Bangladesh submits totally

Salah Uddin Shoaib Choudhury
I categorically hate falling in the line, where people are known as "anti India", while as a citizen of Bangladesh, I really cannot tolerate any action of New Delhi, which goes against the interest of my motherland. I always believe in keeping very friendly relations with India, but strongly oppose becoming a sycophant or unconditional slave of that country, though very unfortunately a large section of the politicians in Bangladesh, and of course those of the ruling party are desperately exhibiting their madly willingness of continuing as the champion lickers of feet of the Delhiwalas. Of course, people with such volatile tendencies are nothing more than enemies of the country.

When Sheikh Mujibur Rahman was in power during 1972-1975, New Delhi´s policymakers very shrewdly took the written consent from Mujib in "testing the effectiveness" of the Farakka barrage, completely on a temporary basis for 40 days. As anticipated by the political pundits and experts in Bangladesh, such "testing" of the Farakka barrage never ended and India continues to cause extreme sufferings to the people of Bangladesh as well as Poshchim Bangla, due to this demonic barrage. Bangladeshi rivers in particular are facing threats of getting dried, as a large number of rivers have already lost the minimum water level required for navigation. Farakka is the name of sorrow for millions of people in Bangladesh as well as in Poshchim Bangla. Many consider Farakka Barrage as New Delhi´s heinous venture to punish the Bangla speaking millions as well as indigenous community both within Bangladesh and Poshchim Bangla.

Now, once again, the followers of Chanakya Doctrine have become frantically active in erecting one more barrage at Tipaimukh, which will not only add further sufferings to the people of Bangladesh, but will ultimately place Bangladesh into severe consequences, as the rivers will get quickly dried, while saline water from the Bay of Bengal will grab a large segment of the country, thus finally causing tremendous crisis of drinking water as well as completely destroying fertility of the agricultural lands.

Though Tipaimukh Barrage is going to cause severe natural and human catastrophe in Bangladesh, the foreign minister and the minister in charge of the water resources in Bangladesh are either behaving like duffers thus giving statements favorable to India, or even abetting such anti-Bangladesh actions of New Delhi, which definitely shows to us, how unpatriotic and power-greedy these elements are. It is a huge shame for Bangladesh that, a number of Bangladeshi ministers, including the foreign minister, is trying to act as advocate of Tipamukh Barrage, instead of putting any minimum reaction or protect with India as well as the international communities and the United Nations. Since independence, Bangladesh is for the first time is seeing a bunch of culprit politicians in power as well a large segment of equally culprit politicians in the opposition, who are not only failing to uphold the interest of Bangladesh, but are behaving like mere Indian agents, if not Indian slaves.


It is even rumored that Bangladeshi policymakers have secretly signed an agreement with India allowing New Delhi in erecting the Tipaimukh Barrage. I am not really willing to buy this rumor, as am not ready to consider our politicians as betrayers of that level, but of course, would like to surely investigate such serious allegations. If in real, any such secret agreement was at all signed, the signatories of such black documents will be labeled as "National Enemies" for such treacherous deeds. Whatever the political identities may be of any such politician, the heroic people of Bangladesh will ultimately stand up against such crime, if it has already been committed by signing the treaty.

Why the ruling elites of Bangladesh as well as a large segment of the civil society [shall I call them evil society] are maintaining tight-lip on this extremely important issue? Why self-exiled writers like Abdul Gaffar Chowdhury are mum on this issue? Is there any special reason behind their silence? Have they already pledged their "voice", conscious and even minimum level of self-respect to policymakers in India, just for the sake of continuing as New Delhi´s favored and "blessed" political or intellectual concubines?

It is time for politicians and policymakers in New Delhi to immediately abandon the construction of the Tipaimukh Barrage. They should not feel that by managing few politicians and so-called civil society elites, it will be possibly to place such huge burden of acute sufferings on the people of Bangladesh. We Bangladeshis have fought against the repressive Pakistani forces in 1971, and if necessary, we shall begin another war against hegemonic forces of New Delhi if they will further proceed with such devastating project as Tipaimukh. It is clear that Tipaimukh barrage will actually put the entire Bangladesh into multiple sufferings and eventually will turn this beautiful country into a mere desert. Of course since independence, Bangladesh has tolerated number of Indian hegemony and repressive actions. But, this time the entire nation will wake up. Each and every pet-dogs of India inside Bangladesh will be thrown into the Bay of Bengal. This is the high-time for New Delhi to decide – if they want a friendly Bangladesh to live with dignity or India wants Bangladesh to wage a new war. And, of course, New Delhi should note, Bangladeshis never learnt to lose any war. Because, this is the land of braves and heroes!
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Salah Uddin Shoaib Choudhury

Salah Uddin Shoaib Choudhury is an award winning anti Jihadist Muslim journalist in Bangladesh.

