The floods have come back with more intensity and swell at a time when the self-imposed military-backed undemocratic government headed by people who have once served donor agencies like WB/IMF/ADB more interested on fullfuling the directives of their former mentors. They and their former employers like the WB and IMF must realize and understand whatever this unconstitutional unelected government is doing will be massively overturned by the wrath of people power.

Don’t tell me that this government has come into being to implement the hidden agenda of global moneymakers. I think these financial institutions act as catalysts along with their supplanted dalaals inside and outside the government to capitalize on a burgeoning exploding unskilled population to enslave us through monetary instruments. They will never want us to break out of the vicious triad of overpopulation-poverty-socioeconomic ruin feeding one another on a cyclical manner.

New Age has a wonderful article on what this unelected forcefully superimposed government is trying to do on behalf of the WB/IMF racket.

IMF offers policing, not policy support

The IMF

Anon at #5, your charges of “character assasination” are baseless. I do not know Mr. Anwar Choudhury and I have no reason to doubt that he is a good and decent man. However, in his official capacity, he is supposed to represent the official British government position in Bangladesh. His comments run contrary to stated British human rights goals. The British government should clarify the High Commissioner’s statements because they seem to support human rights abuses and suppression of free expression.

Already the British government has begun to distance itself from the HC’s statements. Read the news report on the British clarification here. The key line from the clarification is this: “The UK does not seek to offer its own assessment of the nature of the unrest”. In my opinion, the clarification (at least as reported in the press) needs to go a little further. It needs to also address the HC’s remarks about the university professors and needs to take a clear stand on the freedom of press by disavowing the HC’s statement asking the Bangladeshi press to “restrain” itself. Until the UK does that, it leaves on the table the impression that they are paying lip service to freedom of expression while supporting Bangladesh military’s clear suppression of it. That impression is dangerous and is a slap in the face of those who have struggled hard to fight against autocratic regimes and defend human rights across the globe.

Finally, I don’t understand your charge of “hypocrisy”. If the UK government takes a stand against human rights abuses in Bangladesh, I will not hesitate to applaud their actions. When they do not, I will also not hesitate to criticise their inaction. That is not hypocrisy, that is consistency. Hypocrisy would be offering unconditional support even when their actions go against principles one supports.