Central Vice President of BNP’s student wing JCD, and ex VP of Barisal BM College student’s union, Mr Moshiul Alam Sentu was arrested from Dhaka yesterday. It was reported in Newspapers yesterday. This second page small report in a vernacular daily described how he was picked up and taken to undisclosed location yesterday.
If Bangladesh media still retain the slightest trace of sensitivity, I feel Mr Sentu will get a better coverage in tomorrows newspapers from Bangladesh. He was killed today by RAB.
Just like that. That easy!
Members of the defence forces pick up an opposition political leader without any arrest warrant and take him away blindfolded. Then within several hours, without any court proceedings, any charges, any chance of defense, that man is shot and killed. And this is executed by members of government law enforcement agencies and defence forces. And that is not the end of the story. The tortured and mutilated body of the victim is then thrown in a public place in his own locality for public viewing.
Welcome to political season 2008-2009. Welcome to post 1/11 Bangladesh.
July 16, 2008 at 2:19 am
This is so sad. I guess we are not going to learn much from the newspapers. Can anybody collect the eyewitness accounts and statements of families and publish online (in blogs etc.)?
July 16, 2008 at 3:04 am
Newspapers will also tell you how Mr Sentu was a ‘listed criminal’, and a menace to the society. You will also here how the RAB acted in self defence, and how they found AK-47 and other weapons with him. I wouldn’t be surprised if we hear how Mr Sentu was also an intermediary between Tarique Rahman and Daud Ibrahim.
Why, it has already begun.
Crossfire kills Chhatra Dal leader in Barisal
Wed, Jul 16th, 2008 12:24 pm BdST
Barisal, July 16 (bdnews24.com) – A student activist and ‘listed criminal’ died in an exchange of gunfire with the Rapid Action Battalion in Barisal early Wednesday, RAB and police said.
The dead man was identified as Moshiul Alam Sentu (35), president of Barisal metropolitan Chhatra Dal and central Chhatra Dal vice president.
RAB-8 lieutenant commander KM Mamunur Rashid told bdnews24.com that RAB-3 members had detained Sentu at Dhaka University campus on Tuesday and handed him over to RAB-8.
Based on the students activist’s statement, the elite group went to Kashipur-Lakotia road to recover a stash of arms around 4am Wednesday morning.
Sentu’s associates fired at the RAB officers, said Rashid, and as RAB returned fire the Chhatra Dal leader received bullet wounds and died on the spot.
The elite force seized one AK-47, one shotgun, one pistol and a huge cache of ammunitions from the spot, but failed to arrest anybody, said the RAB-8 officer.
Kotwali police assistant commissioner Hayatul Islam told bdnews24.com that Sentu was a listed criminal who has 19 cases filed against him, including murder, with different police stations.
bdnews24.com/corr/ff/su/rah/1219hours
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Of course RAB wasn’t created by this government, was it? BNP created RAB to deal with criminals. Instead of reforming the police and the justice system, this was an expedient short cut. Now this same monstrosity is being used to deal with politicians. I wonder if the generals ever worry that they might also face the music some day.
July 16, 2008 at 4:15 am
crap! rumi bhai..any idea why they wanted to kill him? kichui bujhlam na…
July 16, 2008 at 4:28 am
And just in case it wasn’t obvious, the first para is meant to be ironic and sarcastic. I am too numb to express my disgust.
July 16, 2008 at 5:55 am
Now Moeen, Fakhruddin and all civil/military cronies hand stained with blood and savagery. As Haisna said she would validate activities of this regime, question is this type of killing Hasina and AL wants to be part of????
July 16, 2008 at 7:27 am
“Welcome to post 1/11 Bangladesh.”
and this never occurred before 1/11? actually, it occurred with greater frequency. this is not to condone extra-judicial killing, but it is disingenuous, to say the least, to suggest that this is something new or that the last bnp government was not guilty of similar if not worse crimes.
http://www.thedailystar.net/forum/2006/december/justice.htm
July 16, 2008 at 7:56 am
Re # 6.
Yes we know that extra judicial killing started before 1/11. I do not know wheter it was more frequent before 1/11.
The point here is that 1/11 was brought about by Daily Star, diplomat et el to stop all these atrocities by Tarique-Babar and his cronies. Isn’t it? If these good people, the bhodroloks continue to resort to the brutal tactics of the past government, what remains to speak good of this government? At least the previous government did not do these extra judicial killings under the shroud of a state of emergency. At least someone could protest.
