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First democratic leader of Justice the Godfather of the Sri Lankan Tamil Struggle: Honourable Samuel James Veluppillai Chelvanayakam

Tuesday, March 27, 2018

Udayanga Weeratunga arrested in Dubai - report


logoBy Yusuf Ariff-March 27, 2018

Former Sri Lankan Ambassador to Russia Udayanga Weeratunge has been arrested by the Dubai authorities yesterday (26), according to local media reports.

Dubai authorities had arrested him based on the investigations and submissions made by the FCID, the Senior DIG in charge of the FCID Ravi Waidyalankara was quoted as saying by the state-owned Daily News.

The report said that currently, the FCID is in discussion with the Dubai authorities with regard to handing Weeratunga over to the Sri Lankan authorities. He had been arrested by the Dubai authorities yesterday morning.
When contacted by Ada Derana, a spokesperson for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said that they are unaware of the arrest of the former diplomat.

The Police Headquarters also said that so far the arrest has not been reported and that they have not received any official confirmation. 

On March 16, the Colombo Fort Magistrate’s Court issued an open warrant for the arrest former diplomat, who is absconding, to be executed through Interpol.

The warrant called for his arrest and to produce the suspect before the court immediately.

Interpol last month issued a Red Notice on the former Sri Lankan Ambassador, as a person wanted by the Sri Lankan authorities.

Mr. Weeratunga had been evading a warrant of arrest issued on 20 October 2016 by a Colombo Magistrate, in relation to investigations pertaining to alleged embezzlement of public funds to the tune of 7.833 million US dollars with regard to procurement of MiG aircraft and money laundering.
On the basis of a Blue Notice obtained by Interpol Sri Lanka on Mr. Weeratunga, Sri Lanka authorities had been working through mutual legal assistance with a number of countries to trace his whereabouts.

The former Ambassador to Russia and Ukraine was intercepted in the UAE on Sunday 4th of February 2018 when he attempted to leave to the United States.

However, he was subsequently released by the UAE authorities, but was prevented from leaving the territory of the UAE until the conclusion of investigations.

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Restore Fertilizers & Lift The Ban On The Pesticides: Glyphosate and Paraquat

