CORRUPTS SHOULD BE PUNISHED

ADVENTURISM AND OUTCOME- ARETROSPECTIVE STUDY

The nation had always found Bangladesh Army beside during any national crisis. We spared our every ounce without counting cost to ourselves and earned confidence of the people. Unfortunately at times we also involved ourselves in certain activities which were distastefully rejected by the people. On several occasions the officers of Bangladesh Army involved themselves in political adventurism which is commonly known as Military Coup. Let’s not try to examine the justification of the adventurism initiated by the so called intrepid officers during the past because like many other politico-military issues it will give rise to endless and fruitless debate. It is believed that few of the incidents were staged with self motivation whereas rest were planned by some supra national forces. Leaving aside the justification of the actions, let’s try to examine the outcome or end state of the actions taken by the perpetrators. Restrospecting the events and consequence following picture becomes vivid before us:
Coup of 75. The perpetrators could enjoy their life to the fullest extent almost for 80 days at the cost of rest of their life. For last 35 years none of them, even those who joined out of whim of juvenile age, could settle themselves anywhere in peace. Of course, some of them had to painfully settle themselves in the condemn cell for decades together. The rest are fugitives. Hapless Col Rashid ! If you knew about the impending sufferings of yours and your family, the off late suffering of your daughter and grand daughter as well, I am sure you would not have gone for that adventure. Flamboyant officers Farukh, Huda ! Please convey your feelings to others to make them feel your feelings. How painful the isolated life in condemn cell is ! Some of them could not even enjoy ‘eternal sleep’ under home soil and laid to rest under foreign soil. The fugitives left behind kith and kin, parent and friends behind and could never meet them again. Feel pity for the sons who could not stand beside dying parent and siblings. Enjoyment of few days caused endless punishment and furthermore is awaiting for the day of final judgment.
Nov 75. Brig Khaled Musharaf, although had a good intention of reestablishing chain of command in army, also involved himself in an abortive military coup in early Nov 75. Keeping aside the motivation and justification it is fact that Brig Khaled Musaraf could enjoy his position for just couple of days or possibly hours. So scanty tenure of life, like a drop of water in ocean. Col Taher, the hero of 07 Nov 75, arguably had noble death, left the widow and orphan to the mercy of others. Could he infuse his ideology to the nation. His handful supporters only observe the date solemnly but his dedication has not paid anything to the nation. His perception and under standing was also full of fallacy – Barlin wall is smashed, USSR is disintigrated, China is turning to capitalism and so forth.
Coup of 77. What nation has achieved except few dead bodies? Who counts whether their actions were justified or not ? Widows and orphans received no compensation-who cared for their ordeals ?
Coup of 81. What was the achievement of Gen Manzur, Brig Nawazesh, Brig Mohsin and others ? Zia was eliminated and so were you all. How many but your family members pay tribute ! The ways you followed were rejected, it is immaterial what the motive behind was.
Gen Ershad in 82. Enjoyed success for time being but earned the defame. Enjoyed the highest tenure as President yet hated so much many. Always under the threat of going behind the bar at any moment even at the twilight hours of life.
Gen Nasim in 96. Whether action was right or wrong went under oblivion within a day. Alas ! No one knows where the mighty CAS is ! If you did not like something you better had resigned that would have been nobel.
End Note. As has been observed in the history the people and only the people can change the system. People led by people’s leader may go for adventure, but a young military officer once take the venture brings only endless suffering for himself, his family and the nation itself. Unfortunately he only realises at the time when his suffering starts. Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.
Lesson learnt. Think simple think straight like true soldier, remain committed with your profession. Let the people be concerned about politics. You are not for it as it is too complicated and possibly dirty a business to be handled by the simple hearted, honest and disciplined guys like the Army officers.

