They brought the dead body all the way to Dhaka because they would not allow Khaleda Zia and her son’s to travel to Dinajpur. The DGFI led government dared subject a dead body to this much hassle in a country where the religio-social culture is to treat a deceased with utmost respect and bury ASAP with least humiliation of the body. [And those scoundrels in Prothom Alo are making a case about use of government helicopter for Khaleda's mother!!!!] The family did not want Government helicopter, they did not want to bring the body to Dhaka either. It was DGFI plan to minimize a freedome time and prevent a meeting of Khaleda and her sons.
Then when the talk about remand came up, I expected a repeat of the treatment Sheikh Selim, the AL leader in detention received, when his mother died. Sheikh Selim was released for about 8 hours, whole of which he spent with his family, friends and political colleague at his home in Banani. All Awami League politicians including Sheikh Hasina were also there. There was no restriction on Mr. Selim from attending any ritual or anybody else from visiting him. For Mr. Selim it was a sad, unwanted but at least a tolerable good bye to his mother.
But this was not going to happen in case of Khaleda Zia and her sons. Although remand was granted for six hours, both Tareq and Coco was held in waiting in separate police stations and was allowed only one hour in their houses. Khaleda Zia could spend a little more than 2 hours. And all three could visit separately so that none could talk to each other.
[Photo: New Age]
What major disaster could happen if they were allowed to be together during this time of this great personal loss? Would they hatch a conspiracy? How could they follow up that conspiracy from their solitary confinement in their respective prisons? Or they would have discussed legal defense strategies?
If the case against Tareq or Coco is so solid, if there were sooooooooooooo many witnesses of the extortions by Tareq or Coco, why this much fear of their defence strategies? Why torture? Our activists are very much bothered about torture against anybody but BNP leadership or Zia family. Regarding Tareq’s recent torture allegation, there was not a single word from our so-called human rights watchdogs. And the government would not say anything. Yes government and its mouthpieces spoke out. But only to prove that a picture attributed to torture on Tareq was false. So, it’s all right to torture Tareq but a fake picture will never be tolerated!!
And ‘ torture’ is the only word you would find to describe the way Khaleda family was treated yesterday in the name of humanitarian remand. This torture is another act atrocity of the current regime controlled by military chief Moeen u Ahmed and army intelligence. And believe me, no atrocity in Bangladesh (Tareq Zia is now paying for his cricket game under police protection) goes unpunished. I only have this to say to General Moeen, CA spineless Fakhruddin, home advisor Matin, DGFI brigadiers Amin and Bari and those lower rank corrupt DGFI officers. Brigedier C F Bari knows what is gonopituni when he was given a mild gonopituni by the students of university on the night of 20th August. But that 20th August Gonopituni will feel like ‘jamai ador’ when the next wave will come upon you dear General and Brigedier shahibs.
January 19, 2008 at 6:09 pm
My country had been kidnapped by a US, UK and India. Moin is just a puppet of them. If you have 1% belive on democracy free Khaleda Hasina, Tarek and manage a free and fair election. we dont need mannan bhuian or trators. only Tareq or khaleda zia is enough.
it was really heartening to see the way military treated Zia family.
Military is used by some foreign power. just a easy question, before january 2007 there were many incident where Moti and mahfuz and so called civil society was against having a strong army in bangladesh. now they are their best frnds..So already army has gone to a position of clash with many people. near future it will be worse and UN force will come….
January 19, 2008 at 9:20 pm
Rumi Bhai,
So much sadness it hard to bear. All we can do, I suppose, is to keep faith in almighty Allah’s judgment.
January 20, 2008 at 1:24 am
I have nothing to say more than tacit said on this.
But can you now realize how scared this regime is of KZ family? They took KZ out of a Tejgaon Airport gate, which has never been used for many years. That gate is only used when there is “Brikkho Mela”. They kept no chance for KZ. TR, AR to meet each other. Man! they are damn scared of this family!