July 16, 2008 at 8:00 am
Fariha #3.
I believe this is a well planned political murder. Barisal Mayoral race begin. On the eve of local government elections it is a warning to the local politicians who have not gone to their areas not even for voter registration. It is a threat, either join Moeen’s party or don’t think of coming back to your homes.
July 16, 2008 at 8:59 am
Allah have mercy on his soul. Did he leave wife & kid?
July 16, 2008 at 11:00 am
#6
Doesn’t ‘extra-judicial’ killings even after BNP has been exonerated from power defeat the seemingly ‘grand purpose/objective’ of 1/11? Or is there a different angle to that narrative of ‘greater good’ ’stronger democracy’ that we’ve missed out on?
Are the same voices who were making all that clamour about extra-judicial killings/HR abuses pre 1/11, doing the same now? Or do we need to reach a certain death toll before that happens?
#8
So who’s next on the hit list? The voters perhaps? ‘Don’t go vote for anyone else but Moeen’s cronies or else you can never return to your constituency?’
Really, what was that fear we had before 1/11? Fear of an ‘engineered election’, was it?
This is indeed a rotten state Rumi bhai.
July 16, 2008 at 3:09 pm
Rumi bhai,
please see the new comedy show by daily star, dr kamal gang.
Day befoe yesterday it was ashraful islam, asaduzzaman noor and kamru razakar.
Daily star editorial appearing today.
http://www.thedailystar.net/story.php?nid=46019
See who joined the party last night? Mahfuz anam might have been invited after he sent his editorial for publishing.
http://www.amardeshbd.com/detail_news_index.php?NewsID=185262&NewsType=bistarito&SectionID=home
July 17, 2008 at 8:58 am
No doubt extra-judicial killing demands condemnation. I was just watching TV news in channel I. A group of widows were describing how they lost their husbands at the hand of out laws and so called Sorbohara. I guess their voice do not travel to you. The journalists killed in Jessore/Khulna at the hand of those outlaws did not see any justice. I am sure these information fails to reach to your cozy room aboard.
Sentu was direct involved in killing two people in Khulna and carried 23 charges against him. He was hiding with his friends in neighboring country.
Yet You call it spread malice and unsubstantiated allegations
July 17, 2008 at 12:11 pm
OK Dhumrojal,
Were you there when Sentu shot and killed those two people?
Now you have already given the capital punishment to the man. The punishment given before allegations were not even produced before court. What if, just what if, he was innocent of the alleged crimes?
He was definitely a political leader. If you know politics of BD, for every major crime it is the custom to make the strongest political leader of the opposite side as #1 accused. That serves multiple purpose. That person has to go in hiding or leave the area. And second, his life gets tainted with a murder case which carries him all along, even during any job application/police varification etc. It also helps RAB say that he has that number of murder case when a decision is made at political level to kill him.
Do you know that there are few or none of the VPs of elected student unions of Bangladesh who do not have a murder case- robbery case-extortion case against them. Do you know that Tofael Ahmed, Fazle Hossain Badsha, Mahmudur Rahman Manna, Akhteruzzaman, Asaduzzaman Ripon.. all had these sort of cases against them at some point? Would it be OK for RAB to kill them and say that they committed that many murders?
FYI, Sentu was that level leader in Barisal political scenerio. He was a community organizer, and he organized Barisal JCD and BNP. He himself brought himself up from grassroots to the top level student leadership in Barisal.
He was not the son of a leader, or an intellectual or a NGO icon or a business tycoon. He was the only son of a low middle class couple. The father is a paralyzed person and the mother is a district level government officer.
He had the charishma, leadership acumen and young people of Barisal listened to him.
And that also made him a target of all sort of attacks. The murder cases against him was exactly that sort of attack.
It is hypocrisy when you say extra judicial killing demands condemnation and make your case to justify it.
