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I thought I should write something ... anything ... even if it were going to be a few nonsensical sentences ... since its been almost a month ... I've had a lot to study this past months ... quite uncharacteristically I had gone quite serious and inclined to study a bit of those 2-inch thick books even if it did entail a lot of mind wanderings ... Anyways ...
There was a small news report in today's The News ... I wonder if you've ever heard about those people without a country ... Biharis in Bangladesh ... this tells their tale ... it says there are those 250,000 to 300,000 of those people in 66 camps all across the country in extremely overcrowded conditions ... this is another link which gives a comprehensive story ... Back to the news report ... it goes on like this ...
Biharis refugees clash with Bangladesh police
Dhaka: Hundereds of Pakistani refugees clamouring to be raptriated clashed with police in the Bangladeshi capital on Thursday and up to 30 people were injured and 20 detained. Witnesses said the violence erupted when the refugees, known as Biharis as their forefathers emigrated from India's Bihar state, tried to march to the Pakistan embassy. They wanted to hand over a memorandum demanding their repatriation to Pakistan, while other demands included imdroved foog and water supplies to refugee camps including the biggest one in Dhaka's Muhammadpur area which is home to more than 20,000. Witnesses including a Reuters cameraman said police used batons and tear gas to disperse the protestors, who pushed through barbed wire barricades trying to march towards embassy. Pakistan embassy officials were not available for comments. - Reuters
Now with more pressing matters on General Pervez Musharraf's agenda than providing basic rights to Pakistan's citizens, he can't be expected to to pay some attention to it can he? What matters to him if there are a few people in another country without any rights, any home? After all there are more than 300,000 people of that sort in Pakistan itself ... If he doesn't do anything about them how can you even have the insolence to ask him of those who are not even in his own country? ...
The state of those people has continued for about 35 years ... How much longer is it going to last?
Written Later: On the subject of the state of those ill-fated people who happen to be born in a country stuck with a bunch of unenlightened, unfeeling people at its rudder, I thought I would mention those 13 villagers killed by an air strike at Bajaur. By one of our greatest ally! (According to George Bush and our President). I wonder of what materials those invisible blindfolds are made, the ones that prevent our government from seeing all reason and everything that humanity stands for. I was so completely shocked at the way it has been dealt with. A mild sort of condemnation without any sort of apology! Is that what those 13 villagers were worth? I know with the kind of low opinion I have of the indifferent people that rule us, it shouldn’t in the least bit astonish me. But sometimes you begin to hope against all hopes, that some sort of humaneness exists somewhere in the depths of the unassailable Mountain of Indifference our General and Prime Minister love to live in. Our Prime Minister had the audacity to carry on with his planned visit of USA. How can you, after all, dare to miss the ceremony of licking the boots of the greatest provider of your income? Silence is all we get from our general. Not something unexpected of course, He has been thinking hard how to react. But he is a pragmatical man, our general. Pity him, his practicality could only recommend silence, with a hugely manipulative super-power on one side and the angry public on another: your thinking faculties collapse when you come across a crisis of this magnitude.
For George Bush, I’ve nothing left to say. How can you blame someone else when your own government doesn’t care? No apology yet. Why don’t we learn from our lessons? Each time a bouquet of friendship is offered to us, there is knife hidden somewhere masquerading as a flower. But time after time after time we are polite enough to accept it. What would happen if we once refuse America to assail our sovereignty, our self-respect? American government is similar to those high school bullying girls everybody has had the misfortune to meet. You can resist only if you are strong enough. Unfortunately we are not. Did you see the way India handled the situation when America began to put pressure to make it revise its relations with Iran. I was impressed. As I said, we are not strong enough, the leaders of course. They had to rely on the George Bushes to give justification to their dictatorial regimes. To help them to stay on. Democracy is a great thing, just too good enough for us lesser mortals or so George Bush thinks. After all look at what happened in Palestine. You give a people their right to vote and all they come up with is Hamas-like regimes. The dictionaries all over the world got the definition of democracy wrong. They should change it to: “Any sort of regime chosen by America, for America, identified by a group of unelected power-hungry people at the top and oppressed public at the bottom.”
Sorry I am rambling. So no signs of apology and every sign of perhaps another attack somewhere, with the intention of rooting out foreign terrorists. I usually don’t agree with my father’s cynicism but once he said that America could attack our nuclear installation under the pretext that terrorists got hand of it. After Bajaur it doesn’t seem impossible.
