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2005-05-15 Afghanistan/South Asia

7-day jail for Bangladeshi 'top terrors' in India

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Posted by Steve White 2005-05-15 00:23|| || Front Page|| [11134 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Indian West Bengal.. run by the Communist Party of India for decades.. its showpiece city of Calcutta demonstrating to the world the wonders of Marxist economic theory.

Posted by john 2005-05-15 11:07|| 2005-05-15 11:07|| Front Page Top

#2 :) Brutal John.

Posted by Shipman 2005-05-15 11:59|| 2005-05-15 11:59|| Front Page Top

#3 We had a Bangladeshi friend over for dinner tonight (he left a little while ago), so I asked him about the Rapid Action Battallion and their habit of killing suspects during Crossfire. He explained that the justice system is almost completely non-working, with the courts (British system a legacy from Empire days) so backlogged that the judges will pretty much find guilty everyone who comes before them in an attempt to clear the dockets, even just a little.And the police are a wholly owned subsidiary of the whichever party is in power. So the RAB are actually a force for good, quickly taking out the grossly guilty with no regard to whoever is in power locally. Thus far, anyway.

Posted by trailing wife 2005-05-15 18:29|| 2005-05-15 18:29|| Front Page Top

#4 works until you'r ethe one they're beating on, asking about the cache ~~of shutter guns~~..and where is your friend's ~~hideout~~ apartment

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2005-05-15 18:35|| 2005-05-15 18:35|| Front Page Top

#5 True, Frank, but according to B., that's what the regular police are doing anyway.

Separately, B. is very concerned at the religious radicalization he saw when he was back home in Bangladesh last week -- when he was a child the girls ran in the streets just as freely as the boys, playing ball and riding bicycles just the same. Now he says the girls seem to be covered up everywhere, and that is new for Bangladesh, which was always very relaxed about its Islam. I trust his perspective on such things -- he is "godfather" to trailing daughter #2, having handled the German obstetrical establishment for me while Mr. Wife was rushing back from Poland.

Posted by trailing wife 2005-05-15 21:22|| 2005-05-15 21:22|| Front Page Top

#6 On the other hand, lovely though B. is, what he knows about the three monotheistic religions (including his own) could be knitted into a small sock.

Posted by trailing wife 2005-05-15 21:25|| 2005-05-15 21:25|| Front Page Top

#7 This is what thousands of saudi Wahabi missionaries and billions of aid dollars will do. They have remade subcontinental islam in their own image and changed the native culture.

Posted by john 2005-05-15 21:32|| 2005-05-15 21:32|| Front Page Top

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