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ডিসেম্বর মাসটা একটু অন্য রকম৷ আমরা যারা সত্যিকারের বিজয় দিবসটা দেখেছিলাম, এই মাসে সেই ঐতিহাসিক এবং প্রায় অলৌকিক সেই দিনটির কথা ঘুরে- ফিরে বারবার আমাদের মনে পড়বেই৷কী তীব্র ছিল সেই আনন্দের অনুভূতি! ....... বিস্তারিত
ষোল ডিসেম্বর কি সত্যই আমাদের সফল এবং সম্পূর্ণ বিজয়লাভের দিন?
আবদুল গাফ্ফার চৌধুরী
একাত্তরের অসমাপ্ত বিপ্লব সমাপ্ত এবং ১৬ ডিসেম্বরের অসম্পূর্ণ বিজয়কে সম্পূর্ণ করতে হলে কেবল নিজের নেতৃত্বের ক্যারিশমা..... বিস্তারিত
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| Hindus held back by antiquated laws |
Pulack Ghatack
The citizens belonging to the Hindu community, who constitute nearly a tenth of Bangladesh’s 148-million-strong population, are held back by centuries-old customary laws which majority of them want to get updated suiting the modern socioeconomicmilieu. Many leading people in the  faith, who have moved for necessary reformers, regret that the State is yet to enact family code ensuring equal rights of the male and the female, although neighbouring countries have done the legal reform. A balanced progress of society is being decelerated due to those customary laws, for the women are being deprived of their natural rights and many complexities are arising out of such inhibitions. The voice of conscience decries the |
plight of thousands of Hindu women for deprivations, discriminations, complicacies and the absence of codified laws for a much-sought-after change. Members of the Buddhist community are in the same boat, as they also go by Hindu laws and customs.
Experts believe that most of the traditional laws are contradictory to the spirit of the constitution which says (Article 27), “All the citizens are equal before the law and are entitled to equal protection of law.”
“The State shall not discriminate against any citizen on grounds only of religion, race, caste, sex or place of birth,” says Article 28 (1) of the constitution. “Women shall have equal rights with men in all spheres of the State and of public life,” Article 28(2) says in further illustration.
But all the courts of law are delivering their judgments on the basis of customary laws in the cases of family feuds and in the cases of disputes over inheritance and distribution of property........ READ Daily Sun |
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BAF has lost 63 members
Low-quality China aircraft blamed for frequent crashes |
Pulack Ghatack
Air crashes have so far claimed lives of at least 63 trained or trainee pilots of the Bangladesh Air Force (BAF), official and unofficial sources said after the latest accident on Sunday.  The causes of almost half of the plane accidents could not be ascertained mainly due to lack of adequate evidence, said sources who were working with previous probe committees on the crashes. A total of 43 pilots were killed in training plane crashes before August in 2003, said a report placed at the parliamentary standing committee on defence ministry. Then chief of Air Staff
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Air Vice-Marshal Fakhrul Azam submitted the report to the committee on August 19 in 2003 which was later placed at parliament.
Since then, 11 more accidents took place that claimed 18 more lives. A training aircraft crashed at Mahishpara village under Madhupur upazila in Tangail on Sunday, leaving its flying officer Sharif dead and Squadron Leader Mamun injured.
Apart from Sunday’s crash, six military training aircraft have so far met with accidents since 2008. The accidents took place on 9 April........ READ Daily Sun |
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| War crimes trial
seems isolated from people
Pulack Ghatack
People started lodging criminal cases in hundreds against the perpetrators of war crimes soon after the present government assumed office in December 2008 with an electoral pledge to hold the trial of war criminals.
Stories remain untold, grievances unexpressed, offences unrecorded
But now it appears that the trial process has become isolated from the common people as the victims of war crimes have no opportunity to file cases or submit their grievances to the Dhaka-centric tribunal.
