Justice for Bangladesh: demo in a chilly Whitechapel London Monday 11 March 2013 [1]

Justice for Bangladesh: demo in a chilly Whitechapel London Monday 11 March

“Justice for Bangladesh!” demo in a chilly Whitechapel London Monday 11 March 2013

This AADHIKARMedia © Muhammad Haque picture on the Whitechapel Road London E1 around 1520 GMT today Monday 11 March 2013, was a surprise event! Out of the chilled “blue” sky over the snowy horizon came the noisy display of passion for a series of men currently facing trials in “Kangaroo courts” in Bangladesh, as the demonstrators described them. The demonstrators received an unsurprising “treat” when some crazed, possibly racist, onlookers from inside a building opposite the “East London Mosque” threw [possibly] dirty water on them as they walked briskly past....

Back at the Altab Ali Park whence the “local march” had begun after the midday prayers, the protesters delivered a series of calls amid chants by supporters calling for a variety of punishments for the current regime chief Hasina Wazed [Sheikh hasina], the daughter of Sheikh Mujibur Rahamn who long ago ditched her married surname. Hasina’s own “crime” seems to have been her role in the setting up of the “International war Crimes Tribunals” in Bangladesh after she got into “power” three and half years ago.

Those currently undergoing trials include Ghulam Azam, described today as a Soldier for [the Bangla] Language Rights - “Bhasa Shainik” - for their alleged parts in the alleged brutalities in 1971 committed against the innocent members of the public in the then “East Pakistan” now the State of Bangladesh, which was undergoing a “liberation war:” against the occupying Pakistani Army in the tumultuous year.

The “war crimes” trials have become the focal issue around which the three Parties’ political survival now revolve.

Ghulam Azam’s own Party, the allegedly Fundamentalist Islamist Jamaat-e-Islami [a description originally conceived of in India and later circulated throughout the USA and the Western European soft left forums] is now the subject of noisy demands in Bangladesh for proscription, or banning.

It is now clear that the Hasina-fronted outfits, the so-called 14-Party “Coalition” is set on a collusion course against the 18-Party Alliance including the Jamaat-e-Islami backed by the Bangladeshi Nationalist Party [or, as I would abbreviate it, BDBNP].

Some longstanding observers of the “Subcontinent” believe that some sort of military-linked regime will take hold of Bangladesh unless Hasina stops her campaign.

But these observers miss one key factor out: what is the spur behind the CURRENT tumult and the deadly displays of aggro among or between the two sides in Bangladesh? Seasoned students of the subcontinents believe that OTHER forces, other than Bangladesh-based Parties, are in fact remotely controlling events in Bangladesh. 

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