1. How many refugees are in Bangladesh?
Answer: From last month statement by the Bangladesh Government it is around 11 lakhs (1100000). This figure doesn’t include 34,917 previously registered refugees from Myanmar in Kutupalong refugee camp and Nayapara refugee camp, Bangladesh Population Arrivals after 25 August 2017 is 744,400. And it increased into 11 lakhs now.
For more: https://data2.unhcr.org/en/situations/myanmar_refugees
Ans: It’s around $3 to $5 per month.
Yes, it is imaginary and it is the truth.
That is how the European/American money invested in Asian life which do not have any contribution to worker’s life except some giant corporate group(created by them too).
Shame on u American/European!!!
১৯৬৬ সালের ১৮ই মার্চ থেকে ২০শে মার্চ ইডেন হোটেল প্রাঙ্গণে আওয়ামী লীগের ৬ষ্ঠ কাউন্সিল অনুষ্ঠিত হয়। কাউন্সিলে ৬ দফার প্রতিটি দফা যুক্তিসহ বিশ্লেষণ করেন শেখ মুজিবুর রহমান। এ কাউন্সিলেই তিনি আওয়ামী লীগের গুরুত্বপূর্ণ একটি পদে নির্বাচিত হন এবং ৬ দফার পক্ষে জনমত সৃষ্টির লক্ষ্যে সারা বাংলায় গণসংযোগ সফর শুরু করেন। এ সময়ে তাঁকে আটবার গ্রেফতার করা হয়। ৬ষ্ঠ কাউন্সিলে শেখ মুজিব আওয়ামী লীগের কোন পদে নির্বাচিত হন?
উত্তরঃ সভাপতি।(তথ্যঃ যুগান্তর পত্রিকা)
Emergencies have been proclaimed five times in Bangladesh after making laws for emergency on 22 September 1973.
1. 28 December 1974
2. 30 May 1981
3. 27 November 1987
4. 27 November 1990
5. 11 January 2007
Cause of Emergencies are as below,
1. 28 December 1974: The proclamation of emergency, as published that “hereas the President is satisfied that a grave emergency exist in which the security or economic life of Bangladesh are threatened by internal disturbance; Therefore… the president is pleased hereby to issue the Proclamation of Emergency.
2. 30 May 1981: Assassination of Ziaur Rahman
3. 27 November 1987: Hussain Muhammad Ershad declares state of emergency and bans strikes. All educational institutes are declared closed until 4 December.[5]
4. 27 November 1990: Demonstrations to overthrow President Ershad began on 10 October (Libération 11 Oct. 1990). The protest movement grew stronger, and by mid-November strikes paralysed the country (The Xinhua News Agency 10 Nov. 1990). Despite the closing of the universities and the main schools on 17 October (Libération 18 Oct. 1990), the student movement emerged as the driving force of protest, forcing the traditionally divided opposition parties to maintain a united front against Ershad (Le Monde 7 Dec. 1990, 5). On 27 November, the President declared a state of emergency following clashes which left three dead and 50 injured on the preceding days (Le Soleil 28 Nov. 1990, B15). According to observers, never had martial law been so little respected (The New York Times 9 Dec. 1990, A4). During the week that followed the declaration of a state of emergency, authorities reported that six more people had died in further clashes. The opposition, however, reported 50 to 100 dead and 3,000 injured (The New York Times 4 Dec. 1990, A6; 6 Dec. 1990, A6; Le Monde 6 Dec. 1990, 8).
5. 11 January 2007: The Bangladesh Awamileague in December 2006 declared it would boycott the polls due to the failure of caretaker regime of Tajuddin to prove it’s impartiality by accepting all their demands and it’s alleged favouritism towards the BNP. It intensified its violent campaing against the regime with a view to preventing the scheduled election taking place on 22 January, 2007.In light of the magnitude of the violence coupled with mounting pressure from western diplomates, in particular that of the then US Ambassador and British High Commissioner, chief of Army staff, along with other related personnel persuaded president Iajuddin Ahmed on 11 January 2007 to step down from the position of the Chief Adviser and proclaimed an emergency for the fifth time in the history of Bangladesh
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who was Lee beyond the myth? Why are there memorials in his honor in the first place?
The soldier
A son of American Revolutionary War hero Henry “Light-Horse Harry” Lee, Robert E. Lee graduated second in his class at West Point and distinguished himself in various battles during the U.S.-Mexico War. As tensions heated around southern secession, Lee’s former mentor, Gen. Winfield Scott, offered him a post to lead the Union’s forces against the South. Lee declined, citing his reservations about fighting against his home state of Virginia.
