I have a post on my blog about this:

http://nirajfromboston.blogspot....te- history.html

Jamaat is right in one respective, there were given amnesty by subsequent governments.

But history is on the side of the victims-- for now!
Niraj | Homepage | 10.27.07 - 10:14 am | #

Thanks Niraj, for the link. I think Zia Uddin explains about the legitimacy of this amnesty.
Rezwan | Homepage | 10.27.07 - 5:30 pm | #

Dear Chowdhury bhai,

I hope you enjoy reading this article and find it informative. It was emailed to a journalist in the UK. Please circulate it amongst your friends---cheers!


The Prisoner of Dhaka

http://www.johnpilger.com/page.a....asp? partid=479

Well John as always you write well, and you have good intentions no doubt, BUT I think even though the case of Moudud Ahmed is very sad-----no due process for an ex law minister-----the irony!, you have to understand the background of the country, and the over all situation and history, to put it all in context, otherwise it looks like a case of another banana republic doing funny things to its once high and mighty-------and inadvertently reinforces racial stereotypes. This is not a justification of his poor treatment, and at a personal level I do not know him, or his life history, but an attempt at explaining the deeper wider issues which finds him in such a sorry state. As an investigative journalist you would normally be addressing such things anyway, as you have done with many other cases.

First Bangladesh is a British managed puppet state-----and most of the leading political actors from the BNP, Awami League head to London for their political approval or policy ideas, or to invest their loot taken from the poor people of Bangladesh.

A good deal of the state bureaucratic structure is also trained by the British, most notably the army, where each year the best cadets from the army are sent to train at Sandhurst. So the military elite is British orientated, which of course also means the intelligence. The last time I checked the Bangladesh military was '125,000' strong.

Remember British rule in India would have been impossible without the cooperation of local collaborators/filth column.

Again, making the same point as before, lets not tut tut righteously, and say quietly to ourselves that this is another case of a Third World banana republic being brutal to its own---and shrug, because it does not explain a lot of background things. As with the above point we should ask who controls the local Third World actors who does these things? To what extent is the brutality in South America, Africa and Asia the random manifestation of local actors or the coordinated actions of Western corporations and government agencies?

As to Britain, what it has done in the UK, most notably in Northern Ireland and in other instances, such as in Iraq and Afghanistan is far worse than what the military regime in Bangladesh is doing, or has ever done.

I myself tried to practice as a Barrister in Bangladesh in 2002, in the Chambers of Tawfik Nawaz? Well known and clean Barrister. I experienced many many difficulties, as a result of which I had to leave the country eventually, after a very short time. Clearly somebody powerful didn't want me working in that country----the BNP was in power then, and the British were as active as ever.

The people of Bangladesh must eventually find their 'freedo
Mostaque A Ali. | Homepage | 03.16.08 - 3:39 pm | #