The rise of a modern terrorist party in Bangladesh disguised in the pretence of secularism

The name ‘Awamileague’ stands for party of people, but in recent history they have completely gone off from the ideology of their founding father, from a party of people to a party of terrorist, fascist tyrannical dictator. It is said by many people that modern Awamileague party by all its action and characteristics has become like Italian Mafia gang run by one family. They have similar structure and operational method as the Mafia. If any of their opponents become too dangerous for them, they would abduct them, kill them, or send to them some of their loyal armed police, who will bunch them in to a car and take them to their torture chamber in their police station and handicap them for life. Even within their rank and file, many Awamileague leaders are afraid to speak against Mujibs family for fear of reprisal. The difference between Italian Mafia and Awamileague is that, the Mafia has a private army outside state control, and to some extend it is always hiding from the state law enforcers, and are afraid of them, but the Awamileague government in Bangladesh has a state private army within a state, which is immune from prosecution, and it uses its authority to terrorise its population and political opponent with impunity. This army of terrorist is directly control by Sheikh Hasina and her family.

One may be wondering how a country’s Prime Minister could be unaccountable to the public, and how was it that she was elected to power with public support. As I said in my title, Awamileague fooled the people by disguising themselves with the label of secularism, and myriads of fancy words such as party of freedom, party of liberation, and a party against war crimes. But even this would not have been enough to give them brute majority in the parliament, so under false promises, they made alliances with Gen Hussain Muhammad Ershad’s Jatiyo Party, promising him the office of the president, and many parliamentary seats, they made alliances with other leftist and rightist party’s promising them good governance and rule of law, but even this too was not enough, so they promised India, and the USA of unconditional cooperation in commerce and regional security, if they could convince General Moyeen U Ahmed, who was the caretaker government de-facto head to rig the election for them, so a two third majority could be given to them. India gladly helped them with money and men as was reported many times by the world famous magazine ‘The Economist’. What is surprising is that apart from India getting all that Sheikh Hasina had promised them, none of the other got much out of her other than a few bits and pieces. USA began to lose confidence in her once she started to show her real face in consolidating absolute power and beginning to demonise Nobel Laureate DR Yunus with the intention of stripping him from Grameen Bank directorship and capturing the 1 billion dollar Bank for the poor, which he had founded under the principle of micro credit. Dr Yunus is now penniless and his bank is robbed from him, and placed under her government control, so slowly the money could be stolen to finance Sheikh Hasina’s family empire.
 

The USA realized their mistake when Sheikh Hasina attacked DR yunus over his Grameen Bank. The former USA secretary of state Hilary Clinton made a phone call to Sheikh Hasina to highlight their concern about DR Yunus. Former President Clinton was a good friend of DR younus, and very much admired Dr yunus micro credit concept, so demonising Dr yunus by Sheikh Hasina personally hurt the Clintons family. Secretary clinton phoned Hasina to express their concern about DR yunus, she pointed out that matter related to Dr yunus was very much disliked in the USA government. So as a reminder of their favour to Hasina, secretary Clinton pointed out how Hasina was helped to come to power. The following is an extract of that conversation leaked in the media:

Hillary: “Madame Prime Minister (Sheik Hasina), I thought I would not have to go that far, unfortunately, I was wrong. I hope you know as much we know, how your government came to power. Don’t forget that we helped you congratulating you after the election, terming it as free and fair. You know Prime Minister, how this election result was pre-arranged at the behest of our good friend in New Delhi. We acted the way they suggested us. And please don’t forget that Gen. Moyeen, who brought you to power, now in the USA and perhaps, we now know, more than you could possibly imagine. Prime Minister, I am not saying that we will disown you soon, I am just trying to place issues in the order of history demands it”.

Hasina: “Madame Secretary (Clinton), we are aware of your support and assistance. We will do all we can to keep you happy. Don’t worry, we noted your point. Now let me know when you are coming to visit my country.”