Most of the war victims have not got the opportunity to narrate their tales of unspeakable woes ...... Daily Sun
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Enforced disappearance, extrajudicial killing rise
Pulack Ghatack
Distrust of and suspicion about law enforcers are increasing among people with the growing number of “forced disappearances” at a time when the whole nation has got the unique meaning of overused words “crossfire”, “encounter”, “shootout”, “gunfight”, which are essentially planned extrajudicial killings.
It is not clear whether or not BNP leader Ilyas Ali has been kidnapped by his enemies, but people have started to suspect it as an act of the law enforcers, as is also being alleged by his family members and political colleagues.
People’s suspicion of law enforcement agencies’ involvement is simply weakening the state. Different organisations are raising the issue in various international forums, including the UN, resulting in a diplomatic pressure and tarnishing of the country’s image. ...... Daily Sun |
Elected caretaker government
Politicians toss for peaceful polls
Pulack Ghatack
‘Elected caretaker government’ is the new formula currently being tossed by some politicians as a way out of the government-opposition standoff which appears to be at its insidious climax.
They think the new form of interim administration could help end the contentions a near-confrontational political situation, while maintaining the state principle of democracy enshrined in the constitution.
“The chief of such a caretaker government can be elected by the outgoing parliament. It can be done in two ways –either the way the president is elected or the way the prime minister assumes chief executive’s chair,” said a minister, spelling out their thinking. He said it is still too premature to propose, but explained the modality.
“At first, the political parties by consensus will name a set of neutral persons who can head caretaker government. Then the parliament will elect someone from among them to lead the interim administration,” he told daily sun.Presently, the leader of the political party having majority in parliament becomes prime minister. |
The president invites the leader of the house to form the government.
The policy analysts are suggesting that a provision can be incorporated into the constitution so that the parliament can elect the chief of interim government from the former chief justices or the former justices of the appellate division or from eligible members of the civil society.
According to the existing provisions under article 56 (2) and (3) of the constitution, only a parliament member can become Prime Minister, while only one-tenth of cabinet members can be chosen from technocrats.
This provision might be relaxed for appointing the chief adviser or other advisers of the neo caretaker government, said a ruling-party leader, who is considered an expert in constitutional affairs.
According to his propositions, a technocrat can become chief adviser, while other members of his or her cabinet may be appointed from the parliament members, who will lose the eligibility to contest the election they would supervise ............ Daily Sun |
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HC verdict eaten up!
Life of an innocent made hell in
jail even after acquittal order
On 8 August 2000, the High Court found a prisoner of Bogra District Jail not guilty and acquitted him of a murder charge on which he was sentenced to life-term imprisonment by a lower court. But the HC order could not make its way to the jail gate even in 12 years. He is still languishing in the prison. The unfortunate man is Abdul Mannan Yusuf of Sherpur upazila of the district. He has already spent 25 years of his life in prison ..... Daily Sun |
Love for prisoner husband
 Rubia Begum |
Pulack Ghatack
Her husband was arrested in 1988 and jailed for life in two murder cases. But she believes her husband was innocent. She has also heard that the High Court had acquitted her husband, Abdul Mannan Yusuf, of a murder |
charge 12 years ago. Rubia Begum has been in long wait for the day when her husband would walk to freedom from prison. ..... Daily Sun |
Epic Tale of Miscarriage of Justice
22 years lost in jail for no crime
 Abul Hossain |
Pulack Ghatack
It’s a hard-to-believe epical tale—a poor man had to languish in jail for over two decades for no crime of his own but for an evident miscarriage of justice.
Abul Hossain, hailed from a remote village of Satkania, had been held in jail for more than 22 years until it came clear that the entire process and proceedings of law were misused against the poor man.
