JOURNALISM IN THE AMERICAS Blog Mexican journalist in Egypt detained by vigilantes and the army

Mexican journalist Carlos Loret de Mola, the anchor of a news show on Televisa, was held for eight hours upon his arrival to Cairo, first by a group of civilian “vigilantes” and later by the army, which confiscated his cell phone, El Universal reports.
Loret de Mola initially reported the news via his Twitter account, on which he related the events at they happened: “It has started poorly: civilian ‘vigilantes’ held us in the back of a Taxi.” Later he was transferred to a military facility and his phone was confiscated.
Radio Fórmula said he was held for eight hours and was later prevented by the military from filming in a poorer district of the city.
Journalists worldwide have reported suffering violence, harassment, and arrest in Egypt, including CBS correspondent Lara Logan, who was sexually assaulted.
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PM urges people to work for peace 48-feet high statue of Lord Buddha unveiled

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has urged people of all faiths and communities to work shoulder to shoulder to build Bangladesh as the most peaceful and prosperous nation in South Asia.

She gave the call while speaking as chief guest at a function marking the unveiling of 48-feet high statue of Lord Buddha at the Dharmarajika Buddhist Monastery Campus in the city's Kamlapur yesterday morning.

Addressing the function, Hasina renewed her vow to eliminate corruption, terrorism and militancy from Bangladesh and said the on going drives against all evil deeds would continue.

Mentioning that welfare of mankind is the essence of all religions, she requested people from all walks of life to devote themselves for the welfare of the humanity.

The prime minister said brotherly and peaceful relations among the people of all religions are essential for national, regional and international development. “To attain our cherished economic emancipation, peace and stability are indispensable.”

She said the country's constitution upholds people's right to live in peace and comfort in the society. “Our constitution also preserves the people's right to live in a secular society where people of all religions will have full dignity and freedom.”

Hasina said people of various community, religion, caste and creed are living peacefully in Bangladesh. “Such harmony and peaceful co-existence is rare in the world history.”

She assured the Buddhist community of ensuring all facilities for them to live in peace in Bangladesh.

Chaired by President of Bangladesh Bouddha Kristi Prachar Sangha Suddhananda Mahathero, the function was also addressed, among others, by Industries Minister Dilip Barua, Religious Affairs Minister Md Shahjahan Miah, Saber Hossain Chowdhury MP, Thai Ambassador in Dhaka Tasanawadee Miancharoen, Phrakhru Sangakharak Boonsong Upasamo, Lord Abbot and President of the Monks Wat Songmetttawanaram, and Police Major General from Thailand Suwira Songmetta.

Earlier, after arriving at the Dharmarajika Buddhist Monastery Campus, the Prime Minister unveiled the plaque of the statue of Buddha. The Thai Royal family has donated the statue, the highest such sculpture of Buddha in Bangladesh.

At the function, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina distributed Atish Dipankar Peace Gold Award and Visuddhananda Mahathero Gold Award.

She said the previous Awami League government had allocated two bighas of land for setting up a Buddhist Monastery at the city's Badda while the present government has again allocated another two bighas of land in Uttara to set up another Buddhist Monastery.

She lamented that the Dharmarajika Buddhist Monastery auditorium and clinic, which were inaugurated during the previous Awami League government were “neglected” by the next BNP-Jamaat government.

“However, as in the past, my government will again take care of these two infrastructures,” she said. About national development, Hasina said her government is attaching top most priority to development in the rural areas.

“If we can keep our rural people in peace and comfort, the country will advance a lot towards sustainable development. We must make our rural economy self-reliant,” she said.



