14 citizens unconditionally apologise to Bangladesh war crimes tribunal

Fourteen of the 50 citizens who had issued a statement expressing concern over the conviction of British journalist David Bergman for contempt, have tendered unconditional apology at the International Crimes Tribunal (ICT).
(What was your intention in that time while you will tender unconditional apology! Is it habit to down and bow your head and knee in front of british blood! Is it habit to up yourself through criticizing ICT? Is it habit to criticize everything ICT does?)


They were asked to appear before the war crimes tribunal or to explain their stand through lawyers before Jan 27, 2015.
Accordingly, 14 persons, including Supreme Court lawyer Shahdeen Malik, tendered apology on Tuesday.
Ten people, including health activist Zafrullah Chowdhury, have, however, submitted a statement in the tribunal stating that they would argue their case themselves.
The other 25 sought time through their lawyer Anisul Hasan to explain their position.
The court, however, accepted the time extension plea of 14 people who are now staying in Bangladesh. But the plea of 11 others, who are residing abroad, was rejected because they made it through e-mails. They have been asked to make fresh plea following proper procedure.

ICT-2 headed by Justice Obaidul Hasan fixed Feb 8 for the next order.

Those who filed pleas for unconditional forgiveness are Lawyer Shahdeen Malik, M Hafiz Uddin, General Secretary of citizens' platform 'Sujon' Badiul Alam Majumder, former caretaker government advisor Rasheda K Chowdhury, Dhaka University teachers Imtiaz Ahmed, Amena Mohsin and Asif Nazrul, National Coordinator of 'Bangladesh Shishu Bikash Kendra' Nayla Jaman Khan, Shahnaz Huda, environmental lawyer Rizwana Hasan, human rights activist Zakir Hossain, singer Arup Rahi, writer Shahin Akhter and rights activist Ilora Dewan.

ICT-2 convicted Bergman on Dec 2, 2014 for trying to ‘challenge' the tribunal through the ‘irresponsible’ views he expressed about sub-judice matters in his blog.

The judges ordered the British citizen to remain standing in the court for the whole day and fined him Tk 5,000.

The judges had told Bergman to refrain from writing on 'historically settled issue'.

On Dec 20, Bengali daily 'Prothom Alo' published a report on the apprehensions expressed by the 50 citizens. The New York Times, too, carried an editorial along the same lines on Dec 23.

The tribunal, which felt the reports cast aspersions on the judicial system of Bangladesh, had summoned the ‘full versions’ of the statement from the daily.

The daily, then, gave the tribunal a detailed resumé and the address of Hana Shams Ahmed, who had emailed the statement on behalf of the 50 citizens on Dec 18.

Supreme Court lawyer Shahdeen Malik submitted to the tribunal the names and addresses of 49 of the 50 citizens on Jan 14.

On Tuesday lawyer M Shamsul Haque pleaded for unconditional forgiveness on behalf of Malik and M Hafiz Uddin.

Human-rights activist and women’s leader Khushi Kabir had, in the mean time, dissociated herself from those ‘concerned citizens’, saying she did not subscribe to the views expressed in the statement.


Staff Correspondent,  bdnews24.com

Published: 2015-01-27 17:42:54.0 BdST Updated: 2015-01-27 21:39:16.0 BdST

Petrol Bomb Politics

Toddler Safir, 2.5, who suffered burn injuries from an attack on a bus during a nationwide strike called by the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP)-led alliance, recuperates at a hospital in Dhaka on January 21, 2015. ......Staff Reporter......
Nine people, including two children, have suffered burn injuries when miscreants set fire to a bus at Mohammadpur in Dhaka amid the ongoing the BNP-led blockade.........Staff Corr......
JnU teachers' bus torched.......JnU Repo......

JCD leader wounded as bomb he ‘was making’ goes off in Dhaka house....... tv news.....

A leading student activist of the Jamaat-e-Islami was among five caught with 130 hand-made bombs and raw materials early Wednesday morning from a house in Dhaka’s Mohakhali.......
One kilogram of gunpowder, 10 kilograms of stone chips, three kilograms of nails and two litres of petrol have also been recovered.....corress.....

Four die as bus torched in Rangpur...............
Four passengers including a child have been burnt alive in a bus set on fire at Mitthapukur.......Repor......

... national news agency...... that four passengers of the bus, including a minor child, were burnt to death on the spot and ten others ...

pro-BNP professionals and leaders of Mohila Dal, the BNP's women wing, ..... entering the building to provide her cooked foods..fish, dal, polao...beaf(of whom!!)..Gul...Repo...