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By Chandre Dharnawardana –
Dr. Chandre Dharmawardana
Paraquate was an excellent herbicide which was banned by a previous government mainly because farmers who went bankrupt due to  government rice policies used paraquat  to commit  suicide! Gyphosate was the other popular herbicide  banned in 2015, ensuring that the farmer and even the wealthy tea planter should commit suicide. Pethiyagoda, a long-time doyen of the tea industry has resigned, possibly in total disgust. At last, the minster of agriculture, finally sensing disaster and bowing to scientific evidence on the safety of glyphoate has presented a cabinet paper to lift the ban on glyphosate. Paraquat too should be immediately re-approved with its availability restricted  to technically proficient companies who can be hired by individuals desiring to use paraquat.
As a Professor of Chemistry and University President who in a small way pioneered environmental science and food technology in the 1970s at the J’pura university, and as a supporter of scientific agriculture, I wish the Minister success in re-approving not only glyphosate, but paraquat as well. 
The tea industry has been loosing some 6 billion per annum, while its multiplier effect drives the loss   since 2015 close to 30 billion. Carefully crafted propaganda claiming a “Kapra Beetle” further hurt the industry. Meanwhile, the  eco-pundits who got asbestos banned point to the tea monoculture and its soil, and call for closing the estates. Other  eco-pundits and masters of the Toxin-Free Nation claim that paddy is ecological unsustainable, using up water and eroding the soil and push to convert the paddy fields into “natural” wet lands and marshes.  Rice and flour are  increasingly imported  by the government, while downgrading its fertilizer subsidy schemes. Farmers are told  to make their own “organic fertilizer” or buy the “bio-film” sponsored by the Presidential secretariat, but now alleged to be a scam. 
The farmer has to control weeds and pests. Glyphosate was banned at the behest of the JHU politicians who abandoned Rajapaksa. Venerable Ratana and followers and  God-Natha psychics had already committed the Rajapaksa government to  ban Glyphosate. The herbicide has a safe track record of over four  decades in all advanced farming countries, with some countries using almost a thousand times Sri Lanka’s  annual usage per hectare of agrochemicals and pesticides (world-bank data). Nevertheless, large amounts of fake “research” news against these pesticides reside in the internet.  Individuals selling their products claiming to “detoxify” and “rejuvenate” clients  sell  alternative diets  to “save the earth, save the environment, and “fight agro-business”. Even the GMOA has fallen for this, and some medics  are undoubtedly avid readers of questionable Internet “Gurus” like Dr. Mercola or Dr. Stephanie Seneff. The latter has spun theories “proving the toxicity of glyphosate”  and sells a program that guarantees a life span of 110 years (free of glyphosate!) if you adhere to it, for a fee.
Dr. Mercola spread the claim that CKDu is caused by a glyphosate-arsenic-hardwater complex that was hypothesized  by Dr. Jayasumana and  authored (in a little-known pay and publish  “journal”) jointly with a “medium” claiming psychic powers linking her to God Natha.  This substance imagined in 2014 has not been found by any one including Dr. Jayasumana who busies himself in electioneering.  But many militants of the  GMOA believe that Dr. Jayasumana and associates have “proved” that CKDu in the Rajarata is caused by this imagined glyphosate complex, although the WHO team who studied CKDu patients found no evidence for glyphosate in their biopsies. Even though glyphosate is absent from the arena of the crime, they still want it banned as a “precaution” !
The force that propelled  the ban is the public fear of “chemicals” that has been cleverly fanned  by the local elite who  ape the elite of California and Europe. The poor suffer their hunger while the rich search for “clean food”. Surely  “you cannot go wrong by eating clean food”. This simple “motherhood and apple pie” statement is linked to the claim that “natural” food, unaffected by “chemicals” must be clean. This is then equated to “organic food”, while “organic food” is  a movement initiated by the proto-Nazi  Dr Rudolf Steiner who talked of a  “spiritual and biodynamic” foundation for food.  Steiner founded “Anthroposophy”, a sort of mystical hodge-podge  claiming that  the human race is “evolving” through the different races, with black people  “at childhood”, Asians “degenerate” and white Europeans the most civilized. He envisaged a world where the population was limited to an elite with the lebensraum and resources to grow natural “biodynamic food”  called  “organic food”. This movement linked nicely with the misguided Eugenics movement in pre-Nazi  Europe and became a successful  “bio-foods” business.
In countries like Sri Lanka,  the elite “internationalist” upper classes (who unconsciously equate themselves with the white masters of colonial times) and the nationalists resonate together on “organic food”.  Nationalists claim that  “traditional agriculture” made “Sri Lanka  the granary of the East” and identify with “organic food”.  Multinational food businesses with supermarket chains like “Whole Foods” capitalize on the public belief in  “organic food”. That only  about 2% of the world’s food supply is “organic”, and the  impossibility of bridging the remaining 98% are ignored. The  enormous success of insecticides like DDT in saving human lives, and in opening up previously inhabitable regions for habitation have been turned topsy-turvy by emphasizing  the dangers of excessive use.  The clarion call of Rachel Carson’s “Silent Spring” was  weaponized by the organic food movement, with baseless attacks on the Green Revolution which saved India from mass famine, in the nick of time. A Rudolf Steiner could lament that if not for the green revolution the world would have two billion fewer brown-skins.  Although industrial fertilizers and Urea came into being in the early part of the 20th century, these activists consider it  “a Western plot” to use up the excess Nitrogen explosives of the 2nd world war!
These attacks of the elitist white supremacists found strange bedfellows with the anti-establishment left in attacking  giant agro-business. As many of these are based in USA and Europe, the attack on “industrial agriculture” became a part of the cold war. Fake news snippets against glyphosate are routinely posted by Russian agencies when ever Glyphosate comes for review by the EU parliament. Such news gets circulated on the internet by unsuspecting “natural foods” zealots. Even today, when Glyphosate was mentioned in the Sri Lankan parliament, Mr. Dinesh Gunawardena, a scion of Sri Lanka’s Communist party unhesitatingly linked it with American capitalism, while Ven. Ratana claimed that “a man from America” has come to Sri Lanka to agitate against the glyphosate ban imposed by Sri Lanka in 2015. Ironically, President Sirisena’s victory is also allegedly a triumph of American machinations in the murky waters of Sri Lankan politics!

