tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12393732238471078232024-03-13T07:57:59.562-07:00Iftekhar SayeedIftekharhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11253056014938830642noreply@blogger.comBlogger359125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1239373223847107823.post-13650874774405343512024-03-01T15:01:00.000-08:002024-03-01T15:01:19.618-08:00MUNAFIQ IN DAR-Al—HARB<p> DAR-AL-HARB</p><p><br /></p><p>Muslims living in Dar-Al-Harb pay taxes, and connive with silence for their greed, and swear loyalty to the kaffir, and kill children in</p><p><br /></p><p>DAR-AL-ISLAM</p><p><br /></p><p>from where they have emigrated for gold and treasure; they say their prayers, but their actions and choice of location and their oaths to the kaffir betray the munafiq. </p><p><br /></p><p>Beware of these so-called Muslims: they’re our enemies. </p><p><br /></p><p>Trusted by none, hated by all.</p><p><br /></p><p>And their pride, which is shirk, knows no limits: their money, their houses, their careers distend their chests. </p><p><br /></p><p>But their greatest pride lies in serving the white huzoor. </p><p><br /></p><p>Verily, they have no izzat.</p><div class="blogger-post-footer"><script language="JavaScript" src="http://itde.vccs.edu/rss2js/feed2js.php?src=http%3A%2F%2Fblog.myspace.com%2Fblog%2Frss.cfm%3FfriendID%3D164756106&chan=y&num=0&desc=1&date=y&targ=y" type="text/javascript"></script>
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of Bangladesh
</a> </p><p> </p><p>(click above for article) </p><p> </p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The article is dedicated to the memory of two-year-old
Meem, who was burnt alive in a hartal, along with </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">four passengers on a bus. </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span id="m_-184008224744606432m_3656749410760024094m_-5760616804841273530m_6637563599171947347gmail-docs-internal-guid-0ccca3ca-7fff-0d8c-bf81-877c92adc5b3" style="font-size: medium;"></span></p><p style="line-height: 1.8; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span></span></p><p style="line-height: 1.8; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">Private
armies - student thugs and the Rapid Action Battalion - have been
responsible for the violence: The state with its monopoly of legitimate
violence has ceased to exist. Behind the violence and erosion of rights
lie the two ideologies of democracy and “it’s poisonous fruit”,
nationalism<span class="gmail_default" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">,</span> that excuse and encourage every iniquity. </span></span></p><p style="line-height: 1.8; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span></span></p><p style="line-height: 1.8; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left;"><span id="m_-184008224744606432m_3656749410760024094m_-5760616804841273530m_6637563599171947347gmail-docs-internal-guid-0ccca3ca-7fff-0d8c-bf81-877c92adc5b3" style="font-size: medium;"></span></p><p style="line-height: 1.8; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: medium; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">Words from a tortured activist follow: </span></p><span style="font-size: small;"><br /><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.8; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: small; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">On September 7 1989, thirty-three-year-old AS (his initials) w<span class="gmail_default" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">as</span> picked
up from in front of the High Court at 10 am. He belonged to the Chatra
Shibir, the student wing of the Islamist Jamaat-e-Islami. His captors
were from the Jatiyatabadi Chatra Dal (JCD), the student wing of the
Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP). The current leader of the
opposition, Khaleda Zia, played Bandit Queen to the armed ruffians. </span></p><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.8; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: small; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">They took him to Science Bhavan (Science Building) where he was tortured till 1:45. Additional thugs joined the sport. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.8; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: small; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.8; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: small; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">Golam
Farouk Ovi, a student of International Relations and Central Committee
Member of JCD, acted as emcee at the Mohsin Hall guest room, scanting on
traditional Islamic hospitality.</span></p><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.8; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: small; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">A
monsoon of GI pipes and hockey sticks rained: But the coup de grace was
the dismemberment of the nerves on his right ankle, and on his left
knee. He would be paralysed seven years later. </span></p><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.8; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: small; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">A
torrent of chapatti, bricks, blades, blood, broken fingers, amputated
earlobe, mouth stoppered with sand, head covered with his
Punjabi….testified to the modus operandi of this, and, as we shall see,
twenty-eight years later in Hafez’s case, to the secular Inquisition.
