Shachindra Lal Sing, former Tripura Chief Minister where he said the Sheikh had visited Agartala in 1963.
On Thu, Jan 3, 2013 at 11:11 AM, Isha Khan <bdmailer@gmail.com> wrote:
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From: Zoglul Husain <zoglul@hotmail.co.uk>
Date: Wed, Jan 2, 2013 at 7:10 PM
Subject: RE: Agartala Conspiracy Case and Sheikh Mujibur Rahman
To: Isha Khan <bdmailer@gmail.com>
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 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 claimed, as reported on 8 March 2010, that Mujib planned separation from Pakistan in 1969 in London. But why didn't she refer to Mujib's visit to Agartala in 1963? And again, why didn't she or anyone else say it all these years since independence? Please see:
Mujib planned separation from Pakistan in 1969: Hasina
http://www.thaindian.com/newsportal/politics/mujib-planned-separation-from-pakistan-in-1969-hasina_100331372.html
As far as we know, Mujib 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 Rahaman was not involved in the Agartala Conspiracy Case-though he was implicated and made Accused No-1 â€" 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 Conspiracy Case and Sheikh Mujibur Rahman
From: bdmailer@gmail.com
To:
Agartala Conspiracy Case and Sheikh Mujibur Rahman
Some historians/writers/concerned persons have wrote about it. In 2010, and on the anniversary of the withdrawal of Agartala 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 under Sheikh Mujib for the secession of East Pakistan.
http://www.bdnews24.com/details.php?id=188118&cid=2
Sheikh Mujibur Rahman's Secret Visit to Agartala:
He came only once and that was in 1963. Though the specifics of his meetings with Tripura Chief Minister Sachindra Lal Singha will never be known because both Singha and Mujib 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 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 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.It was after a series of discussions with Mujib, Tripura Chief Minister Sachindra Lal Singh accompanied by Chief Secretary B Raman flew to New Delhi to meet Prime Minister Jawhar Lal Nehru."I met the Prime Minister personally as Chief Secretary stayed at the Foreign Secretary's office chamber. We discussed Indian helps for Mujib's movement.
http://www.northeasttoday.in/national-news/sheikh-mujibur-rahaman%E2%80%99s-secret-visitto-agartala/
"Ontoraler Sheikh Mujib" by Dr Kalidas Baidya (Swadhin Bongobhumi Movement leader), Kolkata, 2005 has the details of Mujib's connections with the Indian policy makers as early as 1950s.