Shuchinta

Mash pulls reports from Pakistan Observer

http://cie.kean.edu/~bdgenostudyPreface

It was a chilly evening with possible forecast of freezing rain or even snow on December 9, yet the 150-acre picturesque Kean University campus at Union, New Jersey was full of life with the presence of some 250 Bangladeshis from all over the United States and some 50 Kean University faculty and students. They all gathered for one cause: to attend an unprecedented seminar on the Bangladeshi Genocide of 1971 titled under “Bangladesh 1971: Intolerance, Violence and Genocide”.

This unique program is the first of its kind to be arranged, sponsored and hosted by a US university. Kean, the third largest public university in the State of New Jersey, has the most diverse student community, and is one of the very few institutions to offer a master’s degree in Holocaust and Genocide Studies. Kean University has one of the largest collections of oral history of the Jewish Holocaust in the State of New Jersey.

Read the rest of this entry »

This government is doing an amazing job making a total fool out of themselves.

The MUA part of the FUA-MUA equation has proven, to no suprise, to be the more powerful half.

After buckling under pressure, DGFI let the four Rajshahi University professors go. Then they lied about the President accepting their mercy petition. NO mercy petition was filed by the heroic professors’ wives. In an attempt to save their face, FUA-MUA’s circus team lied about this.

Then came the 4 DU teachers. Now they are desperate. Having lost the first round to the RU professors, they started fudging.

Advocate Masud Ahmed Talukdar, one of the lawyers, said, “An witness’s testimony given in another case filed over the same issue has been added to in this case, which is unacceptable to a court of law.”

I think this FUA MUA circus has gone off the deep end.

[Photo/Banglar Chokh: Selim Reza Newton, Moloy Bhoumik, Dulal Chandra Biswas, Abdullah Al Mamun.]

by Tasneem Khalil [Reposted from E-Bangladesh.org]

In Bangladesh, mouths are not moving these days, it seems. Well, there are exceptions: tongues busy licking military boots stained with blood, tongues moving fast singing hymns for monsters in khaki. For the rest, 160 million men and women, putting a plaster over the lips is the fashion statement of the day, silence has become the best policy. Smartest policy, some say.

In post-1/11 Bangladesh: a human rights advocate is a criminal, an university student is a criminal, a professor is a criminal, a politician is a criminal, a democrat is a criminal, a jute-mill worker is a criminal, a journalist is a criminal, a tea-stall-wallah is a criminal, a cartoonist is a criminal, a garments worker is a criminal, a hungry survivor of cyclone demanding relief is a criminal… Read the rest of this entry »

This is a sincere appeal to the goodness of our people in Bangladesh and abroad.

Please postpone your Eid-ul-Adha sacrifices this year. Donate that money and your Zakat to any relief fund of your choice. You may even want to spend it yourself on the victims of Cyclone SIDR. Another choice is to buy a cow/goat and give it to someone who has lost it in the cyclone.

Allah will bless you for your kind deeds.

Share this opinion with your friends and family.

We hear that an army major makes 400 taka a day more if the country is under emergency rule.

So why would they want to lift emergency and give up that extra cash?

General MUA once again has expressed his opinion about withdrawal of Emergency rules in Bangladesh.There are many occassions he said that the Bangladesh Army has no interest of political affairs or on Government’s decisions.However as the Army chief he has been making all sorts of decision making comments and making a huge confusion among the people in the country and himself. How  does he makes his comments on no political affairs needed in this natural disasters? Because of the politicians he is now the General of Bangladesh Army.Just for some corrupt politicians,the whole nation should not be deprived from their ultimate duties in this crisis.A lot of derailed Army officers have killed two of our Presidents, now do we punish the whole defense personnel for their doings? Some pandits or highly officials of our defense should look into this matter. 

There is no need to tell you afresh about the devastation of Cyclone Sidr in Bangladesh. I am sure you are all aware, more or less, about it.

We have lost at least 4000 lives as of today, and some agencies estimate the loss to reach as high as 10,000. At least 300,000 people have lost their homes and are living a subhuman life under the open sky with barely anything to eat or drink. If you want to donate to help these victims, please click on the link below:

Bongobandhu Memorial Foundation of USA [a 501(c)(3) charity organization registered (Reg # 56-2403796) in the United States], in collaboration with Shuchinta Foundation in Dhaka, Bangladesh, already has volunteers on the ground who will be distributing aid at the camps that has been setup for the affected in the Southern coast of Bangladesh.

So please come forward for humanity. Even ten dollars can help feed a family in Bangladesh for a week.

Please donate now:

And please feel free to share this message with any one you feel may be compassionate to this cause.

It’s time to open your wallets to our brothers and sisters hit by this demon of a cyclone.

I know that we can point people to donation pages like this “Save the Children”.

However, go further. Call your freinds and ask them to donate. Talk to your foreign colleagues and ask them to throw in a few bucks.

People do care so reach out to them. If each of us can reach out to 10 people we can make a difference.

God bless us all.

Dhaka, Nov 14 (bdnews24.com)–A woman Wednesday sued businessman Nazim Kamran Choudhury, husband of industry adviser Geeteara Safiya Choudhury, and eight others on charges of land grab and physical harassment. Updates with quotes from Geeteara’s brother

Farhana Islam, wife of Dr Mahbubul Islam, filed the case with the Chief Metropolitan Magistrate’s Court for Dhaka. Among the accused, Abu Rushd Tarek, younger brother of the caretaker adviser, said the case was designed to defame them. Farhana attached with the case documents a medical certificate as a “proof of physical harassment”.

Read the rest of this entry »

Mainul Hossain, a Jamati Advisor needs to close his big and ugly mouth, in 1971 I do not know if any of his family member lost the loved ones or any of his family member  was dishonored by his beloved jamati rajakars? The answere must be no. His recent statements  protecting the war criminals and also arguing against the demand of bringing the war criminals under justice is really a naked face of a treason against Bangladesh and 1971.If this guy do not shut his big and ugly mouth about 1971, we the people of  Bangladesh will close his mouth one day.He must be brought under justice along with all other war criminals as there is no difference between them.

Looks like another chamcha of this military government gets the shoe treatment. BNP reformist Lt. Colonel Mahbubur Rahman got Juta pita the old bangla sytle.

It’s sad and almost funny to see a former army CHIEF get the shoe treatment from a young blood.

Here’s one bangla blog on THIS.

Here’s Rumi’s blog’s on THIS.

E-bd report on this. Here the former Army chief goes topless.

Prominent bloggger Mash has identified a recent event where an advisor to the military government, Geetiara Safia Chowdhury and her husband assaulted their landlord and then tried to kill the story in the press.

Lively discussion is going on here about this.

Click HERE.

Visiting Moeen U Ahmed seems to have gotten all tongue tied trying to explain where the extra 66 lakhs came from in his coffers.

He claims he took 35 lakhs but the bank prospectus says he took 99 lakhs.

Where did the other 64 lakhs go?

More details in E-bangladesh.