(Source:The Daily Star)

Dealing with dissent - The view from the authorities Printer-friendly versionSend to friendPDF versionFacebookTwitter Jonathan Moses, 22 February 201

How is dissent understood by those tasked with its “facilitation”? Several sources have emerged in the last month which give an indication of the contradictory environment in which public order policing is evolving: Policing Public Order (a report by HMIC), an interview with ACPO President, Hugh Orde and a debate on “The Rise of Street Extremism” at the right-wing think tank, Policy Exchange (which can be viewed in full here).Reconfiguring Dissent

Firstly, they recognise the organisation of dissent is changing. HMIC place great emphasis on the way in which public order situations are “evolving in terms of: the numbers involved; spread across the country; associated sporadic violence; disruption caused; short notice or no-notice events, and swift changes in protest tactics”. Hugh Orde talks of how social media adds “a whole new dimension to public order”. “I would call into question the role of Twitter” says Henry Robinson, claiming that it allows activists to “outmanoeuvre the police”.

In reality, claims of Twitter’s tactical viability in protest situations have always been overstated, with limits to the spread of necessary technology. Although this is changing, with innovations such as Sukey contesting the police’s monopoly over real-time information, Twitter remains primarily a facilitator of democratic practice and rapid organisation – not, as Robinson seems to suggest, a threat to an institution of the state. Social media speeds up and levels out organisation: it creates a loose network, which crystallises in traditional modes of action. So far, the “outmanoeuvring” occurs during the creation, rather than at the site, of protest.

Political Policing

Policy Exchange introduce their event under the aegis that there are “increasing signs that significant sections of the extreme left have little intention of confining their opposition to Coalition policies to peaceful, democratic protest.”

What does this mean in real terms? Whilst the HMIC report finds that, far from any left-wing activity, the English Defence League has proved the most draining organisation in terms of resources deployed, they are clearly not the focus of concern. The EDL are almost entirely absent from the Policy Exchange discussion – only briefly mentioned after a prompt from an audience member – likewise, UK Uncut actions and recent student demonstrations in November and December form the basis of the Hugh Orde interview.

The most cynical analysis would be that whilst the student demonstrations have mostly targeted property, and UK Uncut have threatened commerce; the EDL only target communities and this is deemed less significant in an age of neoliberalism. The Policy Exchange event is particularly dubious on this account, especially since many of the contributors are keen to brand UK Uncut as an extremist organisation. For HMIC’s purposes however, the most likely reason is that the EDL tactics still conform to a comparatively familiar model of homogenous protests which occasionally degenerate into conflict.

Terrorism and Protest

One of the most striking claims of the Policy Exchange event is the implication that UK Uncut are potentially an embryonic terrorist group. Henry Robinson draws comparisons from his experience of Northern Ireland, stating that "when I see extremism developing like I see it developing in London through some of these protests, I think it requires a response to try and stop it in its infancy".

After noting how the Real IRA added banks to their target list some time after a protest group flashmobbed Irish banks (he doesn’t explain how tangible the link is), he asks of UK Uncut “what the real motives and agenda is here, by drawing other young people into these protests who may genuinely, and are genuinely opposed to the cuts, I worry where this is actually going to lead.” Robinson then asserts that UK Uncut is “a significant threat to democracy”, a “small group of extreme hard-left”, that he doesn’t believe “are really concerned about some of the issues – I think their overall objective is actually to cause upheaval, and civil disobedience and violence”.

Peter Clarke, former Head of the Counter Terrorism Command, picks up on the theme in relation to the student protests. “I watched the events of December 9th and the thin blue line that kept the mob out of parliament, and it struck me that, actually, the potential impact of that was not very far removed from the things which preoccupied me for so many years in my police career, which was terrorism.” Invoking his memory of the Brighton Grand Hotel bombing in October 1984, Clarke suggests that there are “parallel ambitions between organised protest and terrorism”, clarifying that “it’s not so much the intent that is different but the response, the national response, to those events”.

These speculations are not, remember, the absurd ravings of a right-wing journalist: but the former Head of the Counter Terrorism Command. They are delivered in a context where climate campaigners are subjected to 8 year long undercover police operations targeting “domestic extremists”, where current officers from the CTC are asking universities to pass on information about student activists, where our council chambers are invaded and in some cases members of the public arrested for asking “unplanned questions” about the cuts (to applause from Conservative councillors).

