Indian Dadas who believe Bangladesh has no right to exist.
Masudk Kondaker, UK
After failing to impose economic sanction on Bnagladesh by Western
Nations the Indian dadas now come up with ideas to invade Bangladesh.
Some people are writing to Secretary General of United Nations not to
allow Bangladesh Pri-Minister to adress United Nations General
Assembly. Those people who are doing this they forget their duty as a
concerned citizen to show respect and allegience to the sovrenity of
Bangladesh.
It does not matter whether it is Khaleda Zia or Sheikh Hasina or
anybody else. It is the chair of Pri-Minister who is going to
represent Bangladesh in United Nations General Assemly. If Khaleda Zia
or Sheikh Hasina violeted the law as Pri-Minister any citizen can go
to court of Bangladesh and they can be tried in Bangladesh according
to the land of the law.
Here is the link of Indian Dadas who believe Bangladesh has no right to exist.
http://newstodaynet.com/guest/0109gu1.htm
What should we do with Bangladesh?
M V KAMATH
Something is fundamentally wrong with Bangladesh politics. And if
India does not take immediate and strong steps things are going to get
worse. Consider this: In a span of 40 minutes between 400 and 500 bomb
devices were exploded in 63 out of 64 districts in the State with
frightening precision. That many devices were put together, despatched
without being discovered to various stations and set to a particular
point in time speaks not just of logistic skills, but the reach of the
organisation responsible for the horrendous and barbaric act.
Targeted were government offices, markets and bus and railway
stations, obviously to attract the greatest attention. The fact that
so few were killed - 100 reportedly were injured - shows that the
terrorists are more not so much anxious to kill as much as to show
their strength, which should be more worrisome, what it means is that
worse attacks can now be expected.
It may be remembered that at least 134 people have been killed in the
past and over 1,000 injured across Bangladesh in bomb and grenade
attacks in the last six years. The worst attack was in August last
year when 23 were killed, including the Bangladesh National Party's
Women Affairs Secretary Ivy Rahman. Sheikh Hasina was injured along
with some 300 party activists. And yet one hears so little of
government action.
Bangladesh is a rift-ridden country which, in the first place, has no
right to exist. Partition of Bengal under Lord Curzon had to be
annulled for peace to be re-established in the province. If we have to
have peace again, serious thought has to be given on how to handle
present day Bangladesh. It is plainly silly to believe that the
hard-line outfits like Jamaat-i-Islami, Islami Oikya Jote, Islamic
Shashan-tantra Andolan and Khilafat Andolan will give up their
terrorism easily. Leaflets found at the bomb site make it clear what
these outfits want. They say: 'It is time to implement Islamic Iaw in
Bangladesh. There is no future with man-made laws'.
The leaflets have warned NGOs to stop 'anti-Islamic activities' lest
they are 'uprooted'. In the past secular journalists, teachers and
intellectuals were the targets. It will be remembered that poet
Shamsur Rahman was attacked by Harkatul militants a few years ago.
Others who have either been attacked or been threatened with death
include Humayun Azad, a Dhaka University teacher and writer,
journalists Arefin Siddiqui, Abed Khan and Shahriar Kabir and
University teachers Mutesir Mamum.
According to Nobel Laureate Amartya Sen, there is a strong current of
secularism in Bangladesh, but if that is so, it does not show.
Everybody apparently is frightened. If it was just a matter of
establishing Islamic Law in Bangladesh, the matter can be of no
concern to India. But the matter is much more serious than that.
Bangladesh Muslims have been steadily infiltrating into Assam and West
Bengal and patrolling is of no use. Border patrolling and forcing have
been tried to no effect. District after district both in Assam and in
West Bengal is being taken over by Bangladeshi Muslims and judging by
events no one can take Dhaka's assurance that the Bangladesh territory
would not be allowed to be used by forces hostile to India.
The strategy of the Islamic extremists is clearly two-fold: One, to
push more and more Bangladesh Muslims into Assam and West Bengal and
virtually take over the two States. The Congress in the past,
especially in Assam, and the CPM now ruling in Kolkata are responsible
for this influx of outsiders.
According to Indrajit Gupta, a former Home Minister, as many as 10
million Bangladesh were living in India illegally between 1996 and
1998. That number has since grown to 20 million, according to Bhibhuti
Bhushan Nandy, as reported in The Statesman (23 June 2005). Letting
them live unchecked is asking for trouble.
One does not know exactly what went on between India's Foreign
Minister Natwar Singh and Khaleda Zia's government when the former
called on her recently. But the time has come for India to take not
just 'stern' action - that is so much talk - but a full-length
invasion of Bangladesh to make it clear to the terrorists that enough
is enough, District after district is being taken along India's
borders with Nepal and Bangladesh and they include Darjeeling, Uttar
Dinajpur, Dakshin Dinajpur, Malda, Murshidabad, Nadia, Uttar 24
Paraganas and Dakshmin 24 Paraganas. This is silent invasion with a
vengeance. It cannot be tolerated. There are two courses open to India
: drive the aliens out, bag and baggage
or mount an invasion to enforce the demographic balance that existed
in pre-independence times. It is no secret that both the ISI and,
significantly enough China, have been encouraging the Wahabis in
Bangladesh. It is not that Delhi has not been warned of Bangladeshi
infiltration in the past.
The report submitted as early as in 1998 by Lt General S K Sinha, then
Governor of Assam, is there for all to see. In his report General
Sinha wrote: 'Large-scale illegal immigration from East Pakistan /
Bangladesh over several decades has been altering the demographic
complexion of the State (Assam).
It poses a grave threat both to the identity of the Assamese people
and to our national security... The unabated influx of illegal
migrants from Bangladesh threatens to reduce the Assamese to a
minority in their own State... This silent and invidious demographic
invasion of Assam may result in the loss of geo-strategically vital
districts in Lower Assam. The influx of these illegal migrants is
turning these districts into a Muslim majority region. It will then
only be a matter of time when a demand for their merger with
Bangladesh may be made'. That warning has gone unheeded.
The latest developments in Bangladesh indicate that India must now get
into the action mode before it is too late. The United States should
be told of the facts, though one can be sure it is fully aware of it.
Washington has been involved with Bangladesh right from the beginning
and an American journal has now disclosed that it was the CIA that was
behind the assassination of Sheikh Mujibhur Rehman in 1975. It was the
CIA that promoted the Taliban and all Quaida in Pakistan to fight
Soviet influence in Afghanistan.
Now the United States must be told in no uncertain terms that India
will not put up with a failed State ' as Bangladesh presently is' any
longer, in India's own interest, as well as in the interest of peace
in the subcontinent. Prevarication will only bring in more trouble. Dr
Manmohan Singh had threatened Pakistan with a 'hard' line if terrorism
is not stopped in Jammu Kashmir. Dr Singh must go a step forward in
dealing with Bangladesh. The Islamic terrorists in Bangladesh must
know that India means business. And the sooner it is made clear to
them, the better for all concerned.
(The author is a veteran journalist and chairman of the Prasar Bharati.)
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