New Phase of the Resistance
A tiny hamlet in the southern part of Bangladesh, woke up shivering
on a broad daylight. A minor Hindu girl is being raped by more than
10 very well known strong and powerful men of the neighbourhood. The
entire village saw the act, the entire village knows the perpetrators
better than they ever know their own family members. They have tied
the elderly mother, tortured them, killed the father and the brother,
tied up a toddler and was raping the girl, marauding her, mauling her
like a pack of wolves. The mother cried out to them at last Please
boys, my daughter is tiny, please go one by one to her! She was
raped, eventually killed. Her name is Purnima the full moon!
The full moon of Bangladesh will ever be blackened henceforth! The
full moon will always be slimy and mauled as ever- the moon of Eid is
to come the day after the full moon, the same crescent that is the
one preceding the new moon. Will the same moon ever smile on toddlers
painting dreams in their eyes? Will Purnima ever see a full moon
blessing her again in full gaiety? No, never, that is what you
would feel in Bangladesh today! Yes, of course, if you confide on the
People of Bangladesh!
This is the famous story we know from Taslima Nasrin's report. But
the aftermath is not known. Bangladesh roared out! The students of
Bangladesh marched, shouted, broke laws and went berserk in the
cities. The village mourned, sobbed and then slowly organized her
people and marched. No, they could not do a thing to the
perpetrators! These are no simple and stray gangs. They are there in
every village
of Bangladesh, everywhere representing the coalition in government.
These are the landed musclemen of the village who are eyeing the
landed properties of the hapless leaderless Hindus, Ahmedia Muslims,
Christians, Budhhists, tribals and all others who are powerless and
hapless. These are the subaltern who cannot speak as they do not have
representatives 'representing'? them. Every single day there
are minority families who are gang raped, tortured, evicted, killed
or looted somewhere in Bangladesh. Every day there are women workers
at minor ages who are raped by their employers, every day there are
housemaids who are repeatedly raped by the houseowners and
their sons and relatives. As of today more than 70% of these maids
have experiences of repeated rapes in the cities of Bangladesh.
Bangladesh stands out in the regularity of rapes on a quotidian basis
and on a mass scale. If you might think rape is the last
crime by today's criminal standard then
Bangladeshi criminals starts by that act. Women's body is the very
first and easiest casualty in the present anti-Islamic Talibani
Bangladesh. Bangladesh is Talebanic today, much more than what you
can ever think in Pakistan, and if you go by statistics and the
ferocity of the crimes, much more heinous than what the Talebani
Afghanistan was. The Talebanis at least had some external enemy to
deal with, these criminals do not have that. They are beyond any
reproach, they are backed by the administration, by the political
party in the government and they are aided for every act of crime
from Saudi Arabia. I am sure no one would ever believe that after
every rape of a minority girl the criminals get paid from the local
Talebani Mosque! No, it is not innuendos; please check it
up with any minority of Bangladesh who ever lived in Bangladesh
countryside in the later five years. The Saudi Wahabi government
pays to form organizations and rallies to raze Ahmedia mosques to the
ground. In Narayangunge they issued notices and assembled. They found
the international representatives gathered within the Mosque to
resist through human shielding, they retreated and mobilized
elsewhere.
The principal source of inspiration was the Jamat-e-islami
organization, who said they did not approve of this act and
immediately said that the Ahmedias have to be declared Kafirs and
non-citizens. Those readers who might want to judge the Bangladeshi
Jamatis by their scale of knowing Jamat- e-Islami of India would make
the greatest mistake of their life. While Indian Jamaat is a secular
organization run and belonging to Sunni Muslims, their Bangladeshi
counterpart is just the opposite a full fledged foreign funded
Talebani organization.
That Jamat is in the government! The same Jamaat helped the Pakistani
marauding occupation force to fish out the best elements of
Bangladesh
on the night of 14th December of 1971, just two days before
Bangladesh won their independence from Pakistan. This was the same
Jamaat who
planned the massacre and this is the same Jamaat, which masterminds
the ethnic and religious cleansing of Bangladesh.
Bangladesh is leaderless from the people's point of view. Bangladesh
is full of leaders, in fact has excess of leaders all over, roaming,
screaming, loitering, acting out all in the cities though! Bangladesh
is in a nice binary game of two camps of intellectuals and leaders
taking on each other and yet the people looks at them without any
hope, trust, direction and yet looks as they do not have anywhere
else
to look towards. The minorities are now being 'represented'?! They
are represented by a NGO, funded from USA, supported and propped up
by
the Viswa Hindu Parishad and RSS of India and are trying to plot for
another division within Bangladesh, another partition, another
chance and way to perpetrate the chasm on the religious lines. What
came out of Jinnah after 1937 to the infamous 1947 is now being taken
up as an agenda by the Hindu communalists. Money is pouring down from
the west and from India in the name of saving the Hindus. Bangladesh
is murkier than ever. The people have lost gaze, lost direction and
the 'water' is turning murkier, slimier by the hour.
Yet, there are notable exceptions! People are coming up, in small
pockets, in small numbers, but very and rather very steadfast, very
determined and very dedicated. It is the Muslim peasants, who had
taken up the news of Purnima's rape throughout Bangladesh and took
on the criminals. The University students, the women who work, the
workers who toil, came up in unison. Purnima's tormentors had to be
arrested, tried and some convicted! It is not much, but the masses
are up, if not in arms definitely rallies, in united opposition.
The 'leaders'? have taken the cue, they are rearranging, social
engineering, and are re grouping, the left have gone over to the
centrists and formed one coordination, the rightists have split but
some are coagulating too! The revolutionaries are left alone, they
are in the streets, in the barracks, haunted, hunted and yet standing
up. Bangladesh is the country of consistent upsurges, a happening
place where mass upsurges against all threats is a regular
phenomenon. The revolutionary students have formed one platform, they
are
dedicating their future, their resources, in hordes they are joining
the revolutionary groups, turning full time cadres and are plunging
in mass actions.
Bangladesh is infested with NGOs. It is the unique country with the
highest number of NGOs and with the most amount of foreign aid and
money coming to the NGOs. Yet, Bangladesh is amazing. Hordes of young
revolutionaries decay down year by year by going over to NGOs and yet
year by year new hordes join the revolutionary movements. Bangladesh
never stops to bewilder any watcher. This country has the highest
amount of politically conscious varsity students in the world.
Despite all these tortures, all these threats, and all these luring
by the
NGOs, Bangladesh still sees full time political cadres coming up from
the ranks of the youth. Still in Bangladesh the coordination of
students and peasants is lively. They marched all over Bangladesh
against the looting of Oil, Gas and other resources from Bangladesh!
The revolutionaries are now able to organize the masses in thousands.
Though they are still in the preliminary stages of mass mobilization
and though they are still not in a position to call the shots in
national politics, yet it is true that Bangladesh is maturing due to
their efforts of mass mobilisation on class basis. A long way
off from everything nationalistic, narrow chauvinistic and on ethnic
lines! Today we see Muslim peasants sacrificing their lives in open
clashes with the government forces to safeguard Hindu women, [as it
happened in Narayangunge] to safeguard the interests of the tribal
people against government sponsored Muslim settlers[as it happened in
Bandarban and Garo hills]. Bangladesh is calling us with a resounding
roar!
Hey, wait up! Look at me, I may be the next to call the class
struggle!
www.cpiml.org
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