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Israel arrests hundreds of Palestinian workers in Passover 'deep-clean' operation

NGO denounces operation against undocumented workers as 'racist' and 'ethnic cleansing'

Palestinian workers wait for the gate to open between the illegal settlement of Modiin Illit and Harbeta after a day of work in Israel. Tens of thousands of Palestinians work inside Israel (AFP)

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Chloé Benoist
Tuesday 27 March 2018 

Israeli police announced on Tuesday the arrest of at least 468 Palestinians working illegally inside Israel since the launch on Saturday of a "deep-clean" operation before the Jewish Passover holiday.
According to a statement, 2,300 officers and "volunteers", assisted by the air force, had raided dozens of locations in Israel. In addition to undocumented workers, 32 individuals were held for employing Palestinians without permits or transporting them illegally into Israel. 
Micky Rosenfeld, an Israeli police spokesman, told Middle East Eye that the operation against illegal workers was the biggest for "several months".
"These operations will continue as long as necessary in different areas, as part of security in order to prevent incidents from taking place," he said.
Rosenfeld later told MEE that 14 people accused of “terrorist activities” had been detained as part of the operation, including five in Umm al-Fahm – a Palestinian-majority town in Israel – and nine others suspected of transporting them within Israel. Rosenfeld declined to give further details on the accusations levied against these 14 people.
The police operation, called Removing Chametz, refers to the religious custom of removing all traces of leavening products such as yeast from one's home before Passover, either by cleaning all surfaces, burning leavened products, or giving them to non-Jews.
Adalah, an NGO dedicated to Palestinian legal rights inside Israel, denounced the operation and the troubling connotations of its name.
"Israeli police's terminology towards people, like food that must be cleaned and removed, attests to the racist character of the police activity," the organisation said in a statement on Tuesday afternoon. "Indeed, this is an ethnic cleansing."
Israeli forces typically increase security measures before and during Jewish holidays, such as increased security in annexed East Jerusalem and closures in the occupied Palestinian territories, forbidding Palestinians with permits from entering Israel except in cases of emergency – a measure that affects tens of thousands of Palestinians working in Israel.
According to official Palestinian news agency Wafa, Israeli forces will enforce an eight-day closure on the West Bank and Gaza starting Thursday, a day before the beginning of Passover.
Adalah on Tuesday criticised the crackdown on undocumented workers being carried out under the guise of security, arguing that those who were detained did not constitute a threat to Israelis.
"These Palestinians do not have any intention to harm anyone yet the police treat them like criminals who must be arrested, for no fault of their own," the NGO stated.
The Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories (COGAT), the Israeli army agency responsible in the occupied Palestinian territory, reported in 2017 that 70,000 Palestinianswith permits cross daily into Israel to work.
The Israeli army chief of staff, Gadi Eisenkot, estimated in 2016 that 50,000 Palestinians also work in Israel illegally.
High unemployment rates and low wages in the occupied West Bank push many Palestinians to seek employment in Israel and illegal settlements, mainly in construction or other blue-collar jobs.
Israeli police regularly carry out raids targeting undocumented workers, as well as the Israelis or Palestinian citizens of Israel suspected of employing them and housing them. In July 2017, Palestinian outlet Ma'an news agency reported that 98 Palestinians were detained during a similar operation targeting undocumented workers.