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It was proved in the High Court 10 years ago that he was not a criminal. But he continued to serve a jail term, as the High Court order lost way to the jail gate. It had been held at the office of the judge’s court since 2002.. ..... Daily Sun |
Corruption results in injustice
Pulack Ghatack
Now free at around fifty after having lost the prime of his life in jail, Abul Hossain recounts how corruption and over-exercise of power by a section of policemen and some employees in the judiciary pushed him into a fate almost worse than death. The simple uneducated man had to pass his 22 years in jail for a crime he didn’t commit, as is proved ...... Daily Sun |
Ghulam Azam confesses
Pulack Ghatack
Ghulam Azam, the top war crime suspect, himself has confessed to his intimacy with top Pakistan army officers who perpetrated one of the worst genocides in human history during Bangladesh’s Liberation War in 1971.
He also admits his involvement in organising the so-called “peace committees,” members of which, according to researchers and relatives of genocide victims, collaborated with the Pakistan occupation forces in masterminding crimes against. ..... Daily Sun |
Ghulam Azam in jail
The belated trial of suspects in the 1971 wartime crimes climaxed as former ameer of Jamaat-e-Islami Prof Golam Azam was Wednesday held in jail by order of the International Crimes Tribunal.
After an hour-long hearing, the three-member tribunal comprising Justice Nizamul Huq, Justice ATM Fazle Kabir and Judge AKM Zahir Ahmed rejected his bail petition and ordered that he be sent into jail as he appeared before the tribunal ..... Daily Sun |
Wikileaks
Tarique symbol of violent politics
Leaked cable discloses US envoy portrayed him as image of 'kleptocratic govt' |
Wikileaks
Not returning anytime soon
Many of Tarique Rahman's supporters in BNP lobbied for him to run in a parliamentary by-election in April 2009, but his mother Khaleda Zia felt it was too early for him to return home.
During a talk in London with a US embassy official from Dhaka on May 1 that year, Tarique himself also said he had no plan to come back anytime soon, Geeta Pasi, the then chargé d' affaires of the US embassy in Dhaka, wrote in a cable on May 14, 2009.
Tarique even said he was interested in the political developments in the country, but denied playing any active role in BNP politics. ....... Daily Star |
Portraying Tarique Rahman as a symbol of “kleptocratic government and violent politics” in Bangladesh, the US embassy in Dhaka even recommended blocking his entry into the United States. The embassy believed Tarique was “guilty of egregious political corruption ....... Daily Star |
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শেষ পর্যন্ত প্রতিরোধ
বোরহানউদ্দিন খান জাহাঙ্গীর
