Why would DP act to discipline their member? Most of the DP ‘human rights activists’ hold similar disparaging views about Sylhetis. Zubair’s only mistake was being caught out publicly. These DP people are on the outside looking in.

DP can’t hold the Bangladeshi govt to account over representative democracy in Bangladesh because DP’s own membership is not representative.

DP use events like the First Solution Scandal for political ideological purposes. Not to help the victims. Otherwise why would the DP article mention religious businesses and ChannelS’s ALLEGED collusion in financial dealings? Irrelevance and speculation. Even Sid had to mention in the article that nothing was proved. Yet he is here now defending g it tooth and nail. Hypocracy knows no bounds.

So let me get this right. You are saying that it was wrong of Dristipat to have an article on its blog about the First Solution scam because one of it’s partners is a Sylheti? How come you’re not concerned that the brunt of BanglaTV’s sensationalist and scandolous coverage was borne by the other partner, Dr Fazal Mahmud, who isn’t? Sylheti, that is.

Are you really defending First Solution and suggesting that DP shouldn’t be critical of a money laundering outfit that scammed a few thousand people of millions of pounds?

Do you realise that because of this skewed faux-binary of Sylheti/Non-Sylheti, you end up disregarding the real victims who many who lost their entire life savings AND were mostly Sylheti?

Thanks for posting my comment from the DP blog which confirms I attacked Bangla TV’s coverage of the First Solution Fiasco. I still do. Nothing’s changed. Doesn’t mean I endorse the fuckers who scammed ordinary members of the public, which you seem ready to do.

‘seeing as DP is a non-profit it can choose to make anyone a beneficiary it pleases, and involve no one,’

A salient point. But British Bangladeshis tend to be Sylheti. So DP must have done something to put off Sylhetis getting on board. I think it was prolly the concentration of people who knew each other from back in dhaka hmmm@@@also cultural shows we don’t understand and that look bit fresh sorry, old fashioned does nothing for us. at Kings we have shunali shondya and invite Sylheti artists like kaya and Sylheti rappers and Hasson Raza singers and Dhaya ones.

What happemned to DP Zubair?

http://www.drishtipat.org/blog/2007/07/02/first-solutions-fazal-mahmood/

Even Sid said (quote) ::::
‘But it is quite distastful to see the media blatantly invade the personal privacy of the proprietors. Some Bangla TV channels even broadcasted Fazal Mahmood’s home address and other personal details live on air.

Are their legal teams aware that here in the UK, there is such a thing as the Data Protection Act, which could be used to prosecute this kind of violation’?

Even some members of those responding
had concerns about the article & responses. So why is Sid scamming now? Why on arth did DP dip it’s toes into this conytoversy? To sell Dhakaya secularism and to malign ChannelS?

Incidentally, the businessman was a non-Sylheti and the victims were almost entirely Sylheti. Are you sure you’ve have your “ethnocentric” priorities right?

‘Can you explain the defamatory and extremely Pro Bangla TV and anti ChannelS article DP ran with in the aftermath of the First Solution scandal? Even though investigations are still pending by UK financial/licensing authorities’?

i dont like this Sylhet/dhaka fighting too much. But dhaka people are dishonest and pretend they dont discriminate Then when they come to america or Britain they cry when we point out their racist doings and say we wont help them.

If you want to do Human Rights for other people in Bangladesh then you have to show Human rights in the way your group deals with other people. if Amnesty International had a member or volunteer that was racist then they they would suspend them and apologise. DP don’t do nothing against their members.

‘What are Sylhetis’?

‘Another answer to that might be fu*king barbarians. It has the virtue of being both short and correct. For anyone who had to live through an Eid in the East End like I did two days ago would concur. Even as I was walking home at midnight, there were Sylheti monkeys hanging out of the windows of speeding cars, screaming and shouting, clogging up the entire length of Whitechapel Road. It had been that way all day. Parking their cars in the side roads and blasting ghetto music from the car speakers and dancing, some of them piss-drunk and puking all over the pavements, every last *beep* either a druggie or a dropout if not both.

And not a grown-up in sight to see what’s going on? Oh wait, they’re too busy looking for clueless cousins from back home to staple on to these chimpanzees’.

Did Zubair get banned off Drishtipat for this? No. Nothing happened.

and just think – maltesers doesn’t even have those horrible side effects! what were all those people thinking??!

this is why i refuse to go to the psychiatrist for whatever personality/mental disorder i clearly have..

1. DP involves itself in Awami League politics. It is not politically neutral. A GENUINE HR organisation NEEDS to be NEUTRAL.

2. DP London membership is predominantly Dhakaiya. A group whose language/culture is somewhat DIFFERENT to the Sylhetis. DP cannot fight for HR issues like representative democracy in Bangladesh when DP ITSELF IS NOT REPRESENTATIVE in it’s area of operation. Not on.

DP brings the work of genuine NGO’s (Bangladesh has a vibrant sector eg. Grameen and BRAC) into disrepute.

Ps. Response re: Drishtipat’s biased article in the B TV v ChannelS embroglio would be appreciated.

Human rights abusers don’t care which district of Bangladesh youre parents hail from.

Sorry, DP is not interested in petty regional issues of British-Bangladeshis who simply want to wallow in self-pity, play the race-card and the uncle-tom card at any opportunity.

All that personal, unresolved baggage of “Sylheti ethnocentrism” you need to deal with in your own space. That’s not an issue for DP to deal with.

Try prozac.

(why not include some people from Mongolia while you’re at it, won’t be “representative” without them will it? why are you leaving them out? are you viciously anti-mongolian or something?)

seeing as DP is a non-profit it can choose to make anyone a beneficiary it pleases, and involve no one, if they’re getting public funds from Tower Hamlets to do ‘community consultation’ and you’re a resident, then you can start complaining about representative resident involvement.

till then, sorry, but you’re not the centre of the world unfortunately

If i want to set up a charity to help cats tomorrow, i don’t need you to sit on my board, whether you’re sylheti, martian or mongolian. it’s nothing to do with you, unless you’re linked as a stakeholder somehow to where i’m getting public money from, and part of the cat sector or something.

Asif also happens to be one of the most articulate, fearless critics of Bangladeshi human rights record. It is DP that broke the news about Tasneem Khalil, it is DP that has consistently brought up the record of torture and the failure of due-process by the ruling military government. It is not partisan in any way so you are quite mistaken about that.

You’re obviously trapped in some kind of offended Sylheti sensibility flux. If people are critical of the British HC in Bangladesh, you get offended because he’s Sylheti? And not because he’s a misinformed idiot who backs the military CTG uncritically? Think about it…