One case study in the HMIC report about the May Day demonstration in 2010 notes that “While it was recognised that the protest areas were targets for terrorism, it is explicit in the Silver Commander’s briefing that the use of s.44 Terrorism Act 2000 (power to search without reasonable grounds in a defined area) would only be exercised after consultation with, and under the supervision of, a supervisor.” It would appear that the abuse of anti-terror legislation in quelling dissent, once an unofficial practice, is now an open and naturalised component of the public order inventory.

Henry Robinson argues that UK Uncut fits the model of extremism because its tactics “intimidate” shoppers and shop-workers. He provides no evidence, so I will. At the last demonstration, one protester used a leaflet to terrorise the rubber seal of a Boots store doorway. The police were on hand to protect the staff, arresting the extremist and CS-spraying three more protesters. "The staff at Boots were fantastic and took us inside and gave us free treatment," said Gordon Maloney, 20, one of the other protesters who was hit by the CS spray. "My eyes were really streaming and my face hurt but I was most struck by the violence used by the police. I have been on a lot of demonstrations and have not seen anything like this before."

The “Right” to Protest

What is behind this recent push to control the narrative of dissent? Activists involved in 2009’s G20 demonstrations will remember how a similar process of steady defamation fuelled expectations of violence. First police warned of a “summer of rage” following the financial crisis and banking bailout, with further prophecies that April 1st would be “very violent”, warning that they were “up for it and up to it” if there was trouble. The resultant policing operation, Operation Glencoe (a belligerent nod to the Glencoe massacre in 1692), saw an uninvolved man killed and many more injured. The suspicion is the police are once again planning to ‘save’ ‘us’ from the phantoms which the police itself creates.

Despite the HMIC’s report on the policing of the G20 finding systematic failings, an audience member of the Policy Exchange saw it as a model example: “ideal, and very practical” which due to “an unfortunate incident… was lost in the media scramble to bring a stop to the story about the good success of the police.” The “unfortunate incident” refers to Ian Tomlinson’s death.

The framework for debate about policing operations since the G20 has primarily centred around the “right to protest”. Yet Hugh Orde’s interview exposes some of the problems with the way this language has been interpreted. “There are lots of people we can talk to, but they need to stand up and lead their people too. If they don't, we must be clear that the people who wish to demonstrate won't engage, communicate or share what they intend to do with us, and so our policing tactics will have to be different ... slightly more extreme.” Orde’s understanding of the “right” to protest as contractual rather than universal is classically conservative: with rights come responsibilities. His appeal for leadership is both outmoded and ideological.

Of course, if protest really is a right then it needs no permission to be exercised. HMIC’s post-G20 report in fact makes more or less this point – it criticises the foundation of ACPO’s guideline that the police’s role is to 'facilitate lawful protest'; noting that “Article 11 of the ECHR places the police under the obligation to facilitate peaceful protest….even if these protests cause a level of obstruction or disruption”.

Lessons to Learn

Tactics: Abandoning the “Right to Protest” leaves two options: reconsider the basis upon which rights are invoked (for instance, a “right to dissent” or a “right to resist”) or abandon rights as a platform altogether, instead focusing on novel, flexible tactics which protect, obstruct and disrupt. Pre-approved actions are clearly ineffective; treating dissent like a commodity – tokenistic, performative, sanitised, and ultimately, appropriable.

Locations: As David Maclean (former Minister of State at the Home Office) puts it “at the moment it’s centred on Parliament, and thank god for that”. Others have already pointed out that Parliament Square is as limiting a site for protest as it is symbolic. These spaces were built with the suppression of protest in mind.

Aesthetics: Kitsch protest is self-defeating, and works by the same logic of other postmodern forms of cultural production which regurgitate aesthetics outside of the context which grant them critical saliency. Ruling powers (and this is a frequent motif in the Policy Exchange event) will do everything they can to assimilate dissent within narrow, safe typologies (“Trotskyists” “Extremists” “Anarchists”). Our images must contradict the dismissive labels imposed upon them.

