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Musharraf to Answer Many Questions

Posted by xanthis on December 28, 2007

By this time, more or less details have been known by most of the people of the world about the assassination of former Prime Minister of Pakistan Benazir Bhutto though; just go through a little bit more about the story (according to BBC)

 

Benazir Bhutto killed in attack

Pakistani former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto has been assassinated in a suicide attack.

Ms Bhutto – the first woman PM in an Islamic state – was leaving an election rally in Rawalpindi when a gunman shot her in the neck and set off a bomb.

At least 20 other people died in the attack and several more were injured.

President Pervez Musharraf has urged people to remain calm but angry protests have gripped some cities, with at least 11 deaths reported.

Security forces have been placed on a state of “red alert” nationwide.

There were no immediate claims of responsibility for the attack. Analysts believe Islamist militants to be the most likely group behind it.

Map: Scene of the assassination

Ms Bhutto, leader of the Pakistan People’s Party (PPP), had served as prime minister from 1988-1990 and 1993-1996, and had been campaigning ahead of elections due on 8 January.

It was the second suicide attack against her in recent months and came amid a wave of bombings targeting security and government officials.

Nawaz Sharif, also a former prime minister and a political rival, announced his Muslim League party would boycott the elections.

He called on President Musharraf to resign, saying free and fair elections were not possible under his rule.

The United Nations Security Council held an emergency session and later said it “unanimously condemned” the assassination.

benazir9_430x500.jpgUnfortunately, this mishap has taken place in a such town, Rawalpindi, which is considered as one of most secured town or one of most sensitive towns due to Pakistan’s national security. This is town is supposed to be loaded with thousands of agents from ISI and other secret services. Because this is where the head quarters of Pakistan Armed Forces is situated. Because of the existence of very sensitive Rawal Dam and Military Head Quarters, Rawalpindi has always been considered as a top priority to national security structure of Pakistan. This is too difficult for a Pakistani extremist to ravage the security barrier of Rawalpindi and go for a self-plotted bombing and shooting mission, specially over a figure like Benazir Bhutto, member of the most popular & influential political dynasty in Pakistan. Without the assistance of authority, it’s just impossible. Because Pakistani extremists are always rated top of the Crazy list and last at the IQ list. You know Shakespeare wrote that when there is an assassination inside a palace, its must be someone inside the palace who plotted the whole thing. From the point of view of Pakistan’s military, Rawalpindi can be profoundly compared with a palace and Benazir’s assassination is never unlike Shakespeare’s theory of assassination inside palace.

342922.jpgThe Bhutto family was never popular between Pakistani military Generals, none of them felt comfortable when any of Bhuttos were in power or with their issues. None of members of this family died normally, Zulfi was hanged by Gen. Zia-ul-Huq in 1979 ignoring requests & calls of most of world leaders; Zulfi’s youngest son Shahnawaz was found dead in his apartment at Cannes, France in 1985, was allegedly poisoned by ISI agents or its mercinaries; eldest son Murtaza was killed by police near Islamabad in 1996 and the shooter later committed suicide (elimination of the killer, a most common theory of assassination plots, like Lee Harvey Oswald died after Kennedy’s assassination); and on this very day, only living member of Zulfi’s immediate descending cycle, Benazir got assassinated.

Benazir has been set into a such plot today, which never would allow her to escape the death. She was left alone, none of government’s security agent were there to protect her, may be there were some, but not to protect her rather to set her to be killed. There have already been attempts on her killing 148 people in October, and then she was supposed to be topped in the security list of the government. But she was not. To kill a rat, or to set that among dozens of cats, both are just same. Benazir was just set to be killed. Benazir has been killed, but why she got killed? Who benefited? A most common aftermath after all assassination plots is raising confusions & debates about the killer, the shooter or the attacker. Especially when the authority plots the thing, it’s become easier to suppress the raising of questions like “how” & “why”. As long debates go on about “who” instead of emphasizing “how” & “why”, the plot as well plotters remain safe.

