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:lol:whats the point of the bunker?

Simple. Fear....

Do you know how many Cobra APC's patrol the streets of the capital? It's like as if the Cobra is the standard police vehicle. It is fear.
 
Bangladesh tense ahead of opposition march

DHAKA, Dec. 27 (Xinhua) -- As the main opposition alliance in Bangladesh gears up for a "long march" to Dhaka seeking cancellation of the parliament polls slated for Jan. 5, many fear the situation in the country could become much more volatile.


Former Prime Minister Khaleda Zia on Tuesday night through a press conference urged people from all walks of life to join march toward capital Dhaka on Dec. 29 to put pressure on Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's government to scrap the parliamentary elections.

Khaleda Zia made the plea at the end of the fifth spell of countrywide blockade enforced by her 18-party alliance.

Hasina's ruling Bangladesh Awami League (AL) party has vowed to resist the program and asked its leaders and activists to remain alert to prevent any attempt to create anarchy in the name of the program.

In a statement Syed Ashraful Islam, AL general secretary, has urged the countrymen to resist the program called by what he said "an evil anti-liberation force".

Another top AL leader said the government once made a mistake by allowing opposition men to hold a rally in the capital on May 5. "We cannot make the same mistake again because we could not leave the safety of the people in the hands of the opposition," AL Presidium Member Mohammad Nasim said.

Law enforcers in overnight drives reportedly detained hundreds of opposition men in Dhaka and elsewhere in the country on different charges.

Khaleda has also virtually remained confined to her residence as detectives and uniformed policemen surrounded her residence.

A large contingent of police personnel were seen Friday in and around Khaleda Zia's Gulshan residence and her political office.

BNP Vice President Shamsher Mobin Chowdhury told Xinhua on Friday evening that "We're not allowed to meet her (Khaleda Zia). They (government) are hatching conspiracy to foil our Dec. 29 march for democracy."

"She has been under virtual house arrest since the announcement of the long march program schedule."

Law enforcers on Wednesday night reportedly arrested two senior BNP leaders including a current lawmaker as they wanted to meet Khaleda Zia.

A police official who did not like to be named said "It's that security measures have been enhanced in and around her home. But he said it is to ensure more safe and security of the opposition leader in the wake of the volatile political situation but expressed reluctance to reply to a question whether she is confined.

He also denied the allegation that the BNP leaders were detained outside Khaleda Zia's home in Dhaka's diplomatic enclave Gulshan on Wednesday because they wanted to meet her.

Through a video message Khaleda Zia on Friday evening urged countrymen to march towards Dhaka. "I urge all to converge in the capital city on Dec. 29 to save democracy though I can't join it."

Senior BNP leader Osman Faruk told reporters Friday that Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) has not yet given permission to opposition BNP for staging a march after rally in front of its headquarters in Dhaka's downtown Naya Paltan area on Dec. 29.

Khaleda Zia from Tuesday night press briefing threatened to wage more tougher movement if the government creates any obstacle to her party's "March for Democracy".

Khaleda has blamed Hasina's AL party for political current deadlock, saying the cancellation of a non-party caretaker government system is at the root of all the political crisis in the country.

She termed the elections slated for Jan. 5 as a "farce" to ensure the continuation of the power of the Hasina government in the name polls.

Khaleda Zia's BNP and its 17 allies including key Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami party have asked Hasina to bring back a non-party caretaker system, or else the opposition won't participate in the next election because it fears an election without the non-party caretaker government will not be free and fair.

Some 21 opposition parties including BNP are boycotting the elections over Hasina's refusal for non-party interim government to oversee the elections.

Hasina's AL party ruled out Khaled's calls for cancelling the Jan. 5 polls.

"Parliamentary elections must be held to continue democratic process," Senior AL Leader Amir Hossain Amu told reporters shortly after Khaleda's briefing on Tuesday.

"It's not a sham election."

Khaleda's 18-party opposition alliance has enforced prolonged blockades after the Election Commission on Nov. 25 announced the schedule for the 10th parliamentary polls. Scores of people including ruling and opposition men were dead and hundreds others injured in wide spread violence since Nov. 26.

Against this backdrop, tens of thousands of Bangladesh troops have begun to deploy across the country ahead of parliamentary polls.

The Bangladesh Election Commission on Dec. 20 announced to deploy troops for 15 days from Dec. 26 as part of beefed up security measures to hold the parliamentary polls peacefully.

Sources said around 50,000 army personnel are being deployed.

The European Union, the Commonwealth and the United States have already announced that they would send poll observers to the country.
Bangladesh tense ahead of opposition march - Xinhua | English.news.cn
 
Simple. Fear....

Do you know how many Cobra APC's patrol the streets of the capital? It's like as if the Cobra is the standard police vehicle. It is fear.
it will take a lot more than sand bags to instill fear in kz
 
Simple. Fear....

Do you know how many Cobra APC's patrol the streets of the capital? It's like as if the Cobra is the standard police vehicle. It is fear.

I wonder what will be the outcome of this march. I mean, BNP led alliance has done similar gathering in the past but nothing happened to Indian piss dirking Hasina.

What's your thought on this?

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I wonder what will be the outcome of this march. I mean, BNP led alliance has done similar gathering in the past but nothing happened to Indian piss dirking Hasina.

What's your thought on this?

Impossible to say as for the outcome. Especially with the army already deployed.

It is no longer an issue of the legitimacy of this election. It is a matter of defending the investment they have poured into the AL.

Results would say there had been very little return on their investments, and they aren't ready to let it go yet. Results have been painfully slow.

They'll fight every tooth and nail to keep it the way they had envisioned. They already spent a lot of money behind the Awami League and its intermediaries in every known field. Additionally, they have been pouring heavy investments into the north eastern parts of India during the past years.

If they fail, it'd be a huge blow to them. Everything they worked for will simply go up in smoke. That is the reality that they are frightened of.
 
Why doesn't your Army do anything about it ?

Even a nudge in the right direction & not necessarily a Martial Law could've been the way to go !

Morale of the Armed Forces is at its lowest these years (since the BDR mutiny). Also no one cared to save the Army officers who killed Mujib and saved this country from his tyranny, all of them were hanged in this Awami tenure.
 
Why doesn't your Army do anything about it ?

Even a nudge in the right direction & not necessarily a Martial Law could've been the way to go !

they are not army, they are trained watchman we foster, they do duty of watchman in Africa and for BAL/

Afsoos, our money is eaten by these watchman.

at topic,

I do not think there will be an outcome to oust snake hasina tomorrow. You just can not take shot in bare hand.
 
they are not army, they are trained watchman we foster, they do duty of watchman in Africa and for BAL/

Afsoos, our money is eaten by these watchman.


at topic,

I do not think there will be an outcome to oust snake hasina tomorrow. You just can not take shot in bare hand.

Oh come on I'm sure its not that bad ! :(

Maybe they just want to remain apolitical !
 
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