Myanmar Peace Prize laureate criminally silent on Muslims cleansing

[TopCat]

Why are you so opposed to it? I thought you were an enlightened nation looking out for your ummah? Surely you should protect these poor people from the savage Burmese?

Because eviction itself is a crime and torture. We don't want that to happen to them. Period.

 

[jbond197]

All of Indians are nothing but shameless those who even support genocide of other innocent civilians by these burmese terrorist systematically.

Indians never supported any genocide they even helped liberate you when your people were killed in masses but then the same liberated shameless people badmouth Indian 24X7.. Sometimes I think, India did a big mistake rather we should have closed our borders for BD national coming to India just like how Bangladeshi had closed the borders for Rohingyas..

 

[oFFbEAT]

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@ alaungphaya......did you read post #88

 

[alaungphaya]

Because eviction itself is a crime and torture. We don't want that to happen to them. Period.

So let the ones who took the trouble of trekking all the way to Bangladesh settle there. This is what the UNHCR has called for. Simple.

 

[LaBong]

And they also dare to sleight our Aung San Suu Kyi. I'm not her biggest fan but if a bengali achieves even 1% of what ASSK has achieved

I think San Suu Kyi cites two or three Bengalis(Rammohan Roy, RN Tagore) as her inspiration in her autobiography. Anyway you should use Bangladeshi then it won't stick on me.

 

[alaungphaya]

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@ alaungphaya......did you read post #88

I'm sure you know who I am referring to.

 

[TopCat]

So let the ones who took the trouble of trekking all the way to Bangladesh settle there. This is what the UNHCR has called for. Simple.

UNHCR did not call for settling them in BD. They called Myanmar to take them back. Myanmar govt already identified them and provided us with name which they think are actually of their people. The repatriation will take place sooner than later.

 

[LaBong]

You fool and illiterate burmese you can just think of achieving that.

I went half way through and all were Indian Bengalis, then it started showing half Bangladeshi-half white BBC/Fox news reporters. :|

But what the heck is Hritwik Roashan doing in that list! :/

 

[UKBengali]

The issue will be resolved with the incorporation of Arakan into BD anyway.

BD has a much larger economy than Myanmar and it is projected to grow quicker into the future
and so the advantage will increase.

Arakan was stolen from BD and will be rightly reclaimed one day.

 

[oFFbEAT]

I'm sure you know who I am referring to.

'Glad to know that you know the difference.....as the name 'BENGALI' is quite confusing to many people......

 

[alaungphaya]

UNHCR did not call for settling them in BD. They called Myanmar to take them back. Myanmar govt already identified them and provided us with name which they think are actually of their people. The repatriation will take place sooner than later.

Don't hold your breath after these riots. It won't happen.

 

[Zabaniyah]

Exactly. Where are the pictures? Where are the videos? Just a bunch of useless jihadists trying to stir up impressionable and naiive young men. And they also dare to sleight our Aung San Suu Kyi. I'm not her biggest fan but if a bengali achieves even 1% of what ASSK has achieved, she would have more respect in the world than any bingala woman today.

Yeah, there are many in history.

This guy is most recent:

Muhammad Yunus - Nobel Lecture

South Asian Outlook : An Independent e-Monthly | Presidential Medal of Freedom: President Obama Honours Dr Yunus

Would you like a complete list of Bengalis who have achieve more than that Aung Saan Suu Kyi throughout history? Or would it be too much for you to handle?

In the mean time, do continue to entertain us

So much extreme prejudice...

 

[cloud_9]

N to the stupid Indian offbeat and to you ... just go through the following video and see how success full the bengalis are though it contain some west bengalis.

Some?? There were a lot from West Bengal from 0:00 to 2:10 + Amartya Sen + the singer dude and Apu represents Indian immigrants...what Bangladeshi's have to do with it

Just like Indian restaurants

 

[alaungphaya]

I went half way through and all were Indian Bengalis, then it started showing half Bangladeshi-half white BBC/Fox news reporters. :|

But what the heck is Hritwik Roashan doing in that list! :/

In that case I'm claiming Kate Beckinsale for the Burmese.

Yeah, there are many in history.

This guy is most recent:

Muhammad Yunus - Nobel Lecture

South Asian Outlook : An Independent e-Monthly | Presidential Medal of Freedom: President Obama Honours Dr Yunus

Would you like a complete list of Bengalis who have achieve more than that Aung Saan Suu Kyi throughout history? Or would it be too much for you to handle?

In the mean time, do continue to entertain us

Mr. Grameen Bank isn't feted at the same level as ASSK. Fair play, though. Hasn't he fallen out of favour? Come on girl. Right now, name one bingala woman who is anywhere near ASSK. Name anyone bengali alive right now near ASSK.

 

[CaPtAiN_pLaNeT]

Those stupid Indians those who are talking about Bangladesh should know it quite well how quick and fast Bangladesh is developing its human capital which even a Pakistani news paper cited as an example for Pakistan. In most of the HDI bangladesh has out performed India as well...

Even in those hopeless condition of 1970 Bangladesh was ahead of India...

If you just care to read...

Bangladesh’s human capital


Bangladesh

Mehnaz Aziz
Thursday, July 12, 2012
From Print Edition



Just 1.8 percent has been allocated for education in the federal budget for 2012-13. There is an uproar over how a population of 180 million can be serviced with this percentage. But it is not just the finances that matter here.