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January 20, 2008 at 12:04 pm
Selective human rights howls once again exposed political and motivated agenda of these so called human rights organization. While Tareq rahman cried out to save his life in court, big boss of AI was giving her scripted lecture in Bangladesh provided by her handler. This time one interesting twist to her visit though – one semi famous number cruncher and Daily star overseas writer recruiter had been included in the AI chief posse list. This is not the first time this newly inducted posse revealed his real selective HR color – before his brand of HR was aligned with anti nationalist and related foreign cause. But since 1/11 this number cruncher has fine tuned his HR profile few degree closer towards Washington and London politically motivated agenda in Bangladesh. By now we all know what those agendas are. It’s no secret to people that Taking back Bangladesh fanfare turned out to be capturing an NRB professor home in Dhaka. But question is can these illusive- ‘borno chora’ HR characters and organizations keep their cunning story Unheard any more?
First and real dance with ‘logo-boitha’ on corpse on Oct, 2006 had set the precedence for what we are witnessing now. Moeen U with his self employed crane operator job is busy putting imaginary train back in track, little he realizing current owner preparing to change the course of the track. Perhaps, even giving up ownership. Only thing he can wish for is he just looses his operator job and not gets smashed by a REAL train.
January 20, 2008 at 1:16 pm
This interview of our General was just “Raja-r mon-e cheyechhe, Raja ja khushi korechhe” type of thing.
Koto fachuka-ajaira manush TV-te eshe interview dey, eshob dekhe amader General shaheb-er ki interview deyar ichchha hoite pare na? Oboshhoi pare.
January 20, 2008 at 10:05 pm
Khodar Maaeer Duneear Baaer. It maybe applied to anybody or everybody who commit crimes. I, think, proposed Truth Commission won’t be able to save even the generals with shouldr-and-chestful of insignias and 3-4-5 star-thomgas.
“Qoela Dhule Naa Jaey Moila” GMUA is back from Haj. I thought he will stop lying at least for a while but kept telling lies without an intermission. Still now, he is a saying the army just comes forward to provide their help or support if they are asked for by the government. What a shameless liar he is!
Thanks.
January 21, 2008 at 8:57 am
I am very sorry to say, in the defense world, there are two countries in this world which have been accursed by their own intelligence agencies. Now, why I am very sorry is, these two countries are Pakistan & Bangladesh. ISI has always been used by Pakistani Generals as a tool of their wrath on Pakistani people & politicians. Democracy has consequently been booted down with help of ISI there.
Now, here this is a melancholic chapter for Bangladesh that her military history has now come to accompany that of Pakistan, after a 15 years long drive of democracy. USA has passed these days 45 years before when CIA killed their own president, John F. Kennedy. Now, Bangladeshi DGFI is showing that kind of courtesy & dutifulness to its owner, Bangladeshi people. Bangladeshi people are now raising each penny of DGFI fund just to get suppressed by some “state of emergency”.
January 21, 2008 at 6:08 pm
RE: comment #8
CIA killed JFK?!?!
Wow. Did Oliver Stone tell you that?
That particular conspiracy theory doesn’t really fit here, because CIA is an independent government agency, not part of the U.S. army, and it does NOT even belong to department of defense. CIA collects ‘intelligence’ and provides warning to the President’s core team. It conducts covert action at the direction of the President as it did many times in the history and changed the course of many countries like that of Iran in the 50’s, Bangladesh in the 70’s, Afghanistan in the 80’s…..
In U.S., the army never really turned against the civilians.
January 21, 2008 at 7:09 pm
Snide comments aside, are you really that ignorant of the role US intelligence agencies in the 50s and the 60s? Herbert Hoover and his secret dossiers, MLK being hounded and ultimately taken out, as he turns into an anti-war icon, are all those Oliver Stone myths too? Wow, I missed some good movies.
In U.S. the army never turns against the civilians because they have a set of legislations, centered on the Posse Comitatus Act, that ensure that the Army can not even be called into the US mainland unless there are some very specific situations, unlike the carte blanche powers given to our own Supreme Commander under our constitution.
January 21, 2008 at 8:09 pm
Tacit (#10),
Did you point your comments towards me?!?! Have you read and comprehended my comment?
