There is to be a demonstration for calling for protection of the Pahari people and peace in Chittagong Hill Tracts on Sunday 28 February.
On Saturday 20th February, an outbreak of violence against the Jumma people of Khagrachari in Rangamati caused the deaths of 4 people, hundreds of homes torched, destruction of a temple and a church, and many dozens still missing.The random violence against the Pahari people has continued unabated.
The oppression of the Chakma and Pahari peoples has been going on for decades and incidents of this kind form part of a long-standing conflict.
We urge the end to the attacks and violence against the Paharis in Bangladesh.
Please come and show your support and solidarity for the Jumma people in Bangladesh.
A chronology of events that have occurred has been maintained here:
http://unheardvoice.net/blog/category/human-rights/cht/
More details on facebook.
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Could someone give a report on the demo in Altab Ali park? Had planned to go but got stuck elsewhere.
Bangladesh treats those minorities not of the Bengali master race appallingly.
As well as the Paharis there are the Urdu speaking Biharis who have been living in camps for generations (since 1971) under appalling conditions.
http://www.statelesspeopleinbangladesh.net/home.php
http://www.unhcr.org/refworld/country,,MARP,,BGD,,469f3a581e,0.html
Bangladesh gave sanctuary to Muslim Rohingyas from Burma but has turned on them denying them basic living requirements
http://www.doctorswithoutborders.org/press/release.cfm?id=3671
In a racist state if you arent from the race in charge this is what happens.
In a racist state if you arent from the race in charge this is what happens.
That’s right. And the violence against the Pahari peoples is being partly orchestrated and condoned by the Jamaat-e-Islam and the ultra-nationalists for whom Islam is, quite literally, the primary state religion. One is anti-secular and the other a theocratic party which routinely whips up anti-non-Muslim sentiment and violence to win electoral support.
dawood
Hey dawood they are just fulfilling the 613 mitzvots that Spitoon editor bananabrain follows. Since Spitoon writers believe in and follow these how can you criticise others? You after all employ someone who believes in the same thing as they do.
324 To destroy idolatry and its appurtenances (Deut. 12:2-3) (affirmative).
332 Not to adopt the institutions of idolaters nor their customs (Lev. 18:3; Lev. 20:23) (CCN21).
334 Not to suffer any one practicing witchcraft to live (Ex. 22:17) (negative)
352 Not to show favor to idolaters (Deut. 7:2) (CCN20).
353 Not to make a covenant with the seven (Canaanite, idolatrous) nations (Ex. 23:32; Deut. 7:2) (negative).
354 Not to settle idolaters in our land (Ex. 23:33) (negative) (CCI26).
355 To slay the inhabitants of a city that has become idolatrous and burn that city (Deut. 13:16-17) (affirmative).
http://www.jewfaq.org/613.htm
If its good enough for Spitoon staffers it should be good enough for those attacking the Pahari people
You after all employ someone who believes in the same thing as they do.
I don’t write for the Spittoon, you Jamaati lickspittle. It’s the Bangladeshi nationalists and Jamaati clerical fascists who have been hands-on murderers and oppressors of the Pahari folks. Not the Jews. And the Jamaat don’t even comply to “613 mitzvots”. Go figure.
No diversionary nonsense from you now.
dawood
Bangladeshi nationalists like Faisal Gazi and the Awami League shower you mean? The same people who condemn JI for not supporting their defensive jihad against Pakistan in 1971 ? As if they’d be joining forces.
The fact remains Spitoon cannot in good faith condemn attacks on the idolatrous Pahari people by extremists in Bangladesh while employing someone like BB for whom such attacks are a religious obligation
Look at the self-loathing on Islamist cockroach, “bro”.
If the Bangladeshis were campaigning defensive jihad, then “offensive jihad” for you Jamaati quislings was all about rape, murder and genocide. You bastards would sell your mothers and daughters to please your overlords.
Bangladeshi nationalists like Faisal Gazi and the Awami League shower you mean?
No Bangladeshi nationalists are the right-wing BNP party who are nominally secular but have a tendency to form alliances with the Jamaat. They have been involved in the rehabilitation and official pardoning of war criminals of Jamaat. The BNP and Jamaat thrive in a symbiotic, mutually fellating relationship.
The fact remains Spitoon cannot in good faith condemn attacks on the idolatrous Pahari people by extremists in Bangladesh while employing someone like BB for whom such attacks are a religious obligation
“idolatrous Pahari people”?