reuters_20070816-232159-450x320.jpgTwo very important things to be noted are, I don’t know if anybody has noticed already or not, the Pakistani regime has already been busy in damaging evidences. The bullet proof TOYOTA Hilux has already been taken under custody of the government. Streets of Rawalpindi, in front of the park, have been swept out by the municipality. This has been a basic violence of crime scene management code, where lots of remains & evidences of the assassination have been hampered and vanished. There has been no decency & transparency in the autopsy of Benazir. She was taken to hospital and expired at 6:16PM, where as her body was cleared by the hospital at 9:30, how can it be possible? Is it logical to be done with a complete investigatory autopsy of such a person like Benazir within hours and clarify the body overnight, where confusion in a basic issue arose whether she was shot to death or killed by a bomb or heart attack after the shock? None of Chief of Police, Chief of SSG (Special Services Group), Chief of ISPR (Inter Services Public Relations) was available after the assassination. An officer of ISPR told that they have been unavailable because of the meeting with the President. But very clear sources say that the meeting which was presided by Musharraf himself started after 7PM, then what they were doing before that. The truth is that all of this men were ordered to stay away of the reach of the media.

 

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I don’t know what is the future of all of these things happened in Pakistan. Its Generals cannot consider that their hunt over the Bhutto family is over, because a harder & tighter nut to crack is the next of this dynasty, Fatima Bhutto. She is hopefully one players in political future of Pakistan. If she gets close to the power, she will be killed too like her paternal aunt. Then why to wait and why to be late? They can do their job by this time, Fatima lives alone with her mother at their residence in Karachi, it will be easier to work on her. But one thing, from what people never want to get a shred of lesson, that is history. It is a big book, many people to read, but nobody to learn. At least those who drives to the throne, never learn from it. Zulfi was a political figure of 70s, but craze over his popularity, over his dynasty still remains. To the death, Benazir was Pakistan’s most popular political leader. They killed Zulfi one day, but did it work to block his daughter to go through hearts of people? No, it didn’t. Today they killed Benazir, but they never know that it will never work to block her men to come forward. Fatima Bhutto, or any of Benazir’s children, are going to take over, take the risk of life.

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Click to read a short biography of the brave leader of Pakistan Benazir Bhutto, rest in peace

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Eid Mubarak to All

Posted by xanthis on December 21, 2007

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Eid Mubarak to everybody who are viewing this page right this time and who are not ! Right this time, we are coexisting with many groups of people not only in Bangladesh but also around the entire Muslim Ummah all over the world, who are not really able to accept any joys in their lives. I am talking about our brothers & sisters in Palestine, in Iraq, in Darfur, in Somalia, in Afghanistan, where people give thanks to their almighty creator for another day of their survival, where they go to sleep with the noise of nearby explosion and wake up with the news of death of some relatives, or sometimes never wake up, sleep forever.

110205_eidmubarak.jpgMillions of people lost lives in Iraq. In Palestine, lives have been pushed into camps & tents from 50 years back and there will be no shade of happiness due to an Eid on their lives. In Afghanistan, situations are all same for half of a decade. I don’t ask you to go through all affairs & history stuffs about what going on over those place, to get a slightest idea of situations over there, just search at “Google Images” by some names like “Iraq”, “Darfur”, “Palestine” etc. You will be served with such horrifying images, those will appear as nightmare when you will sleep at night. I could have given some of slides from those but I don’t think those will fit the mode of people who are going to perform the Eid-ul-Azha tomorrow. And keeping all of these out of account, we will be enjoying a happy Eid-ul-Azha over here, because this is how the life is.

After Sidr thrashed our country, our countrymen are finding no shade upon them for months, no food to it, no water to drink, even no energy to grief for dead relatives. Will we remember them for a little while tomorrow while rejoicing the Eid? May be we will not, but all the time we should keep it in mind that many of our brothers & sisters are now passing days through bloodsheds. This part of their fate could be ours, but most luckily we are spared alright. So we should keep it in mind & we should pray for them.

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The prayer to almighty Allah on the Eid day should go for all of those Muslims & non-Muslims of the world, who are all holy creatures of almighty Allah, who are starving & striving for their survival, for a better living, anywhere on this earth. May be we don’t know about them or may be we do, may Allah bless all of them & may Allah grant them their better & beautiful lives & future.

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UBS alerted over Phulbari Coal mine

Posted by xanthis on December 18, 2007

by Rumi Ahmed. Published in In The Middle of Nowhere (posted by Otitihi) on 17 December, 2007.

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Zurich, Utrecht, Dec 17 2007 -UBS, a financial heavyweight from Switzerland, is facing scrutiny by civil society organizations for investing in a proposed coal mine in Bangladesh. The Phulbari coal mine, proposed by GCM Resources Plc, is set to cause major social and environmental upheavals in the region, displacing upwards of 50 000 residents. Despite strong local opposition, investors UBS, RAB Capital and Barclays continue to back GCM with significant shareholdings. GCM Resources’ strategic focus is the mine, and financial institutions with sights on easy profits derived from expropriation and significant environmental damage, are propping up a shaky project which has already been stalled for over two years.

