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Myanmar's propaganda over Rohingya repatriation
 

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Bangladesh has protested Myanmar's propaganda on Rohingya repatriation issue.
A press release from Bangladesh Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Sunday said that a spokesperson for Myanmar's state council office on November 15 claimed that repatriation cannot be started due to the non-cooperation of Bangladesh.
The country is trying to avoid the duty of creating a conducive atmosphere for living in Rakhine State by echoing such illogical and concocted narratives, the press release said it. The foreign ministry said that it is a well-known fact that Myanmar created the Rohingya crisis. Its current government has maintained the policy of the previous regime in Rakhine state.
"Myanmar has created the problem. They will have to solve it and it is responsible for the lingering crisis," the press notice said.
Bangladesh wants to implement the repatriation deal has been proved beyond doubt. Rohingyas have stated on last August unequivocally in the presence Myanmar officials that they will only go back when the situation will be conducive. The press release said that though Myanmar claimed that some Rohingyas have returned to Rakhaine but this does not prove that the situation has improved in Rakhine.
If the country wants to prove that the conditions in Rakhine are ivmproved, they should allow the UN, media and Rohingya leaders to visit the state.






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BHRC & IHRC Human Rights Report on December 2019 in Bangladesh

Total 177 persons killed in December, 2019

Human Rights Report:

The documentation section of Bangladesh Human Rights Commission (BHRC) and International Human Rights Commission-IHRC jointly furnished this human rights survey report on the basis of daily newspapers and information received from its district, sub-district and municipal branches. As per survey it appears that 177 peoples were killed in December, 2019 in all over the country. It proves that the law and order situation is not satisfactory. Bangladesh Human Rights Commissions extremely anxious about this situation. In the month of December, 2019 average 5 people were killed in each day.
The Law enforcing agencies and related Govt. departments should be more responsible so that percentage of killing May be brought down to zero level. To institutionalize the democracy and to build human rights based society the rule of law and order must be established everywhere. Through enforcing rule of law only such violation against human rights can be minimized.
It appears from documentation division of BHRC:
Total 177 person killed in December 2019
killing for dowry 5, killing by family violence 21, killed due to social discrepancy 41, killed by Law enforcing authority 22, Killed by BSF 6, Killed due to doctor negligence 2, Abduction 9, Assassination 5, Mysterious death 36, Women & Chilled killed due to rape 9
Killed by several accidents: Killed by road accident 284, B. Suicide 21
Besides victims of torture: Rape 46, Sexual Harassment 15, Torture for Dowry 7, Acid throwing 1, Journalist torture 2.



 

IHRC observed UN Human Rights Day 2019 
 

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International Human Rights Commission (IHRC) is one of the worldwide Peace & Human Rights bodies. It was established in Geneva, Switzerland on 24th December, 2003.
IHRC Bangladesh National Chapter organized a colourful rally on the occasion of the 71st anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights Day at Central Shahid Minar, Dhaka, Bangladesh on the 10th December 2019 at 9:30 AM. IHRC International Secretary General Dr. Saiful I. Dildar was present the occasion as Chief Guest. President of Bangladesh Human Rights Commission-BHRC Freedom fighter Kazi Rezaul Mostafa was present the occasion as a special guest. Dr. ASM Badruddoza, National President of IHRC, Bangladesh presided over the rally.  .


 

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Memories of Bangabandhu
 

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The very first time I went into a serious study of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman was in early 1969, when demands for the withdrawal of the Agartala Conspiracy Case and his release were being made vociferously in what was then East Pakistan. I had, of course, heard my father and his friends sometimes speak of him, especially when news items relating to the 'conspiracy' first began to appear in the media, with deep respect. My father, outraged at what the Ayub Khan government was doing, simply did not believe that Mujib could do what the regime was accusing him of having done. For myself, I had never seen a picture of the man who was one day to lead Bengalis to freedom. I assumed, though, that he was of short stature, like any average Bengali. Or he might quite resemble Sher-e-Bangla A.K. Fazlul Huq. It not until Bangabandhu's photograph (he had a huge moustache and wore dark-rimmed glasses, all of which accentuated the personality in him) appeared in The Pakistan Times one day in February 1969 that I got to know him better, in a manner of speaking. Late in June 1970, having read in the newspaper that Bangabandhu was to make a tour of West Pakistan as part of his election campaign (I was in school in Quetta, Baluchistan), I wondered if it would not be a good idea getting his autograph. Like many other schoolboys at the time, I was in those days chasing all the famous men and women I could, for their signatures in an autograph book I had bought earlier. I had by then collected quite a few signatures, one being Zulfikar Ali Bhutto's. Since I did not want to miss out on Bangabandhu (my parents were sure he was going to be Pakistan's next leader), I walked down to the Baluchistan Awami League.



 

Is it a good time to be middle-class in Bangladesh? 

Afsan Chowdhury

The people especially the youth of the country motivated by secular ideologies came out to Shahabagh Square in Dhaka to demand justice for the victims of the 1971 liberation war (Internet)
Is it a good time to be middle From 1947 to 1971, politics was largely dominated by middle-class leadership and issues. The most iconic one was the Language movement - 1947-1952 - which mixed two of the greatest middle-class concerns - elite text culture and economics particularly access to salaried jobs.
The decision by the Pakistan government to make Urdu the only state language was one of the most self-destructive decision ever. It ignited the already unhappy middle class of East Pakistan into large scale protests with no options left. Their job markets were about to be severely slashed by excluding Bangla as one of the state languages.
Their entry into the civil service, media and even the education sector would be almost all gone. It's not an accident that the greatest explosion of the Language Movement happened at the Dhaka University campus, the centre of graduates who would be affected most by the decision.
But the decision was not manifested through economic arguments but cultural motifs and the right to language semiotics which became political in nature very soon. So cultural issues are always the box in which economic issues are packaged. It doesn't matter whether its language or faith identities. Often both combine to produce a third identity which is territory as it happened in case of the Bangladesh movement.
This issue was built around disappointment and aspirations, both social and economic. It allowed the Awami League, a party led by the middle class to construct its core and branch out to cover all other space. But key leadership always belonged to the middle. It's the ultimate middle class party and is often a mediator of various other streams. Once all lines could meet and ultimately become a rainbow in politics as it happened under Sk. Mujib. That rainbow catcher was the middle class in Bangla politics. But is that changing?

 


 

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