Mahmudur Rahman yet another target of blind vengeance of Hasina
On the 1-2 June night the acting editor of the Bengali daily Amardesh ( Dhaka) was arrested by the specially armed police squad creating fearful scene in his office premises following cancellation of declaration of the publication on the 1st June. The police had no warrant of arrest for him with them but did intimidate as hey often do. As the note obtained from a foreign media on the 3rd June morning, amazingly, the Information Minister did not know anything about the episode before the act had been orchestrated. On the 2nd June in the afternoon, however, Mr. Minister Azad stated in the Parliament that the DC of Dhaka did take necessary action in canceling the declaration of the newspaper that followed other actions taken (The New Nation, 3 June, 10). What a silly statement possibly made at the behest of PM Hasina for their innocence (!) in the orchestration made at the nose of all of them.
Although relatively a new comer into journalism Mahmudur Rahman, Acting Editor of the widely circulated daily Amardesh, Dhaka, I guess, within a very short span surpassed many in the field. He has been an icon of great attention for his investigating courageous coverage, particularly, about internal anti-national issues of the present government of Hasina made news in the daily with maximum authenticity. That is why many had been suggesting for some time that the habitual liar and vengeful woman must make him a target of wild attack abusing all powers at her disposal. His coverage drew my attention recently so much so that I used to search first through the internet this daily for useful information and his specific items I loved to make possible other stories not as a professional journalist but as a an academic.
Now that the daily has been proscribed and banned applying police force through cancellation of declaration by the government at night on the 1st June (10) and he has been arrested and detained, under two offences as was learnt from the 2nd June 7:30 P.M BBC Bengali Radio news: (1) publisher Hashmat Alis name printed as usual in spite of the fact that he had resigned some time ago, and (2) Mahmudur Rahman allegedly obstructed the police while thy tried to arrest him at dead of night in his office premises at Kawran Bazar, Dhaka, of the daily. There are so many other allegations, I am sure, in the making that might be used to detain and keep him in prison even without any prosecution much less trial that exists in the country from over a century and half the notorious Cr. P. C code 54, and also another possibly more notorious one, the 1974 Special Powers Act that Hasinas father enacted in 1974 for arbitrarily detaining in prison any person on and on, no government repealed those anti- basic human rights code and act, and being abused at the whims and sweet will of the rulers passions ( I suffered arrest on the 1st October, then 5 day police remand cum court attendances followed by imprisonment in total exactly for 89 days in late 1989 arrested under the notorious 54 and kept confined in the Dhaka Central Prison under the 1974 Special Powers Act ordered for 120 days detention but released after 89 days having had no formal charge framed against me by the law enforcing agencies). Now I guess that the notoriously vengeful Hasina has, in addition, asked her concerned agencies to make as many offences possible. She has now the loyal and pliant spineless operatives in the government reinforced in the period of about one year and a half of her latest reign. The colonial police of Bangladesh are notoriously efficient to draw up false allegations against any the top boss would ask for them to do (I had seven initial charges drawn against me, the seventh one in serial, I remember, was very much confusing to respond to that they served on me to reply within 7 days of the beginning of imprisonment that I complied duly and then no action followed as far as my information was concerned).
The daily Mr. Rahman used to act as editor for not long but had picked up sympathy among large section of readers not alone among the political Opposition supporters but also among independent minded readers. I would have thought that he had utilized her best merit and capability being a first class Engineer and a highly trained management consultant in this job of the daily too. He had some link advantage too for being one of the top hard working advisers and then a Minister of the BNP chairperson during 2001-2006 administration.
The other and most important aspect of his dedicated work here was that he would continually expose Hasinas evil pursuance of anti-national policies possibly for protection of the sole interests of her masters mainly staying outside the border of the country. Such exposure of Hasina and the enemies of Bangladesh continued to hurt both. The resolute brilliant person Mr. Rahman remained the serious eye sore for Hasina.
Why should the most powerful person of Bangladesh care for a petty Mahmud? Serious on lookers knew well that she would swoop on him and still more now on to come in store for him. I would not wonder if she would frame other more serious charges soon to keep him imprisoned for as long as it would be feasible. The poor state of the of the judiciary mainly manned by spineless pliant judges might not even grant him the bail that he as the honorable class one citizen and former Advisor and Minister would be entitled to have. Because, her administration is mainly conditioned by her target of vengeance particularly against the brilliant ones as she herself is a duffer like her father- Illiterate Graduate and Upper Chamber Khali just as Suhrawardy and Bhashani respectively used to label her father Mujib. One may recall from a memoir of BBC fame journalist Serajur Rahman that she had hated politics but took that on just only to avenge the blood of her father (early 1980s recorded saying).
Some are making comment that she has barked on the move for the BKSAL her father introduced in Bangladesh but survived not long with the concept for the people utterly disliked the lone party dictatorial running of the country, and had been toppled by the 15th August successful army coup d etat among great jubilation of the people in the country. That made her not only vengeful of anything of army but also crazy for blood thirst that she quenched partly but some still unmet. The psychological trauma she had and the vengeance she holds on for long 35 years was only partly met on the 27-28 January 2010 night. Much more she needs to have yet that she sees in almost every body flashes on her psyche as contestant, particularly, those of high merit, capability and fearless. Thus Mahmud may have to stay in prison for until as she wishes for him; no hope soon in the court either as report goes that many other fresh cases of shear vengeance of Hasina are being framed against him and nothing seen for his relief and become soon free.
I did not know him personally except through his write ups and reported speeches. Those items had convinced me without any shadow of doubt that he meant a life of MUJAHEED or an uncompromising warrior against the tyranny of Hasina. I would while sympathize with him at the trying moment of the present distress, I would certainly continue to pray that let the Almighty Allah grant his holy Jehad for the greater good of the people and the country.
The irregularities alleged against him in running the daily for the short period had nothing been serious to detain him in prison and could well pursue through due process of law as he had already faced many in courts in the country for some baseless cases filed against him earlier by Hasinas own men. The latest orchestration is nothing but a continuation of the earlier orchestrations made by those of Hasinas HUQQA HUAS (the term used first by and I have coined from BBC fame journalist Serajur Rahman). The allegation that he obstructed the police in discharging their duties for arresting and closing down the newspaper was nothing but the framed up one with ulterior motive to make the real master happy by the police as they often do in such cases against persons in any such incidence of many at a time for showing natural passionate love and exuberance that also occurred at this time among the workers in the daily in sympathy of their editor.
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