Democratic structural reform: Hoaxes form the masters and masons?

Udayan, Nabarun, Soviet Women - these were some names of teenage excitement. Names of some emotions and love. Excellent print, neat and clean some magazines. These magazines came from the distant Soviet Union (now Russia). As a child I was amazed. Each magazine had a lot to teach. The organization of the magazines was so neat that one could not ignore these magazines. At that time, Russian fables were published in every issue of Udayan. Each fable contained a teaching message. One such Russian fable came to mind today. A man decided to repair his dilapidated house. He spoke to a craftsman to repair the house. The craftsman saw the house. The roof is leaking. The floor of the house froze when the ice entered through that leak. Cracks in walls, broken windows. With these comes the cold wind. The craftsman observed everything and gave an amount of the repair of the house. Seeing this amount, the owner of the house was shocked. Where will he get so many rubles (Russian currency)? The craftsman suggested him to go to the moneylender, take loan and then slowly repay. The landlord found the suggestion was not really bad. So he went to the moneylender. The moneylender said, I can pay the loan, but the loan must be guaranteed. The moneylender said, "Give me your house deed." Take it when the loan is paid off. The landlord agreed and took the loan. So he started fixing the house with the craftsman. Meanwhile the cost keeps increasing. New costs are added. So, the landlord again takes loan from the moneylender. When the repair work of the house was finished, the moneylender also came asking for his money. he landlord said, how can I repay the loan now? I have talked about slowly paying off the debt. But the moneylender won’t listen. At one point, he forcibly evicted the landlord and took possession of the repaired house. The owner of the house now becomes a refugee. This story gives us a very important message and that is not to go beyond your limits. After reading the outline of BNP's state reform, I remembered that Russian fable. BNP will reach out to which moneylender to repair the state? Who will repair this state? BNP's 27-point outline of state reform has two aspects. One is how to implement these 27 points. The other is - what is in the 27 points. 'State repair' is essentially a colonial concept. United Kingdom, France, Portugal unjustly occupied, looted, and grossly insulted civilization and humanity in various countries of the world, and they came up with the theory of 'state repair' to justify their crimes. The British taught 'civilization' to the subcontinent through brutal oppression and torture. After the horrific violence in South Africa, there were calls for state repair. At that time, the United States invaded Afghanistan and Iraq. The US came up with the theory of 'state repair' to heal that wound. The US has spent $120 billion on the State Building Strategic Assistance Program in Afghanistan. Which was basically looted. Mercenary politicians like Hamid Karzai have embezzled hundreds of billions of dollars. In Afghanistan, the theory of 'state repair' has boomeranged. The US, the state repair contractor, has virtually escaped the country. In December 2001, an 'Interim Government' was formed in Afghanistan under the leadership of Hamid Karzai. At that time, Hamid Karzai started the 'structural reform' program under the patronage of the US and BNP’s 'state repair' program is basically the same. A new constitution was drafted in Afghanistan in 2004 through the US-style State Repair Program. Another civil politician, Ashraf Ghani, was elected president in 2014. But in the end, US 'state repair' in Afghanistan failed. In Afghanistan, the United States handed over power to hard-line fundamentalists. After the US invasion of Iraq and Libya, the 'State Repair' program or 'Democratic Structural Reform' came to the fore. These prescriptions were invented in the United States. The United States uses various countries as guinea pigs to test these 'innovations'. After seeing BNP's 27-point state repair program on December 19, many unresolved questions were answered. Why three different statements were made by the United States after the incident in front of the BNP office in Nayapaltan on December 7. Why did Peter D. Haas rush to Shaheen Bagh on the day of Martyred Intellectuals' Day on December 14 after a simple rally at Golap Bagh on December 10? Why did he meet the foreign minister in anger over security? Then the announcement of BNP state repair. Is the United States back to that old game to do what they could not do in Afghanistan? And therefore they are using BNP? Sajedul has been missing for 10 years. Whether he went missing or voluntarily disappeared is under investigation. In the last 10 years, three other ambassadors of the United States served in Bangladesh. Sajedul disappeared during Dan Mozena's time (November 24, 2011 to January 12, 2015). But Mozena did not go to Shaheen Bagh. Dan Mozena did not say anything about Sajedul's disappearance. Marcia Bernicat became the US ambassador to