Resources: High-intensity policing costs money. The student protests in November and December amounted to an estimated £100,000. According to the HMIC, some metropolitan forces report increases in their public order spending for 2009/10 to 2010/11 of anywhere between £245,000 and £636,000. The student demonstration on December 9th was the most testing of police capabilities, with 80 PSUs (Police support units) deployed. Given that one PSU consists of approximately one inspector, three sergeants and 18 constables, this amounts to roughly 1760 officers in total. This is in the context of a 20% cut to policing budgets.

Conclusion

It is revealing that both panellists at the Policy Exchange, and the HMIC report, mistakenly list the NUS as the organisation behind the demonstrations on November 24th, 30th, and December 9th. Whilst they recognise that protest is changing, they are slow to comprehend political organisation which moves beyond hierarchical organisations, and when they can’t identify groups or leaders both they, like the media, are intent on inventing them. As one police officer tentatively asks in the Guardian’s recent UK Uncut video “Who organised all this… is it facebook, twitter?” “It’s just anger” the protester replies. “No one needs organising for anger.”
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Mobile/Cell phone and electronic media can effective role in Health Sector of Bangladesh and Around the World.

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In the south Asia, Bangladesh one of the poorer country still not yet sustainable conscious of health & health education. It could be included that gender equality and the transparent relation are not cleared the concerns. First, it can be issued Maternal death & proper child protection is not sufficiently implemented in Bangladesh and then our Neighbor countries. Though the government of the country announced the marriage and health care concerns the definite age of female and male and to take or to prevent risks for taking child (family planning) but in practical its visible the opposite in various ways. No necessary to mention by any religious corrupted marriage happening,, corruption in marriage certificates, fake birth certificates issue, no future planning for the continuing gentle and social communicative relations, by emotion greedy & instability of mental condition happening control less birth and uncounted population that the government or the private organizations including media services are failed to find the solution and possible ways to prevent such population explosion. If we have a look to our neibourgh (India) where common sex are ordinary matter, no religious concerns , they also took legal steps on such issues. Where no female should be allowed to have pregnancy without proving age and government mentioned gap of pregnancy, definite prostitution certificate by health department licensee and to prove the health certificate which can allow the eligibility to opposite gender relation or safe sex or pregnancy. It should be included that sex politics a very sensitive issue for a nation where any ruling party or any dictator side apply only allow to have sex (one of the essential elements of human kind) to whom are obedient to their own, their must be increase eve teasing, rape, and complex criminal activities. As like in our country this issue is happening recently. In another side the killer disease Human Immune Virus HIV/AIDs, etc are increased that in our view government also not acknowledge properly such matter. As like bird flue , NIPAH, etc various unknown diseases are increasing day by day. Natives are going to abroad for various purposes, but its not cleared to our Immigration and health authority/security department that after returning from outside what those unidentified travelers bearing unmentioned diseases around the country. Also our nation are certified globally for the hospitably but not conscious about the human virus careers attacking the nation, where we see the movies (science fiction) :Alien” which attacking the green world and cloning their Alien nation. To destroy human being, the man kind. However returning to the practical, cell/ mobile phones which is one of the modern technology gave us a very faster way to connect from one corner to another corner of the world in a few moments , can be applied by our jewel brighter research who studying in same and similar topics in our country mobile companies took some initiatives and facilities for the users on emergency, doctors, hospitals, police etc.We specially encourage and thanking to our older associate D.Net for taking such sensitive matter and great opportunity to spread learning on the concerned topics globally.We MUKTIDOOTH MEDIA since 1993 and MUKTI INTERNATIONAL having our best rolling to achieve such initiatives for the nation and for the globe. In other hand a large number of bad peoples using negatively to have illegal offenses, attacks, robbery , raps, eve teasing and influence not response the victim or proper action for legal service providers. Hope our juries would remark such point as national issue for the next generation and future of the country., for what more than forty lac sacrificed for mother tongue, mother language of Bengal and independence. Also we urge to the mobile company that have to realize why government circulated to renew and review license and users identifications and vat where illiterates and over intellect(!!!) utilize negative approaches. In conclusion, we urge mobile and cell companies to find out more possible applications on the health sectors.

