Posted on 01/10/2005 6:21:46 AM PST by Calpernia
South Asia - New Phase of ResSouth Asia - New Phase of Resistance in Bangladesh - Soumitra Bose Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) Liberation international team
A tiny hamlet in the southern part of Bangladesh, woke up shivering on a broad daylight. A minor Hindu girl is being raped by more than 10 very well known strong and powerful men of the neighbourhood. The entire village saw the act, the entire village knows the perpetrators better than they ever know their own family members.
They have tied the elderly mother, tortured them, killed the father and the brother, tied up a toddler and was raping the girl, marauding her, mauling her like a pack of wolves. The mother cried out to them at last “Please boys, my daughter is tiny, please go one by one to her! She was raped, eventually killed. Her name is Purnima the full moon!
The full moon of Bangladesh will ever be blackened henceforth! The full moon will always be slimy and mauled as ever- the moon of Eid is to come the day after the full moon, the same crescent that is the one preceding the new moon. Will the same moon ever smile on toddlers painting dreams in their eyes? Will Purnima ever see a full moon blessing her again in full gaiety? No, never, that is what you would feel in Bangladesh today! Yes, of course, if you confide on the People of Bangladesh!
This is the famous story we know from Taslima Nasrin’s report. But the aftermath is not known. Bangladesh roared out!
The students of Bangladesh marched, shouted, broke laws and went berserk in the cities. The village mourned, sobbed and then slowly organized her people and marched. No, they could not do a thing to the perpetrators!
These are no simple and stray gangs. They are there in every village of Bangladesh, everywhere representing the coalition in government.
These are the landed musclemen of the village who are eyeing the landed properties of the hapless leaderless Hindus, Ahmedia Muslims, Christians, Budhhists, tribals and all others who are powerless and hapless. These are the subaltern who cannot speak as they do not have representatives “representing†them. Every single day there are minority families who are gang raped, tortured, evicted, killed or looted somewhere in Bangladesh. Every day there are women workers at minor ages who are raped by their employers, every day there are housemaids who are repeatedly raped by the houseowners and their sons and relatives. As of today more than 70% of these maids have experiences of repeated rapes in the cities of Bangladesh. Bangladesh stands out in the regularity of rapes on a quotidian basis and on a mass scale. If you might think rape is the last crime by today’s criminal standard then Bangladeshi criminals starts by that act. Women’s body is the very first and easiest casualty in the present anti-Islamic Talibani Bangladesh. Bangladesh is Talebanic today, much more than what you can ever think in Pakistan, and if you go by statistics and the ferocity of the crimes, much more heinous than what the Talebani Afghanistan was. The Talebanis at least had some external enemy to deal with, these criminals do not have that. They are beyond any reproach, they are backed by the administration, by the political party in the government and they are aided for every act of crime from Saudi Arabia. I am sure no one would ever believe that after every rape of a minority girl the criminals get paid from the local Talebani Mosque!
No, it is not innuendos; please check it up with any minority of Bangladesh who ever lived in Bangladesh countryside in the later five years. The Saudi Wahabi government pays to form organizations and rallies to raze Ahmedia mosques to the ground. In Narayangunge they issued notices and assembled. They found the international representatives gathered within the Mosque to resist through human shielding, they retreated and mobilized elsewhere.
The principal source of inspiration was the Jamat-e-islami organization, who said they did not approve of this act and immediately said that the Ahmedias have to be declared Kafirs and non-citizens. Those readers who might want to judge the Bangladeshi Jamatis by their scale of knowing Jamat- e-Islami of India would make the greatest mistake of their life. While Indian Jamaat is a secular organization run and belonging to Sunni Muslims, their Bangladeshi counterpart is just the opposite a full fledged foreign funded Talebani organization.
That Jamat is in the government! The same Jamaat helped the Pakistani marauding occupation force to fish out the best elements of Bangladesh on the night of 14th December of 1971, just two days before Bangladesh won their independence from Pakistan. This was the same Jamaat who planned the massacre and this is the same Jamaat, which masterminds the ethnic and religious cleansing of Bangladesh.
Bangladesh is leaderless from the people’s point of view. Bangladesh is full of leaders, in fact has excess of leaders all over, roaming, screaming, loitering, acting out all in the cities though! Bangladesh is in a nice binary game of two camps of intellectuals and leaders taking on each other and yet the people looks at them without any hope, trust, direction and yet looks as they do not have anywhere else to look towards. The minorities are now being “representedâ€! They are represented by a NGO, funded from USA, supported and propped up by the Viswa Hindu Parishad and RSS of India and are trying to plot for another division within Bangladesh, another partition, another chance and way to perpetrate the chasm on the religious lines. What came out of Jinnah after 1937 to the infamous 1947 is now being taken up as an agenda by the Hindu communalists. Money is pouring down from the west and from India in the name of saving the indus. Bangladesh is murkier than ever. The people have lost gaze, lost direction and the “water†is turning murkier, slimier by the hour.
Yet, there are notable exceptions! People are coming up, in small pockets, in small numbers, but very and rather very steadfast, very determined and very dedicated. It is the Muslim peasants, who had taken up the news of Purnima’s rape throughout Bangladesh and took on the criminals. The University students, the women who work, the workers who toil, came up in unison. Purnima’s tormentors had to be arrested, tried and some convicted! It is not much, but the masses are up, if not in arms definitely rallies, in united opposition.
