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Don't neglect mother

tongue, says PM
 

Human Rights Report
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday said in the global village one needs to learn other languages but the mother tongue must never be neglected.
"The world is now a global village. To live here, to communicate with others, doing business, knowing about other cultures and literature, one needs to learn different languages but not by excluding the mother tongue," she said.
Sheikh Hasina said this at the inauguration of a four-day programme of the International Mother Language Institute at Shegunbagicha on the occasion of the Amar Ekushey and the International Mother Language Day 2020.
She heavily criticised a section of young generation who cannot speak Bangla properly. "Many of us are forgetting Bangla while staying in Bangladesh. They cannot speak Bangla with proper Bengali pronunciation, they speak Bangla in English accent, what'll I say to them? I can only pity them," she said. Talking about the Pakistani conspiracy to exclude Bangla from the life of Bangalees, Sheikh Hasina said it was a blow to the existence of the whole nation.




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BHRC & IHRC Human Rights Report on February 2020 in Bangladesh

Total 148 persons killed in February, 2020

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The documentation section of Bangladesh Human Rights Commission (BHRC) and International Human Rights CommissionIHRC jointly furnished this human rights survey report on the basis of daily newspapers and information received from its district, subdistrict and municipal branches. As per survey it appears that 148 peoples were killed in February, 2020 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 February, 2020 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 148 person killed in February, 2020
Killing for dowry 2, killing by family violence 27, Killed due to social discrepancy 41, Political Killing 4, Killed by Law enforcing authority 21, Killed by BSF 7, Killed due to doctor negligence 3, Abduction 5, Assassination 7, Mysterious death 23, Women & Chilled killed due to rape 7, Killed by Acid throwing 1.
Killed by several accidents: Killed by road accident 294, Suicide 17.
Besides victims of torture: Rape 39, Sexual Harassment 4, Torture for Dowry 3, Journalist torture 2, Acid throwing 1.



 

Bangladesh envoy holds talks with Jaishankar  
 

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Bangladesh High Commissioner to India Muhammad Imran on 21 February 2020 met Indian External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar at the latter's office in New Delhi.
During the meeting, the envoy discussed with the Indian Minister about Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's upcoming visit to Bangladesh to attend the centenary celebration of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman to be held in Dhaka on March 17.Bangladesh will commence the formal celebration of the centenary, known as Mujib Satobarsha 2020-21, on March 17 marking the birth day of Bangabandhu, who led Bangladesh's 1971 War of Liberation.
Describing Bangabandhu as a global leader Jaishankar said the Indians remember him with profound respect.
Jaishankar expressed satisfaction at the excellent bilateral relations existing between the two closest neighbours. India attaches special importance to its relations with Bangladesh, he told the envoy. "There are lots of respect and goodwill for Bangladeshis in India," he said.
Muhammad Imran conveyed Dhaka's appreciation for India's friendly gesture to evacuate several Bangladeshis stranded in China's Hubei province in the wake of an outbreak of Coronavirus there.
He also conveyed Bangladesh Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen's regards to Jaishankar, said the Bangladesh High Commission in New Delhi.
Jaishankar assured Imran of his fullest cooperation during his tenure as Bangladesh envoy in India.
The envoy assured Jaishankar of doing his best to take the bilateral relations to a greater height during his tenure.


 

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How Ekushey February metamorphosed into International Mother Language Day
 

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Celebrating International Mother Language Day is an opportunity to promote and protect cultural and linguistic diversity
Syed Mehdi Momin
Today is Ekushey, the 21st February, a great day in the history of Bangladesh. On this day 62 years ago a number of brave Bangladeshi youths laid down their lives to protect the dignity of their mother tongue. With that cataclysmic event taking place with young blood spilled on the streets of Dhaka, the seed of our nationhood was sown which sprouted and grew into a tree and gave us the strength and fortitude to press for self-determination and freedom from slavery and exploitation of the Pakistanis. This momentous event took place in the wake of the then Pakistani rulers' first attempt to suppress the Bangla-speaking people's unique identity with their own language, heritage, art and culture. They tried to deny our right to speak, think and write in our mother tongue, when the then Governor General of Pakistan Mohammad Ali Jinnah most unjustly declared that Urdu would be the only official language of the state of Pakistan.
This declaration from the ruling quarters was a blatant denial of the right of the Bengalis who formed the majority of the population of Pakistan. But when the brave sons of this land most unselfishly embraced martyrdom to counter the designs of the Pakistani rulers representing the minority of the population, this step was written into history as the courageous action of a people who fought for upholding the dignity of their national pride. But for the Bengalis, as the years passed by, the yearning for freeing themselves from the shackles of exploitation gained momentum spontaneously as the world witnessed the political movements of the sixties ushering in the six-point charter of the Awami League, the 11-point demands of the students, the mass movement of 1969, and ultimately the Liberation War of 1971 that gave birth to Bangladesh.
This day of the highest and noblest sacrifice is now the eternal fountainhead of inspiration for the people of Bangladesh and the Shaheed Minar has become a very potent symbol of our nationhood and national unity. Herein lies the true meaning of the Immortal Ekushey.
Until 2000, the celebration of the day was confined to Bangladesh and Bangla speaking peoples scattered around the world. With the announcement of the day as the International Mother Language Day by the UN in 1999, the day has been given its due universal dimension and it has become a pride possession of our nation. The spirit of the Ekushey will always give us inspiration to forge ahead as an independent nation that refuses to bow its head to unholy and diabolical powers trying to suppress our identity as a nation.
In 1948 Mohammed Ali Jinnah, the governor General declared, "Urdu and Urdu alone shall be the national language of Pakistan". It was an autocratic measure imposed upon 58.6 percent of the Bangla speaking majority. The young students did not welcome Jinnah's declaration, fought on the barricades, organized the language movement and made it a political issue by sacrificing their lives. Eventually this nationalism, which focused strongly on language, finally gave birth to a new country in 1971, called Bangladesh.



 

Towards establishing rule of law and terrorism-free society 

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regulating the conduct of the citizen for peaceful co-existence. In this way rule of law has become the essential pre-requisite for peace, prosperity and development of people and society. It is needless to say, in a democratic polity, the rule of law has become the essential pre-requisite for peace, prosperity and development of the people and the society. It is needless to say, in a democratic polity, the rule of law has been recognized as the greatest guarantee for ensuring liberty and protection of the rights of the citizen.
Terrorism and rule of law is the burning topic of the day. As there are crime, criminals, so there are laws, law enforcing agencies and criminal courts for ensuring punishment of the wrongdoers. There are also preventive measures but those are found inadequate due to lack of constant vigilance and wrong or mis-application of law and sometimes due to interference from interested quarters. Of late, the nature of crimes and the modus operandi of the criminals in the commissions of offence have undergone a change. Terrorism, violence and lawlessness has swept Bangladesh in all the spheres of the society including the universities which has been turned as the battlefields for arm-display in place of seats of learning, giving rise to terrorism taking a heavy toll of lives of the students belonging to different shades of opinion.

 


 

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