Bangladesh also has a low budget expenditure on education (it was only 2.4 percent of the GDP in 2008). But in spite of this, the country has seen remarkable improvements in its education system. Bangladesh has been successful in attaining gender parity at primary and secondary levels of education and an increase in enrolment rate. Bangladesh, one of the poorest countries in the world, is the only country in South Asia besides Sri Lanka to have achieved parity in male and female enrolments at both primary and secondary levels.



At liberation in December 1971, the literacy rate in Bangladesh was only 16.8 percent. The crisis of 1971 had destroyed almost one-fifth of the country’s economy; internal displacements because of the war impeded progress and crippled growth for years to come.



So how did Bangladesh beat us in education and so many other fields? Simple, it values its human capital. What was once a mistreated and backward part of Pakistan is doing far better than us in numerous social indicators. Population-control, for one: it has an estimated population of 149 million today, whereas it was the more populous of the two Wings of united Pakistan.



After liberation the government of Bangladesh laid the foundations of an extensive education system. In 1974 primary education was nationalised and made free. Education was placed under a centralised administration and teachers became state employees. To emphasise the importance of primary education the government separated it from the Directorate of Public Instruction and set up the Directorate of Primary Education in 1980. It took up two Universal Primary Education (UPE) projects in 1981 on a limited scale, one with donor support and the other with the government’s own funds. At the same time, the government started a massive mass education programme for illiterate people. The literacy rate rose from 16.8 percent in 1971 to 24.8 percent by 1991. Under a law passed in 1990 primary education became compulsory from 1992.



The Bangladesh Literacy Survey, 2010, paints a remarkable picture of how far the country has come since independence. It shows how, with political will and sound reforms, positive change is possible in a country’s development indicators. Bangladesh sought to do so not only through provision of basic education to school-age children but by also taking measures to minimise dropouts.



The demand side too has been as responsive: even the poorest families have come to value education and give high priority to the basic education of their children, boys and girls alike. Bangladesh has made impressive gains in reducing gender disparities in primary and secondary schooling – one of the MDGs. The ratio of females to males in primary schools has steadily increased from about 83 percent in 1991 to 96 percent in 2000. At the secondary level, there are already more girls enrolled than boys. Bangladesh, one of the poorest countries in the world is the only country in South Asia besides Sri Lanka to have achieved parity in male and female enrolments at both primary and secondary levels. If the country can sustain the current annual trend growth of net enrolment of 1.83 percent, it is on track to attain 100 percent net enrolment by 2013.



National development planning and successive budgets have identified and accorded highest priority to education and literacy as a major intervention strategy, both for human resources development and poverty reduction in order to raise the quality of life of the people.



As a result of increased literacy, Bangladesh has also scored successes in health, population and nutrition indicators. Bangladesh’s infant mortality rate of 41 is much lower than India’s (52 per 1,000 live births) or Pakistan’s (61 per 1,000 live births). The total fertility rate declined by a remarkable 57 percent from 1975 to 2007. The country experienced its steepest decline during the 1980s and the early 90s: in 1986 a major intervention in primary education was made and studies were undertaken on primary education to make it need-responsive and time-befitting. The reform that resulted from this intervention was the remodelling of the primary education curriculum.



From a traditional mode the curriculum was transformed into a competency based one bringing in radical changes in both pedagogy and learner-assessment system. The following reforms in the secondary curriculum were initiated: (i) establishing equivalence of education (curriculum) standard to the international level; (ii) inculcating values into the curriculum; (iii) curriculum to be made need-based and job-oriented; (iv) the curriculum to be designed in such a way that learners’ potential is exploited to the fullest extent. On the basis of these research findings, secondary curriculum had been reformed and revised in 1996.



There has been impressive increase in terms of adopting modern methods of family planning as a result of awareness and increased gender parity in primary enrolment. The contraceptive prevalence rate has increased from 36.2 in 1993-94 to 47.5 in 2007. In comparison to some other South Asian countries, Bangladesh’s position (48) is also worth mentioning: the rate is higher than that of Pakistan (just 19) or Nepal (44). (India’s is 49.)



Increased literacy and enrolments in primary schools has had noticeable impact on nutrition in children. The percentage of children underweight for age has declined also to 41 in 2007 from 56.3 in 1996-1997. Under-five mortality per 1,000 live births has declined from 115.7 in 1996-97 to 65 in 2007. Maternal mortality rate per 100,000 live births has come down from 322 in 2000 (BMMS: 2001) to 194 in 2010 (BMMS:2010).



Because of increased literacy and the resulting awareness and there has been impressive progress in controlling several diseases like malaria, filaria and tuberculosis. The life expectancy has increased from 44 years (1970) to 67 years (2007). In life expectancy Bangladesh is ahead of India. One of the other significant achievements of the health sector in the last two decades, which has contributed towards relatively higher life expectancy, is partial or complete eradication of certain life-threatening diseases like polio and DPT-a goal Pakistan is far from achieving even by 2015.



There are no two opinions that the socio-economic prosperity of a country critically depends on the quality of its human capital and the development of human resource requires an educated and responsive population. Human resource development is only possible when education is compatible with the development needs of the country and when it effectively contributes to intellectual development of a person. Bangladesh’s example is a testament that education is the foremost priority for development and progression in any sector and can turn things around for the better if there is sufficient political will and demand for that by the masses.



So what should we do? Remove the blinkers that keep us so focused on our own critical situation and have a look around. India, Iran, China, Bangladesh.



The writer is a member of the Pakistan Education Task Force and founder of Children’s Global Network, Pakistan.