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Facebook censors Palestinian news outlet
Israeli justice minister Ayelet Shaked signs a statement with three European counterparts pledging further government control of online speech, at a conference in Jerusalem, 20 March. The event was attended by a senior Facebook official days before the social network intensified its crackdown on Palestinian journalists. (via Facebook)

26 March 2018
Facebook has shut down the page of a major Palestinian news outlet, in what appears to be a blatant instance of pro-Israel censorship.
The Safa Palestinian Press Agency reported that on Saturday its page, which had more than 1.3 million followers, was shut down without warning.
Quds News Network ✔@QudsNen
As part of its unabated campaign against pro-Palestinian content on its platform, Facebook removes the page of the Palestinian Press Agency (SAFA) today.
10:53 AM - Mar 24, 2018
According to Safa, the next day its website was hijacked and replaced with threatening statements, before the publication’s technologists managed to restore control of their site.
On Monday, Safa reported that its page on the photo sharing network Instagram, which is owned by Facebook, had also been shut down without any warning. The account had more than 70,000 followers.
This appears to be an escalation of Facebook’s persistent blocking of the accounts of Palestinian journalists and publications.
Safa reports a mix of local and international news typical of other news organizations and asserts it has done nothing to violate Facebook’s rules.
According to Safa, Facebook has in recent days shut down about 100 accounts belonging to Palestinian media and activists.
In a statement Monday, Safa managers condemned Facebook’s action as a continuation of Israel’s assault on the Palestinian people and an attempt to silence reporting about reality.
The publication urged local and international press freedom defenders to speak out against the censorship, and called on Facebook to restore Safa’s accounts.
Earlier this month, journalists in Gaza held a demonstration to protest censorship by Facebook.
A request for comment has been sent to Facebook.

Bowing to government pressure

In 2016, Israel made an agreement with Facebook to collaborate in monitoring what Israel claims to be “incitement” by Palestinians.
That year, Facebook apologized for disabling the accounts of several Palestinian journalists, claiming it had been a mistake.
But with the shuttering of Safa’s accounts, it appears that the targeting of Palestinian journalists continues.
The European Union also appears to be supporting Israel’s social media censorship as part of the 28-member bloc’s deepening commitment to silencing support for Palestinian rights.
Last week, three EU justice ministers signed a joint declaration with their Israeli counterpart Ayelet Shaked on “combating online incitement” and anti-Semitism.
In recent years, Israel has been pushing to broaden the definition of anti-Semitism – which simply means bigotry against Jews as Jews – to include criticism of Israel and its state ideology, Zionism.
Israel Foreign Min. ✔@IsraelMFA
Joint Statement on Countering Online and Incitement to Violence and Terrorism signed by Justice Ministers of , , & , and presented at the 6th Global Forum for Combating Antisemitism.
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The event was attended by Delphine Reyer, Facebook’s policy director for Africa and the Middle East.

Israeli incitement

While Facebook colludes with governments to crack down on Palestinians, violent and racist incitement by Israelis continues unabated.
More than 10 percent of Facebook posts written about Palestinians include denigrating language or calls for violence, according to a recent study by 7amleh, an advocacy group for Palestinian citizens of Israel.
One of the most notorious examples of online incitement against Palestinians was posted by none other than justice minister Ayelet Shaked.
On the eve of the 2014 Israeli assault on Gaza that left more than 550 Palestinian children dead, Shaked promoted a call for genocidal violence, including the slaughter of Palestinian mothers who give birth to “little snakes.”
Shaked’s call received thousands of “likes” before she removed it, embarrassed by the global exposure it gained after The Electronic Intifada translated it into English.
Last week, Shaked claimed that “terror groups” – the Israeli government’s catch-all term for Palestinian political parties and resistance organizations – were switching to Twitter, because so far that social network has been less willing to comply with government censorship than Facebook.
This indicates that after Facebook’s capitulation, other social media networks will be in Israel’s crosshairs.
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Ecuador: 3 Journalists Kidnapped in Northern Border

Defense Vice Ministers of Colombia and Ecuador (c) meet to coordinate border security.

