April 27, 2008
There are not too many people in this world who could share the magnitude of the personal tragedy ex Prime minister Sheikh Hasina endured. Both her parents, all her three brothers, sister in laws, dozens of uncles-aunths; all have been hunted and killed execution style in one single night. Eldest daughter of a household traditionaly is the most caring for the rest of the family. So was Sehikh Hasina. Life for Sheikh Hasina and her sister Sheikh rahana jolted on 15 th August 1975. Since then, life has never been the same again.
Scientific studies show that most of such victim of family massacre, suffer constantly from post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). I believe Sheikh Hasina also suffer from the same painful experience.
Like many other PTSD patients would do, Sheikh Hasina, since 1975, tried to get relief by avoiding being alone. Loneliness forces these patients to relive the traumatic experience and I can guess why Sheikh Hasina hates to be lonely. For the last 33 years this woman sorrounded herself with crowds of admirers of her dad, other survivors in her family and that definitely helped her live and move on.
Today again, some military officers are playing a yo yo game with this lady. They are bringing her to hospital for a day and sending her back to jail the next day, they have kept on doing this routine repeatedly throughout the last month. One day doctors find some ear proble, the other day something comes up in ear and the next day blood pressure is found very labile. The government-selected doctors over there probably seeing the blind men’s elephant. By looking at ear, eye, blood pressure– they are missing the big picture, they are misisng the real person herself.
Take a patient with PTSD, lock him-her up for a year, you will destroy the person mentally and physically. Pure from a medical professional’s point of view, what they are doing with Sheikh Hasina is nothing short of torture, crude-rude torture.
Physicians in Bangladesh may not know much of PTSD, but militray officers know of it. Knowing about symptoms and mitigation of PTSD Is part of current day militray training. And probbaly that’s why they are relentless in their effort to send Mrs Hasina back to jail.
I personally believe that Sheikh Hasina has suffered enough to enjoy an immunity from imprisonment for the kind of cases lebelled against her. I urge the authorities to free her and stop the torture. Or at least let her stay in hospital. What’s wrong if they let her stay in hospital for a longer time? There are many prisoners without serious illness who have spent months if not years in hospital cabins. Why not Sheikh Hasina then?
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A government manufactured fraction of BNP met Election Commissioners today. The main BNP has been barred from meeting the EC. Government continue their blatant patronization of the government manufactured fraction. Government is even sending detail instruction how to cover Hafiz or Delwar. Per their instruction when two fraction’s make news, the government designed fraction is to get earlier and longer TV coverage. Even TV channles were forced to pull off Khondokar Delwar Hossain’s press conference of today. Although the press conference was shown earlier in the day, it was totally blacked out during the evening news.
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Definitely there is a serious desparation in some level of the government.
April 27, 2008 at 1:10 pm
AL leader’s call “Free Sheikh Hasina” sounds like nothing than ‘faka awaz’. This call sounds absolutely without direction. Flashing appearance of Ashraful Islam is also confusing.
I cannot & cannot understand how AL leaders & activists are tolerating such treatment with Sheikh Hasina.
April 27, 2008 at 1:25 pm
This is hot from the press; Hasina said AL would not go for election without her. Knowing history of Ershad era, I just can not take it as last word. But I truly hope she realized going to power should not be AL or any political party’s goal NOW. Goal should be defeating the imperialist power FIRST. She questioned where did Kamal Hossain get all the money? Question on Kamal Hossain most prominent collaborator of imperialist power in Bangladesh, wealth never raised by main stream media (few exceptions).
http://www.dailynayadiganta.com/fullnews.asp?News_ID=78946&sec=1
April 28, 2008 at 1:50 pm
Why would we expect military to leave Hasina alone? They tried to finish off her family in 1975 and are only now completing their long plan.
M AMIN: There is no last word in politics.