LETTER TO ARMED FORCES OFFICERS

None fosters any doubt about the judgment and sagacity of the young officers of BD Army yet there are genuine reason to be little apprehensive that there is a slim chance that few vested corner might be able to sensitize you exploiting your touchy sentiments. They are trying to make young officers emotionally entangled with the anachronism such as intentional delay in trial of BDR carnage. We can not abruptly change the aged-old judiciary procedure in vague. Despite all out effort trial procedure of the Father of the Nation could not be expedited. Should anyone believe that the govt in power desires it to be lingered ? No, never. Delay is due to our long old judiciary system. Likewise the trial procedure of BDR carnage also needs time as we do not want to “burry the judgment by making it hurry”. If the evidences can not be made strong and prosecution is not well-knitted the barbarians of Pilkhana might be able to sneak out. Little but reasonable procrastination (what few people call) would be better than leaving chance for the barbarians to sneak though the gaps of law.

NATIONAL EDUCATION POLICY

PILKHANA TRAGEDY AND FEW WORDS

HOSTILE PROPAGANDA ON BDR INCIDENT

Propaganda effort with definite goal has been used since the prehistoric age but it paid substantial dividend prior to the World War -2. Goebles, the Information minister of Adolph Hitler gave a new dimension in propaganda effort by ensure repeated falsification of information that the Nazis wanted to home to fulfill their evil design. Since then the propaganda effort had been exploited in every ways by all interested groups and it turned to be the most effective way of influencing the public opinion be it in the right way or otherwise. But propaganda effort with blatant lie has become much less effective during the recent time. This is just because of the boom in the IT sector and enormous coverage of print and electronic media. Disinformation and misinformation can not go unchallenged in the contemporary world.

Recently certain vested corners are trying to destabilize the existing peace and tranquility of the country that could be achieved after the last historic election and swearing of the new democratic government. No sooner the government shouldered the mammoth task of establishing order in the society which was trodden by the BNP-Jamat allies and followed by the so call Caretaker Illegal Government for last seven years the heart-rending and barbarian episode in BDR was staged to serve the selfish political interest of the defeated goons. As the time is passing by the identity of the criminals involved in the savage atrocity is becoming clear. At the wake of such situation every effort are being taken by them to shift the blame to the political party in power. It is no wander that such processes are being planned and executed by the reactionaries. Multi-dimensional approach has been chosen by a forum which possibly is manned by the dissident members of various organizations. The language, approach, way of drawing inference, treacherous decoys and so forth indicate that the forum is an well organized body formed by the members of armed forces, law enforcing agencies, lawyers, political figures and surely under the auspicious of a foreign power.

Question comes as to why such requirement has been felt by the forum to send such a voluminous article in the blog site. One probability could be that they themselves are directly or indirectly involved in the BDR incident and need to shift blame on others. Alternatively they are trying to capitalize the situation through the heinous process of exploiting the incident against the popular democratic government. A careful study of the floated propaganda material makes it vivid that the stories are concocted but well-planned but lacks any substantiation whatsoever. Following rationales are sufficient to belie the concocted stories enumerated in the article.

v The originator informed that the write up is not for the member /supporters /collaborators of BNP /AL /Jamat or any other political party. If so whom the paper is written for! To my understanding there is hardly anyone in the country who is not inclined to any political party if he is not supporter at least. Is it written for any foreign national-why! Or else it aims to draw attention of illegal political parties like ‘Shorbohara’ etc.

v Indian TV channel NDTV could screen the death information of DG BDR because as soon as it heard the rumour it screened the rumour as it does not have any responsibility being a foreign channel. But our own TV channel could not be so irresponsible to let the people inform such a news not being sure. If you are too suspicious on everything then you may well doubt that all the TV channels of Bangladesh were also part of the intrigue.

v The vivid pen pictures of killing of certain officers mentioning the time and scenario indicate that the writer was personally present in the place of occurrence and supervised the killing! Otherwise how could he narrate the exact picture of assassination of Col Abtab, Col Elahi, Maj Mosaddeq and others alongwith mentioning the exact time.

