Price of every day goods
I must admit that the state of world economy is contributing to the price hike in every day commodities in Bangladesh. But what measures is military backed CTG government taking to solve this problem? Or our General does not want to solve this problem! If price problem is not solved soon, people will get agitated eventually and riots will erupt. And this will give our General opportunity to take over power formally as a president of Bangladesh. All he (General Moeen) has to say that, corrupt political parties are behind all these atrocities and Bangladesh needs military to govern to restore “law and order”. And our international masters will buy into that as they did for General Musharaf in Pakistan. Once things settle down, our General and his people will loot the country for next five to ten years, just like General Ershad. History will repeat itself.Threat of Islamic fundamentalist
When General Ershad took over power in early 80’s, his political allies were Islamic parties in Bangladesh. Same as General Musharaf's (president of Pakistan) most closed allies were the Islamic fundamental parties. I think; Gen Moeen is also using Islamic fundamental parties to clear his path to the throne of Bangladesh. Staging fake atrocities in front of national mosque in Dhaka, he might be painting a picture for the international community (i.e. USA) that Islamic fundamentalist are imminent threat to the countries security as terrorist and at the same time convince India that he is doing everything to suppress any Islamic terrorist activities aimed towards India. So in the near future I will not be surprised if we see more and more staged violent clash between Islamic faith based political parties and the law enforcement authorities of Bangladesh. Once the imminent threat of "terrorism" in Bangladesh is painted for the international community, Gen Moeen will just slip into power one night at 2:00 am claming, he took over to restore “law and order" in Bangladesh and save the world from terrorism.
If these two strategies are successfully being implemented by Gen Moeen, there are no way AL or BNP or any body else can stop him to take over power. But I would like to believe our Army Chief, Gen Moeen U will help organize a free and fair democratic election with all parties involvement by the end of 2008 as promised by him and then go into retirement as a honorable soldier of Bangladesh Army next year when his tenture is over as an Army chief.
Will he keep his promise to the nation? If he does, he will be a hero for our nation in days to come. Or he will be just like another military power hungry dictator! If he becomes a dictator, then his fate will be worse than Gen Ershad. We just have to wait and see. The ball is now in Gen Moeen’s court and let’s see if he scores for the country or for himself.