April 28, 2008 at 2:42 pm
Kamal Hossain REALLY exposed himself as seditious person. He has said “let Bangladesh go to hell….”. His anti Bangladesh activities are piling up along with accumulation of huge illegal wealth. When journalist asked about his wealth he just went mum. So where are daily star and prothom Alo with their editorial and red letter headline??? Umm, living the lie and deception….
http://www.amardeshbd.com/detail_news_index.php?NewsID=173706&NewsType=bistarito&SectionID=home
April 28, 2008 at 5:02 pm
Hasina and Khaleda are both elderly by Bangladesh standards and in increasingly poor health.
The country will explode if anything serious happens to either.
Surprising, CTG and army just never seem to acknowldge that despite everything these “dui netris” are still the two most popular figures in the country.
April 28, 2008 at 11:23 pm
Rule of law turned on its head
What Dr Kamal Hossain said on Saturday, i.e. those who are calling for movement to free the detained offenders ought to be identified as their associates (read accomplices), may contradict the very concept of the rule of law but is very much in sync with his not-so-tacit support for the military-controlled interim government and its actions. Hence, while one may be shocked that a man of law like him could even make such an extra-legal suggestion, one should not be surprised at all. Ever since the January 11, 2007 changeover, Dr Kamal and some other so-called civil society stalwarts have persisted with their unqualified support for a regime whose constitutional legitimacy is highly questionable and which has made hardly any attempt to veil its apparently inherent contempt for the political class in particular and the political process in general. These people have seldom wasted any opportunity to denigrate and demonise the elected governments of the past, although the regime of their predilection has over the past 15 months or so steered the country from one debacle to the other. It has defied the constitution vis-à-vis its tenure and mandate, and seemingly embarked upon an open-ended pursuit of redrawing the political landscape by trying, not so covertly and thus far unsuccessfully, to relegate Khaleda Zia and Sheikh Hasina into political insignificance. The incumbents also appear to have used the ‘drive against crime and corruption’ as a means in their perceived attempts at introducing a new political order.
On the whole, the interim government, which came to power with the self-proclaimed objective of upholding and consolidating the democratic system, holding free and fair general elections, protecting and promoting people’s rights and putting the economy back on track, has only undermined the democratic process, drifted further away from the path of elections, curtailed people’s fundamental rights and brought the economy to its knees. As consequences of its injudicious actions, trade and commerce has come to a grinding halt, investment nosedived, employment opportunities shrunk, prices of essential commodities soared, inflation overshot all previous records, and the list goes on and on.
There is no scope for any debate that individuals and groups who have used their political connections and financial might to further their interests at the expense of the nation’s wellbeing should be prosecuted and punished for their misdeeds. It is also beyond any doubt that such prosecution and punishment thereby should be within the ambit of law and entail a process whose legitimacy and transparency is unquestionable. However, most of the detained offenders that Dr Kamal spoke of have been incarcerated in a questionable manner and indicted on dubious charges. The clamour over their release stems from the growing displeasure with the government’s seemingly arbitrary application of law that these people have been subjected to thus far.
The rule of law requires that even the vilest of criminals be afforded the opportunity to defend himself or herself in the court and treated as innocent until proven guilty. The incumbents have apparently done just the opposite thus far. Now, Dr Kamal, a celebrated jurist, seems to be encouraging the incumbents to take their perceived disdain for the rule of law one step further.
http://www.newagebd.com/edit.html
April 29, 2008 at 11:03 am
Shouldn’t Dr Kamal be tried as an accomplice for sharing the dias with Hasina at moha shomabesh in December 2006?
May 6, 2008 at 8:01 pm
[...] as the best hope for the Bangladesh that was envisioned in 1972, and the real disgust at seeing the mistreatment being meted out to this former Prime Minister by the military [...]
June 10, 2008 at 4:35 pm
Answer on where Kamal Hussein gets all the money
(M Amin’s # 2) could be found from the last portion of the following article–
http://www.dailynayadiganta.com/fullnews.asp?News_ID=86288&sec=6