For those who like to blame everything on the politicians and whine about how corrupt and dishonest they have been, I would like you all to consider the following:

1. Civil administration/s have been in power for about 15-17 years, while the military have been in power for the rest of 36 years of our lives in BD.

2. Army is privileged — they get a place to live, ration, respect (however psuedo it may be), and now UN mission. So, no need to make more money through active corruption. What they do is follow orders from the big brothers… execute their ideas and remain safe in their cantonments.

3. It is childish and naive to think they are neutral… someone, I believe the Corporal in the forum, believes that. Amazing… does he not know how many cup de tats took place in this country??? Wonder what all of that suggests to him or the like-minded people.

4. The bottom line… something political analysts and activists had surmised a long long time ago… the middle and upper middle class elites wanted a revolution… a revolution in their parlance would provide a capitalistic “stable” government that will create an impression of tranquility in the urban centers… this is a want of the West. They could never materialize this with the political parties ruling the country… so, when the conflict between AL-BNP rose to a height which the Western force could aptly call “adequate to announce emergency rule,” they jumped in. Of course, with the help of the military and professed backing of the USA and UK… more so of the UK… look how vocal the Desi-UK man is these days. Along with this sinister plan (and yes, this is sinister, NOT the students rising and revolting against the junta!!!), of course the right-religionists will and always have thrived (which the elites are downplaying only to be suffering in their hands in time…) under such conditions.

5. Result: Rise of Jamaat. Rise of the middle and upper middle class. Widened gap between the richest and poorest quintiles of population. 150 million duped and sedated for decades to come. USA and UK and possibly India reaping the benefits… the port, the road, the energy deals, and finally the IMF-PSI deal.

6. Yunus: Though the person has become a joke in the current scene, but if scene from an ideological point of view, he serves all the purposes so very well that it is not funny anymore.

My thinking has always been something like the following… the West would and could have served its purpose through BNP the best, but Tarek along with this idiotic band of thugs went a bit too far where even a bourgeoisie party like AL had to stand up against them… in fact, they would have completely failed if the people weren’t actually really really pissed of at the BNP government. Therefore, they had to come up with an alternative… YesUddin didn’t serve the purpose, now a WB banker will – especially when he has the support of not just Moeen U, but the biggest military might in the world – the USA. The stupid president there keeps on saying good things about the CTG almost on a constant basis!

We need to get organized… and that too from the root level… social movements first, and then slowly but surely to address the root causes… true we have fallen a lot behind… but, it is hard to deal with opposition that is so huge… I often feel very very helpless.

Oh for God’s sake stop making an angel out of him each and every time. The guy is my relative and I know VERY well what kind of person he is.He planted ONLY marigolds for THREE years!!! He did NOTHING but ruined MANY officers career. Honesty doesn’t come as cheap as not-looting away money but also from the heart as well. He may not looted the army or government funds but this man absolutely corrupt from the very core of his soul!

For your kind information about Mr. Moin, please check this:

http://www.csebd.com/cse/download/Prospectus_TRUSTBANK.pdf

Attention 2: Dear Corporal Shihab

Obviously I listen the voice of you and want to listen again…

See, I have no intention to prove Mr. Hasan Mashud as someone wrong (because I have no information like this). As I said before, because he was in posted almost all time in abroad (you could read or may be already read the article on HMC in Prothom Alo’s Chutir Fade), may be he had no communication with the mainstream of the army- who are basically corrupted and want to share the statepower. But, could you explain, how he said that ‘I do not have courage to ask for wealth statement from advisors’? Is he not in a constitutional post which is more powerful than advisories? Is he a chairman like ex ACC? Is it ambarrasing to ask the statement of ex army officer Mr. M.A. Matin or Tapon Chowdhury or Barister Moinul or Giti ara Safi or Fakhruddin or any others’ wealth and property? May be he will, then, find out that all are like Nazmul Huda or Mohiuddin Khan Alamgir!

The other thing about bank:

Well, Gen. Moeen is the Chairman of Trust Bank ‘only because he is the army chief’. But legally, Moeen or Iqbal (who is his brother), only one of them can act as director.

For verification, I request you, please, go to Bangladesh bank website.

http://www.bangladesh-bank.org/

Then, again please, go to Regulation And
Guidelines
After that go to and read Prudential Regulations for Banks.

See, what the law say in here:
”1. Constitution of the Board of Directors:-
b) This restriction shall apply to appointment/reappointment of the directors against retirement or filling casual vacancy subject to section 15 Ka Ka of the Bank Companies Act, 1991. -Not more than one member of a family will become director of a bank. For this purpose family members shall include spouse, parents, children, brothers and sisters of the director and other persons dependent on him/her.”

Is Mr. Moin’s family above on this law, because he is the army chief, not a civil anyone?

I beg your pardon, sir. Because as a bloody civilian, I have no right to show the rules and regulations, no right to questions about honesty of the army officers!

Nobel laureate Prof Muhammad Yunus yesterday expressed satisfaction over performance of the chief adviser to the caretaker government.