That says it all, doesn’t it. The word “idolatrous” being synonymous for “non-Muslim”, “pagan”, “kuffar” and “evil”. That is exactly the kind of thinking behind the nationalist and Jamaati campaign of terror, oppression and land-grab against the Pahari folk in Bangladesh.
The fact remains Jamaat lickspittle such as the MCB are not in a position to attack Israelis settlers for land-grabbing Palestinian land when they are doing exactly the same thing to the “idolatrous Pahari people”.
The fact remains those attacking the Pahari people are simply following the logic of the creation of a Bangladesh – a state for Bengalis- that non-Bengalis such as Paharis will ipso facto be second class citizens. Such is the nature of Bengali supremacism and nationalism supported by Spitoon.
Its the same logic of similiar regimes such as the third reich in Germany or the zionist regime. The chosen pure German/Jewish/ Bengali people must rule over the inferior non-German/Jewish/Bengalis
Effendi
Actually its exactly the thinking/belief of Spitoon’s contributor bananabrain seeing as they were quotes from the 613 mitzvot he follows and Spitoon condones. ROFLMAO
The fact remains those attacking the Pahari people are simply following the logic of the creation of a Bangladesh – a state for Bengalis- that non-Bengalis such as Paharis will ipso facto be second class citizens.
Nope. The logic for the creation of Bangladesh was because your overlords (Jamaat and Punjabi army) regarded Bengalis to be untermenschen. Those attacking the “idolatrous Pahari people” (your words) are doing it for the same reasons. Once again, we find the odious Jamaat-e-Islam hand in glove in the oppression of the Pahari just as your organisation was complicit in the genocide of over 2 million Bengalis.
“ROFLMAO”
laugh it up Jamaat boy.
Effendi
Riiiiiight…so the logic is “We are being racially discriminated by others; so let’s set up a racist state where we can discriminate against non-Bengalis and be their overlords”.
Can see why as a Bengali supremacist you’d find such a state so appealing
I’m afraid you’re ascribing the actions of your Islamists brothers to that of the whole nation. The Bangladeshi government is currently locked in a legal battle to grant the autonomy of the territory (the CHT accord) to the Pahari people and that is being opposed, unfortunately quite successfully by dint of legal techincalities, by political forces sponsored by the Jamaat and the Nationalist BNP.
Can you see that the best thing for the Pahari people today would have been to give the Jamaati overlords justice for their war crimes by hanging the bastards? Or is your concern for the Pahari people just a piece of play-acting? I think we all know it is.
Effendi
Well thats something you always do, isnt it? Abscribe the actions of an extreme group of Muslims to all religious or Islamic political party member Muslims.
Hardly. The groups who are oppressing, murdering, land-grabbing and raping and killing are associated with the Jamaat – a radical extremist Islamist political group. But people who are helping the Pahari people are secular Muslim Bangladeshis. Both groups are Muslims, so how annd why should I be ascribing the actions of the former to the latter?
Islamists like you deny the latter group are even Muslims whilst trying to diminish the crimes and cuplability of the fomer. Or you will try and suggest that identifying their crimes is acribing *all Muslims* of extremism.
Why wont we be demonstrating for the rights of the stranded Biharis in Bnagladesh , many of whom have been living in concentration camp like conditions since 1971 ?
Cos they are Muslims and we hate Muslims.
Why won’t we campaigning for Pakistan to issue a state apology for perpetrating, with the aid of a fascist military and the Jamaat-e-Islam, the genocide, rape and crimes against humanity of over 2 million Bangladeshi Muslims in 1971?
Coz they are only Bangladeshi Muslims and we hate Bangladeshi Muslims because they are untermenschen, Hinduised peasants, and we are clerical fascists and far-right Pakistani nationalists who only answer to our Saudi paymasters.
Gaus Pak
Hinduised peasants!! ROFLMAO. I love it Gaus Pak. This blog should change its name to “Hinduised peasants” (or “East Pakistani Hinduised peasants”) .Its a much better name than Spitoon and would mean it has the same initials as its master, sorry sister, site “Harrys Place”
I’m a good Pakistani Muslim and I hate Bangladeshis, Hindus, Jews and unveiled women.
Hinduised peasants!! ROFLMAO. I love it Gaus Pak. This blog should change its name to “Hinduised peasants” (or “East Pakistani Hinduised peasants”) .Its a much better name than Spitoon and would mean it has the same initials as its master, sorry sister, site “Harrys Place”
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