I thought I should write something ... anything ... even if it were going to be a few nonsensical sentences ... since its been almost a month ... I've had a lot to study this past months ... quite uncharacteristically I had gone quite serious and inclined to study a bit of those 2-inch thick books even if it did entail a lot of mind wanderings ... Anyways ...
There was a small news report in today's The News ... I wonder if you've ever heard about those people without a country ... Biharis in Bangladesh ... this tells their tale ... it says there are those 250,000 to 300,000 of those people in 66 camps all across the country in extremely overcrowded conditions ... this is another link which gives a comprehensive story ... Back to the news report ... it goes on like this ...
Biharis refugees clash with Bangladesh police
Dhaka: Hundereds of Pakistani refugees clamouring to be raptriated clashed with police in the Bangladeshi capital on Thursday and up to 30 people were injured and 20 detained. Witnesses said the violence erupted when the refugees, known as Biharis as their forefathers emigrated from India's Bihar state, tried to march to the Pakistan embassy. They wanted to hand over a memorandum demanding their repatriation to Pakistan, while other demands included imdroved foog and water supplies to refugee camps including the biggest one in Dhaka's Muhammadpur area which is home to more than 20,000. Witnesses including a Reuters cameraman said police used batons and tear gas to disperse the protestors, who pushed through barbed wire barricades trying to march towards embassy. Pakistan embassy officials were not available for comments. - Reuters
Now with more pressing matters on General Pervez Musharraf's agenda than providing basic rights to Pakistan's citizens, he can't be expected to to pay some attention to it can he? What matters to him if there are a few people in another country without any rights, any home? After all there are more than 300,000 people of that sort in Pakistan itself ... If he doesn't do anything about them how can you even have the insolence to ask him of those who are not even in his own country? ...
The state of those people has continued for about 35 years ... How much longer is it going to last?
Written Later: On the subject of the state of those ill-fated people who happen to be born in a country stuck with a bunch of unenlightened, unfeeling people at its rudder, I thought I would mention those 13 villagers killed by an air strike at Bajaur. By one of our greatest ally! (According to George Bush and our President). I wonder of what materials those invisible blindfolds are made, the ones that prevent our government from seeing all reason and everything that humanity stands for. I was so completely shocked at the way it has been dealt with. A mild sort of condemnation without any sort of apology! Is that what those 13 villagers were worth? I know with the kind of low opinion I have of the indifferent people that rule us, it shouldn’t in the least bit astonish me. But sometimes you begin to hope against all hopes, that some sort of humaneness exists somewhere in the depths of the unassailable Mountain of Indifference our General and Prime Minister love to live in. Our Prime Minister had the audacity to carry on with his planned visit of USA. How can you, after all, dare to miss the ceremony of licking the boots of the greatest provider of your income? Silence is all we get from our general. Not something unexpected of course, He has been thinking hard how to react. But he is a pragmatical man, our general. Pity him, his practicality could only recommend silence, with a hugely manipulative super-power on one side and the angry public on another: your thinking faculties collapse when you come across a crisis of this magnitude.
For George Bush, I’ve nothing left to say. How can you blame someone else when your own government doesn’t care? No apology yet. Why don’t we learn from our lessons? Each time a bouquet of friendship is offered to us, there is knife hidden somewhere masquerading as a flower. But time after time after time we are polite enough to accept it. What would happen if we once refuse America to assail our sovereignty, our self-respect? American government is similar to those high school bullying girls everybody has had the misfortune to meet. You can resist only if you are strong enough. Unfortunately we are not. Did you see the way India handled the situation when America began to put pressure to make it revise its relations with Iran. I was impressed. As I said, we are not strong enough, the leaders of course. They had to rely on the George Bushes to give justification to their dictatorial regimes. To help them to stay on. Democracy is a great thing, just too good enough for us lesser mortals or so George Bush thinks. After all look at what happened in Palestine. You give a people their right to vote and all they come up with is Hamas-like regimes. The dictionaries all over the world got the definition of democracy wrong. They should change it to: “Any sort of regime chosen by America, for America, identified by a group of unelected power-hungry people at the top and oppressed public at the bottom.”
Sorry I am rambling. So no signs of apology and every sign of perhaps another attack somewhere, with the intention of rooting out foreign terrorists. I usually don’t agree with my father’s cynicism but once he said that America could attack our nuclear installation under the pretext that terrorists got hand of it. After Bajaur it doesn’t seem impossible.
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