Swiss based Berne Declaration and the BankTrack network recently wrote to UBS on behalf of local community representatives outlining the grave environmental, social and human rights problems associated with the project. As proposed, the Phulbari Coal mine is “open cut” meaning that between 140 and 300m worth of earth will need to be removed to access coal seams deep under ground. Some 50 000 residents will need to be relocatedlogo_1.jpg, potentially reaching 200 000 should full scale expansion plans be realized. Extensive damage to the UNESCO declared world heritage site Sundarbans mangrove forest, the largest single block of mangrove forest in the world, is also expected from port facilities. Energy production from coal poses substantial impacts on climate change, and is also inappropriate at a time when Bangladesh is appealing to the rest of the world to curb greenhouse gas emissions.

phulbari-protest-wasif.jpgDespite the project having reportedly cleared by advisors Barclays to satisfy the Equator Principles, development standards which encompass community and social considerations, the undertaking faces immense local opposition. In August 2006, 50 000 people protested outside the local offices of Asia Energy (now GCM Resources Plc). A paramilitary force peppered the crowd with bullets, killing five people, including a fourteen year old boy. Approximately 100 individuals suffered injuries from the shootings. Since then, GCM Resources Plc has fled the site and the Bangladesh government has signed an agreement with the local communities promising that the coal mine would be stopped. In January 2007, Bangladesh declared a state of emergency, and a military backed government was installed. The current ruling party has proceeded to infringe of fundamental rights of countless citizens whilst maintaining relationships with transnational corporations in an attempt to stoke foreign investment and additional income.

Without the developer’s presence in the region and fearing reprimand from a heavy handed government, local opponents to the projects have little recourse within their own country or with project sponsors. Responsible financial institutions have been approached with evidence of environmental damage and extensive social harm, and have been asked to respect the human rights of those affected by divesting.

p5_001.jpgThe Berne Declaration and BankTrack have offered to put financial institutions in direct contact with communities in the area. Responding to questions about on their 11% investment listed in GCM Resources Plc, the second largest listed shareholding, UBS denies any strategic interest in the company. The large multinational communicated that “it does not comment on potential or specific client relations or transactions or its investments in any particular company”. UBS vaguely asserts to civil society and the communities affected that its holding may or may not be on behalf of other people.

Andreas Missbach from the Berne Declaration says “responding to victims of actual and potential human rights abuses in this way, UBS has shown complete disregard for its duties to stakeholders, selectively and irresponsibly hiding behind bank secrecy provisions“.

The transparency of financial institutions shareholdings is of major consequence to determine who is responsible for facilitating dodgy investments. Determining whether banks themselves are actual shareholders, or whether they are holding shares on behalf of another party, can sometimes be an impossible task for local communities. Banks have been known to take advantage of these vagaries to shun their responsibilities. Whoever are the real shareholders in GCM, by virtue of their involvement in share listings, financial institutions must fulfil their duty to respect the human rights of stakeholders.

http://www.banktrack.org/index.php?show=news&id=138

Download the letter to UBS

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This Post is for Victory

Posted by xanthis on December 15, 2007

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This post is for those members of Allied Forces led by Muktibahini, Bangladesh Armed Forces & Indian Armed Forces, who have donated their lives & that’s why we are now a free & proud nation.

This post is for those of our sisters & mothers who have shown valiance from their positions for the freedom to come.

This post is for those who have donated their lives for our mother tongue.

This post is for those Sector-II Guerrillas, those brave souls who kept operating inside Dhaka & ruining tranquility of Military Junta that helped people to remain optimistic about the freedom to come.

This post is for the great victory we have won on 16 December, 1971 beating Pakistani Military Junta and their godfathers in United States.

