Say 'No' to Indian Sky Marshall in Bangladesh
Tuesday June 29 2010 06:01:42 AM BDT
By Mohammad Zainal Abedin, USA
Under the camouflage of protecting its airlines and passengers, a horrifying report of deploying Indian troops at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport of Dhaka (popularly known as Dhaka Airport) is considered as another unexpected design of India to extend its hegemonic paw on Bangladesh. Governmentâs readiness to provide corridor and seaports facilities, made India desperate to reduce the sovereign status of Bangladesh further. Earlier India deployed 36 security agents inside India High Commission under the guise of protecting the diplomats, who are basically RAW operatives.
At least 54 countries have their diplomatic missions, other many other international and regional agencies in Bangladesh. Only during the short rule of President Abu Sadat Mohammad Shayem, an abrupt attack was launched on Indian High Commission to hijack Samar Sen, the then Indian High Commissioner to Bangladesh. It was alleged that the attack was manipulated by RAW to make a situation of invading Bangladesh. The attack was instantly thwarted by the Bangladeshi police deployed in the High Commission compound that foiled the design of India.
Many foreign airlines and passengers use Dhaka Airport since 1972. There was no security mishap or terrorist attack in any airport of Bangladesh, including Dhaka. No country, including India, ever expressed any apprehension regarding security threat in Dhaka Airport or willed to deploy its security agents in our airports. Bangladeshi security agencies proved their aptness successfully in ensuring the security of the passengers or the airlines. It is an amazing question why India after 39 years now feels security threat in Dhaka Airport, when an India-friendly government rules the country.
The reality is that since 1972 India desperately tries to redeploy its armed forces in Bangladesh. Indian troops who entered Bangladesh in 1971 under the cover of so-called allied forces were withdrawn from Bangladesh virtually beyond Indiaâs intention. It was Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, the founder of Bangladesh, who openly asked India to withdraw its troops from Bangladesh territory. India never dreamt that such a request would ever come from Sheikh Mujib. Knowledgeable circles believe that such patriotic move of Sheikh Mujib perturbed India so much that it contributed a lot to the political and physical assassination of this great leader.
The incumbent government, led by Mujibâs daughter, unfortunately deviated from the policy and spirit of Mujib. Her government readily accepts all the Indian demands whatever India places. Her government should have studied the far reaching consequences of all those concessions that were already agreed to provide to India. Sheikh Hasina particularly should not forget how treacherously India contributed to make Mujib an unpopular and failed leader. Who looted Bangladesh after 16th December? Who made Bangladesh a bottomless basket through smuggling, arson, and sabotage? Who financed and provided logistic support to divide Mujibâs followers? Who printed conceited paper currency to create inflation? Who created manmade famine in Bangladesh? Who didnât honour the agreements that signed with Mujib? Who cheated simple-hearted Mujib in commissioning the Farakka Barrage? Who portrayed him as an Indian surrogate?
If any ordinary Bangladeshi, not to speak of a Prime Minister, thinks over these questions, cannot trust India. Bangladeshis know that no real terrorist group other than India-patronized ones, exists in Bangladesh. India not only patronizes, finances, arms the terrorists, but also provides safe shelter in her territory even to the most ordinary robbers, killers, snatchers. Committing any crime in Bangladesh they simply sneak to Indian Territory. Indian BSF kills hundreds of innocent Bangladeshis every year, but there is no record they shot or killed any Bangladeshi terrorists, miscreants and criminals in the border. If BSF could apprehend any terrorist, after getting his identity, they escort him to the nearest RAW or any other intelligence office providing VIP treatment.
India recruited huge number of its extreme communal Hindu nationals and after providing required training send them to launch terrorist attacks inside Bangladesh. They work in Bangladesh as rickshaw drivers, barbers, garment workers, petty vendors, construction workers, restaurant workers, even day labourers. Unknown numbers of Indian nationals also work in Bangladeshi educational institutions, business establishments, clinics and hospitals, beauty parlors, advertising firms. Knowledgeable sources believe, these Indians branding them as Bangladeshis infiltrated in political groups and trade unions play pioneer role attacking opponent groups, garment factories, or vehicles. Many of them claiming as pious Muslims fuel a section of true, but imprudent Muslims to adopt militancy for Islam, which India uses to justify that Bangladesh went militant in order to invite foreign invasion.