v It is known that the DG BDR called PM over cell phone and requested help after 0930. In turn PM asked CAS to send support for rescue and at the same time she mobilized Air force also. Military element in Dhaka was not surely ready to face such a situation as it was a bolt from the blue. They had to organize themselves, get the arms and ammunition issued (which is always counted for), briefed, grouped and then move. It was not a battle situation that ammunition in-charge, weapon in-charge, vehicle drivers were just ready to move-may be many of them were undergoing training, some of the were in CMH and went out for some official purpose as happens day to day. A military commander never moves out for operation without comprehending situation, devising plan, taking adequate safety measures and briefing his men. It takes little time.

v DG BDR talked to PM and it is known to all and she reacted as deemed necessary. But the new information we got in this paper is that DG BDR also talked to DG DGFI which is a blatant lie and can easily be confirmed from the call list. The information must be made home that National Monitoring Cell that the article has referred about is under the control of Ministry of Home Affairs and as such it neither reports to DGFI nor DGFI controls its functioning. As per rules of business, DGFI is not concerned about BDR which is under Ministry of Home Affairs. However, it processes information those are provided by the intelligence organization of BDR and other para-military elements. We know that the intelligence element of BDR itself was not very informed about the incident at least about the graveness of it and so was not DGFI. The sequence of events is written in a way that it seems the writers were personally present in the Monitoring Cell during that time!

v How the writers came to know that nothing was asked to the killer about the fate of the offers during the negotiation period in PM’s office! Was he present or he had link with the BDR members who kept them always informed about the latest of negotiation?

v It was said that the CAS was informed from the National Monitoring Centre about the killing-but the writers do not know that the Monitoring centre does not have any responsibility to inform CAS nor can he ask them to give information. And in practice they never inform CAS.

v Another concocted part was about the alleged proposal by MP Nanok to Brigadier Mamun about handing over of dead bodies to the deceased’s relation keeping aside the media. The media had been there all through and covered every detail. Indeed the media had been giving live coverage of the event and few TV channels were hankering to find out anything which can be exploited to blame the government. But nothing of that kind which has been alleged about could be shown by those hostile TV channels and nothing was published in the print media on the following day. During the time there were many other responsible officers present and no specific person was responsible for the whole affair so as to give and take decision what to be done.

v It is difficult to speculate whether the decision of military operation in Pilkhana could be correct or not. It could have given very good benefit if the rebels had surrendered being panicked without resistance. But can we really ignore or undermine the ferocity of BDR who could brutally kill so many officers. They were so desperate and irrational then that they lost their basic sense. On being attacked by army or smelling symptom of attack they could have taken retaliatory action on the hostage family members of the officers. Can you imagine the consequence of it-the atrocity could increase manifold and everybody would have blamed government for taking such an immature and dangerous decision.

v Information of bulk posting out of DGFI is another cock and bull story. DGFI is a huge organization and posting is a regular phenomenon after completion of a particular tenure and that is what is happening. It is so immature a comment that the DG DGFI asked officers of his organization to shape the inquiry to a particular design! If the DG really needs to feel the requirement of it he would have told it to only few very close officers. And why the DG of DGFI needed to brief his officers once they had no involvement whatsoever in the inquiry.

v Nobody lost job in army for having any opinion against the government’s action rather for showing share insolence to PM and CAS in Senakunjo only handful number of officers were dismissed. In army there can not be any compromise with discipline and the demeanors of those officers in Senakunjo were extreme breech of discipline. The agitators, for last six months or so, are spreading rumour that job of hundred of officers are going to be terminated soon-but it has not come true and rumours remain rumours.

v So called Plan A and Plan B have been given in the paper. It seems that the authors were given the copy of the plan or they were part of the planning procedure. There is no single document or item which could be shown as proof to substantiate the poorly written big story. Such king of fiction can well be written by many to shift the blame to anyone. I bet I can employ fiction writer on payment to make even more thrilling but apparently credible story to blame anyone for masterminding the incident.


In fact I neither have patience nor intension of replying such a heinous propaganda. The team of dozens of various professionals has written such a poorly fabricated story. I alone without any brainstorming just applying my common sense have given this reply for the few readers whom I suspect might be carried away with the fiction. I advise that do not believe as you hear and read rather believe what you see and what you feel with your judgment. And most of the people are sensible, only the nonsense think in nonsensical way believe that all others will dance with their tune.

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