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Libya goes offline as internet blockades continue across region
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Internet services in Libya have reportedly been stopped and those in Bahrain severely restricted as their respective governments battle to clamp down on civil unrest by removing the main means for protestors to communicate and organise themselves. Network security firm Arbor Networks reportedly noted that Libya “abruptly disconnected” from the internet at around midnight on Friday as protests against leader Moamer Kadhafi continued into their fifth day. According to AFP, Libyan authorities have killed more than 80 anti-regime protesters as part of the brutal crackdown. Meanwhile, in Bahrain, Arbor Networks noted a decline in traffic of about 20 per cent from Monday, around the same time that protests flared up demanding governmental reforms. The actions again highlight the increasing role the web plays in nurturing and facilitating democratic protests and the determination of the authorities in question to remain in power. In what was an unprecedented step, the Egyptian government cut all internet services including fixed line and mobile services in the country at the end of January after protestors gathered demanding the resignation of leader Hosni Mubarak. ISPs were allowed to go back online a few days later, but the internet blockade did not succeed in quelling the protests, with Mubarak eventually forced to resign. (V3.co.uk)

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Iran’s resilient rebellion

Iran’s resilient rebellion

Nasrin Alavi, 18 February 2011
Subjects:
• Democracy and government
• International politics
• Egypt
• Iran
• middle east
• democracy & power
• politics of protest
• democracy & iran
Tehran’s ruling elite proclaims Iran’s revolutionary experience as the inspiration for the Arab insurrections, yet seeks to crush demonstrators at home. Iran’s citizens can see through the lies, says Nasrin Alavi.