Lee accepted a leadership role in the Confederate forces although he had little experience leading troops. He struggled but eventually became a general in the Confederate Army, winning battles largely because of incompetent Union Gen. George McClellan. He would win other important battles against other Union’s generals, but he was often stalled. He was famously defeated at Gettysburg by Union Maj. Gen. George Meade. Historians say Lee’s massed infantry assault across a wide plain was a gross miscalculation in the era of the rifle.
A few weeks after becoming the general in chief of the armies of the Confederate states, Lee surrendered to Union Gen. Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox Court House in Virginia on April 9, 1865.
The slave owner
A career army officer, Lee didn’t have much wealth, but he inherited a few slaves from his mother. Still, Lee married into one of the wealthiest slave-holding families in Virginia — the Custis family of Arlington and descendants of Martha Washington. When Lee’s father-in-law died, he took leave from the U.S. Army to run the struggling estate and met resistance from slaves expecting to be freed.
Documents show Lee was a cruel figure with his slaves and encouraged his overseers to severely beat slaves captured after trying to escape. One slave said Lee was one of the meanest men she had ever met.
In a 1856 letter, Lee wrote that slavery is “a moral & political evil.” But Lee also wrote in the same letter that God would be the one responsible for emancipation and blacks were better off in the U.S. than Africa.
The “Lost Cause” icon
After the Civil War, Lee resisted efforts to build Confederate monuments in his honor and instead wanted the nation to move on from the Civil War.
After his death, Southerners adopted “The Lost Cause” revisionist narrative about the Civil War and placed Lee as its central figure. The Last Cause argued the South knew it was fighting a losing war and decided to fight it anyway on principle. It also tried to argue that the war was not about slavery but high constitutional ideals.
As The Lost Cause narrative grew in popularity, proponents pushed to memorialize Lee, ignoring his deficiencies as a general and his role as a slave owner. Lee monuments went up in the 1920s just as the Ku Klux Klan was experiencing a resurgence and new Jim Crow segregation laws were adopted.
The Robert E. Lee statue in Charlottesville, Va., went up in 1924. A year later, the U.S. Congress voted to use federal funds to restore the Lee mansion in the Arlington National Cemetery.
The U.S. Mint issued a coin in his honor, and Lee has been on five postage stamps. No other Union figure besides President Abraham Lincoln has similar honors.
A new memory
A generation after the civil rights movement, black and Latino residents began pressuring elected officials to dismantle Lee and other Confederate memorials in places like New Orleans, Houston and South Carolina. The removals partly were based on violent acts committed by white supremacists using Confederate imagery and historians questioning the legitimacy of The Lost Cause.
A Gen. Robert E. Lee statue was removed from Lee Circle in New Orleans as the last of four monuments to Confederate-era figures to be removed under a 2015 City Council vote.
The Houston Independent School District also voted in 2016 to rename Robert E. Lee High School, a school with a large Latino population, as Margaret Long Wisdom High School.
Earlier this year, the Charlottesville City Council voted to remove its Lee statue from a city park, sparking a lawsuit from opponents of the move. The debate also drew opposition from white supremacists and neo-Nazis who revered Lee and the Confederacy. The opposition resulted in rallies to defend Lee statues this weekend that resulted in at least three deaths.
………………………………………………Report copied from Chicago Tribune
White nationalists marched on the grounds of the University of Virginia on Friday night in Charlottesville.CreditEdu Bayer for The New York Times(courtesy).
Heather Heyer, who had died on the movement…………………………. Credit: NY Times.
Once upon a time, there was a king who wanted to go fishing. He called the royal weather forecaster and inquired as to the weather forecast for the next few hours. The weatherman assured him that there was no chance of rain in the coming days.
So the king went fishing with his wife, the queen.
On the way, he met a farmer on his donkey. Upon seeing the king the farmer said, “Your Majesty, you should return to the palace at once because in just a short time I expect a huge amount of rain to fall in this area”.
The king was polite and considerate, he replied: “I hold the palace meteorologist in high regard. He is an extensively educated and experienced professional, and I pay him very high wages. He gave me a very different forecast. I trust him and I will continue on my way.” So they did. However, a short time later a torrential rain fell from the sky. The King and Queen were totally soaked and their entourage chuckled upon seeing them in such a shameful condition.
Furious, the king returned to the palace and gave the order to execute the weatherman at once!
He summoned the farmer and offered him the prestigious and high paying role of a royal forecaster.
The farmer said, “Your Majesty, I do not know anything about forecasting. I obtain my information from my donkey. If I see his ears drooping, it means with certainty that it will rain.” So the King hired the donkey on the spot.
And thus began the ancient practice of hiring asses to work in government and occupy its highest and most influential positions……………………………………………………….
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