Legacy of Martial law and Democracy grown in Garrison

Bangalee is a rare genre of nation which feels ecstatic seeing calamity like 'martial law' or 'emergency' gulping the nation. Again, soon eulogy turns into agony, optimism turns into despair, and national hero reduces to zero - anything is possible and visible in capricious history of Bangladesh where truth can be hardly differentiated from the false. If we consider Bangladesh Army as clone of patriarch Pakistan, how contradictory it is with the eulogy often heard in the mass media these days portraying our army as true flag bearer of our liberation war and saviour of the nation in critical juncture of history.

Direct participation of army in our politics started on the ominous morning of August 15, 1975. Without mincing words or muzzling plain truth, Ziaur Rahman spearheaded that campaign. Dissecting ethics from politics and turning it as a saleable commodity was his only achievement. When the killers of women and children were medalled as national hero by him, he has been, till today, worshipped by his successors as hero at par with Mujib and Bhashani in our history. As an able heir of legacy of martial law, Zia crashed secularism and added Islamic placebo to state policy for political expediency. Bangladeshi nationalism was uniquely invented by this Army General with a view to stripping Bangalee nation of her culture, heritage and history.

The next hero of martial law is Hussain Ershad , unlike his ruthless guru General Zia, he earned the reputation of an acclaimed debonair and a poet in his own right. He has successfully completed the incomplete historical task bestowed upon him by his martyr guru to turn secular Bangladesh into a fundamentalist state and to turn Bangalee into Bangladeshi. Yet Ershad,s position in the history is not at par with his guru, because his image was not of a blood-thirsty warrior, rather a Lt. General poet with extraordinary taming skill of the shrew. He is still alive, marginalized human but living in opulence of unlimited corruption. His guru has got martyrdom.

The third advent of martial law (civil version) took place, amid much funfair and upsurge of national optimism, on January 11, 2007 under the command of General Moin, a World Bank cadre Fakruddin in the forefront as dummy and two demagogues; ex-General Matin and Barrister Mainul as civilian stooges. This martial law is evangelized with only agenda to uproot corruption from every sphere of nation. A day after the promulgation of emergency, none other than Tofael Ahmed, a name synonymous with the history of our independence, gave an interview to BBC in a trembling emotion choked voice eulogizing this clique as saviour of our nation. I was numbed. . Only four months have passed since. Mr. Tofael Ahmed, our political leader of unparallel stature – is your eulogy too soon turning into haunting nightmare! I wonder.

First political stunt of the bossman was to decry the nation for failing to recognize father of the nation. Confused and carried away, a pro-liberation friend of mine soon sent me a brief message bitterly denouncing my scepticism about the current affairs in the country and my obstinacy about abhorring uniform in politics. Second bombshell was photo collage of national heroes at parade ground on Independence Day. I considered it as the funeral of our history, when a formerly pseudo-communist and now a civil society agent, editor of a popular Bengali daily dubbed it as true portrait of our history. My friends of hope remained silent and baffled. Recently from a podium shared with North America based political theory-monger Dr. Zillur Rahman Khan, General Moin has hinted of a special recipe of democracy to cure the ills of our nation. The first monumental step towards that was to induct Dr. Yunus into politics. A giant leap of respectable Dr.Yunus like a lion into empty political arena protected by emergency law and soon cowering like a mouse back to old business den was the first crack and proof of strategic incompetence of the Generals and their cadres. Congenitally doomed Minus Two theory drove a fatal wage into the crack. The series of events; the ordeal of Hasina in exile, Khaleda under eviction threat, government’s denial of involvement, arrest and release of Koko, imposition of reforms on political parties, tall talks in seminars and zero progress on the ground on holding a fair election etc. have started activating the thought process of individual Bangalee – what is there under the wrap!