Bangladesh after Mozena. Bernicat was very social. Her presence in various programs was noticeable. Before leaving, she was invited to a dinner at SHUJAN’s editor Badiul Alam Majumdar's house. An unexpected incident occurred there. Later, law enforcement agencies took swift action. Before leaving in November 2018, Bernicat met the Prime Minister. Even at that time, she did not show so much anxiety and restlessness about that incident. Bernicat served in Bangladesh from 2015 to 2018. She never visited Shaheen Bagh. Earl R. Miller took over as ambassador to Bangladesh on November 29, 2018 after Bernicat. Miller served in Bangladesh for more than three years. At that time, he also did not respond to ‘Mayed Dak’. So what happened suddenly that the US ambassador had to rush to Shaheen Bagh? The Golapbagh mission did not bring the desired results, that is why the drama of Shaheen Bagh was staged. Only the victim's family know how it feel when a family member goes missing. Every year the US Department of Justice compiles a list of missing and disappeared persons in that country. 2022 Missing Persons database has also been released. This list shows that more than 600,000 people go missing in the United States every year. About 4 thousand 400 unidentified bodies are recovered every year. More than 6 out of every 100,000 people in the United States go missing each year. In 2021, 521 thousand 705 cases of disappearance were registered in the United States. Out of this, 4 lakh 85 thousand missing cases have been solved. About 36,000 missing persons have not been found. I don't know if the ambassador has any relatives on this long list of missing persons in the United States. Maybe he has, that's why he ran to Shaheen Bagh feeling emotional about the disappearance. But in Bangladesh, " disappearance" is like a hide and seek story. I heard for a long time that Harris Chowdhury is missing. BNP leaders also gave a strong statement on this. But after his natural death it was discovered that he living in Bangladesh but with different name and identity. Harris Chowdhury died and proved that he was not missing. Former ward commissioner and BNP leader Quayum is one of the accused in the murder of Italian citizen Cesare Tavella. After the assassination of Cesare Tavella, he fled the country. It was then said that the former ward commissioner has been disappeared. His workers held a rally in Badda. Now he is traveling in London, Malaysia, Singapore. Some say that he is traveling from country to country as Tarek Zia's cashier. Another big issue was created over BNP leader Salahuddin Ahmed. Later he was 'discovered' in India. Farhad Mazhar wanted to become the main character of this Disappearance Drama but instead his 'foreignness' got exposed in front of the nation. Thus the list of missing is getting shorter. 136 to 76. Now it has reached 17 people. There is definitely a political motive behind the way in which this is being lamented.

The 'Mayer Dak' organization is controversial. This organization was formed with the support and patronage of two political parties. Disappearance is unexpected. It is not desirable for a single person to go missing in a free state. Extrajudicial killing of even a one human being is unfortunate. Again, trying to get political advantage by arranging the drama of disappearance is even worse than that. 'Mayer Dak' is cheaply politicizing the alleged disappearances. It has now become an organ and affiliate of BNP and Jamaat. He must have pondered in private whether Peter Haas had violated diplomatic norms and etiquette by going to Shaheen Bagh at the invitation of such a politically biased organization. However, after BNP's state reform outline, we easily understood the real reason behind the Shaheen Bagh campaign. So does the United States want to establish the regime of Hamid Karzai in this country? Why is there so much worry about democracy and human rights in this country? In 1975 Agoni Booster was the US Ambassador to Bangladesh. What he did in the heinous massacre of August 15 is well documented in Lawrence Lifschultz's 'Bangladesh: The Unfinished Revolution' and Anthony Mascarnhas' 'A Legacy of Blood'. So 'human rights' appear to the US in different forms in different countries, at different times. They have a purpose behind it. The United States wants to inspect the repair of the state of Bangladesh. This is why they have so many human rights practices lately. But the ironic thing is that this state reform formula made by the civilized and western countries is being tried to be implemented by a political party which itself will need to be dissolve to implement it. Wondering how? Let's compare the 27 points and BNP's past activities side by side. In the first phase of 27 points of BNP, constitution reform commission has been mentioned. It states that 'all unreasonable, controversial and undemocratic constitutional amendments and changes shall be reviewed and repealed or amended.' Alas, Seleucus. By the hands of those who violated the Constitution of 72, they will now reform the 'Constitution Commission'! Zia came to power and removed secularism and