Defense Vice Ministers of Colombia and Ecuador (c) meet to coordinate border security. | Photo: EFE

Published 27 March 2018

The kidnapping and a series of violent attacks in the border are leading many to call for U.S. military presence in Ecuadorean territory.

In a press conference Tuesday the Ecuadorean government confirmed that three local journalists were kidnapped Monday in the northern-border town of Mataje, near Colombia, while assuring that the reporters are alive and well without providing any more information.

The journalists were reporting on the attacks against state security forces that have occured in the province of Esmeraldas since late January. The government announced they have “activated all the security protocols and initiated investigations to safeguard the physical integrity” of the three missing reporters with the local El Comercio newspaper.

Earlier this week, military and police representatives of Colombia and Ecuador held a meeting to strengthen their presence in the border region following a joint statement by Ecuadorean President Lenin Moreno and his Colombian counterpart Juan Manuel Santos in which they committed to “deepen immediate cooperation between the security and defense organisms."

The alleged kidnapping followed an attack on a water tanker on Monday, a deadly bomb attack on border patrol soldiers on March 20 in which three soldiers were killed, a bombing on a military base on March 16, and the attack on a police command in San Lorenzo, Esmeraldas on Jan. 27.

Authorities reported the first attack was most likely related to drug trafficking and counter operations by Ecuadorean police. A total of 14 people have been detained in that case. Following that attack the United States Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) sent a delegation to the Andean country to assist in the investigations.

Ecuador’s military intelligence claims the attacks are perpetrated by Residual Organized Armed Groups (GAOR), criminal gangs formed by former guerrillas who have military training and engage in international drug trafficking. The agency has identified six such groups working in Tumaco, in the Colombian border with Ecuador.

The attacks have been used by politicians like General Paco Moncayo to criticize Ecuador’s decision to expel a U.S. military base in Manta. “Removing the Manta base and not having anything to replace it was silly and irresponsible. They left the country defenseless against threats as terrible as drug trafficking,” Moncayo said via Twitter.

Allowing a U.S. military base in Ecuadorean territory would deepen the shift in Ecuador’s defense and security policy. Recently, Moreno’s government decided to eliminate the country’s intelligence agency created in 2009 to break up links between U.S. agencies and Ecuadorean intelligence which have been proven to exist in the past.

In light of these border assaults, President Moreno invited U.S. military officials to Ecuador to "strengthen friendships between the two countries... discuss bilateral cooperation and fight against transnational narcotrafficking."

The U.S. embassy in Quito says the Deputy Commander of the U.S. Southern Command, Joseph P. DiSalvo, and Liliana Ayalde, civilian deputy of Southern Command are visiting the country to "listen to the ideas and worries of the defense authorities and civil authorities, and to reiterate Southern Command's commitment to boost and strengthen the friendship between the two countries."
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White House investigating $500m loans to Kushner family firm – ethics chief

David Apol of the Office of Government Ethics says officials looking to find out if loans may have spurred ethics or criminal law violations
Kushner Companies reportedly accepted $184m in loans from Apollo Global Management and $325m from Citigroup last year over a span of several months. Photograph: Pablo Martinez Monsivais/AP

Associated Press in Washington-
White House officials have been looking into whether $500m in loans that went to Jared Kushner’s family real estate company may have spurred ethics or criminal law violations, according to the head of the federal government’s ethics agency.

David Apol, acting director of the Office of Government Ethics, said in a letter sent late last week to representative Raja Krishnamoorthi that the White House counsel’s office told him officials were investigating the loans to Kushner Companies and whether “additional procedures are necessary to avoid violations in the future”.