In spite of a promise, Sheikh Hasina never lived to it, and eventually sacked DR Yunus from the Grameen Bank, and it is now in Hasina’s government control. USA in the modern history had made many mistakes, and I don’t know how many more mistakes they had to make before they stop interfering with other countries internal affairs. If these two countries, India, and USA had kept their nose away from Bangladesh internal affairs, Sheikh Hasina could not have imposed so much misery and injustice to the people of Bangladesh.

Once Awamileague came to power, Sheikh Hasina made sure only Mafia Style members of parliament was chosen as her ministers, or those who had been extremely loyal, almost submitting to her like slaves. Then she arranged the massacre of Army officers in Pilkhana, who she thought would be potential danger to her authority, with the help of Indian RAW. Then she systematically appointed her loyal civil servant, judges, police, and some top Army officers in state institution. Once this was complete, she began amending the constitution to fit her terrorist and fascist mentality. She removed the provision of caretaker government from the constitution so that she will stay in power for life. According to constitution expert, Bangladesh constitution has become a written party manifesto rather than the country’s guiding principle representing people’s aspiration.

Once all her power was consolidated, she began to suppress her opposition, especially Bangladesh Jamati Islam, and Bangladesh BNP of Begum Zia, Both party members were abducted, killed, jailed, and tortured unlike anything that we witnessed in the past forty years of Bangladesh history. Democracy only existed in name and secularism was only a mask to fool the west, Awamileague began acting like a terrorist gang killing Muslims and none Muslims alike, their killing spree peaked when they killed unarmed sleeping Hifazot man in Dhaka Shapla Chottor on the night of 5th of May. This killing has been documented by International Human Rights organization, and Bangladeshi Human Rights Organization ‘ODHIKAR’.  Adilur Rahman, the director of Odhikar was arrested soon after publishing that report against the government. Their website can be visited at http://odhikar.org.

Today Bangladesh Awamileague is continuing to terrorise its population, disrespecting and rejecting the opposition demand for Sheikh Hasina to step down and to restore the caretaker government provision, so that a credible, free and fare election could be held. Bangladesh constitution is longer a document of law, but it has become a family note book for Sheikh Hasina to write and delete as she sees fit. Her son Joy has recently joined her as a second lieutenant to fool the west again by his lies about rise of Islamic fundamentalist and terrorism. He is constantly consulting with India in violation of loyalty to Bangladesh and in effect colluding with the Indian to come to power again by silencing any international opposition, destroying the political party’s of Bangladesh that opposes Awamileague hegemony and terrorism. Awamileague has also formed a media group that acts as a cover for their wrong. These electronic and print media group are known to the opposition as information terrorist group. Their only job is to distort the fact, and carry out propaganda for the Awami government. The world must wake up to a new Hitler that terrorises its population under the pretence of secularism. Bangladesh Awamileague should be listed as a terrorist party by the UN unless it desists in terrorising and killing its political opponent.

Hussain Muhammad Ershad’s Jatyio Party’s proposed alliances, in the context of recent political development in Bangladesh.

Recent statement made by Hussain Muhammad Ershad has some positive and some negative aspect in the context of recent political development. The positive aspect is his expressed determination not to go to any election if the main opposition BNP does not take part. But his intention though strongly expressed, nevertheless, not leaving the Awami Alliance has cast some doubt on peoples mind. It is yet to be seen whether he makes that crucial announcement in next few days. However, there is one aspect of his initiative to form an alliance with some of the smaller party such as Bikolpo Dara, Kirishok Sromik Dall and other leftist has left me wonder what his aims and objectives are, as regards to removing Hasina’s government from power. On the one hand he is claiming Awamileague had failed the people by abolishing caretaker government, and on other hand he criticises the BNP for wanting to have a caretaker government. In his word they are both for power, and not for the people. He misses one crucial point and that is, without power, none can do anything for the people. But the question is, how to achieve the power; through illegal and unfair means or through transparent, fair, and free election, where the will of the people will be reflected without rigging.

