U.S Senator, Barak Obama, made history last Tuesday by claiming the first African American presidential nomination from a major political party in USA. He fought against power-house Hillary Clinton’s campaign for long five months to win the nomination in 54 primaries and caucuses. Hillary had everything on her side, money, name recognition, influential support, everything to win a nomination, except for one, majority of peoples support. On the hand, comparing to Mrs. Clinton, Obama started his campaign with basically nothing. But he believed in people and people believed in him by voting for him in primary elections and electing him as the first African American presidential candidate from a major party in a white predominant country like USA.
What can our power-hungry general’s learn from it? If anything, people’s power is the absolute power. Our CTG and army allies stopped listening to the people and frustration and agitation is growing in Bangladesh against the current regime. The roar of a fair election is humming every city and township of Bangladesh and before they (CTG) know it, humming will turn into outburst and Generals and CTG will not have any place to hide.
So CTG and Generals please learn from history and listen to the people. Your only goal right now is to administrate a free and fair election without any self-interest by Dec 08. If you love Bangladesh and want to do some good for this country, finish your duty, retire and come back to politics through its democratic process. You will be welcomed then, but not now as you are staying in power with your guns and boots.
Thursday, June 05, 2008
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With criminal military dictator Musharraf's resignation the message should be loud and clear. It should be even louder since there will be no Bush-Cheney crooked duo to prop up illegitimate illegal unelected undemocratic power-grabbers in South Asia any longer. Under a most likely democratic US presidency in 2009 there will be major shift in US foreign policy. Things wouldn't have changed much if Hillary Clinton had got the democratic nomination. In that case the Bush policy of muscle-flexing and propping up of military dictators and NGOs would have continued.
Placing the national ID under the home ministry and establishing a spying cell on politicians under the police even after having a ISI-styled DFI in Bangladesh is taking us back to the Musharraf days just after his overthrow of Nawaz Sharif unconstitutionally.
Are we actually backpeddling to the military days? Was this caretaker setup in 2007 a farce to deceive the people? In that case a violent overthrow of totalitarianism reminiscent of 1991is imminent.
Hi, I just came across your blog and found it to be very interesting. I thought you'd also be interested in a recent blog started by a retired Bangladeshi Ambassador that discusses Bangladeshi politics both on a national as well as a global stage. There's some great commentary on other international issues, such as the recent election season in the US.
The URL is http://ambassadorseraj.blogspot.com/.
Hope you find it interesting enough to link to your site. I think your readers will be keen on reading Ambassador Islam's insights and commentary.
Thanks!
Sabrina
Your are right about the generals' need to listen to the people. At the end of the day it is people power that can change any regime anywhere in the world.
What we must be careful of is not returning to the old politics that led us to the current regime.
http://reformationofbangladesh.blogspot.com/
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