Another blockade violence casualty.....Hospi....Corr....

After more than a week's battle, the youth finally succumbed to injuries in his left eye and head early on Thursday.

He died around 3am at Dhaka Medical College and Hospital, said

4 children burnt..........

Death toll rises to 17 in blockade violence in northern Bangladesh ...

... suffered injuries in a petrol bomb attack by pickets in............Vio.....Repor....

---Those are regular report of Bangladesh from starting of 2015. And these are called politics....blockade!!!!!

Luc Besson writes open letter to young Muslims after Charlie Hebdo killings

Director Luc Besson has written a heartfelt open letter to young French Muslims, calling on them to reject extremism in the wake of the Charlie Hebdo killings, reports Deadline.
Besson, director of films such as The Fifth Element, Leon: The Professional and Lucy, blamed economic deprivation for the radicalisation of terrorists and promised to work with them for a fairer society.
“My brother, if you knew how badly I hurt for you today, you and your beautiful religion that has been so sullied, humiliated, and singled out,” he wrote. “Forgotten are your strength, your energy, your humour, your heart, your fraternity. It’s unfair and together we will repair this injustice. We are millions who love you and who are going to help you.”
The film-maker, co-writer of current action sequel Taken 3 and founder of France’s hugely successful Eurocorp studio, said French society was based on “money, profit, segregation and racism”.
He wrote: “In some suburbs, unemployment for people under 25 is 50%. You are marginalised because of your colour or your first name. You’re questioned 10 times a day, you’re crowded into apartment blocks and no one represents you. Who could live and thrive under such conditions?”
Besson called on French businessmen and political leaders to help young Muslims escape the economic trap, but also said his “brothers” must take responsibility and find a way forward unconnected to radicalism.
“It costs 250 euros to buy a Kalashnikov but not even three euros to buy a pen – and your response can have a thousand times more impact,” he wrote. “Take power democratically, helped by all your brothers. Terrorism will never win. History is there to prove it.”
Here is the full text of Besson’s letter, as translated by Deadline:
My brother, if you knew how badly I hurt for you today, you and your beautiful religion that has been so sullied, humiliated, and singled out. Forgotten are your strength, your energy, your humour, your heart, your fraternity. It’s unfair and together we will repair this injustice. We are millions who love you and who are going to help you. Let’s start at the beginning. What is the society we’re offering you today?
It’s based on money, profit, segregation and racism. In some suburbs, unemployment for people under 25 is 50%. You are marginalised because of your colour or your first name. You’re questioned 10 times a day, you’re crowded into apartment blocks and no one represents you. Who could live and thrive under such conditions?
Profit comes before all else. We cut and sell the apple tree’s branches and then are shocked there’s no fruit. The real problem is there, and that’s for all of us to resolve.
I call on the powerful, the big bosses and all leaders. Help this youth that has been humiliated and which asks only to be part of society. The economy is in the service of man and not the reverse. To do good is the greatest of profits. Dear powerful, do you have children? Do you love them? What do you want to leave them? Money? Why not a world that’s more fair? That would make your children the most proud of you.
We cannot build our happiness on the misfortune of others. It is neither Christian, nor Jewish, nor Muslim. It is just selfish and it leads our society and our planet straight into a wall. This is the work we have to do beginning today to honour our dead.
Terrorism will never win.
And you, my brother, you also have a job to do. How can you change this society that’s being offered to you? By working, by studying, by taking up a pencil rather than a Kalashnikov. That’s what’s good about democracy, it offers you the noble tools to defend yourself. Take your destiny in hand, take the power. It costs 250 euros to buy a Kalashnikov but not even three euros to buy a pen – and your response can have a thousand times more impact. Take the power, and play by the rules.
Take power democratically, helped by all your brothers. Terrorism will never win. History is there to prove it. And the beautiful image of the martyr walking in both directions. Today there are a thousand [assassinated Charlie Hebdo journalists] Cabus and Wolinskis who have just been born.
Take the power and don’t let anyone take power over you. If those who are presumed guilty of this tragedy really are, know that these two blood-spilling brothers are not yours, and we all know it.
It would at most be two weak-minded individuals, abandoned by society and then abused by a preacher who sold them eternity … Radical preachers who play on and make your misfortune their business have no good intentions. They use your religion only to their advantage. It is their business, their small business. Tomorrow, my brother, we will be stronger, more connected, closer. I promise you. But today, my brother, I cry with you.

From The Guardian

Evil thought is not the different thought

Evil thought is not the different thought. Nation’s Father was ‘Razakar’ is the evil thought, not a different thought. Which journalism wants to rescue devils and evil thought in the name of different thought, they should be thrown in dustbin.