10,000 hours of practice have predictably produced prodigies. </span></p><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.8; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: small; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">From
Mohsin Hall, the cortège proceeded to the venerable TSC (the hallowed
Teacher-Student Centre). Suitably enough - with X marks the spot, no
doubt - an overgrown vegetable structure prepared him for his quietus.
Leaving him for dead, they celebrated their gladiatorial barbarity at
Aparajeyo Bangla. <br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br /> </span></p><p><span style="font-size: small;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKIE5VSaNYWNuO3oCTkzvPxWneIqrNn9KjRC5fFCMXXXzeqXN0TlG9GpHaaorAwILo06o6bS_UCvWH1lBpV1hp5UgupgkiJj9AnM5_5fDUuMKHZN59VFkli934LeccJT6mkanttbMm8QswCqTLFStQEiwzLE2aLQ41ztjUJdjf3dnkAf7eSxhgs1BdPDPr/s2560/3360147A-714D-458B-9EB0-627BFBCC25B2.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1696" data-original-width="2560" height="424" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKIE5VSaNYWNuO3oCTkzvPxWneIqrNn9KjRC5fFCMXXXzeqXN0TlG9GpHaaorAwILo06o6bS_UCvWH1lBpV1hp5UgupgkiJj9AnM5_5fDUuMKHZN59VFkli934LeccJT6mkanttbMm8QswCqTLFStQEiwzLE2aLQ41ztjUJdjf3dnkAf7eSxhgs1BdPDPr/w640-h424/3360147A-714D-458B-9EB0-627BFBCC25B2.jpeg" width="640" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: small;"><br /> </span><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span><span id="m_-184008224744606432m_3656749410760024094m_-5760616804841273530m_6637563599171947347gmail-docs-internal-guid-0ccca3ca-7fff-0d8c-bf81-877c92adc5b3"></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.8; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">Bleeding
heavily, consciousness came and left. A police car moseyed down to
Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH) - the fuzz knew he had been
beaten, dilly dallying to allow the great escape. At DMCH, he wasn’t
treated until a journalist gave 50 takas for the first bandages; he was
at DMCH for two to three hours; from there he was taken to Ibn Sina in
Dhanmandi.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.8; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">He
was there for two months; for nine months he had no bowel movement; he
had to be operated on. Catheter was removed after nine months; doctors
celebrated when he was able to sit after sixty days; then they
celebrated his first urination…</span></p><br /><br /><span id="m_-184008224744606432gmail-docs-internal-guid-424312bb-7fff-e0b5-b739-22d63a2868b9"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.8; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">According
to a psychiatrist interviewed for this article, human cruelty surfaces
when it is permitted and encouraged. The violence depicted throughout
the piece constitutes an indictment, not of the perpetrators alone, but
of our society. </span></p><div><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></span></div></span><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.8; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">Philosophically
disinclined leaders may skip the more abstruse sections of the article.