July 17, 2008 at 12:53 pm
Response to # 12-
Sentu was acquited from all the false cases filled against him by Awamy conspirators. If he killed two people then why was such acquitence? And sarbahara killing innocents were totally different stories. Ironically late Bangla Bhai got popular in Baghmara because of his bravery against those Sarbaharas and guess what who was the DIG at that time. It was no one but current IGP Nur Mohammad. Why did he let Bangla Bhai rise to zenith and why wasn’t Bnagla Bhai’s last pledge to make him public along with other JMB members pass through Shushil, MUA and Nur Mohammad’s GOVT(Smelling hush, hush there)? Similarly where was the prevelant justice system when 100s of BNP caders laid there lives in RAB’scross fire? See, Joseph, Sentu and many others rose against AL Goons like Shammim Osman, Taher etc. Now, how did all the AWAMY goons like HAZARI, Osman and joy fled to IND and RAB never netted them? If RAB was Tariq, Babar’s brain child then why most of its victims were BNP cadres? During AL’s misrule from 96-2001 none of the opposition parties could practice one hundredth’s of its rights what AL got during BNP’s rule. So, IRON had to be met by IRON, thus brave heart like Sentu, Joseph’s rise occurred. Although some of them did some immoral things but those were actually TIP OF ICEBURG compare to AL GOONS. So, why not netting GOD Fathers but CHONO PUTI and how most of the intelligent rages got pointed toward Anti-AL, anti-Sushil members? Perhaps we should look at Indian intelligent’s report on MUA. He was one of their most favorable officers in BMA.
Deep dig friends, deep dig. Otherwise remaining of 8 crores would get hungry soon in BD.
July 17, 2008 at 6:53 pm
We have saying, “jemon kormo temni phol”. Who created RAB?
Who shouted that RAB is necessary to save law and order and any one protesting is speaking against the countrY?
Who was born in barracks as so called political party?
What we have now is cannibal fighting with and eating each other, destroying country in the process.
I want army to return to barracks, release of all prisoners who are political, and free election. But, let’s not lose sight of how we got here.
July 18, 2008 at 7:15 am
#15
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Who created RAB?
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Ans.: Past government BNP.
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Who shouted that RAB is necessary to save law and order?
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Ans.: BNP & Jamaat supporters of koti people, and some public only! Aw supporters wanted law & orders remain as is so it gives bad name to then BNP government.
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Who was born in barracks as so called political party?
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Ans.: Moin U Ahemd
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What we have now is cannibal fighting with and eating each other?
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In one sentence you implied RAB shot “any one protesting is speaking against the countrY?”. But protesting now is compared to ‘cannibalism’ & “destroying country in the process”.
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let’s not lose sight of how we got here.
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Ans.: 5 years of planning declared by Hasina “not to leave this government in peace” & help from India. ‘Logi Bahaita’ of 28th October was to be the triggering event. After Jan 11 taking over, AW declared that this government is the result of their effort.
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You must be away from latest news or only fed by ‘Daliy & Prothom lies’. Otherwise, you would have been aware of recent events.
July 19, 2008 at 1:37 am
The motive behind the creation of the monsterous RAB didn’t match neither main stream BNP nor Tarique/Babar’s expectation. When BNP/JI came to power in 2002, the LAW & ORDER was in complete diss-aray. Simultaeniously BUSH’s warning of “YOU ARE EITHER WITH US OR WITH THEM” prompted new/militarily-weak GOVT to join in so-called WOT. Thus the idea of the formation of skilled/non-corrupt security forces were easily sold to the then GOB, especially due to the existence of dysfunctional police force against daring thugs like TAHER, OSMAN etc. Bad situation in the ground and even worse internationalistic atmosphere after 9/11 against any nationalistic/Islamic power, which compounded by HASINA’s declaration of EI SARKARKE EK DIN O SHANTITE THAKTE DIMO NA prompted Khaleda to declare SHANTRASI JEI HOUK TAKE SAR DEOA HOBE NA. But she didn’t realize that her security was going to get hijacked by ENEMIES OF MANKIND and RAB would start killing her cadres (Who infact rose to hold BNP’s camp during its dire time against Shamim Osman, Hazari etc). If Khaleda/Tarique/Babar sinned then it would be for not speaking out against RAB for the killing of her party cadres; Not what AL leaning medias wanted us to believe. And RAB initially earned popularity by liquiditating some of the big thugs and driving others away from BD’s territory. So LAW & ORDER was quickly ristored, which also created psychological barrier in BNP leader’s mind not to speak out against their strong man’s murder. Thus, saying RAB was BNP’s creation was nothing but short-sidedness, although BNP was in power at that time by default. In a nutshell it was the smaller seed of CREATIVE DESTRUCTION(http://www.antiwar.com/orig/cmoore.php?articleid=6649) of BNP’s power base to have the fruit of 1/11 (Please connect the dots and try to understand the art of deceptive practice). Similar art has been practrised in Pakistan by much larger magnitude to destroy its social fabrics just to take away its neuclear ditterance. So RAB/CHITA/SPIDER GROUP of ISIs are actually B,C teams of RAW/MOSSAD/SHIN BET etc.
