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.

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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 »