A philosophical analysis was felt essential for what a nation considers
good and evil is a philosophical question. Nationalism, for instance,
is a nineteenth century philosophical idea. Today, here, it assumes the
guise of Bengalism. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.8; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.8; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmJe1fFJkDQJcR-nnr2yu3THu6ttZUpCVar64lWl8f_slWp0N0DOATMmaFpyuD_eVlRtPQy22-Sm8Re3_qgYiUqkJSd4DE85cI2hnmnoQGlKYK7thER5RnD0lD9BO6sxSn06ruHCHqprMmC4RVBHBHSdMMb3DgXTOD-Lw60-o09dM6EVGWLcglCsBBWM9L/s640/04B76697-F9F0-4B7F-B348-F2EA59C9E8FF.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="480" data-original-width="640" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmJe1fFJkDQJcR-nnr2yu3THu6ttZUpCVar64lWl8f_slWp0N0DOATMmaFpyuD_eVlRtPQy22-Sm8Re3_qgYiUqkJSd4DE85cI2hnmnoQGlKYK7thER5RnD0lD9BO6sxSn06ruHCHqprMmC4RVBHBHSdMMb3DgXTOD-Lw60-o09dM6EVGWLcglCsBBWM9L/w640-h480/04B76697-F9F0-4B7F-B348-F2EA59C9E8FF.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></span><p></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.8; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span id="m_4588303825419798629m_3656749410760024094m_-5760616804841273530m_6637563599171947347gmail-docs-internal-guid-0ccca3ca-7fff-0d8c-bf81-877c92adc5b3"></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.8; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">Nationalism
- right-wing totalitarianism - has employed the personality cult, from
Hitler to Mussolini to Franco and Hirohito; left-wing totalitarianism
employed Lenin, Stalin, Mao and Pol Pot. The Kims of North Korea are in
their third generation. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.8; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.8; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgg-NuLLTAUXhnvOEEzkaTXVCJMW2odBAECKjmRn7DoFZbKoei8jhR6jqu71ZXnINQDSlAeWmubbocHQr007H17Jyytuspxe6ruOCchkE3RrQwsjVOiL0FPvUPhZo6TH94UqKTe68YVKF6O4Y37rTYlSJWgLK-9Bigg9FK7znuwMxDDmurqFHC5G0IvRrIY/s3888/44E402E8-928B-40B4-9436-4A6DF5399BA3.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3888" data-original-width="3888" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgg-NuLLTAUXhnvOEEzkaTXVCJMW2odBAECKjmRn7DoFZbKoei8jhR6jqu71ZXnINQDSlAeWmubbocHQr007H17Jyytuspxe6ruOCchkE3RrQwsjVOiL0FPvUPhZo6TH94UqKTe68YVKF6O4Y37rTYlSJWgLK-9Bigg9FK7znuwMxDDmurqFHC5G0IvRrIY/w640-h640/44E402E8-928B-40B4-9436-4A6DF5399BA3.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><p></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.8; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.8; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.8; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; 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color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.8; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.8; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.8; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.8; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.8; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.8; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span id="m_4588303825419798629m_3656749410760024094m_-5760616804841273530m_6637563599171947347gmail-docs-internal-guid-0ccca3ca-7fff-0d8c-bf81-877c92adc5b3"></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.8; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">Patriotism
- “My country, right or wrong” - requires enforced disappearances,
torture, extrajudicial as well as judicial murders. </span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.8; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span id="m_4588303825419798629m_3656749410760024094gmail-docs-internal-guid-e7ea0690-7fff-bd70-23dc-db3716ebb770"></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.8; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Every institution has been politicised: Thus it is in a totalitarian society, both of the left and the right. When the Chief Justice of Bangladesh did a runner, what was appalling was not so much his dash for life, but the utter indifference of the chatterati. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.8; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span id="m_4588303825419798629m_3656749410760024094m_-5760616804841273530gmail-docs-internal-guid-a8925b20-7fff-fa0e-d789-582298d9b989"></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.8; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.8; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span id="m_4588303825419798629m_3656749410760024094m_-5760616804841273530gmail-docs-internal-guid-d581506e-7fff-92d8-de0d-8bbdd343fa1c"></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.8; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span id="m_4588303825419798629m_3656749410760024094gmail-docs-internal-guid-dcfb017b-7fff-4e8f-445b-7d246ec08212"></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.8; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Nationalism, with its emphasis on emotion at the expense of reason, requires music and song and dance. Artistic people have become part of the government: this is most in evidence in the case of </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Chayyanau</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">t. The Padma Bridge opening saw an outpouring of musical endorsement from eminent singers. Plays are performed to recall the events of 1971, but none on the famine of 1974 when 1.5 million people starved to death even though there was food in the country and it was hoarded and smuggled to India. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The faculty at the Oxford of the Eas backed the government to the hilt when two human rights activists were imprisoned to universal condemnation. Totalitarian tyranny requires the active participation of the intelligentsia, of civil society. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.8; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.8; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">The