 

Bangladesh Zindabad

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This is Absolutely a Meaningless Call

Posted by xanthis on December 15, 2007

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I have been hearing from last few weeks that the amount which we are going to spend for coming Eid-ul-Azha cattles, should be paid to raise the Sidr Rehabilitation fund. This has not been only a stupid call from some stupid fanatic cults of our country, this Friday I have found the Khwatib of the national mosque (Baitul Mukarram) to encourage people to do so. Don’t you think that this is a very meaningless publicity? When we can call for a cost replacement? Only when the cost is for something meaningless. But how can we categorize Eid-ul-Azha an issue where we can give up??? Is it a worthless wastage of money? Ain’t there other worthless issues in our country where thousands & millions of taka is spent? This is quite unacceptable that Dhaka Club will arrange International Sport Carnival with over Tk.3 million expenditure at the full support & assistance of the government; on the other hand Mufti Muhammad Nooruddin, honorable Imam of Baitul Mukarram will encourage this kind of meaningless deeds.
I don’t understand that why all liabilities are thrown upon the middle class of the nation? Taxes, price hike etc. already are squeezing all relaxation off them, now this is the new thing that, the Qurbani, for which they keep saving money all along the year should be given to Sidr Rehabilitation Fund. Is Qurbani a worthless expense? Is this is a wastage of money? If it is not, then why should people compromise that? Qurbani is a responsibility for all solvent Muslims who can afford it. It is nothing worthless like Sports Carnival at Dhaka Club or Golf Tournament at Kurmitola Golf Club. Some sensitive things like these should be made very clear to people, instead of contributing in stupid publicities. Baitul Mukarram Imam Mufti Nooruddin probably is now thinking that what he has done has been a very great thing that he has been able to throw the fanaticism off himself as he called for the giving up Qurbanis to raise Sidr funds. But he doesn’t know or he ain’t thinking that to what kind of confusion he has led people today.

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A movement, which calls people to put their religious terms off themselves, should never be appreciated. This is not a good sign for our society. This kind of movements should be strongly protested by us. Because Eid-ul-Azha is not only a festival to be enjoyed with fashion designers’ sound market & new cut style of Punjabi-pajama, it’s a religious engagement of festivity which gets its completion when the Qurbani is done in proper ways. Those who cannot afford for Qurbani, will get their rightful share from those who can afford. Instead of Qurbani, the Eid-ul-Azha is nothing and asking to give up Qurbani is equivalent to discouraging people from performing Eid-ul-Azha. This is completely unacceptable. Nobody has right to do so. Nobody has right to ask a Muslim to do so. Nobody has right to ask a Hindu to give up all preparations of Durga Pooja. Nobody has the right to ask a Christian to keep away of Christmas. Any such call is a clear threat to the society, is the sign of a worse thing to come.

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Finally RAW Has Showed Up

Posted by xanthis on December 9, 2007

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After 330 days of this caretaker government has appeared, involvement of Indian secret agency RAW have been visible quite clearly. Right this moment, RAW has taken a position which is against this regime of Bangladesh as guessed. If we observe post-Sidr political round-ups profoundly, we can be convinced that many of events those we were pretending to be coincidences, really are not. It’s not like, before Sidr, it was a complete apathy of RAW in Bangladesh Caretaker Government issues. But at this month of victory and bloody history of intellectual massacres, Bangladeshi regime has been pushed to deal with few sensitive issues, which I guess is engineered by RAW. I am sure that we will see some faces into present round up of Bangladesh like, Shahriar Kabir, Abdul Gaffar Chowdhury, Hassan Imam etc.

Possible incidents which may happen in near future-

· Some of our so called intellectuals will call for the demand of Hasina’s release from abroad, like from England, India etc.

· Our Chief Advisor will receive letters from some MPs of England or some senators or congressmen of United States or from both of the superpowers, which will state request (a) to release all detained teachers & students, (b) to attempt to restore democracy soon, (c) to reconsider detention orders of top political leaders (specially of Awami League)

· Comparison will be there between this regime & 71’s military junta in the issue of detaining, allegedly torturing DU teachers. (I think this comparison will be a no nonsense)

 

· Retrospective RAW associates of Bangladesh like Shahriar Kabir, Hassan Imam will show up at any issue (you know we never had lack of issues).

 

· Finally demand for Hasina’s release, protest against DU & RU teacher students detention order, movement against 71’s Razakars will meet a single point or will go through a single stream, which will be led to a bigger movement against the present caretaker government, the government which is democratic by no means.

 

 

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Now, this regime has shown their ability to infiltrate any anti government plans in advance already by its agents from different intelligence & secret agencies. Mid August student insurgence this year has been dealt by this regime very keenly & sophisticatedly, so anybody who wants to play game with this regime has to think before making any move. I am not quite sure, but if the present round up is engineered by RAW anyhow, this regime has obviously been noticed about possible consequences in advance and I don’t know what kind of & what magnitude of counter-intelligence moves they have made yet. Nothing can be stated for sure because, this regime has been seen to make mistakes but they have repelled immediately after any of those took effects. Its not like, RAW is dealing with any military regime of Bangladesh for first time in last 36 years, but this time, I guess the game will be smooth for nobody, rather there is chance for it to be a little smoother for the caretaker government side.