আমার গৌরব, আমি স্বাধীন দেশে মরে যেতে পারব। এ গৌরব আমার একার নয়, আমাদের অনেকের। এ গৌরবে পেঁৗছার জন্য আমি অনেকের সঙ্গে লড়াই করেছি। কলোনিকালের কাছে আত্মসমর্পণ করিনি, কলোনিকালের বিরুদ্ধে বিদ্রোহ করেছি লেখার মধ্য দিয়ে। পাকিস্তানের নিজেদের কয়েক ডিভিশন সৈন্য ছাড়াও আরও ছিল জামায়াতে ইসলামী, তাদের অঙ্গ সংগঠন আলবদর, আলশামস ও রাজাকারদের কয়েক ডিভিশন সামরিক-রাজনৈতিক সৈন্য। কলোনি রক্ষা করতে পারেনি তারা, হেরেছে এবং সারেন্ডার করেছে কলোনিবিরোধী বাঙালিদের কাছে। সে জন্য যুদ্ধটা ছিল কলোনিবিরোধী পাকিস্তানিদের দখলের বিরুদ্ধে। স্বাধীনতার জন্য লড়াই করেছি, শেষ পর্যন্ত স্বাধীনভাবে বাঁচতে চাই বাংলাদেশে ...... ......বিস্তারিত সমকাল |
কিউবা হতে পারে অনুসরণীয়
শহিদুল ইসলাম সরকার
শিক্ষাক্ষেত্রে কিউবার সাফল্যের কথা বিশ্বব্যাংকও স্বীকার করেছে। কিউবায় সব ধরনের শিক্ষা অবৈতনিক এবং মাধ্যমিক স্তর পর্যন্ত শিক্ষা গ্রহণ বাধ্যতামূলক। ১৯৭৮ সালে আমরা দেখেছি, মাধ্যমিক স্তর পর্যন্ত সব নাগরিকের শিক্ষা অর্জন নিশ্চিত করতে পেরেছে কিউবা। কিউবার হাভানা বিমানবন্দরে হুইল চেয়ারে আসীন পাণ্ডুর ব্যক্তি অথবা জ্বরাক্রান্ত শিশুদের দেখা পাওয়া শক্ত। কিন্তু হাভানা বিমানবন্দরে অবতরণকারী প্রতিটি বিদেশি বিমানেই এ রকম কিছু কিছু অসুস্থ ব্যক্তির দেখা মিলবে। এরা কিউবা এসেছেন চিকিৎসার উদ্দেশ্যে। এটা বিশ্বাস করা শক্ত কিন্তু সমাজতান্ত্রিক আদর্শে লালিত কিউবা তার দারিদ্র্য সত্ত্বেও চিকিৎসা ...... ......বিস্তারিত সমকাল |
| যেভাবে বদলে যাবে মানচিত্র |
মেহেদী হাসান
বাংলাদেশ ও ভারতের মধ্যে সই হওয়া স্থল সীমান্তবিষয়ক প্রটোকল বাস্তবায়িত হলে পাল্টে যাবে দুই দেশেরই মানচিত্র। ভারতের প্রধানমন্ত্রী ড. মনমোহন সিংয়ের বাংলাদেশ সফরে এই প্রটোকল সই হয়েছে গত মঙ্গলবার। এতে উভয় দেশের মধ্যে ছিটমহল বিনিময়সহ সীমান্তের বেশ কয়েকটি অংশে পরিবর্তনের কথা বলা হয়েছে। বাংলাদেশের ছিটমহল বেশি হওয়ায় নতুন মানচিত্রে দেশের আয়তন কিছুটা বাড়বে। তবে এ প্রটোকল বাস্তবায়নের জন্য অবশ্যই তা দুই দেশকে অনুমোদন করতে হবে।..... বিস্তারিত কালের কণ্ঠ |
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War Crime Cases
Lower judiciary, police confused
Pulack Ghatack
The field-level administration and magistrates are confused about the criminal cases filed in connection with offences committed during the Liberation War as the government recently decided in principle to transfer the cases to the International . ....... READ Daily Sun
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271 war crime cases in
CrPC-tribunal tangle
Fate of 271 war crimes related cases filed with police stations and magistrate courts across the country appears to be uncertain as the cases are being transferred to the International Crimes Tribunal, which cannot dispose of .. ..... READ Daily Sun |
| মইনুল রোডের বাড়ির মেঝেতে খালেদাকে লেখা শফিক রেহমানের চিঠি
বাংলাদেশের বর্তমান বিরোধী দলীয় নেত্রী খালেদা জিয়ার ভাষণ লেখক হিসেবে বিভিন্ন সময় বিভিন্ন জনের নাম শোনা গেলেও তা আনুষ্ঠানিকভাবে স্বীকার করা হয়নি কখনোই। তবে ভাষণের কলা-কৌশল, শব্দ চয়ন ও প্রয়োগ থেকে সংশ্লিষ্ট সবারই ধারণা, ২০০১ সালের নির্বাচনী ভাষণ এবং পরবর্তী সময়ে তিনি ক্ষমতায় আসার পর তার ভাষণগুলো লিখতেন জনপ্রিয় কলাম লেখক ও সাংবাদিক শফিক রেহমান। কিন্তু তার প্রমাণ ছিলো লোকচক্ষুর অন্তরালেই। আড্ডায় আলোচনায় এ নিয়ে পক্ষে বিপক্ষে কথা হয়েছে অনেক।.........বিস্তারিত বাংলানিউজ |
Major changes in constitution reprint
The government is reprinting the constitution with a massive change in it which may cause confusion, as all the changes are not specified in the Supreme Court (SC) verdict voiding the fifth amendment.