home. Iran’s citizens can see through the lies, says Nasrin Alavi.
About the author
Nasrin Alavi is the author of We Are Iran: The Persian Blogs (Portobello Books, 2005)
The Iranian ruling elite is pushing the message that Iran’s own revolutionary experience inspires the popular revolts in the Arab world. In doing so, the elite’s leading figures are tying themselves in knots.
Their observations on the new-media aspects of the protests are especially revealing, given that Iran is in so many ways the homeland of cyber-activism.
Mohsen Rezaei, leading hardliner and former military commander of the Revolutionary Guards, compares the use of the internet to the “cassette-tape campaign” mounted before the 1979 revolution to disseminate in Iran the sermons of the exiled Ayatollah Khomeini. “The internet and texting”, he says, “have filled the void of guerrilla organisations, helping people to take part in revolutionary action." The twist is that Rezaei is here talking not about Iranian internet users, but of how the “the Islamic revolution” is today being “exported to the Arab world.”
Ali Larijani, speaker of Iran's majlis (parliament), comments: "The young today are politically aware; the shutting down of the internet and networks will not cure anything." The twist is that Larijani is referring to the uprisings in Egypt and Tunisia, even as the state he serves has built a vast internet-police system whose rigorous censorship and surveillance of cyberspace has led to harassment, imprisonment and even executions.
The reaction of a single Iranian blogger represents many: “Mr Larijani, do you believe in what you say - or is freedom good only for foreigners, but not us?"
Indeed, the establishment’s celebration of an “Iranian-style Islamic awakening” in the Arab world coupled with excoriation of domestic dissent brings a new meaning to the term double-standards. Persian-language cyber-critics are caustic about the sheer hypocrisy involved. “They say the revolts in Egypt and Tunisia were the consequence of the export of our revolution”, said one. “In all honesty if you wanted to export the Damavand [mountains] they would reach their destination faster”.
The new wave
The events on 14 February 2011 in many parts of Iran are the most potent answer imaginable to the authorities’ bad faith, as tens of thousands of protestors gathered in the streets of Tehran and other cities in response to calls by reformist opposition leaders Mehdi Karroubi and Mir-Hossein Mousavi to rally in solidarity with the “freedom fighters of [Cairo's] Tahrir Square”.
The state’s repressive response inflicted two reported deaths and entailed hundreds of arrests. The next day, says the Commitee of Human Rights Reporters, Tehran’s revolutionary court posted the names and details of 1,500 detainees; student groups say that others taken from campuses in Tehran, Isfahan, Mashhad and Shiraz remain unaccounted for. The newly imprisoned will join the thousands still incarcerated from the months of demonstrations following the stolen presidential election of June 2009.
The western media cliché of an Iran where political affiliations neatly divide along class lines (with discontent confined to the urban elite, and support for Mahmoud Ahmadinejad widespread among workers and the poor) is again put into question by the profile of those who have lost their lives since that fraudulent election.
They include 20-year-old Bahman Jenabi, an apprentice plumber; 20-year-old Sajjad Ghaed Rahmati, a casual labourer; 34-year-old Moharram Chegini, an office clerk from one of the poorest neighbourhoods of south Tehran; 27-year-old Saeed Abbasi, a shoe-shop assistant shot in front of his father; and 16-year-old Meysam Ebadi, a tailor’s apprentice shot in the stomach as he tried to rescue a young woman being beaten by riot police (and whose father was taunted by authorities who questioned why his son was in north Tehran. so far from the family home - implying that anyone protesting deserved whatever they got).
The clerics’ challenge
But dissent is not confined to the street, to the young, or to Tehran. It can be found even in the bastions of Islamic rule. At the Friday prayer in the city of Mashad on 21 January, Alam al-Hoda’s sermon made the striking admission that "the movement of sedition in the seminaries” is even larger now than during the post-election protests.
