Finally! Third week of December.
And with it a guarantee of an interesting next few months.
Two questions/thoughts that are foremost in my mind:
1. What are they going to do about the two netris?
2. How are they going to protect themselves so that the long knives are not out for them as soon as they give up power? The credibility of the protection they create over the next few months will be directly proportional to the credibility of the election process.
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May 14, 2008 at 9:46 pm
Nizam M. Selim
Long knives up their sleeves and brandishing the swastika and swords of puritanism against a helpless and hapless horde of politicians and businessmen, and declaring ‘jihad’ against “Corruption”, the good samaritans had turned the tables on their masters and usurped power a-la “the Slave Dynasty” of Indian history, and albeit turned turtle the whole of Bangladesh. The maze and mess of their ‘Messianic’ manoeuvres have set back Bangladesh, its society and economy arguably by one hundred years?
Elections? Nah…! May be elemination of Democracy under the pretense of a stage-managed subterfuge-of-an-Election. The Lord of the Rings has come down to sermonize the serfs on how to go about putting to smithereens the last shred and semblance of Democracy in Bangladesh, if at all. The cauldron of conspiracy is brewing the sugar-coated poison pill that Anwar Chowdhury and Mary Peters had concocted together.
Cloak and dagger game soothed with the sweet nothings served by the so-called Chief Adviser uttering gibberish and mumbo-jumbo in suave hyperbolics of his verbosity has cast a spell of voodoo magic over the prospects of Bangladesh revisiting Democracy. His speech to the ‘Nation’ was “all sound and fury signifying nothing”, to borrow from Schopenhaeur.
If “Stone walls do not a prison make, and nor iron bars a cage”, then “Those who live by the sword shall die by the sword”.
The charade of the “Elections” - even if with the Awami League conniving with the conspirators- shall hardly offer protection to the detractors and destroyers of Democracy. That is perhaps the inexorable law of Nature. Or, otherwise, the wheel of God’s justice grinds slowly, but surely. Even Sheikh Mujibur Rahman was not spared from this dictum. That is the lesson of History.