susceptible foot soldiers of democracy and nationalism have paid for
their enthusiasm with their lives - exploited teens unmourned and
unnoticed by our society. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.8; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></span></p><p></p><p></p><br /><br /><table style="border-collapse: collapse; border: none;"><tbody><tr style="height: 44pt;"><td colspan="5" style="border-color: rgb(0,0,0); border-style: solid; border-width: 1pt; overflow: hidden; padding: 5pt; vertical-align: top;"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline;">2000)</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span></p></td></tr><tr style="height: 34pt;"><td style="border-color: rgb(0,0,0); border-style: solid; border-width: 1pt; overflow: hidden; padding: 5pt; vertical-align: top;"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">YEAR</span></p></td><td style="border-color: rgb(0,0,0); border-style: solid; border-width: 1pt; overflow: hidden; padding: 5pt; vertical-align: top;"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">STUDENT KILLED</span></p></td><td style="border-color: rgb(0,0,0); border-style: solid; border-width: 1pt; overflow: hidden; padding: 5pt; vertical-align: top;"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">POLITICAL AFFILIATION</span></p></td><td style="border-color: rgb(0,0,0); border-style: solid; border-width: 1pt; overflow: hidden; padding: 5pt; vertical-align: top;"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">MURDERED AT</span></p></td><td style="border-color: rgb(0,0,0); border-style: solid; border-width: 1pt; overflow: hidden; padding: 5pt; vertical-align: top;"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">AGE</span></p></td></tr><tr style="height: 57pt;"><td style="border-color: rgb(0,0,0); border-style: solid; border-width: 1pt; overflow: hidden; padding: 5pt; vertical-align: top;"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">2000</span></p></td><td style="border-color: rgb(0,0,0); border-style: solid; border-width: 1pt; overflow: hidden; padding: 5pt; vertical-align: top;"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">Zahid</span></p></td><td style="border-color: rgb(0,0,0); border-style: solid; border-width: 1pt; overflow: hidden; padding: 5pt; vertical-align: top;"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">Leader, </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">Bangladesh Chatra League</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"> (BCL)</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span></p></td><td style="border-color: rgb(0,0,0); border-style: solid; border-width: 1pt; overflow: hidden; padding: 5pt; vertical-align: top;"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">Hostel</span></p></td><td rowspan="10" style="border-color: rgb(0,0,0); border-style: solid; border-width: 1pt; overflow: hidden; padding: 5pt; vertical-align: top;"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline;">Students</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline;"> graduate</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline;"> at the age of</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline;"> 18</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span></p></td></tr><tr style="height: 69pt;"><td style="border-color: rgb(0,0,0); border-style: solid; border-width: 1pt; overflow: hidden; padding: 5pt; vertical-align: top;"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">1999</span></p></td><td style="border-color: rgb(0,0,0); border-style: solid; border-width: 1pt; overflow: hidden; padding: 5pt; vertical-align: top;"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">Sohel</span></p></td><td style="border-color: rgb(0,0,0); border-style: solid; border-width: 1pt; overflow: hidden; padding: 5pt; vertical-align: top;"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">Elected general secretary of students’ union in 1997</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span></p></td><td style="border-color: rgb(0,0,0); border-style: solid; border-width: 1pt; overflow: hidden; padding: 5pt; vertical-align: top;"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">Near hostel</span></p></td></tr><tr style="height: 34pt;"><td style="border-color: rgb(0,0,0); border-style: solid; border-width: 1pt; overflow: hidden; padding: 5pt; vertical-align: top;"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">1998</span></p></td><td style="border-color: rgb(0,0,0); border-style: solid; border-width: 1pt; overflow: hidden; padding: 5pt; vertical-align: top;"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">Sajal</span></p></td><td style="border-color: rgb(0,0,0); border-style: solid; border-width: 1pt; overflow: hidden; padding: 5pt; vertical-align: top;"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">President, BCL unit</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span></p></td><td style="border-color: rgb(0,0,0); border-style: solid; border-width: 1pt; overflow: hidden; padding: 5pt; vertical-align: top;"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">Campus</span></p></td></tr><tr style="height: 46pt;"><td style="border-color: rgb(0,0,0); border-style: solid; border-width: 1pt; overflow: hidden; padding: 5pt; vertical-align: top;"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">1996</span></p></td><td style="border-color: rgb(0,0,0); border-style: solid; 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color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span></p></td><td style="border-color: rgb(0,0,0); border-style: solid; border-width: 1pt; overflow: hidden; padding: 5pt; vertical-align: top;"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">In front of hostel</span></p></td></tr><tr style="height: 57pt;"><td style="border-color: rgb(0,0,0); border-style: solid; border-width: 1pt; overflow: hidden; padding: 5pt; vertical-align: top;"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">1995</span></p></td><td style="border-color: rgb(0,0,0); border-style: solid; border-width: 1pt; overflow: hidden; padding: 5pt; vertical-align: top;"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">Mizanur Rahman</span></p></td><td style="border-color: rgb(0,0,0); border-style: solid; border-width: 1pt; overflow: hidden; padding: 5pt; vertical-align: top;"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">Convener, </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">Jatiyabadi Chatra Dal </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">(JCD)</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span></p></td><td style="border-color: rgb(0,0,0); 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margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span></p></td><td style="border-color: rgb(0,0,0); border-style: solid; border-width: 1pt; overflow: hidden; padding: 5pt; vertical-align: top;"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">Dormitory</span></p></td></tr><tr style="height: 34pt;"><td style="border-color: rgb(0,0,0); border-style: solid; border-width: 1pt; overflow: hidden; padding: 5pt; vertical-align: top;"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; 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color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">JCD leader</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span></p></td><td style="border-color: rgb(0,0,0); border-style: solid; border-width: 1pt; overflow: hidden; padding: 5pt; vertical-align: top;"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">Campus</span></p></td></tr><tr style="height: 34pt;"><td style="border-color: rgb(0,0,0); 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color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">Campus</span></p></td></tr><tr style="height: 46pt;"><td style="border-color: rgb(0,0,0); border-style: solid; border-width: 1pt; overflow: hidden; padding: 5pt; vertical-align: top;"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">1987</span></p></td><td style="border-color: rgb(0,0,0); border-style: solid; border-width: 1pt; overflow: hidden; padding: 5pt; vertical-align: top;"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">Sharif Hossain</span></p></td><td style="border-color: rgb(0,0,0); border-style: solid; border-width: 1pt; overflow: hidden; padding: 5pt; vertical-align: top;"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">General secretary, student union</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span></p></td><td style="border-color: rgb(0,0,0); border-style: solid; border-width: 1pt; overflow: hidden; padding: 5pt; vertical-align: top;"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">In front of hostel</span></p></td></tr><tr style="height: 46pt;"><td style="border-color: rgb(0,0,0); border-style: solid; border-width: 1pt; overflow: hidden; padding: 5pt; vertical-align: top;"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">1985</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; 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vertical-align: baseline;">Campus</span></p></td></tr><tr style="height: 46pt;"><td colspan="5" style="border-color: rgb(0,0,0); border-style: solid; border-width: 1pt; overflow: hidden; padding: 5pt; vertical-align: top;"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline;">Figure 7</span></p></td></tr></tbody></table><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.8; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span id="m_4588303825419798629m_3656749410760024094m_-5760616804841273530m_6637563599171947347gmail-docs-internal-guid-0ccca3ca-7fff-0d8c-bf81-877c92adc5b3"></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.8; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span id="m_4588303825419798629m_3656749410760024094m_-5760616804841273530m_6637563599171947347gmail-docs-internal-guid-0ccca3ca-7fff-0d8c-bf81-877c92adc5b3"></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.8; 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I have deep sympathy for the victims of the school killings in Newton, Connecticut. However, I must reserve greater sympathy for those Afghan families that are butchered in silence by American drones. They are not mourned by the world, nor even noticed by the media. If they are anything at all, they are mere statistics. <br />
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Yet their lives are equally worth living; the same blood flows in their veins and the same flesh adorns their skeletons.<br />
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We should remember to mourn - as the world mourns for the families of Newton - for murdered Afghan men, women and children. It's just that, in this case, a strenuous effort of the imagination will be required to conjure up the grief we shall never see. <br />
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liberality of the American public in bestowing pecuniary favours on the animals
in a </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Kabul</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
zoo betrays the preference for animals over humans in western civilisation.