Two grand ayatollahs, Hossein Vahid Khorasani and Mousa Shubairi Zanjani, are among the senior theologians who from the outset of the crisis have hosted families of political prisoners; another, Sadiq Hussaini Shirazi, delivered a public sermon lamenting the “calamity” of an Islamic state which “hits its own citizens with truncheons and kills them with tanks”, and is now cursed by the very people in whose name it was created.
Shirazi’s lineage gives his words extra potency. His forebears include a grand ayatollah who played a key role in Iran’s “tobacco uprising” of 1895 that heralded the demise of the Qajar dynasty; and another who inspired the revolt of Iraq in 1920 against British colonial rule. This senior Shi’a cleric’s damning words resonate in many corners of Iranian society.
The next phase
The Iranian state’s various hardline tactics over the period since June 2009 alone include the killing of unarmed street-protestors, Stalinist-style show-trials, systematic violations of prisoners, and drenching media propaganda. They reflect a power-structure unwilling to bend, to compromise, and (perhaps even more important) to restrain itself. Zine El Abidine Ben Ali fled his country less than a month after protests erupted in Tunisia; Hosni Mubarak resigned after eighteen days of protests in Egypt; but twenty months after the stolen elections, Iran’s leadership is still in place - and there is no army as yet willing to side with the protestors.
But against such ruthlessness, the latest events in Tehran show that the opposition remains resilient and creative: capable of using technology as a channel of defiance and of mobilising large numbers of people in the public arena. Both aspects were brought together on 14 February when documentary videos depicting scenes of fury and solidarity were posted near-instantaneously onto cyberspace.
This new phase of struggle makes the chants that resounded during Tehran’s post-election rallies in 2009 (“where is my vote?”) appear to belong to a remote past. The stakes have been raised, dangerously so for an Islamic Republic forced by the depth of internal opposition to exist in an existential condition of high alert. The chanting soundtrack of the new protests targets the supreme leader, Atatollah Ali Khamenei himself: “Mubarak, Ben Ali, now it’s the turn of Seyyad Ali!”.
The true voices
If cyberspace is a channel of dissent, it is also a permanent memorial of the fallen in the ongoing political contest. As ever in Iran (where the death of Neda Agha-Soltan is vividly recalled), and in an echo of the Arab world’s current experience (Tunisia, Egypt, Bahrain, Libya), the targets of state brutality tend to be young people.
Here is Saneh Jaleh, a 25-year-old student of dramatic arts shot dead in Tehran on 14 February (and whom the regime is seeking posthumously to claim as its own). He leaves behind an atmospheric short story that reveals a young man passionate about social inequality and injustice. Here too is Mohammad Mokhtari, a 22-year-old whose facebook page bursts with a joyous mix characteristic of this Iranian generation - at once politically and pop-culturally aware, modern and traditional, discontented and hopeful.
The melange includes Mohammad’s loving praise of his football heroes (Zlatan Ibrahimovic and Lionel Messi), and photos of him in the company of friends or carrying banners at an Ashura (Shi’a) ceremony in December 2010. There is also a link to footage of an Egyptian protestor shot dead only days earlier. The last message wishes friends a happy Valentine’s Day, accompanied by an ominous note: “Dear God, help me die standing, for I despise a life sitting humiliated”. Hours later, Mohammad was killed.
Iran's supreme leader has welcomed the wave of Arab demonstrations as the “voice of the Iranian nation echoing in the Muslim world” and announcing the imminent fall of regimes. Their inevitable collapse, concluded Ayatollah Khamenei, was owed primarily to decades of “oppression and humiliation inflicted upon these noble peoples."
The official voices of the Iranian nation - Khamenei, Rezaei, Larijani and the rest - are blind to the contradiction that they hail the rising Arabs while denouncing and scorning their own rising citizens. But who really speaks for Iran?
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Bangladesh Cabinet – Charter for Change January 8, 2009