July 19, 2008 at 7:35 am
As recent as yesterday’s development supports what #17 described. Formation of new SWAT team is underway and their training will be done under US supervision. According to news weapon SWAT team will be using and control of this SWAT team will be under US control. If this is the case, instead of US forces running operation in BD it will be US controlled Bangladeshi security forces scoring more killing like this. One of the visual sign that 3D doctrine or doctrine of sell out implementing by Moeen.
Next week US ambassador will have a meeting in state department; among other things it involves collecting AL consent on US policy and directive in exchange for what AL already signed up with Moeen and then some.
http://www.dailynayadiganta.com/fullnews.asp?News_ID=93305&sec=1
July 19, 2008 at 8:33 am
Folks
I’ll not be able to stop conspiracy theories and mushrooming of speculations about Indo_zionist aggression in every single nitty gritty that takes place in Bangladesh.
But I do not see it that way. I see it as the power lust of an ambitious general and some of his cronies. With killing of Sentu, a message is being sent to grassroots AL and BNP activists, esp local leadership that ‘we are going ahead and forming a new alliance of turncoats. Don’t ever try to be on our way. RAB will be our muscle. Dare you flex your muscle against our muscle. ‘
July 19, 2008 at 11:27 am
Yeah yeah #16 and #17. We have got your messege. AL is behind everything. and BNP was/will lead us to bliss.
July 20, 2008 at 12:09 am
for #20
Here is a look at what AL student wing did to students who protested BDR killing.
http://www.amardeshbd.com/detail_news_index.phpNewsID=185750&NewsType=bistarito&SectionID=home
July 20, 2008 at 2:13 am
Yes. I was not there. I was also not there when “Dada Tapon”, BDR Altaf, Pichchi Hannan, Devid and those hundereds were killed in cross-fire. But I know them. Through them ,people of Bangladesh came to know the art of Slaughtering people in open broad day light and putting them in Iter-Bhata (Brick field).Government’s gun should respond in that way so long men behind the gun are clear to their consious .
I know from Tofael Ahmed to Asaduzzaman Ripon.. But I also know Ovi-Niru-Bablu-Pintu-Amanullah Aman.SAKA chowdhury was also a student leader.
“And what If, just what if ”- he secrifices his life for the nation.
July 20, 2008 at 3:58 am
Its amazing how some people thrive on AL-BNP food fights like its a Sunday afternoon TV match where we are supporting two teams. Let’s look at the big picture, guys!
July 20, 2008 at 6:57 am
#19
Rumi,
Agree with your point on Sentu killing. I took it as one piece of planning.
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But Sentu killing, BDR killings, Pinak’s activity, presence of Indian body in AW deals are not conspiracy any more. They are not hiding any more. All are open. Impossible for one or few generals to pull last two years of events all by themselves. By 2005, these blocks have realized & decided that they can not let Bangladesh go any more in the direction Jot Sharkar was heading. Simply see how not so vocal AW on transit issue, or their activities post Hasina release. This gang has already decided Bangladeshis are stupid and only they will dictate type of solution Bangladeshi should have. No need for conspiracy any more; they have already grabbed power houses to continue chaos.
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Now it is public’s turn to do something. And naturally they will act in time, as they were vocal during transit issue.
July 21, 2008 at 10:36 pm
Rumi,
The game regards the controlment of BD enclave has radically changed with the line of the establishment of a ‘NEW WORLD ORDER’. So ‘The perimeter of the thoughts’ regard BD isn’t contained just in ‘TEKHNAF TO TETULIA’ but has extended to global capitals. It is not just the new spectrum of the old game anymore but to secure the new realm, establish a new map of the globe; Thus it’s a totally new ball game. So paradigm shift needs to occur in our thought processes since the utility of ‘Nation State’ has expired in the eyes of its creator. Imagine the length of war as 100 years and the magnetude of the bloodbath. And for the record, war is own by the ‘PREPARED PARTY’ but not necessarily by the morally superior ‘JUST PARTY’. So, as quick as we adopt with the new reality, it will lead us to prepare better for future. Connecting the dots between RAB’s cold blooded murders and preparing BD’s field for emperial exploitation is important and should be a part of our preparation.
July 1, 2009 at 12:26 pm
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