The SC, while directing protection of the basic fundamentals of the constitution and also in recovering its secular character, specified 10 places including the preamble, eight articles and paragraph 3A to the fourth schedule for changes. But the constitution is being reprinted with changes in 37 places most of which are not clearly mentioned by the SC .........Total News |
Legal grey area may stall war crimes trial
Experts have identified a serious inconsistency between the amended International Crimes (Tribunal) Act 1973 and the constitution, which might ruin the arrangements made so far for the trial of war criminals of 1971. The inconsistency arises out of a new provision inserted into the 2009 amendment to the act for trying “any individual” no matter whether the person was officially a member of . ..... READ Daily Sun |
War crimes probe team
flooded with evidence
Record books of investigators are being filled with statements and evidences collected from families of martyrs and victims of tortures by Pakistani soldiers and their local collaborators. ...... READ Daily Sun |
Minority Cleansing at Sathia in 1971 |
Many killed, thousands
faced forced migration
Almost half the Hindu population that lived in some 20 villages of Sathia upazila of Pabna in 1971 have been missing since the time of the Liberation War. Investigators of the International Crimes Tribunal during their recent visit to. ........ READ Daily Sun |
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900 people buried
in two trenches
On 14 May 1971, local Razakars in association with the occupation Pakistan army forced people in Rupashi village to dig two long trenches. Those would be used for some other purpose rather than what trenches are used for in wartime. ..... READ Daily Sun |
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Portrait of a wild dog collaborator
SQ Chowdhury killed many civilians in 1971
Pulack Ghatack : During the Liberation War of Bangladesh Salauddin Quader Chowdhury led an extensive campaign against the freedom of the country and lent all out support to the Pakistan occupation army. Salahuddin was younger son of late Fazlul Quader Chowdhury, former Speaker and former Acting President of Pakistan and then incumbent chief of Pakistan Convention Muslim... Total News
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SQ Chowdhury, his associates
picked up us : Nizam Ahmed
Late Fazlul Quader Chowdhury and his son Salahuddin Quader Chowdhury showed shivering brutalities during the Liberation War of Bangladesh. Nizam Ahmed, a freedom fighter and noted journalist, in an exclusive interview with this reporter described his traumatic experience, that gave him the chance to closely watch how much a noted collaborator used to hate freedom fighters, their political leadership and the party ..... Total News
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Death of Natun Sinha, Chittaranjan Biswas still mourned ... Total News |
SC suggests punishment to
"martial laws" perpetrators
The Supreme Court has upheld the High Court verdict that scrapped the 5th Amendment of the Constitution suggesting "suitable punishment" to perpetrators of martial laws. The August 2005 High Court judgment had rendered illegal the regimes of martial dictators Ziaur Rahman, Khandaker Moshtaque Ahmed and Abu Sadaat Mohammad Sayem between August 15, 1975 and April 9, 1979. The Supreme Court in its observations and modifications also upheld the basic principles of the 1972 (original) Constitution including Bangali nationalism and socialism but also recognized citizens of Bangladesh as Bangladeshis.......Total News |
Different views on citizenship
'Bangalees' or 'Bangladeshis'
The Appellative Division has justified the retention of Article 6 (2) inserted in the Constitution by the 5th amendment that says the citizens of Bangladesh shall be known as “Bangladeshis”.Late President Gen Ziaur Rahman through a martial law proclamation had changed the identity of Bangalees as envisaged in the original Constitution of 1972. “For wider public interest the substituted Article 6 (2) is to be retained,” the Appellate Division said in its modification of the High Court judgment that scrapped the 5th amendment. ... Total News
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