The status of city Mayors Qamran, Mahiuddin, Minu, Tyeb, Sarwar and Khoka gives a clear sense how deeply this anti-graft campaign is laced with partisan politics. What is the mesh size of the anti-graft dragnet! Is it a single dragnet or multi sized! Mahiuddin Khan Alamgir is in the prison, Syed Iskander along with family, couple of days ago, flew to UK for leisure and participation in family events. What about Obaidul, Jalil and so on, or, how about General Ershad, Shahjahan Omar, Aminul, Shamim Eskander and so on. The initial balance between the campaigns of anti-graft and anti-politics is now totally lost. The only sworn motto of this government to eradicate corruption is now tailgating their political agenda. And the agenda is to incubate a genetically modified political party with a manifesto of democracy grown in the green house. In fact, from Tareq to Mayor Mahiuddin, under the pretext of house cleaning thousands detained for political strategy and soon will be used as pawns on political chess game. To substantiate this claim look at Pakistan, our patriarch of martial law.

The Leaflet Bangalees in Toronto handed down to Canadians to build opinion against Killer Mahiuddin

WANTED IN BANGLADESH

THIS IS THE PORTRAIT OF AKM MOHIUDDIN
A COLD BLOODED ASSASSIN

A LEADER OF THE MILITARY COUP D’TAT STAGED IN BANGLADESH
ON AUGUST 15, 1975

MOHIUDDIN ALLEGEDLY COMMANDED THE KILLER SQUAD INTO THE SUBURBAN VILLA OF THE ELECTED PRESIDENT OF BANGLADESH AND BRUTALLY KILLED

BANGABANDHU SHEIKH MUJIBUR RAHMAN
The then elected President of Bangladesh, revered by millions as the greatest Bengali of all time.

ALSO KILLED ALL OTHER MEMBERS OF THE PRESIDENT’S FAMILY PRESENT IN THAT VILLA ON THAT FATEFUL NIGHT. OTHER VICTIMS OF THE FAMILY ARE:

The wife of the President
His two adult sons and
Their wives; one of them was pregnant and begged mercy to the killers for the sake of the unborn
His 10 years old son
His handicapped brother

Mohiuddin, the mastermind and confessed participant of that carnage is awaiting extradition from USA to Bangladesh to face law for his alleged crime. His family is desperately trying to mislead Canadian Government with concocted information that He will be taken from Tarmac to execution once he reaches Bangladesh. The fact is that none of the convicts of this case in custody has been executed so far and every convict yet has the right to appeal against individual’s verdict in the court.

Millions of Bangladeshis living around the globe want this perpetrator to go back to Bangladesh and face justice of law. Please join our effort to resist this alleged criminal from entering into our sweet homeland Canada evading law of his own country. Email or call the Immigration Minister of Canada today to convey your message:
NO ASYLUM IN CANADA FOR THE ASSASSINN
mozammel.khan@sheridanc.on.ca; manirul@rogers.com; fatemolla@hotmail.com; amalikcdn@yahoo.com; nasirudduza@gmail.com

DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE: Myth vs. Facts

Late Dr. Nurul Ula, Professor, Electrical Department, BUET became famous for his documentary on genocide at Jagannath Hall that took place on early morning of March 26, 1971. He shot this film from the window of his BUET residence at Palashi on that fateful morning and immediately this documentary was smuggled out of the country which gave UN and the world first glimpse of genocide committed by Pakistani invading forces. I have had the rare opportunity to spend a good length of time and hear many untold issues and events of our political history from this legendary personality when we both were in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. He was professor of King Abdul Aziz University while I was working in Ministry of Electricity and that was the time from 1981 till 1986. Dr. Nurul Ula, who had a place in the household of Bangabandhu as a family member, claimed to have received unlimited affection and blessing of Bangabandhu. In early March, 1971 one morning Bangabandhu asked Dr. Nurul Ula to install a Radio wireless system in the house of Bangabandhu at Road 32, Dhanmondi. Bangabandhu expressed his intention to communicate with and give directives to his party leaders in Chittagong through this radio if situation would demand. Accordingly with the help of equipment of BUET communication lab Dr Nurul Ula could establish radio communication between Bangabandhu house and the leadership of Chittagong Awami League. I do not clearly remember which radio station was used in Chittagong. And according to Dr Nurul Ula, Bangabandhu could establish radio contact with Mr Hannan, leader of Chittagong Awami League immediate before he was arrested by invading forces in early morning of March 26, 1971 and asked Mr. Hannan to promulgate independence of Bangladesh in favour of Bangabandhu.