The way of life of the people of Bangladesh, the land, the rivers - all these instruments have formed a rich heritage with marked differences from neighbouring regions. It has evolved over the centuries and encompasses the cultural diversity of several social groups of Bangladesh and always avoid thought against the symphony of culture.


Rivers, Green fields, soils, air, sky, rythm   - in all areas of these geographical position flow a symphony. That is why our national anthem is - 
My Golden Bengal

My golden Bengal,
I love you.

Forever your skies,
Your air set my heart in tune
As if it were a flute.

In spring, O mother
The fragrance from your mango groves
Makes me wild with joy,
Ah, what a thrill!

In autumn, O mother
In the full blossomed paddy fields
I have seen spread all over sweet smiles.

What beauty, what shades,
What affection, what tenderness!
What a quilt have you spread
At the feet of banyan trees
And along the banks of rivers!

Oh mother mine, words from your lips
Are like nectar to my ears.
Ah, what a thrill!

If sadness, O mother
Casts a gloom on your face,
My eyes are filled with tears!

My golden Bengal,
I love you. 


All Bengali polymaths, poets, writers, musicians, revolutionary, folk singers, artists who are voiced by the soul of that symphony are living in history and they are the Rabi Tagore, Nazrul, Jibanananda, Zainul, Sultan, Lalon, Abdul Alim and many others.

Our culture, our language, our independence, our habitual creativeness having an unique harmony are always flowing in our blood. The said harmony is made by the blood, for the blood & of the blood. This is the most important component of blood waved by this geographical area's components flow for and in the people live in here.

Who think against this symphony, against the said harmony, have always defeated and destroyed. Those thought are basically in line with defeated force who tried to establish their thought for long time before 1951 and finally in 1971. On December 16, 1971, that THOUGHT was made as EVIL THOUGHT and by whose blood that is flowing now is Devil.


In this world, no country accepts that thought which is  made as evil thought in that country. All established countries have own rules against evil thought to protect their symphony., If anyone want to politics or make speech, they must do that in line with root, not against the root.


We have to understand this and prepare the same tradition. What you want to do, do in line with our symphony.  

Bangladesh Bank Governor Dr. Atiur Rahman awarded ‘Central Banker of the Year 2015’

Congratulation to Bangladesh Bank Governor Dr. Atiur Rahman for awarded ‘Central Banker of the Year 2015’ from the Asia-Pacific region for stimulating growth and stabilising economy.


From The Banker’s website:
The Banker's Central Banker of the Year 2015 awards celebrates the officials that have best managed to stimulate growth and stabilise their economy.


Central Banker of the Year, Asia-Pacific
Dr. Atiur Rahman, Bangladesh


Dr. Atiur Rahman’s work exemplifies how central banks can play essential roles in providing capital for environmentally and socially aware development without compromising on growth or macroeconomic stability.

“Initially it was not easy. Central bankers are a bit of a conservative, sceptical bunch. They thought it was going to be a disaster,” says Mr Rahman.

He believes that supporting agriculture and small and medium-sized enterprises could avert financial crises. “In many developed countries central banks only create money [and] liquidity in the air. They don’t do much on the ground, which could stop speculative financing and increase liquidity with small deposits. Financial systems would be more stable and have diversified loan portfolios [if this happened],” he says.

One of his initiatives supports tenant farmers with no access to financial services or collateral. Bangladesh Bank lent Tk5bn ($64.7m) at bank rate to non-governmental organisation (NGO) BRAC in exchange for a guarantee, and BRAC in turn organised farmers’ loans. Some 1 million tenant farmers received loans as a result of this invitation, 55% of which are women. The project has a 99% recovery rate.

Bangladesh Bank also established a project to assist street children in June 2014. This was particularly important as without guardians, these children tend to be excluded from the financial sector. Bangladesh Bank set up a Tk2bn refinancing fund for banks to lend to NGOs, including Save the Children, which in turn set up savings accounts for the children for as little as Tk10. Some 14 million such accounts have now been opened. “When they turn 18, they will have money, and they can start small businesses,” says Mr Rahman.

Bangladesh Bank is also promoting and undertaking green financing and bank operational management. Such efforts have not distracted the bank from its core duties, however. Inflation in Bangladesh dropped from 7.5% in 2013, to 6.5% in 2014, while the central bank’s reserves have tripled to Tk22bn during Mr Rahman’s mandate.

Also, Bangladesh gross domestic product has grown by at least 6% per year in the past five years, with a standard deviation of only 0.22%.