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“I Have Earned A Million by Stealing, Smuggling & Piracy… Now Free Me”

Posted by xanthis on December 8, 2007

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The draft of the Truth and Accountability Commission has been completed, an official said Saturday.

A four-member committee designed the structure and legal affairs of the commission, which will continue for one year.

Corruption suspects—especially businesspeople—will be able to confess crimes to the commission, the draft said.

The commission’s activities are likely to begin in January.

Advocate Anisul Huq, a committee member, told bdnews24.com that they had submitted the draft to Lt.Gen. Masud Uddin Chowdhury, coordinator of the national coordination committee on curbing serious crimes.

The 18-page draft contains 27 sections. The committee recommends naming the commission “Truth and Accountability Commission”.

“The commission will be absolutely independent,” Anisul Huq said.

The commission will be formed with three to five members, with a retired chief justice leading the way.

Other members will be either a judge of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court or persons experienced in law and justice.

The draft said any person can enjoy the facilities of the commission, but the persons who have already been accused in cases pending trial will not qualify.

“If any person confesses crimes, no legal steps will be taken against him, unless he gets involved in further crimes,” he said.

Courtesy: BDNews24

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Finally the commission where a criminal will get a full free scholarship for his truthfulness has been made. After about a year since they came, the Caretaker Government has realized that the thing is distressing them too much is lying & false statements. As they have now come to feel that they have nearly made it to be the sole agent of the almighty who will provide all facilities in exchange of true statements. If you have been a thief for many years, if you have made the government fund nearly empty, if you have earning millions of money by smuggling or by other illegal means, it’s the time for you to get a perfect relaxation, because our caretaker government has made things too smooth for you that, you will never have to pass years in jail for your illegal operations if you just do one thing, confess in front of them. So from now, you will earn millions of money by raising the price of onion to double, and immediately will make a call to truth commission, will say “Sir, at your Doa, I have brought another Humvee Hummer after yesterday’s rally of onion price”, that’s it, judiciary will never touch you again.

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Another Step to Get Furious

Posted by xanthis on December 7, 2007

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While many audio tapes were coming to the hand of people about guessed DGFI interrogation of corrupt politicians like Abdul Jalil, Sheikh Fazlul Karim Selim, Waqil Chairman etc., none of any intelligence agencies has been seen to protest them. Neither DGFI, nor TFI has claimed these audio tapes as fake. If we come to consider that their silence is equivalent to acceptance of those tapes to the regime, if ears of millions like us have not betrayed, if audio devices of our computers haven’t run bad, for several times we have heard the name of Mr. Manzur Elahi and about his his son, who have been linked with Awami League President Sheikh Hasina by Gulshan Awami League’s Waqil Chairman in an illegitimate financial deal. Manzur Elahi, owner of the Apex Group was interested to get some impression of Sheikh Hasina over himself & his business as he wanted to raise the fund of Awami League or, Sheikh Hasina’s one personally. This entire process was patched up by Gulshan Thana Awami League leader Waqil Chairman via Awami League General Secretary Abdul Jalil. Many events like these, which describe financial collaboration between some of businessmen and party leaders, have been classified as extortion cases and most of the influential politicians of the country have been thrown to jail for such cases. Now, in an illegal transaction, the payer & the paid, both are guilty at same level, a child even knows this. But, Mr. Manzur Elahi, a son of ‘Syed Bangsho’, has not been brought to any judicial or law enforcers’ investigation due to his alleged involvement in illegitimate deals, rather on this very day, this ‘recently’ controversial personality has been appointed as the ‘administrator’ of top most business forum of the country, FBCCI.

fbcci-2007-08-28.jpgIt is obviously not like that, Manzur Elahi has been perfectly proved guilty, but the appointment of such controversial personality will turn this decision into a controversial decision. This will obviously deliver a bad consequence in the top level business atmosphere of the country. FBCCI, it’s already passing through a turmoil due to cancellation of polling abilities of Anisul Haque with four other members, now the decision of caretaker government to appoint Syed Manzur Elahi has definitely did nothing but sedition to the top most businessman’s forum of Bangladesh. I don’t know for what Manzur Elahi has been rewarded. From next Sunday, Manzur Elahi will be inside “Federation Bhaban” at Motijheel with his Nissan Patrol as the administrator, when Sheikh Hasina will be consulting her lawyers for their next course of action to fight for her innocence in extortion cases. These two scenes will emit a contrasting complexion, very much contrasting.