Bangladesh Cabinet – Charter for Change
January 8, 2009

The difference between a man and an angel is that man make mistakes but angels don’t. If man did not make mistake then we may not have to come to earth from heaven. Those who do not learn from mistakes do not admit mistake and repent are fools. They are doomed and destroyed. Those who do it can be heroes again. All the persons heading Bangladesh government since independence made mistakes. Some paid back in cruel tragedies others were overthrown by street agitation or through popular mandate. Never before such a fair election could be held as never before an authentic voter list with Voter ID cards was there. People have voted against corruption, terrorism, anarchy and war crimes. People have voted for a change. They vote for lesser evils believing in their pledges and declared vision.
The early steps of Sheikh Hasina led grand alliance government signals that Hasina belongs to the second group which acknowledged their mistakes and are ready to compensate. She learned bitter lessons from her past, did lot of homework and has started to deliver to lead the nation to her vision 2021 –charter for change. Although it is too early to jump into conclusion but one must say it is a promising start. A cabinet of clean image, a cabinet dominated by youth enterprising persons of movers and shakers.

Bangladesh is a developing country, relatively poor in resources, plagued with several problems. A small but performing government is the most appropriate. That is what PM Hasina has done while forming her cabinet 23 full ministers and 9 state minsters.
Four other persons of brilliant career and proven track records H.T Imam, Dr A. K.M Mashiur Rahamn, Dr Alauddin Ahmed and Dr Syed Muddaser Ali have been made adviser to PM. Respected politician Zillur Rahman will be President, veteran Politician Abdul Hamid Will become Speaker and Abdus Shahid the Chief Whip of the ruling party in the parliament. Ex President H.M. Ershad may become the deputy leader of the parliament.
At the very first look this cabinet may surprise many. Many stalwart of Bangladesh Awami League who hit the headlines while Hasina was in solitary confinement and were reportedly involved in so called minus two ventures have been squeezed out. Notable omissions are Sajeda Chowdhury, Toafel Ahmed, Abdul Razzak, Ameer Hussain Amu, Abdul Jalil, Mohammed Naseem, Sheikh Selim, Engr Musharraf Hussain, Mohiuddin Khan Alamgir, Quazi Zafrullah, Saber Hussain Chowdhury, Sheikh Selim, Prof Abu Sayeed and Obaidul Kadir. Hasina also did not pick Anisul Islam Mahmud, Hasanul Huq Inu and Rashed Khan Menon.
Those who follow day to day events of Bangladesh and know about almost everything inside out will disagree little with the author that this could be probably the best option for Hasina to select a cabinet of clean, qualified, farsighted and dynamic ministry. Chamber leaders, intellectuals, fair thinking Bangladeshis have spontaneously welcomed the new cabinet. UN Organizations and international watchdogs also welcomed selection of clean image young cabinet.
Through Sheikh Hasina’s latest acts – election manifesto, selection of party candidature for election and finally selection of cabinet she has once again proved that she had done her homework for the future of the nation while in solitary confinement. She made some mistakes which happens and can happen. But it now seems that she learned from mistakes. She has retained only three of the minsters from her earlier cabinet. All the controversial and alleged corrupt persons are squeezed out. This in itself is a strong signal to those who tried to put her leadership into jeopardy siding with the conspirators.
Now let us see how the new cabinet can meet the present and emerging challenges. The greatest challenge the world is facing is the global economic crisis. Bangladesh will require sound economic policy, good planning. Hasina’s cabinet has two very fair and accomplished persons. Mr A.M.A Muhith and A.K Khondkar have proven track record and honesty. They will be backed up by DR. Mashiur Rahman, Dr Farasuddin and others.
The agriculture sector is the next priority as Bangladesh for some years is suffering from acute crisis of price increase of essentials. It requires very stringent control of syndicates, intense monitoring of supply of agricultural essentials to farmers. Who can match the combination of Matia Chowdhury and Dr. Razzak as Food and Agriculture minster? The very determined Matia Chowhury will streamline Agriculture sector soon and Dr. Razzak will provide professional excellence to food ministry.
The area of main concern is Energy Sector. This is the most important sector of national economy. Agriculture, Industry, Business, Commerce, Health, Education all depend on smooth supply of energy. Unfortunately it is in terrible shape. PM has not selected anyone as Energy minster which is a bit of bother. She must not keep so many ministries in her control. She can not do justice to so many ministries concurrently. PM must find out a capable minister and two state minsters preferably experienced line professionals for energy & power divisions. The success and failure of the new government will largely depend how it address the energy sector issues.
Health and education will be in the safe hands of Dr. Ruhul Huq and Nurul Islam Nahid. They will get required back up from Dr. Mudassar and Dr. Alauddin. Another area of challenge will be home affairs. Advocate Sahara Khatoon and Sohel Taj are expected to combine well to handle home ministry very capably. It will largely depend how Police, Rab and intelligence agencies are manned. H.T Imam as a very capable adviser will definitely guide PM in placing right people in the right place. Government must deal with terrorism with iron hands. Home minister must show his intent at the very outset. HUJI and other terrorist organizations must be combed out as soon as possible. The movements of anti liberation force must be kept under radar. Anti liberation force in different names always go wild whenever pro liberation force is in power. Their venom teeth must be taken out without any compromise.
Foreign affairs will be unchartered territory of Dr Dipu Moni and Dr. Hasan Mahmood. But both are talented, well educated. PM can always seek advice of Faruk Chowdhury and many other career diplomats. Bangladesh must develop a friendship to all and malice to none strategy. Bangladesh among other issues has to be resolved many bilateral issues with India and Myanmar. The maritime boundary issue is a major concern. Bangladesh has to explore its vast resources in offshore.
Engr. G. M Kader can play a very important role in developing civil aviation and tourism ministry. Bangladesh can earn huge Forex from immense potential of tourism. Engr. Kader is visionary and can prove his worth in turning Bangladesh Biman into spirit of Bangladesh in the air.
Raziuddion Raju and Yafez Osman will handle Telecommunication and IT very professionally we believe. Dr Abul Hussain has been given a very challenging sector of Communication, Similar challenge will be confronted by Col (Retd) Farrokh Khan with Commerce. Both are very vital sectors. Bangladesh will need massive infrastructure development in Road, Rail, and Port etc. Abul Hussain has to lead from the front, encourage private investors with transparent policies. Farukh khan will have to run commerce with vision and dynamism.
The selection of fair and honest ministers is the essential first step. This government will not have honeymoon time. Will have to get down into serious business straightway. Capt Taj will have to ensure that War criminals get punished and freedom fighters get due respect and honor.
The cabinet members must work as a team. The young ministers and first timers must be given proper advice by the senior party leaders. Press must make objective constructive criticism and opposition must keep them honest. The first 6 months will be acid test for many.
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