Thu 24 Apr 2008
If you forgot the brutal godfather from Feni Jainal Hajari and his thugs, he is back albeit online.
http://www.hazarikaonline.com/
Check out his foray into journalism and his ‘fight’ for democracy. It was alarming to see well known columnist Masuda Bhatti’s name in the website. In the fight for restoring democracy, we must pick our allies carefully and search for people who truly believe in people’s rights rather than the ones who want to go back to the system so that they can abuse them. I earnestly hope that Masuda Bhatti’s name was put there as a mistake and she actually has done her home work.
Browse through the site and don’t forget to read up his defence here. The tagline of the site says ’stop talking, start doing’. Wondering what he wants us to start doing — break the hands and legs of fellow journalists, perhaps?
If you don’t know who Hazari is, you can read up on his extra curricular activities here
May 5th, 2008 at 5:48 am
This is quite interesting. If there was one symbol of misrule by Hasina government then it was Mr Hajari. In an ideal world, he would be tried in an open and transparent court for his extracurricular activities.
In the real world, his electorate overwhelmingly rejected him in the election. The successor government didn’t bring him to books. But his political career seemed to have effectively ended. Not as ideal as a trial, sure. But at least his electorate seemed to have been spared his excesses.
Now let’s think about what may happen to Hajari’s jatiyatabadi counterparts like Pintu/Falu etc. Again, the ideal would have been for Pintu/Falus to face an open and transparent trial. Instead, they are facing kangaroo courts, and tomorrow will claim to being victims.
When the ideal is not available, we have to live with the next best alternative. What we have with Pintu/Falus is not the next best alternative. What we’re going to get is a disaster. And the return of Mr Hajari is part of that disaster.
Instead of improving the politics, this bhodroloke biplob is likely to degenerate our politics even further.
Instead of cheerleading the regime, activists in forums such as UV, and DP and its allies broadly (amader ekta notun naam dorkar - civil society aar reformist ekhon ekta political gaali te porinoto hoyeche) should work with the opposition parties so that Hajari and Pintu don’t return after the election. Ultimately, it is the parties and their supporters, not self-proclaimed saviours, who can stop the Hajaris.