The “leaders†have taken the cue, they are rearranging, social engineering, and are re grouping, the left have gone over to the centrists and formed one coordination, the rightists have split but some are coagulating too! The revolutionaries are left alone, they are in the streets, in the barracks, haunted, hunted and yet standing up. Bangladesh is the country of consistent upsurges, a happening place where mass upsurges against all threats is a regular phenomenon. The revolutionary students have formed one platform, they are dedicating their future, their resources, in hordes they are joining the revolutionary groups, turning full time cadres and are plunging in mass actions.
Bangladesh is infested with NGOs. It is the unique country with the highest number of NGOs and with the most amount of foreign aid and money coming to the NGOs. Yet, Bangladesh is amazing. Hordes of young revolutionaries decay down year by year by going over to NGOs and yet year by year new hordes join the revolutionary movements. Bangladesh never stops to bewilder any watcher. This country has the highest amount of politically conscious varsity students in the world. Despite all these tortures, all these threats, and all these luring by the NGOs, Bangladesh still sees full time political cadres coming up from the ranks of the youth. Still in Bangladesh the coordination of students and peasants is lively. They marched all over Bangladesh against the looting of Oil, Gas and other resources from Bangladesh! The revolutionaries are now able to organize the masses in thousands.
Though they are still in the preliminary stages of mass mobilization and though they are still not in a position to call the shots in national politics, yet it is true that Bangladesh is maturing due to their efforts of mass mobilisation on class basis. A long way off from everything nationalistic, narrow chauvinistic and on ethnic lines!
Today we see Muslim peasants sacrificing their lives in open clashes with the government forces to safeguard Hindu women, [as it happened in Narayangunge] to safeguard the interests of the tribal people against government sponsored Muslim settlers[as it happened in Bandarban and Garo hills]. Bangladesh is calling us with a resounding roar! Hey, wait up! Look at me, I may be the next to call the class struggle!
Is this showing a definite link between the NGOs and CPUSA? AND Al Aqaeda?
Great find NW_AZ!
Actually the Communists in Bangladesh are a favourite target of the (Slammic leaning) government of Begum Khaleda Zia.India,the US & others have been concerned with the growth of Islamic extremism in Bangladesh & that nation's growing proximity to China & Pakistan(it's former Siamese twin).Communists,Hindus,Christians & other political groups have reported increased abuses since the present dispensation came to power in Dhaka nearly 4 years ago.
>>>Actually the Communists in Bangladesh are a favourite target of the (Slammic leaning) government of Begum Khaleda Zia.
I didn't understand that?
Looks like the beginnings of major conflict between the Islamists and the Communists. Lesseenow...who are the good guys here?
Read the latter half of the article(I agree that the English is close to incomprehensible!!).They are talking about the Jamaat E-Islami,which has close ties to the KZ govt in Dhaka.
BTW,the CPI-ML(Marxist leninist) is considered as Fringe group,which has no participation in India's democratic process unlike the CPI or the CPI-M.It broke away from the CPI-M on the question of use of violence & has a neglible presence in most areas.
>>>The principal source of inspiration was the Jamat-e-islami organization, who said they did not approve of this act and immediately said that the Ahmedias have to be declared Kafirs and non-citizens. Those readers who might want to judge the Bangladeshi Jamatis by their scale of knowing Jamat- e-Islami of India would make the greatest mistake of their life. While Indian Jamaat is a secular organization run and belonging to Sunni Muslims, their Bangladeshi counterpart is just the opposite a full fledged foreign funded Talebani organization.<<<
This is the group that declared the KZ Government in Dhaka a Kafir, right?
And yes, I know the CPI is a fringe group. This is what my focus of posting this was based on. I was interested in what was said in the article about the CPI being funded by the NGOs.
I think the only Kafirs being referred to here are the "Ahmedias"(or Ahmediyas) who are regarded by many mainstream Sunni Muslims as having cultist features & hence are widely seen as kafirs by many in the region.The JEI is closely tied to many Islamic political parties which are in alliance with the KZ government in Dhaka.
FYI,the CPI,CPI-M & CPI-ML are 3 distinct political groups(I get the feeling you are confused on that).the CPI is by no means a fringe group.They are a nationally recognised political party in India & are India's oldest communist party.A faction broke off from the CPI in 1962 over political & ideological differences-this faction was called the CPI-M(Marxist).The CPI-M is the biggest communist party in India,which has formed governments in 3 states in alliance with the CPI & is active in atleast 4 other states.The CPI-ML(which I referred to) is the fringe group.It is associated with numerous small scale extremist groups in India.It broke off from the CPI-M in the 70s.As far as NGO funding goes,most communists in India are crying hoarse over the presence of NGOs everywhere & see it as a design of the "Multi-nationals" & "imperialists" -So I don't know how much weight there is in your assumption.
Soros link?
Thanks for the ping!
>>>>CPI,CPI-M & CPI-ML are 3 distinct political groups(I get the feeling you are confused on that).
You are right. I could be confused on this specific group. But I've seen many congressional records, historical documents, and FBI reports that show these groups aren’t separate independent organizations, but are actual auxiliaries and/or divisions of each other.
Thank you Calpernia, this article left me confused - every time I read it.
Sounds like somebody needs a "Second Amendment" to the laws of their nation.
Good grief!
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