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historical. Animals, we have noted, are all of a piece, and so are
birds: a myna is a myna is a myna. Association with the dog began just
before the imperial expansions – before the ‘discovery’ and destruction
of the ‘Red’ Indians, for instance. By identifying with a lesser
creature – the dog – the European was able to assuage his guilt at the
torment of an equal – the human being in North America or Africa. By
being kind to the former, he could be savage with the latter. Notice the
case of the Afghans: people are individuals, and that’s a fact that
Americans did not wish to take into account. Animals are uniform: they
are the same in every hemisphere. Marjan could equally have been an
American lion. Not so the Afghan – heaven forbid! She is Muslim, veiled,
says her prayers five times a day, wears her hair long, and has never
seen the inside of a Wal-Mart store." </span></div>
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I just couldn't resist sharing this picture - it reveals so much! The Americans and jihadis worked together during the Afghan war. Even today, the Americans are using jihadis against regimes in Libya and Syria. Furthermore, it was Reagan, not General Zia-ul Huq (who was merely carrying out orders) who radicalised Pakistan. The Taliban were deployed by American oil interests - then something seemed to have gone awry.<br />
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Shah encounters both the CIA and jihadis in this story. The murder of nearly
two million children through UN sanctions in </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Iraq</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> may be
ignored by collaborators, but not by the resistance. Even the beautiful has
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<span style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">On this fateful day, I spotted her
on road 9A, waiting for her usual trishaw. There was traffic on the road, but I
stayed focused. She was in a red-and-black shalwar-kameez, her arms bare,
revealing teasingly her white shoulders and armpits. Then our eyes met:
fortunately I looked away, and watched with horror a man, pillion-riding on a
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<span lang="EN-GB">If there were hatred and misogyny in the </span><span lang="EN-GB">Middle East</span><span lang="EN-GB">, surely they would
show up as physical violence aganist women. Yet, according to the World
Development Report of 1993, the number of DALYs lost for women to violence (and
even self-inflicted violence) was the lowest in the world. The only scourge of
the Arab woman was war. Figures repeatedly show some of the lowest rape
statistics in the world: that's not hard to understand. Most rapes in developed
countries are date rapes; since boys and girls don't mix in Arab (and Musim and
Hindu) countries, the incidence of rape is low. On the other hand, date rapes
and campus rapes in places like the </span><span lang="EN-GB">United States</span><span lang="EN-GB"> show a high degree of misogyny. </span><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"></span></b></div>
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The opposition wants the government to produce Ilyas Ali, who must be
dead and, hopefully, buried by now. We, the people, suffer. How can the
government resuscitate a corpse? The only recourse I know of is to
enlist the help of 'Herbert West, Reanimator'. As the title implies, he
could bring the dead back alive. But the last I heard of him was that he
was being pursued by some vengeful zombies he had 'resuscitated'. Will
the opposition settle for a zombie? As far as we are concerned, the
entire political class can be dead and buried, with no hope of
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">Now we come to </span></span><span style="font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">North Africa</span></span><span style="font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">, or the Arab Spring. Here we will pause to note what T.E.Lawrence had to say in his <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-style: italic;">Seven Pillars of Wisdom</span></i> about the Arab: "</span></span>Arabs<span style="font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;"> could be swung on an idea as on a cord; for the unpledged allegiance of their minds made them obedient servants. None of them would escape the bond till success had come, and with it responsibility and duty and engagements. Then the idea was gone and the work ended--in ruins. Without a creed they could be taken to the four corners of the world (but not to heaven) by being shown the riches of