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Abz2000
11-02-2014, 09:53 PM
Dhaka court orders media tycoon to hang

DHAKA—A media tycoon who is a key figure in Bangladesh’s largest Islamist party was sentenced to death Sunday for war crimes, just days after its leader was ordered hanged for similar offences.
The war crimes court found wealthy businessman Mir Quasem Ali, an official of the Jamaat-e-Islami party, guilty of 10 charges including murder and abduction during Bangladesh’s 1971 war of independence against Pakistan.
Ali, 63, who owns a television station and newspaper aligned with Jamaat, was convicted of running the torture cell of a militia during the conflict that carried out killings including that of a young independence fighter.“
The country and the affected people have finally got justice. Mir Quasem Ali has been sentenced to death for the murder of a teenage freedom fighter Jashim,” prosecutor Ziad Al Malum told reporters. “The young boy was abducted and his body was thrown in the Karnaphuli river,” he said.

Jamaat’s top leader Motiur Rahman Nizami was sentenced on Wednesday to death for heading a pro-Pakistan militia in 1971, a decision that sparked protests by supporters.
Jamaat called a nationwide strike following Nizami’s verdict. The stoppage was still in effect Sunday, with many schools and businesses closed and traffic thin.
Similar judgements against other Jamaat officials last year plunged the country into one of its worst crises.
Tens of thousands of Jaamat activists clashed with police in various protests that left some 500 people dead.

Ali became the eight Islamist sentenced to death by the controversial war crimes court, set up by Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s secular government in 2010.

Ali, a former leader of Jamaat’s student wing, helped revive the party by setting up charities, businesses and trusts linked to it after it was allowed to operate in the late 1970s.
Ali, who was arrested in 2012 on 14 war crimes charges, heads the Diganta Media Corporation which owns a pro-Jamaat daily and a television station.
The government shut down the television station last year for "inciting religious tension".
Jamaat and the main opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party have accused the government of using the court to target their leaders through phoney charges.
Rights groups have also criticised the trials, saying they fall short of international standards and lack any international oversight.

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Abz2000
11-03-2014, 04:55 AM
Bangladesh Awami League: Blends Fascism and Terrorism


Written by: Ahmad Musaffa Zabid*

Introduction

During 5th April, 2012; a news story attracted many eyes. The United States Homeland Security identified Bangladesh Awami League (AL), Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) and Jatiya Party (JP) the political parties, which assist terrorists...........



....... The BNP- Jamaat Scapegoat or Identified National Enemies?

The signpost of an autocratic fascist regime is its continual search for a scapegoat or national enemy against whom all efforts are marshaled. It moves to total destruction or complete annihilation of the ‘national foe’.

In the four years’ tenure of Bangladesh Awami League led grand alliance government, the country’s Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has made innumerous numbers of addresses. But not a single address has been found in which she didn’t blame BNP or Jamaat as anti-liberation entity.

Her addresses straightly blame BNP and Jamaat for all mishap, calamity or misfortune happened to Bangladesh. The nature of claiming all credit for all good deeds is overwhelming in her speeches and all bad records are thrown towards the opposition.

Following the Prime Minister, the four years’ buzzword in Bangladesh is that BNP will have to face trial for siding with Jamaat, the accused party of committing war crimes. The watershed of pro-liberation and anti-liberation has become ubiquitous. For all mis-happenings, a former government led by BNP- Jamaat has been blamed. Even lose in a cricket match was eventually pushed to the shoulder of the leader of the opposition Begum Khaleda Zia since she was present at the Mirpur Sher-e-Bangla stadium to enjoy the Asia Cup Final.

The ultimate manner of this approach carried a message- unless the country is not freed from any sign of the ‘national common foe’, the nation would not be developed and nothing prestigious will be achieved by the country. The message also carries the meaning that the ‘national foe’ either be eliminated or annihilated from the root. The most horrendous fact about this practice is ‘the other doctrine’ which underscores that if you are not with me then you are with my enemy and hence you must be my enemy. Currently, in Bangladesh, ‘the other doctrine’ determines a person’s stand point, on the basis of the spirit of liberation and the determining mark like is everyone is either a pro-liberation or anti-liberation.

Unfortunately, sector commander and great hero of liberation war Ziaur Rahman, who proclaimed independence of Bangladesh in favor of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, has been branded by the ruling authority as anti-liberation entity and Bangabir Kader Siddique, the dignitary freedom fighter, has been branded as collaborator of the Pakistani forces.

The worst scenario of ‘the other doctrine’ has been established in the society by the incumbent regime as only they can certify who belongs to pro-liberation and or anti-liberation camps. Though this phenomenon has some political significance, its social significance is so deep rooted. The far-reaching social consequence is that citizens of a society stay in perpetual fear that if s/he is branded as an anti-liberation entity, s/he has the very best chances to be demonized as national enemy.
This perpetual threatening atmosphere obstruct social liberty, freethinking, pluralistic democratic society and allow forces to confiscate very basic essence of human development which eventually destroy the entire society.

Controlled Mass Media

Free media seems an utopian idea in Bangladesh, especially at the time of Awmai League regime when critiquing government put the chances to be tabooed as anti-liberation entity and obviously the ‘common national enemy’.
A new kind of ‘manufacturing consent’ becomes feasible in the society. In ‘manufacturing consent’ people’s right to know become defined by strong and powerful interests and media follow the trends only.
This mechanism is carried by a wide range of approaches through the process of suppressing media. The dimensions are like blaming the media, authoritative claims of providing highest freedom of presses, regular ‘suggestions’ from authority about how and what should be given coverage in the mass media, turning public against the mass media, avoiding and dodging questions on relevantly burning issues, killing the news sources, attacking and arresting journalists, punishment for publishing news, forcing journalists to stop protesting the suppression on them and putting state control on new media.
In Bangladesh situation is nothing but direct repression on freedom of presses, confiscation of the constitutionally granted basic rights, collapse of the fourth estate of the state and perpetual process of obstructing of democracy.

