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TO THE EDITOR
Saarc summit
The scheduled date of the Saarc summit was shifted due to Tsunami. The shifting was appropriate as three out of seven member countries were affected. To offer the guests all possible security and all the needed facilities is a duty of the host country. When the host ensures safety and the guest raises the question of inadequacy, the former is embarrassed. Almost every country in the world has internal chaos, but that is not preventing holding of summits.
Had there been no security problem in a country, then nobody would bear the huge costs of maintaining security forces. India is a vast country. It has its problems at Jharkhand, Assam, Kashmir and elsewhere. Still they are in a continual process of hosting international seminars and summits. None of the guests ever question the security arrangements. But the decision of India as a large and important country not to attend the summit at
the eleventh hour does not convey a cordial message to a small neighbour.
This was really unfortunate.
Tapader Md Khalilur Rahman Mirpur, Dhaka.
Save us
Please help us. I am one of the victims who do not have any powerful relative who could help me right now when I am about to lose all of my property to the land developers, in Kamlapur, Savar, (just beside Ashulia). My late father had bought a land like many other Dhakaites in the said area. But a few days ago about a thousand unknown people with a red flag in hand reached there and took over the lands calling themselves members of some 'Bhumiheen Punorbashon Shangha' and saying that the government had given them this authority. The local people had a fight with them. By this time one land developing (false/real?) organisation has set up an office there. They
are pressing all the owners to sell the lands to them at a far lower price than the real one. They even threatened us. We all think it is a cruel joke. We can't even offer a proper price to other customers. We need the law enforcers' help.
We all think that it needs a proper investigation and reporting by the newspapers so that his type of land grabbing by force can be stopped. They gave us a deadline to settle the issue.
Please help us.
Scared, Dhaka
SAMS Kibria's death
Trying to soak up the dreadful images of Mr. Kibria's shrapnel inflicted body of what must have been his final moments is enough to turn anyone bleary and teary eyed. My sympathies are entirely with his family and my admiration is immense for the dignity they have shown.
Mr. Kibria was not a typical selfstyled trumpet blowing Bangladeshi
politician. He wrote in the local papers about many issues in an analytical and cohesive manner. In a country where most politicians' views, characteristics and convictions leave much to be desired, Mr. Kibria held his position admirably well.
The tribute he has received over the past several days is an indication of the personality he was and the friends he had. So the sheer brutality, with which a former diplomat, freedom fighter and finance minister was struck down, should make us question our levels of tolerance and acceptance of what is happening.
For if we accept what is happening without questioning it, we are allowing our humanity to erode. The graphic details and articulate writings describing the carnage without any warning to its readers & viewers serve as a reminder that our society is also at risk of becoming influenced by these horrific images.
Mr. Kibria's death is rightly mourned because it also symbolises a demo-
cratic institution which is yet to be free of fear. It also serves as a warning to the next person willing to take the podium.
N. Rahman
Oxford, UK
Keeping on track
Bangladesh cricket is on the track, now, within a short period of a few years, compared to the time taken by other new entrants to Test cricket. The boys have both the Test and ODI series in one season against one visiting side. It is a leap over the rainbow. The booster effect is tremendous. How to diffuse this new culture, for the trickle-down effect to be felt by the man in the street?
The sense of direction has been discovered, and from now on the motivation, dedication, and the sense of discipline would be automatically self-controlled to a large extent. Feedback (inside any system) is an essential function in human life, and in nature. A system
is essentially of two types: open and closed. Our leaders (in any field) have to learn more about this ventilation system. The period of fall-outs is over, and it is time to get down to the serious business, compared to the huge systems losses encountered earlier from time to time.
With this background in mind, it is very tempting to compare the deplorable state of our political culture, which is showing no signs of improvement. Two vital ingredients are missing: competition, and diversification. The new entrants have limited options. Opposing these two parties is taxing the people of the smaller parties, and calls for a lot of patience and suffering. Now the rules of the game are changing, with the intrusion of violence and religion.
The monopoly controlled by the two big parties is harming the growth of healthy politics. This bipartisan polarisation is inhibiting the new dedicated entrants to be new, bold and beautiful. The viruses are the evil godfathers hidden within
the current political system.
We are following unnatural procedures, like the suspect neutral non-political caretaker government system (CTG). It is not a purification filter, but it is jarring on the other smaller parties. The cost of politicking has gone up in the LDCs, which few newcomers can afford. There are many chicken-or-egg situations in life. In public service, such situations introduce systems losses--akin to reinventing politics. We do not follow the natural laws, and the man-made laws cannot be imposed universally, as in economics, politics, and human rights.
Is the CTG similar to the third umpire system introduced in cricket? No. It is a magnification unit, employing slow-motion study, like finger-print or DNA test, offering better accuracy in judgement roles. Are the umpiring rules being changed in local politics? Why? CTG is similar to the digital analysis of suspect bowling actions? There appears to be too many leg-before appeals in our politics. How to curb
this unwanted exuberance? The political experts may guide the voters on such issues, for formation of correct public opinion.
Now the pre-election campaigns are warming up. This is the time to impose regulatory practices, duly edited from the experience gained so far on the Dhaka political turf.
The millions of voters would love to see some laundering of dirty politics. But how the washerman cleans his hands? It is all so frustrating--this beating about the bush?
Alfa Ahmed, Dhaka
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