earth and the pleasures of it; but if on the road, led in this fashion, they met the prophet of an idea, who had nowhere to lay his head and who depended for his food on charity or birds, then they would all leave their wealth for his inspiration. They were incorrigibly children of the idea, feckless and colour-blind, to whom body and spirit were for ever and inevitably opposed." The idea – or wave, as </span></span><span style="font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">Lawrence</span></span><span style="font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;"> called it – was nationalism, a revolt against the Ottomans, and it was backed up heavily by British cash. "One such wave (and not the least) I raised and rolled before the breath of an idea, till it reached its crest, and toppled over and fell at </span></span><span style="font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">Damascus</span></span><span style="font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">. The wash of that wave, thrown back by the resistance of vested things, will provide the matter of the following wave, when in fullness of time the sea shall be raised once more." </span></span></div>
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<br />However, there was one class of Germans who greeted him with open arms: the intellectuals. One must remember the prestige of the German intelligentsia back in those days. German universities were the best in the world. Their research was world-class and Nobel prizes were showered on them. After the war, the American universities displaced the Germans.
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<br />And once this clique embraced Hitler, the rest of Germany fell into line, according to Niall Ferguson. German society is characterized by hierarchy and obedience. Stanley Milgram's experiment on obedience and power, when replicated in Germany, showed a compliance rate of 80%, as opposed to a compliance rate of 65% in the United States.
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<br />Bangladesh probably has a higher level of compliance to authority. Obedience is part of our culture. It has been suggested that the Rwandan genocide was possible because of a culture of obedience. A genocide in Bangladesh is easy to imagine.
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<br />In fact, we came close in January 2007, when the two political parties unleashed murder on the streets. Fortunately, the army stepped in and, thanks to the UN and Kofi Annan, the army remained neutral.
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<br />However, on August 23, the intelectuals tried to discredit the army by alleging that a soldier had slapped a young whippersnapper on a campus. One fictitious slap spiralled into nationwide arson and unrest. The reason, of course, for the mythical justification was that both the evil leaders of Bangladesh were in jail. Obedience to them entailed a rebellion against the forces of good.
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<br />Obedience to evil, then, was the prospect of the period. Eyewitness account informed me how the thugs gathered on Satmasjid Road in Dhaka. Some yanked a driver out of his car and set it alight near road 8A. The next morning, the denizens of Dhanmandi and Rayerbazaar found that every restaurant on Satmasjid Road had been burnt to cinders.
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<br />A healthy contempt for intellectuals is essential for civilised existence. Civilisation, observed G.K.Chesterton, is based on truisms, or it is not based at all. And intellectuals, ever since Socrates, have been making out the worse to be the better cause. It is a truism that murdering people on or off the streets is evil, and those who do so should be shunned. It is a truism that murderers should go to jail. It is a truism that one must not burn vehicles and restaurants.
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<br />Our obedience to intellectuals has resulted in our obedience to evil. Where will this take us? To what bestial depths shall we descend? Around 80 people are lynched every year because of the lawlessness encouraged by our intellectuals; around 50 student politicians murder themselves in the service of the two women who claim to be our leaders.
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<br />Besides, our intellectuals probably receive cash or other benefits from the Israel lobby - which would explain their strange silence on the Palestinian issue - making them minions of Israel as well as America. They are not on the side of the good, but on the side of the evil.
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