socialism from the constitution. This autocratic dictator repealed the ban on religious politics. Gave opportunity to rehabilitate the defeated power of 71 in politics. This BNP destroyed the basic spirit of the Bangladesh state through the fifth amendment of the constitution. Today they talk about canceling the undemocratic provisions of the Constitution! In 2001, the BNP-Jamaat alliance came to power and amended the constitution to make a caretaker head of government. In 1981, the Sixth Amendment to the Constitution made Justice Sattar a candidate for the post of President. But now they care so much about the constitution. What a joke! The second of the 27 points of BNP is the establishment of 'Rainbow Nation'. It says the establishment of an inclusive state on the basis of Bangladeshi nationalism against the politics of 'violence' and 'revenge'. Will the BNP apologize to the nation for the killing of Colonel Taher? Will Zia express regret for the thousands of army officers and soldiers he killed to stay in power? The 21 August 2004 grenade attack led by Begum Zia and Tarek Zia is the most horrific example of political revenge. Before the Rainbow Nation, Is BNP willing to stand before the nation transparently? Are they going to admit the fact that, they have made mistakes and won’t repeat them again? What explanation will BNP give for the terrorist violence they conducted to eliminate the political opponents on the election night of October 1, 2001? The third point in BNP's state reform agenda is the establishment of a caretaker government. Then BNP must explain in front of the nation why it made such a shameless attempt to make KM Hasan the head of the caretaker government. Why did they destroy the whole system by making Dr Yazuddin the head of the caretaker government despite being the President? The fourth clause of the 27 clauses talks about establishing the balance of power between the President and the Prime Minister. BNP was in power when the country returned to parliamentary democracy in 1991. Why did not they balance the power of the Prime Minister and the President back then? Why did the BNP leaders spoil the dignity of this highest constitutional post by making a Razakar the President? After Dr. Badruddoza Chowdhury became the President, was not the title of 'President' disrespected by the way BNP treated him? In the state reform framework, the BNP has announced that no one can serve as president and prime minister more than twice. No one can be president of Bangladesh more than twice in a row. The Prime Minister is the leader of the majority party in the Parliament. There is no such provision in India and even in the UK that no one can be prime minister more than twice. Because it is against the parliamentary spirit. This formula was first discovered in Bangladesh in 2007 during one-eleven. This theory was presented to eliminate Awami League President Sheikh Hasina and BNP chairperson Begum Khaleda Zia from politics. The then general secretary of BNP late Abdul Mannan Bhuiyan presented the reform proposal in a formal press conference. Ruhul Kabir Rizvi, senior joint general secretary of BNP, gave an excellent statement against this. He said, "Such strange reform proposals are for depoliticization and implementation of minus formula."

Did the BNP leaders accept Mannan Bhuiyan's formula? Did they actually expel Begum Zia from politics by announcing this outline? Because if this outline is implemented, Begum Zia will never be able to become the prime minister. None of the points from 6 to 27 of the outline belong to BNP. BNP manifesto, many of its clauses are in conflict with the 19 points made at the time of its establishment. For example, BNP's manifesto mentions the establishment of Islamic values. However, in the 16th point of the outline, the secular principle of 'Religion belongs individual, state belongs to everyone' is mentioned. No document of BNP till date has accepted 'secularism' as a state principle. Clause 19 states that 'no terrorist activities shall be tolerated within the territory of Bangladesh'. Such a statement was obviously imported to please India. But such a statement would have been acceptable if the BNP had given a reasonable explanation for the 10 trucks of weapon. The weapon was brought for the Indian separatists during the BNP-Jamaat coalition government. In this way, a step-by-step postmortem of the BNP outline can be done. It can be easily understood that BNP has announced a 'system' given by Civils and the West without even looking into it. Therefore, this formula of repairing the state does not belong to BNP and the repairman will not be BNP - that is for sure.

The United States sponsored the radical Taliban to drive the Soviet Union out of Afghanistan. Gave them money and weapons. Later, they called the Taliban as terrorists and fought against them. Now those who want to oust the Awami League using the BNP, which is controlled by the right-wing semi-radical Jamaat in Bangladesh, actually want to make Bangladesh a Taliban state. Wants to make Bangladesh an Afghanistan. The State Reform Outline is a message of that desire.