Closure of Channel 1, Sheersho News, arrest of Mahmdur Rahman (Acting Editor of Daily Amaar Desh), Imprisonment Oliullah Noman (Reporter of Daily Amaar Desh) and demanding ban on Daily Nayadiganta and Diganta Television as well as unofficial ban on live telecast of press briefing of BNP Chairperson Begum Khaleda Zia are a very few to list in the processes of state control on media........


http://bdinn.com/articles/bangladesh...and-terrorism/
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drkashifj
11-08-2014, 05:57 PM
alas.bangaldesh muslims are facing worse oppression than anywhere else...few people in bangaldesh practice islam fully and even those are persecuted
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Abz2000
11-09-2014, 07:56 PM
Assalamu'alaikum wr wb,
I wouldn't say few people practice Islam fully since many do their best with high sincerity and effort despite lack of source (fundamental) knowledge and lingering jahiliyyah traditions.
I would personally put it down to lack of emphasis on studying Islam in the mother tongue and focusing on reciting Quran exclusively in Arabic and making dua etc in Arabic alone without understanding the relevance of the meaning. Such practice has become a hinderance to implementation of Islam in the personal and social context.

Yet there is high hope, as can be seen from the simple sincerity of the people, peace.




A massacre of peaceful demonstrators on 6 May 2013 in BangladeshMore than 2500 Massacred in Bangladesh: Demand Trial by ICC*-Unarmed students of religious seminaries mercilessly killed by Govt during a sit-in Central Dhaka*-Lights were switched off and journalists removed before military style operation to kill*-Bodies were removed by trucks and buried in mass graves, not given to families*-Never in the history of Islam in Bangladesh since 1204 such mass killing took place*-International media failed to collect and circulate the merciless massacre of civilians-Demand international investigation and put all perpetrators on trial under ICC


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QNrKW2stYvo
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Abz2000
01-17-2015, 11:34 AM
The perfect driver*Mohd Fahad Ifaz

Choose wisely. Select those who are humble and are willing to change, as everyone needs to

*Who should you trust behind the wheel?**Photo- BigstockSo, your family inherited a truck 43 years back. The truck is painted with the mantra “Shomogro Bangladesh 70ton.”

You hire a driver to run the truck. He drives reasonably well at times, but starts stealing money. When you give him money to refuel, he puts in less petrol or CNG and pockets the rest.
When you send the truck for servicing, he asks the service centre to inflate the bills and takes a cut.
When you send him somewhere with the truck all by himself, he picks up unknown passengers or goods from the streets for money.
The worst of it all, he runs down other cars and pedestrians on the road then flees the scene, blaming it on other drivers.
The rule of your house is that the driver gets access to some money kept in the truck dashboard. This is for accidental breakdowns, payoff for police "fines", or for updating relevant papers for the truck. Hence, he can take out whatever money he wants and claim he needs it for the truck.
Soon, the stealing becomes excessive. Not a day goes by without you hearing what the driver has stolen money.
Sick of all this, you get a new driver. Over time, the second driver starts stealing too! It is so easy to steal after all. Also, the reason the new driver was hired was not because of his honesty, but because of he comes from your family village and has some education.
Anyway, the robberies continue. The “accidents” continue.*
As the suffering owners, you switch between the two drivers, but the stealing doesn’t stop. Soon, a third driver emerges and applies for a job. Since you have lost faith in the first two drivers, you think you can keep faith in this new “young and educated” one.
He is extremely honest and passionate, even though he has no experience. Delighted, you hire him to drive your truck.
This new driver doesn’t steal money. However, he breaks the tail-lights while reversing the truck on his first day. The next day, he crashes the truck at a signal. The third day, he forgets to refuel, and you are stranded on the road.
The fourth day, he stands in the middle of the road in Shahbagh and screams at every other truck owner, calling them thieves for not hiring him.The fifth day, he wants all drivers to come on the road and not follow the red lights. When you confront the new driver about his unruly behaviour and incompetence at the wheel, he screams at you instead. How dare you question an honest driver? It only means you are supporting robbers, and you are conspiring against other honest drivers like him.
Awestruck, you become quiet. Next, he wants to change everything, and control every truck. You are not sure, and you wonder what to do. Disgusted, he quits.
So you are in a dilemma since the earlier drivers cheated you and the new driver is not competent, but already arrogant. He assumes a sense of virtuous entitlement, with the right to slander, attack, and judge anyone who*criticises*him.

All this can change.
The third driver can learn how to drive. Similarly, the first two drivers can learn to stop stealing and killing people on the roads. Whether the honest have to be made competent, or the competent have to turn honest, all this will require a certain amount of modesty, sadly missing on all sides.

In such a scenario, what should the Bangladeshi voter do? Of course, there is no one answer. None of the alternatives are perfect yet. Please don’t let them feel that they are. If you choose the third kind, you may have a little less corruption (it cannot all go away so fast) but you risk having bizarre policies, failed experiments, and more stunts than action. Above all, you risk a further slowdown in economic growth, which the country cannot afford at this point in time.
If you choose the existing alternatives you may have some more stability, with a likely return to growth and more jobs. But corruption may not be as much of a priority as you would have liked it to be.

Choose wisely. Select those who are humble and are willing to change, as everyone needs to. It will take a few iterations before we get leadership that is both honest and competent and are the “perfect drivers.” Let us hope it happens sooner rather than later.

*- See more at: http://www.dhakatribune.com/op-ed/20....19CI9TkF.dpuf
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