He is the editor of Weekly Blitz. This newspaper has both print and online edition reaching mostly policymakers, politicians, entrepreneurs, students, think tanks, civil and military officials, clergies and cross section of people in the world.

Weekly Blitz is the largest and most influential English language newspaper published in Bangladesh. Online edition of the only anti Jihadist newspaper in the Muslim world is available on www.weeklyblitz.net

Journalist, writer, poet, lyricist, author, film director, political analyst and peace activist, Choudhury, started his career in journalism in 1989 as the Correspondent of TASS, state news agency of Soviet Union. Later he was promoted as the Chief Correspodent of Itar-Tass in Bangladesh.

On November 29, 2003, he was arrested at Zia International Airport in Bangladesh on his way to Israel to attend a peace conference. Choudhury was tortured, imprisoned and denied medical treatment in prison. Government brought sedition, treason and blasphemy charges against him for confronting religious extremism, advocating inter-faith dialogue and demanding relations between Dhaka and Jerusalem. He was released on April 30, 2005 after imprisonment of seventeen months.

Although released on bail, Choudhury continues to face sedition, treason and blasphemy charges and the trial continues in a court in Dhaka. Sedition bears capital punishment [death penalty] according to law in Bangladesh.

Choudhury is the recipient of PEN USA Freedom to Write Award in 2005; American Jewish Committee's Moral Courage Award in 2006; Monaco Media Award in 2007 Key to Englewood City [NJ, USA] in 2007 and Key to Cherry Hill [NJ] in 2007 alongwith numerous local and international awards.

He has written a number of books on various issues. His book titled 'Injustice and Jihad' was published in October 2007. Italian publication house Neftasia Editore has published Choudhury's book titled 'Non Sono Colpevole' in May 2008.

Choudhury's latest book titled 'Inside Madrassa', which contains descriptive and elaborate information on condition of Madrassas in Bangladesh, Pakistan and other Muslim nations has been published in October 2009. This book is a result of comprehensive research by Salah Uddin Shoaib Choudhury for several years. Interested people can buy a copy of this book by contacting Blitz Publications, ediblitz@yahoo.com

In today's world, Salah Uddin Shoaib Choudhury is perhaps the most quoted Bangladeshi journalist in the international media.

The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Sun, The Washington Times, The Australian, The Berliner Zeitung, The Jewish State, The Jewish Week, The Guardian and many other leading international and regional dailies and periodicals have published numerous editorials on Salah Uddin Shoaib Choudhury.

Office of Salah Uddin Shoaib Choudhury's newspaper, Weekly Blitz was bombed by Islamist militants in Dhaka [Bangladesh] in July 2006. On October 5, 2006, armed terrorists attacked the his office and physically assaulted him. On 18th March 2008, members of Rapid Action Battalion [infamous of extra-judicial murders] abducted Mr. Salah Uddin Shoaib Choudhury at gun point from his office. He was blind-folded and physically assaulted. Because of quick actions by US Peace Activist Dr. Richard L Benkin and Rep. Mark Steven Kirk and other esteemed members of United States Congress, Choudhury escaped RAB's deathtrap.

On February 22, 2009, Salah Uddin Shoaib Choudhury's newspaper office was once again attacked by the armed thugs belonging to ruling party. He and his staffs were physically assaulted and the attackers looted his laptop along with two manuscripts of his un-published books.

US Congress, European Parliament, Australian Senate passed resolutions demanding dropping of the false case of Mr. Choudhury and to give him proper security and stop all forms of harassments. But, Bangladeshi authorities in Dhaka, instead of showing minimum respect to such calls, withdrew police protection from the residence of Salah Uddin Shoaib Choudhury in May 2008.

He writes of several international newspapers and research sites.

Salah Uddin Shoaib Choudhury is regularly invited by numerous prestigious institutions in the world for giving lecture on various topics of his work. He is considered to be one of the very few counter-terrorism experts working on Islamist militancy, Jihad, Sharia rule and Jihadist funding. His efforts have been recognized by the United States Congress, Australian Senate, Canadian Parliament, European Parliament and other governmental bodies in the world.

Yale University [New Haven, USA], Rutgers University [New Jersey, USA] and Hudson Institute [NYC] invited Choudhury to lectures. He also has given lectures at AIPAC, American Jewish Committee, and Synagogues in USA etc.

Salah Uddin Shoaib Choudhury has been interviewed in a recently released [2010] feature length documentary film named AMERICA AT RISK, which is produced by Citizens United Production, USA.

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