I did not get into CIA’s involvement in domestic activities, neither did I deny. I only highlighted a few that related to implementing wicked foreign policies.
My comment was about making a point that when you are talking about an army turning against it’s own commander (the President), as commenter #8 did, the example of CIA taking out JFK did not apply. Why? Because CIA is not the ARMY. Understood????
BTW, I have fairly adequate knowledge on how the armed forces in U.S. operate in conjunction with the legislative and executive branches.
[Apologies to the author because none of these relate to the core of the post. Unfortunately I am apathetic on the issue, since we have been hammering on the issue of the current govt.’s disregard to law or fairness for quite some time]
January 21, 2008 at 9:15 pm
Tacit, you point out a big difference between the US military and the BD military. US military, by statute, cannot do domestic law enforcement (Posse Comitatus).
The CIA, after the mischief it caused in the 60’s, was also reigned in in the 1970s by the Church Committee. CIA is not allowed to gather domestic intelligence. There is no MI5 type organization in the US. Though lately Mr. Bush is trying mightily to go around the 4th ammendment to the US constitution.
Two corrections to your comment however. First, you are referring to J Edgar Hoover (the FBI director), not Herbert Hoover (the President). And second, the FBI is a law enforcement agency and not a domestic intelligence agency, notwithstanding Hoover’s shenanigans.
And if anyone can show me that the CIA killed JFK, I will give that person a lollipop.
January 21, 2008 at 9:23 pm
Mash, you are correct, it is J. Edgar Hoover. Mea culpa. While FBI is a law enforcement agencies, I feel that many of their counter intelligence activities and seeking out people committing Un-American activities did resemble intelligence gathering more than traditional law enforcemet in the turbulent 60s and 70s.
Zafanoor, while the CIA is certainly not the army, I think the defense organograms and personnel are recruited in such a way to make the distinction quite subtle sometimes. However, you are technically right, let us say “government organizations” instead of “army.” Kudos on your adequate knowledge.
January 21, 2008 at 9:55 pm
RE: comment#13
Mmmm…actually the distinctions between U.S. Army and CIA are quite obvious both from organizational and operational perspectives. It may not be very obvious to you. In fact you referenced U.S. Army’s limitations, right after you mentioned CIA’s alleged involvement in domestic politics in the 60’s.
In that case you would do yourself a favor by not calling someone ignorant (or making snide remark) in haste.
January 22, 2008 at 4:56 am
For further on JFK Assassination theories:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kennedy_assassination_theories
I was talking about major Intelligence Agencies of nations, no matter whether those are regulated by Army or not. If there are more powerful Intel Agency than DGFI exists in Bangladesh, please let me know. As far as CIA is that of USA, and one of major plotter (of a debatable theory) of JFK assassination was Alan Dulles (ex CIA chief to be fired by JFK earlier). Remember, JFK told after failure CIA aided and plotted Cuba invasion at Bay of Pigs called “operation mongoose”, “I will splinter the CIA into thousands of pieces”. And things started to go against him after this state, ultimately JFK was assassinated, US Defense Structure killed their own president.
Now, what happened in Bangladesh, the defense structure is not too wide as we only mean & know the Army as the major portion of Bangladeshi defense structure. Isn’t it?
January 22, 2008 at 10:08 am
Mash,
I guess CIA itself deserves the lollipop.
February 1, 2008 at 3:01 pm
Add on to # 15-
Dear Xanthis, there is a striking similarity between JFK and Benazir’s-murder investigational procedure. As investigator’s of U.S concluded that shooting occurred from one direction, Pakistanis(Rather Musharraf’s spider run ISI) also claimed that assasin from one direction took Benazir’s life. But according to the independent analysts both explanations were Bull Crap(Excuse my language)and deliberate effort to create FALLACY IN THE PREMISE just to misdirect the public attention from the very beginning.This type of fallacy is evident in almost all FALSE FLAG operations of ISROs, RAWs and MI5 etc. The follwoing link elaborates the conspiracy of JFK’s case though…
http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/RANCHO/POLITICS/JFK/jfk.html
And please don’t discount it as conspiracy theory before judging its materials neutrally.
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