Zafar Bhuiya

An invisible force from abroad is behind this ferocious savage junta. The string pullers are shuttling back and forth to Dhaka to manage an unmanageable scenario. The Franknstein’s ugly monster has already been bred, fed and nurtured and finally let loose on democracy-loving people as was done in 1971 and 1975 by the UN/US/UK/WB/NGO global aggressors.

Their conduct has surpassed the notoriety and savagery of Yahya Khan, Rao Forman Ali and Tikka Khan combined. Their experiment is doomed!

Generally, I have fun. I party. I lose my mind, while having a party. I laugh. I make jokes, though they are not funny, but I laugh with others… and, I apparently – LOVE life. But this is not to say I don’t criticize. In fact, as you all must know by now, I have most fun criticizing others’ views. My basic ideological position in these terms is – skepticism. I question things – no matter what they are. There is an old adage that the sceptics of the old used to talk about – there is an opposite and equally weighted response to just about any claim, thus putting all your hopes into one bag and feeling comfortable is not quite sensible.

For my taste, I feel many of us (for all I know, most of the deshies in and outside the country) are too quick to judge things. Think of how everyone welcomed the current Caretaker Government (CG). Think of how everyone welcomed Yunus into politics. But fortunately or unfortunately, the tide seems to be turning, and that too quite sharply. What is interesting in this is that the current CG hasn’t done much in last few months since this transformation seems to have taken place within the people. It was clear as day light that this was a coup d’etat since day one (11th January)… so the talk of democracy, constitutionality, legitimacy, legality, hope for a “clean” “level playing ground” and so on have all been pretty much rubbish talk in the face of Major Generals, who do not give a rats ass about them. The fact that Fakru and gang have only been the handmaiden of these generals became apparent over their little tenure in office – their blatant disregard for the very constitutional dhara on which they were sworn in was more than enough of an indication. I fondly call them the brokers, who is cutting the deal in between the armed forces and the donors… though am not sure what the donors would want at this point – though I am still of the position than half of the script of this natok is being written there as much as it is written within the barracks over here.

Anyways… let me register my disappointment with the optimistic people …

Are we this naive that we will believe in people those who suddenly get the power from a group of armed personnels? What basis do we have to believe in their good intentions? These generals – haven’t we seen them ACT before? Wasn’t this “taking over” also motivated by power-struggle? And who are these college educated Ingreji kotha bola debonairs? Where do they belong and what vested interests do they have? I mean, com’on people!

Getting the previous leaders rounded up and jailed, blocking leaders from entering the country, threatening and blackmailing to harrass… bah, we are all so happy… why – cause this is exactly what we wanted. We wanted to see Tarek looking like a fool that he is, we wanted to see other thugs appearing like shichkey chors, and that is all we wanted! And when we saw that – we had no questions in our minds at all. Starting from the very highly educated to the least – we were all happy to see these guys showing the previous leaders that no one was above the law. What a freakin’ farsical and tyrannical bullshit.

Why didn’t we question their motives? Why weren’t we more apprehensive about the means they were implying to get to where they wanted to? Why was it okay to have the known thugs be killled and maimed without prosecution… why weren’t the RAB and its activities ever questioned? Why did we think that it was okay to get rid of the people that we know as thugs without a fair trial.

Naive… so freaking naive. It is only a matter of time that the autocrat will run him sword in your throat – right when he finds you to be obstructing his share of the pie… right when they find your piece of writing offensive to them… right when they think you are not part of their plan – ’cause as their boss says, “Either you are with me, or you are AGAINST me!”

You know – I don’t even know all these people – I mean, for all I know, they are well intended, polite, and what not… but the circumstances, their class representations, their liaisons, and the ever looming Western butt munchers with their local executioners (the armed forces)… make them a suspect in my eyes. Cause, when all of that becomes a part of the whole, then simple honest intentions do not work… and IF they do not work after such drastic measures that have already been taken, it will all back fire with absolutely no one to be able to deal with it… in fact, everyone of the MOFOs will leave the country for a safe haven elsewhere in the world… what a fabulous design… you steal as much as you like, get it over to another country in a bank well secured…, get caught…, and be ported out in a state supervised A class journey to that country… where you already have things set up for you!!! Right – these MORONs are going to bring about the rule of law… and they think they understand politics…

O well… boro chul ar dari rakhar jonno jay kobey dhora khai kay janey… everything is legal and moral if it is done by the men in the uniform you know…

If the army can ensure a fertile ground for an election, if they can make DUDOK, PSC, EC, etc. work without being under the influence of political parties, if they can ensure a corruption free environment in organizations like TITAS, T&T, CAAB, RAJUK, DCC, Chittagong Port, Customs, DESE, etc. – THEN – my question is, why do we need an election? Why do we need the voice of the people? If we do not have the need to ask for people’s opinion to do all of the above, then I am not sure why we need their opinion later on! As far as I am concerned, if ARMY can do all of the above “in their own way” then they should go ahead and do it, and that too for the rest of Bangladesh’s life (meaning forever!). Ki bolen Shihab Bhai?