To demonstrate Indian claim of security threat India launches media campaign that Bangladesh has turned to a haunt of the terrorists having link with the al-Queda, India floated so-called Islamic groups who were and are isolated from the people of Bangladesh. Those who were arrested and even hanged confessed how Indian intelligence agencies organised, financed, and armed them. During interrogation they also confessed that they collected all the arms, ammunition and explosive from India. India did and does so create a situation that Bangladesh is not a secured country.
In the name of protecting diplomats, India designs to kill many birds at one stone. On the other hand, by deploying troops in Bangladesh territory, India designs to prove that Bangladeshi armed forces and intelligence agencies are unfit and incapable of ensuring security. Through such deployment India also wants to send this message to the international forums that Bangladeshi forces who now work in UN Peacekeeping Missions should be sent back as they are no more in a position to ensure security in their own country. Such deployment will also work as scimitar to squeeze and scare the Bangladeshis and their patriotic governments. India launching planted attack on its own troops may pave the way to deploy more troops even without asking the government. They may be used to crush any anti-India move of the government or people of Bangladesh. Above all, deployment of such troops undermines the viable sovereignty and independence of Bangladesh.
It is amazing to note that Indian troops who cannot cope with the terrorists and protect people from terrorist attacks in their own soil, are sent to Bangladesh to planes and passengers. All the Indians, irrespective of their position and status right from the Prime Minister to a rickshaw puller, suffer from insecurity. India faces the gravest threat from inside. Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh publicly acknowledged Maoist operation as "single biggest internal security challenge".
Maoists now are active in at least in 11 States (provinces) of India.
231 out of 608 districts of India, i.e., 40 per cent of the total territory of India is now the victims of terrorist activities of the Maoists. Since 1994 to 2008, about 54 thousand Indians, including 969 security personnel were killed by the Maoists. Three grievous attacks in recent days killed 77 police personnel, 48 persons including 16 police and 110 train-passengers.
According to partial data compiled by a New Delhi-based body âThe South Asia Terrorism Portalâ, there have already been 26 attacks on the Railways in the first quarter of 2010, though none of these had resulted in a fatality this year, before the Sardiya incident.
On April 23, 2010, Mamata Banerjee informed the Rajya Sabha (Upper House of Parliament): "Railways has become a target of Naxals. We have lost Rs. 500 crore because of Naxal bandhs [shut downs] and obstructions. We have lost about 40 per cent of our business due to Maoist violence and agitations like bandhs. These have hit our operations to a great extent. Incidents of attacks by Naxals nearly doubled to 58 in 2009 from 30 in the previous year. 56 incidents were reported in 2007." Earlier, on March 24, an unnamed Railways official had said, "Though we do not have a definite data about the exact length of rail route directly affected by Maoist violence, about 11,000-km rail route in Maoist-affected states have become vulnerable to such attacks." Home Ministry sources now say that Maoists have the resources to actually bring the entire rail network to a standstill by simply blowing up major sections of the track. Another report indicates that almost 202 Railway Stations face a direct Maoist threat.
Times of India (June 16, 2010) informed to contain Maoists havoc, Indian Army Headquarters has drawn up a plan to keep about 50,000 soldiers - approximately 5 divisions - in readiness to help the civilian authorities deal with the growing Naxal threat. A training programme, especially designed to meet the challenge that the Left wing extremists pose, has been drawn up, with the Lucknow-based Central Command being given the task of readying the soldiers for what could potentially be the single-biggest internal mobilisation outside the insurgency-ravaged J&K and the northeast.
It is known to all Indian army are engaged in full-fledged wars with the secessionist guerrillas at least in nine provinces named, Assam, Tripura, Nagaland, Mizoram, Meghalaya, Manipur, Arunachal Pradesh, Jammu & Kashmir, even Punjab. It means Indian security forces are fighting in 20 provinces of India. But they could subdue militancy, except in Punjab.
No other country in the world is so much terrorist-infested like India. No other country in the world uses its regular soldiers to subdue terrorism and extremism. I refrain from mentioning the communal and caste-based killings and riots in India. Such a country has no moral right to say that it apprehends security threat in Bangladesh.
Bangladesh government should immediately deny Indian proposal of stationing so-called air marshal in our airports. It is nothing but a trick of India
