They just do it becoz they did that in bangladesh. Pay respect to the dead people by paying respect not political statements and going to the tv. The relatives should only go on camera in a vigil.

I saw Drishtipat member like mahbub alaam and sid cal sylheti ‘monkeys’ and un educated fundamantalist. So why Drishtipat is a h r group? Does amnesty members behave like this?

Perhaps if you had been listening instead of shouting at the vigil, you wouldn’t have been spouting so much misinformation. But then, you actually went to a vigil, of all things, to stir up trouble.

Drishtipat is a secular organisation, so it wouldn’t have been holding an event at a mosque. Being secular doesn’t mean that the organisation is affiliated with a political party.

For the record, the person who mentioned genocide was distraught with grief for a family member. She was not part of any organisation. She had just come to express her angst. People may not have agreed with her about calling it genocide, but no one else was heartless enough to argue with her at that point in time…except you, of course.

For similar reasons, there was no mention of “daal-bhaat”…it was a vigil, not a debate.

You’re wrong about the vigil being politically motivated and only for army officers. I went specifically for the rickshaw puller. I know a few others who did too. And you’re wrong about the general motivations of those who attended. Just off the top of my head, I can think of a couple of British Bangladeshi Drishtipat members who willingly went to live in Bangladesh over the last couple of years (no wrist cutting – thank you for that violent image – necessary). I also know of a non-Sylheti Drishtipat member who works with Sylheti youth in Tower Hamlets.

Asif Saleh (very mature misspelling his name, BTW) doesn’t need to scramble to get in front of a camera; he gets invited often enough. It’s obvious that you know nothing of him, or anyone else from any organisation who attended that vigil, so why not spend your time doing something less distasteful than attacking people who are trying, in their own way, to do their bit for the good of the world? You might try saving some of your outrage to actually do something good yourself instead of poking holes in other people’s efforts.

If you don’t like it, then go sit in the mosque. It’s only a few yards away.

But since you are an attention-seeking, needy twat, you’ll do the wrong thing and come and harass people who have no beef with you. Wanker.

You know the bengi media circus by now, and the south asian candle vigil culture (also demonstrated by a huge lump of pakistanis standing outside india house post-mumbai hopeing not to get bombed), and that not everything need be centred on a mosque. Altab ali park is a better place than the BD high commission because the focal community is the bangladeshi one, not computing students and diplobrats.

Follow the media conversation in bangladesh, the nobility of many jawans and the civilian death toll do feature.

-The unseemly scramble of certain people led by Awami activist Asif Shalah after the one minute silence to get on before the ATN camera and give political speeches harking back to comparing this incident to 1971 and comparing it as ‘genocide’ robbed the occassion of any dignity. Was there need for any cameras?

-The excuse about the list of dead is pathetic. Many of the BDR men and the civilians like the Riksha driver and the little boy have been treated like ‘untermensch’ (subhumans) unworthy of mention even by name compared to ranking officers. So much for human rights. This vigil could have been put back a couple of days, though ATN may not have scheduled you.

-It’s great you finally dragged a couple of Sylhetis along. This shows that the points ‘usith kotha’ about anti-Sylheti discrimination hurt you bad. Maybe next time all your speeches won’t be in Dhakaiya. Tell me, do the mass membership of ‘Sylhetis in London’ and Network Bangla know your Drishtipat is involved in Bangla dirty politics? No? I think we’ll show them excerpts of the ‘nice’ things Drishtipat’s membership has to say about Sylhetis. It’ll be interesting to see the reaction.

-Unlike most of those who attended, I see no kudos in appearing before ‘community channels’. I’m not ‘party political’. In any case the comments of those who speak Sylheti tend to be edited out as Dhakaiya editors consider the language ‘impure’. That’s why mostly Dhakaiyas get incolved with ATN. Only Channel S does Sylheti stuff.

I voiced my opinions as others like Abu did. It’s a public park after all. Altab Ali park has nothing to do with Bangladeshi nationalism. Ali was a Sylheti murdered by the BNP.

The way the scizophreniancs of Drishtipat organise these events in a party political character, even though residing in the UK – members would cut their wrists rather than go back – shows these dishonest people are getting paid to this sort of thing. Get a life and move on from 1971 psychosis.

You absolute twat. Do you know how many Bangladeshi soldiers risk their lives in no-go areas like Sierra Leone as a highly valued member of UN Peace Keeping Missions?

I’ve been on the wrong end of martial law in Bangladesh (the crime for having a mullet at the time was severe but luckily I had rich parents) and while they can be corrupt, to suggest the army is superfluous, when much of the country’s highly respected cadet colleges are responsible for creating far better educated students than the tooled up drugged out fundo freaky universities manage, is just a downright dickhead thing to say.

ease up ashik, all those who died are in the prayers of tens of millions of people. be yourself, let other organisations be themselves.

Apparently unto 1000 rangers have been arrested.

We knew you were a bit on the nutty side but now I see you are completely lying as well. Bro, you should see a counsellor. This is becoming embarrassing.

1. The program had members from three more organizations Sylhetis in London (ouch, how was that possible, I thought the group was anti Sylhet?), Network Bangla and Team Bangladesh.

2. List of dead included the published list of victims.

3. At the open mike session from the public, someone, who lost her relative, called it genocide but any one present on the event knows that not how the event was portrayed.

4. You forgot to mention how you were booed off and made a fool of yourself by shouting in a sombre event meant to commemorate ALL the fallen.

5. You make it sound like the corruption charges (not proven) against some officers made it right to kill them in such a brutal way. There is little bit of fascist streak inside you, innit?

-List of dead only included those of of officer caste. BDR men of jawan caste and civilian dead eg.poor rishkapullers not commemorated

-Attempt to portray massacre as ‘genocide’ (typical Awawi overblown rhetoric)

-No mention many officers being commemorated stole money during program to feed dhaii & bath to the poor

The organisers are perpetuating many of the attitudes that drove the violence in the first place.

not so sure it was a fuse for an anti-army war, though thats a judgement thing.

I would think army’s credibility has been strengthened even further, due to their restrain from being revengeful. Instead army has peacefully decided to allow govt to handle situation without jeopardizing stability of nation. Motives are very likely anti-national.

Obviously, this was a fuse for an anti-army war, but in the interest of democracy, the soldiers are grieving silently in their own barracks, without retaliation. And that heightens the pride and dignity of our army significantly.

The future viability of the bdr is open to question, and the pride and dignity of the army has been brought crashing down. Only a few months ago they were virtually running the shop.

One can play ‘who’s interest is the destruction of the BDR? who likes to kill them on a daily basis?’ and end up with the usual suspects, but no forward route to prove it.

But its not so simple a picture, there was a resistance to the rebels. There are stories emerging of jawans dying protecting their officers, and protecting their families.

duas for all concerned.