Thaksin is extremely popular. Corruption is a myth created by the West to string pull nationalist and populist leaders everywhere. In the past it was bloody military coups that did the job for the US and the West to establish control over oil and gas, minerals and diamonds. Now it’s the myth of corruption propagated by TI on behalf of so called donors and their appointed NGOs in the poor countries.

Military rule is being imposed on many Asian countries but it will be, if required, be violently overthrown. Asians no longer will tolerate US imposed military juntas in democracy loving nations of South and Southeast Asia. Asians have become conscious of US double standard and duplicity in its foreign policy.

Because of the military and billions of dollars fed into the secret arm of the dreaded ISI of Pakistan Army Pakistan is now on the brink of collapse and civil war. It was a failed state under Musharraf. Musharraf was brought in and bailed out by Bush. Now with Bush’s time to go Musharraf too has been shown the red card by the US.

The unconstitutional unelected self-imposed military backed government in Bangladesh also enjoys full British and American backing. People are heard joking on the streets saying the US ambassador should be made the PM and the Bengali British ambassador be made the president of the country for their interference in Bangladesh internal matters. Whereas it’s only job was to hold elections in 90 days it is now in power for one year and is satisfying the whims of it’s Western backers.

It even went to the extent of letting Bangladesh’s rare museum pieces flown out of Bangladesh secretly in Air France 747s from Dhaka airport despite nationwide mass protests. The government used emergency powers to overrule court order not to send the items. It is alleged that an international mafia circle having powerful connections is behind the smuggling of items from poor countries. What is returned are actually replicas which the French part of the racket specialises in. Many of these artefacts will show up in open and secret auction houses in the West, especially London and New York.

America’s adventurism in Iraq in the long run may turn out to be much costlier and damaging than the Soviet expedition in Afghanistan. The US is basically caught in a quagmire. Russia is no longer under a lame duck drunkard like Yeltsin. It is US military involvement that is fuelling military takeovers in Asia which is surely going to fail miserably. There will be a strong revival of democracy with strong hatred for military rule in countries that have become accustomed to democracy. It’s a pity that the US has now become the source of all evil fascist military rule in the region.

http://www.drishtipat.org/blog/2007/12/23/missing-statues

1. Violation of constitution.

2. An act carried out by an unelected government whose only task was to hold an election in 90 days which they have also violated.

Therefore, all their actions so far will be seriously challenged in the court of law in future once this government is shown the way out by peoples’ rage. They too are not above law.

Now did colonial looting stop us from doing trade with England or France? Your and others’ arguments are so mixed up with emotional and petis-nationalist logic that you don’t know what is really good for you. Sure, why don’t you keep your “heritage” locked up in a storeroom while all heritage-bhaiyas go happily about heritaging for the next action? I have no problem with that. Matter ends.

1. A case was filed against exporting those artifacts abroad and at that time the court did not give any verdict.

2. Now court bans all export of such artifacts.

3. Why did the CTG hurry up? What was their interest? Why did not they wait for the court verdict?

4. What is the guaranty that they will give all those artifacts back, as I learned from newspapers that the export list differs significantly.

5. How can I believe that they would not send back duplicates and keep the originals?

6. The Britons came in this subcontinent for pure business and nothing else. And then they left after 190 years of ruling this subcontinent and did nothing except making some stupid backbone-less keranis like us. When they left they took Kohinoor as a gesture of good moral character which now symbolizes the power of British empire.

7. You will find a lot of national treasures are now resting in British museums or Louvre Museum. All are stolen from poor countries or taken from colonies.

8. Do you know brother, how much blood they spilled out to take those artifacts? Read that history.

9. If we loose our heritage we will loose everything. We have to fight against these criminals. They are no good for mankind.

Does anyone know how the The 5,000-year-old Guennol Lioness ended up in the hands of auctioneers in the West? I am sure it was smuggled out of Iraq by diplomats, NGO or UN staff. This is a common practice in poor countries. In Bangladesh a former DG of the National Museum had been behind smuggling of age old craft from Bangladesh. In Europe and America you will see a lot of Bangladeshi stone age sculpture decorating posh residences of USAID, ICDDRB, US embassy and European embassy staff. I myself have seen such statues stolen from Bangladesh in California and Maryland.