Does not PM of BAL Govt. deserve fair appreciation ?
I think she should---if such case arises. It will be erroneously stingy not to use charitable remarks if one deserves so.
Md. Ali Akbar---a Deputy Secretary in BAL Govt.---thinks that she really does. That prompted him to present an article on The Daily Star
Does the PM deserve uncharitable remarks? :The Daily Star: Internet Edition
The major points he raised are 3 (in blue color):
1.…..
The rebels did not give any inkling of the grisly murders committed. Shrewdly, they suppressed everything all through until arms surrender upon the prime minister's stern warning to lay down arms. At those critical hours, the prime concern was to secure release of the army officers and their wives and children under custody of the mutineers. That objective must have impelled her to a political resolution.
Is Mr. Ali correct: (1) in assuming that ‘political resolution’---which was executed as only available solution ?; (2) Everyone including PM and her Govt. machine were totally blank until arms surrender ?
In the light of many reports and, particularly, the article :
Mutiny, bloodshed at BDR HQ, the 25th Feb edition of The Daily Star: Shaheed DG, BDR called PM around 9:30 am, the 25th Feb. Cell phone of Shaheed Col Gulzar Uddin Ahmed went dead by late morning, the 25th. Bodies of---Col Mujibul Huq and Lt Col Enayetul Haq -- were recovered from a sewage system early after-noon, the 25th Feb The so-called ‘Arms Surrender’ (by not really surrendering though) happened at 2:30 am the 26th–the next day.
Is Mr.Ali is citing the truth while he is out begging charity for PM ?
2...The mutineers in statements to TV channels blamed the army officers in command for severe maltreatment towards them. They attributed the act to their pent up resentment for redressing some long pending grievances. It was but natural to think that the rebelling troops might have held the officers captive as bargaining chips for meeting their demands. It occurred to no one that they might have brutally killed so many officers in the meantime. Even the media did not try to elicit information about the officers' fate at that time.
Dose that indicate that responsible people---including PM and her advisors & staff---running the country have at least required level of vision, intelligence, talent to look after Bangladesh ? Yes, perhaps it is ‘
natural’ for a Dy Secretary & bearucrats---otherwise why Bangladesh will remain so behind after 2+ decades of independence ?
But not yet to show charity to PM.
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In that stage, the prime minister, after consultation with her cabinet, AL presidium members, mohajote leaders, and the armed forces chiefs, decided to neutralize the armed rebels through negotiations rather than armed intervention……
Does it again reflect any special virtue of PM that she summoned (in most congested traffic hours in the morning) and discussed (surely in usual very slack manner) and wasted precious time in (1) Realizing the issue in proper perspective; and (2) Taking the correct decision.
A ‘political solution’ can always be merged with a ‘military one’.
Who is trying to say that the length of list of persons a PM discusses on a national security issue indicates the magnitude of his/her talent to run a country ? Yet I am ready to praise PM that she did not include other members of her family including Sk. Helal & their house staff, and all other Golden Boys of BAL’s student & youth wings---and thus did not make the list longer.
But where is your points---- in this issue of BDR Mutiny---Mr Ali Akbar that should encourage us to be charitable to PM ?
Why a Dy Secretary has to ask charity for PM on wrong ground, then, anyway ?