Krishnamoorthi, an Illinois Democrat, asked Apol on 1 March about a New York Times report in February that Kushner Companies accepted $184m in loans from Apollo Global Management and $325m from Citigroup last year over a span of several months after Kushner met officials from the two firms.

As Donald Trump’s son-in-law and key adviser, Kushner plays an influential role in domestic and foreign policy decisions.

Late on Monday, Kushner’s attorney, Abbe Lowell, said “the White House counsel concluded there were no issues involving Jared”. Several White House officials contacted for comment were not immediately available to confirm whether White House lawyers had completed the inquiry.
Lowell denied any improprieties by Kushner, saying “he was not involved with his former company after he entered government service; the transactions in question came after that; he had nothing to do with those transactions; the transactions had nothing to do with any of his meetings in the White House”.

Both companies have insisted their officials did nothing wrong in meeting with Kushner. In one case cited by the Times, Citigroup lent $325m to Kushner Companies in spring 2017, shortly after Kushner met Citi’s chief executive, Michael Corbat. Last week, Citigroup’s general counsel told several Democratic lawmakers in a letter that the loan was “completely appropriate”.

In a second case, Kushner met several times with Apollo co-founder Joshua Harris and discussed a possible White House job – followed by Apollo’s loan of $184m to the Kushner firm. An Apollo spokesman previously said Harris “never discussed with Jared Kushner a loan, investment, or any other business arrangement or regulatory matter involving Apollo”.

In a separate letter last week to Democratic lawmakers, an Apollo official said “to our knowledge, Jared Kushner did not play any role on behalf of Kushner Companies with respect” to the loan.

In the letter to Krishnamoorthi, Apol responded to several of her questions about Kushner’s conduct during the period when his family’s firm received the two loans. Apol did not offer legal opinions on Kushner’s behavior, instead noting that “the White House is in a position to ascertain the relevant facts related to possible violations and is responsible for monitoring compliance with ethics requirements”.

Apol said he raised those questions with White House officials “to ensure that they have begun the process of ascertaining to determine whether any law or regulation has been violated”. During the conversations, “the White House informed me that they had already begun this process”, he said.
A spokeswoman for Kushner Companies said on Monday night the firm had not received any correspondence or other notifications from the White House or OGE.

On Tuesday, Krishnamoorthi and fellow House Democrat Elijah Cummings pressed the White House counsel’s office to provide results from its inquiry.

White House spokeswoman Sarah Sanders firmly denied any formal investigation into Kushner at her regular press briefing, although she acknowledged that the White House Counsel’s office often played a role in checking whether ethics guidelines have been met by administration officials.

“While the White House Counsel’s office does follow up with staff to assist with compliance with various ethics standards, it is not probing whether Kushner violated the law,” Sanders said.
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Bangladesh: 48th Independence Day and the new generation with a new world order

 

Eventually China is going to take all the stakes of Asia like a fresh unchallenged demon.

