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Dear Mokta-Mona Readers,
I want to rebut Mr. N. Bhattacharyya's findings and opinion. Netaji Mohatma Gandhi was a pioneer of Non Violent Movement after possibly Jesus Christ but he was not always perfect. Let me give my little background, I am a strong (possibly) activists of Universal Declaration of Human Rights of United Nations and many are. Mr. Bhattacharyya I hope you have read about Gandhi and seen the Gandhi movie. Mr. Gandhi's life from his boy hood was different and his nonviolent technique against British Raj first worked in South Africa. That experience encouraged him to resolve problems with British Raj in India. If you remember the scene while he was beaten by a British Police while burning his identity card along with other Hindu and Muslim protesters, he made no physical obstruction to the police while taking the beat. He was fighting and disobeying an established British law with his view of that as immoral law by non violent way taking the punishment himself and enduring it with pride and confidence, it could have been death. Mr. Gandhi was always a law abiding citizen, he was a barrister and he knew how British laws are made and how British laws are also changed in democratic way through out history. Mr. Gandhi was once asked whether he will be willing to use his nonviolent way against Hitler, his reply was it may not work against a dictator whose power does not come and are not sustained by support of common people. Mr. Gandhi had always respect for British law - and the British Law was for a disobeying Garhwal Regiment to face court Marshall for disobeying order of their superior, no matter the order was to kill or disrupt a peaceful demonstration.
One personal comment I want to add here to remind how lucky we were and are historically that we were ruled by the democratic and law abiding British Rule for about 200 years which the Afghan people missed and could not have it( the British lost about 20 thousand soldiers in the hands of war lords if you read the Rudyard Kippling's poem 'the women came to dismember the dead soldiers left by their men by cutting their hands and limbs', the irony is- now British Soldiers are guarding Kabul city to protect the civilians) replacing their war lord system; and now they are paying the heavy price for their out dated system.
I do not want to comment much about communism or Noxal movement and about writer Mr. Suniti Kumar Ghosh who represent dictatorial system for common good; though communism by itself sounds good and may work good provided the the dictators created by the system without check and balance can make it workable. So far it did not and could not, and in future we may try again if democracy and capitalism fails in some countries or in the whole world.
Yours,
Golam F. Akhter
Convener, Bangladesh-USA Human Rights Coalition
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