In the present context of political tyranny, the only way to restore democratic values and principles is to have a common goal of compelling the government to accept a none partisan interim government, which can then undo all the politicisation that Awamileague had done to civil administration so that a fair election could be held without the threat of coercion or influence by the sitting government of Sheikh Hasina. People then will have the freedom to exercise their vote as they wish ,and a true result from the election will be reflected. There is no harm in making alliances with other smaller party to oppose the Awamileague or to win an election, but this alliance should not be at the expense of dividing the opposition agitation against the government to restore a caretaker government. In a recent news report Ershad apparently had said that their prospective alliance will not participate in any anti government agitation with the 18 party alliances, if that is the policy of the new alliance, then this policy will be a wrong policy which will not further the cause for which the overwhelming majority of population is aspiring. Rather Ershads prospective alliance, if any, should join hand with the 18 party alliances in a joint campaign for a common goal for realizing a none partisan election time government. In this way the opposition will be much stronger and will have a chance to force Sheikh Hasina to accept their demand without having to go the extreme.

Politics should not be always about gaining power, but it should some times be to safe guard democratic values, justice, rule of law and stability, when clearly a government goes off its mandate. In all respect, the present Awami government has violated the sanctity of the constitution, good governance, alienated the people by supporting and sponsoring anti Islamic sentiment, violating human rights, killing abducting and arresting people with impunity. This government not only conspired with, and lied to its own people but have sold the countries sovereignty to foreign whims and dictates. It has shown in multiple contracts with India that it can not be trusted with our national security and interest. Therefore, it is even more urgent and significant that as citizen of the country every people from all walks of life should participate in this campaign to remove this tyrant government from power by forcing it to accept what is a just demand of the people. Know that supporting a tyrant government to stay in power is against Islamic teachings, human ethics, or principle of justice. If HM Ershad does anything to the contrary, it will loose support and respect of the people.

After five years of failed promises, mismanagement, myriads of corruption, and human right abuses, Awami government of Sheikh Hasina has lost public support and confidence over more than 80 percent of the population. It is only clinging in to power due to politicising of the police, RAB and the BGB, and other law enforcement agencies which are acting like party activists. Not only Sheikh Hasina destroyed the sanctity of the constitution, but it has siphon millions of public money through corruption and family racketeering. She has destroyed one of the country’s prides, the ‘Grameen Bank’ that the Bangladesh Nobel Laureate DR Younus had founded.  One of the countries biggest bridge project was destroyed due to her support for one of her close family friend and a former communication Minister Mr Abul Hussain. Mr Abul was founded to be involved in corruption, in an investigation carried out by the World Bank, but the Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina had refused to sack him and had not agreed to an investigation when demanded by the World Bank, until it was too late and the loan had been withdrawn. Her government frequently abused the judiciary in suppressing the opposition, abducted M Elias Ali, a popular opposition MP, killed unarmed Hifazot men when they came to protest in the Capital against government supported sacrilegious crimes against the Prophet Muhammad, and vengefully, without due respect to international norms and standard, they have prosecuted opposition Jamati Islam leaders for war crimes that had happened more than forty years ago, in spite of numerous pleas from international lawyers and human rights organization for a fair trial based on international standards. Government is indifferent to public opinion or rule of law. In this critical moment of Tyrannical power, only a united front by all the main stream and smaller political party’s of Bangladesh can lead to a resolution by compelling the government to accept their demand. Bangladesh Jamati Islam and Bangladesh Nationalist party are two of the biggest party which can not be ignored in any settlement. Begum Zia has made it crystal clear that she will not accept anything less then a none partisan interim government headed by a neutral person to conduct a free, fair, and credible election. She said to accept anything less would be like supporting injustice, and she can not agree to injustice, as this would a betrayal of peoples trust to her.

Therefore, in the interest of people of Bangladesh, Ershads JP must participate in the 18 party alliances anti government agitation program.