by Swadesh Roy- 
( March 26, 2018, Dhaka, Sri Lanka Guardian ) The people who brought independence for us, most of them of that generation have passed away or upward old age; in the same manner, the generation fought against the military ruler in Bangladesh for democracy are now senior citizens. So, the 48th Independence Day is for the new generation. Despite only celebrating it, they have to realize the proposition of this 48th Independence Day and their duties.
They should understand first that within five years, they have to take the responsibilities of this country in all sectors, and when they will take responsibilities of their country, the world order will be different. Even, not only the world, Asia and our neighbour countries will take a new shape. Moreover, the Middle East will lose a major portion of their gripped wealth (basically the oil economy will be narrowed down), and Europe will lose their ideology liberalism in the name of saving European economy and society like Trumps America first. In spite of that, the economy of Europe will not be good. Both the oil economy of Middle East and the liberalism ideology of Europe have immense impact on our socio-economy and politics. On the other hand, then America will need to withdraw many of their stakes from Asia though they are trying to make a Quade to continue their stakes in future, but the present realities say, that will not be very much functional. On the contrary, Asia is growing with imbalance power because of the supreme emerging of China with economy and military power. In Asia, Japan is, no doubt, a big economy, and once it was the second economy in the world; in spite of being in that position, after the Second World War, Japan is never counted as a big power of the world. Truly, without a military power, in this present world, no country is counted as a world power only on the basis of economic power. In this order, India comes as a next economic power after Japan, and not only in Asia, India is now a big economy in the whole world. Moreover, India is also a world military power; especially they are one of the Naval powers in the whole world, and this fact made them different from Japan and they are not counted in the same manner as Japan, but India has another limitation that is poverty. At least 50 percent of the people of India live in poverty. On the contrast, in Asia, China is taking shape in economy and military power enormously. That will make the power imbalanced in economy and military not only in Asia but in the world.
Eventually China is going to take all the stakes of Asia like a fresh unchallenged demon.
However, when the neighbor, the continent Asia, even the world is positioning with this new shape, the new generation of Bangladesh has to take the responsibility of the country.
Even when they will take the responsibility of the country, the population of the country will be at least two hundred million, and it will be two hundred fifty million within the following five years. Similarly, the population of both China and India will be increased. Under that circumstances, the big military and economic power, China, will either try to control the whole Asian market or will try to make a monopoly market in Asia; here to mention that they have already taken the major markets in Asia. In this context, Europe has no ability to fight against China. America and India will jointly fight against China for which they will try to get some far eastern countries and one of the economic powers, Japan, in their side. Besides that, China will try to take more stakes in Pakistan and Afghanistan. Conversely, India and America will try to stop that aggression of China at least in Afghanistan. When this entire scenario is going to take shape in the mentioned way, in that situation, Bangladesh has to admit that being one of the transit countries in Asia, we have to act very cautiously for our own economy and the security ground.
So, in this 48th Independence Day, the new generation should understand that running a country is not going to be an easy task for them as then the world will not be like bipolar or unipolar rather will be the multidimensional world. In a bipolar or unipolar world, it is easy, for you can choose a side and run your country maintaining that side. On the contrary, in this multidimensional world and in an imbalanced Asia, the job will be the toughest for a leader of a country like Bangladesh. The new generation should understand it to observe the activities of our present Prime Minister. Like all the new world players, she has understood the change in the world. She is maintaining the emerging economic and military devil, China, by one hand, and India and its friend America by the other hand. She has to maintain it at this age when China has already taken all the Indian stakes in South Asia except Bangladesh, and she has saved all of her country’s stakes from all the countries of the world.
Given this context, when the new generation will take the responsibility of the country, the equation between China and India will be more complicated. Similarly, the Asian market will be more multifaceted market, for many places of the human labor will be replaced by robots, but in the meantime, the purchasing power of the Asian countries will be increased. Besides, Asia will also use the robots. With this object, combining the robot- power and the manpower, the production power will be increased in Asia. Even then taking all the huge manpower of Bangladesh, it can go for using robot power in many sectors. In spite of that, it may be true that Bangladesh can get more markets for its all products expanding from Asia to Europe and America. As an illustration, Indian and American market may become freer for the others, for facing the Chinese dragon.
As a result, it may be said that this new complex world is certainly knocking at the door, and we are going to be a part of that world. Again, when we will be the citizen of that new world, the new generation will be in the driving seat of the country. In this context, it is the demand of the time that in this 48th Independence Day, the new generation will take the oath to prepare and build themselves up in way that they can run the country properly in that complicated world. Therefore, they will be happy thinking, 48 years ago, when their motherland Bangladesh was born in the world, it was a small country, but now their motherland is not only a player of Asia but also the player of the world.
Swadesh Roy, Executive Editor. The Daily Janakantha, Dhaka, Bangladesh. He is a highest state award winning journalist and can be reached at swadeshroy@gmail.com
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