 

LOOK !! WHAT THEY DID TO MY COUNTRY !!!

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6th Semester Got Kissed Good Bye

Posted by xanthis on December 6, 2007

My 6th semester at North South University has been kissed good bye this evening. I have a regular ST class tomorrow though, that’s an extra class piece of shit & doesn’t deserve to be taken in account anyhow. So, I consider that toady’s MAT350 class by Samad ‘AdS’ Sir was the last class of this semester. I can say, MAT350 is the only course in my semester I can mention where I never got bored. I took following courses in this semester,
ETE212 (Introduction to Digital Electronics) by Naimul Bashar Sir. May Allah bless ALH students.
MAT350 (Engineering Mathematics) by Abdus Samad Sir. The one which at least reserved some floor to get relieved.
MAT361 (Introduction to Statistics & Probability) by Zafar Ahmed Sir.
PHY108 (General Physics Part II) by Zasim Mazumdar Sir.

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click for more photos of last class of Fall 2007

 

TAs of two courses MAT350 & PHY108, Jaan-e-Alam Bhai, Tarek Bhai & Tariq Bhai were nice with us where as others were very much ill fated snobs, busy but apparently worthless and stupids with their identities that, they are TAs.
I had a clash between final exams of MAT350 & MAT361, but finally got dissolved while MAT361’s Zafar Ahmed sir came to decide that he would take the final of clash-maligned 5 students on probably 17 December. This will make me become free of all finals & studies stuffs for this semester on 17 December. Courtesy of Zafar Ahmed sir definitely deserves our gratefulness but on the other hand, Abdus Samad sir was absolutely ready to take our special final as he kept his helping hand as the last resource for us.

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Jaghannath Hall Massacre`71 : I Have Found The Video Tape

Posted by xanthis on December 3, 2007

I have heard slightly about this video tape, but never came to watch it or find it. Finally Youtube was the place which served it. This video tape has been posted by some Mashuqur. This video tape shows the massacre by Pakistani Army which they did on the students of Dhaka University on a open ground by Jaghannath Hall at broad day light. This video first came to exposure at NBC News which was presented by Ronald ‘Ron Harold’ Nessen, who later became the Press Secretary (1974-77) of President of United States Gerald Ford. Nessen came to Dhaka before the surrender of Niazi to cover the story. Then he somehow collected the clip from unknown source & this tape was immediately sent to NBC News through satellite.

The video tape is the part of a January 7, 1972 news clip of NBC News.

Commentary of Ron Nessen behind the report on NBC News.

“This slightly blurry ameture video tape, which has been kept hidden for the past 9 months shows that Pakistani soldiers executing students, professors and workers of the university of Dacca last March 26. The first sequence shows that Pakistani soldiers forcing students to carry & pile up the bodies of victims already killed. The tape was made secretly by a professor of engineering by a portable tape machine hidden on the roof of a building about 300 yards from the killings. A Pakistani execution squad lined up slightly to the right of the centre of the screen. About 20 people have been herded at the killing ground from the right corner of the picture. One man dressed in black dropped to his knees & begged for mercy. The Pakistani soldier opened fire. One man was left standing after the first barrage. He was finally killed by the Pakistani soldier seen with a riffle. Then the Pakistanis went among the bodies shooting close up to make sure that their victims are dead. This is just one small episode of Pakistani Massacre. The killings were the beginning of the rein terror by Pakistan, which set off a revolt by Bengalis ended in the liberation of Bangladesh. Ron Nessen, NBC News, Dacca.”

 

This is the video tape which was taped by Prof. Nur Ullah, a teacher of East Pakistan Engineering University in 1971, from his residence which just by the ground where the massacre was done. Massacre shown in the video tape has been done in broad day light by Pakistan Army on December 26, 1971. This report was kept hidden by the recorder for about 10 months. Finally this showed up while thousands of journalists attended the surrender after liberation. This video tape was taken into account later by Hamudur Rahman Commission which has stated at its report that Pakistan Army has done cold blooded massacre inside Dhaka University.

Will Pakistanis still deny what they did in 1971? Now at least don’t say that this video tape has been engineered.

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