লেখক বলেছেন: fishy? yes, i found the conclusion of the report fishy! when the fbi and scotland yard came to survey, they told that "It is not possible to carry out fair probe with the existing equipment. But we are ready to provide you with all kinds of technical supports in this regard". hmmm, they were never called back after the initial survey, were they? instead, a committee of retired government officials have now "solved" the mystery that the global crime busters could not do without highly specialised equipment...

লেখক বলেছেন: কেন লাভ নাই ভাই? earlier all media was one way and people had no voice. now you have a voice side by side with all bangla bloggers. let yourself be heard and keep it going for as long as you feel needed.

লেখক বলেছেন: তা জানি, আশা করি এই বারও তাই হবে।

লেখক বলেছেন: it in such situations that bloggers have their strength and can ensure that no corner remain in darkness. it just require engagement, conviction and the ability to ask the right questions and dissect the wrong answers.

লেখক বলেছেন: there are supposedly two more committees working? one with the army and one with the nsi? will they say the same or will they say nothing? or will they all say different things? do we really want to let confusion cloud the sky and do we really want to forget the whole issue? no, not here at somewhere in... blog, do we?

লেখক বলেছেন: it is my dream that social media soon can be organized for democracy watch, to remind politicians about their pledges and monitor their performance. still, we are already quite empowered to follow up on such issues through blogs.

লেখক বলেছেন: i agree that foreign "consultants" do more wrong than good because they do not understand the social context. however, in this case i belive that the best experts in the world equipped with specialized tools could give valuable support to the local experts if they had been invited to work together or assist.

লেখক বলেছেন: i believe the us conclusions on 9/11 was made to fit the power people and i believe we live with conspiracy all around us, in every country. still, i believe in the power of the people and i believe that social media can disrupt the power balance by giving people a chance to collaborate and communicate.

লেখক বলেছেন: জি রাগিব, এটা আমাদের দুর্ভাগ্য যে, "উচ্চ ক্ষমতাসম্পন্ন তদন্ত কমিটি" (too difficult, i just copypasted your text) became a joke in practical life. however, if we get it right, you, me and all our fellow bloggers could be higher powered.

লেখক বলেছেন: গানের লিংকটা দেওয়া যাবে কৌশিক?

লেখক বলেছেন: i know, there is no guarantee for getting the true story out whoever investigates. it may also be that it was "just a mutiny", as i am no expert. i just feel the conclusion reached is the most comfortable and creating the least problem for the intricate network of people at the top. i will believe it only after we let the bloggers loose to verify.

লেখক বলেছেন: we created somewhere in... blog to break the information monopoly and to introduce two ways, interactive social media in bangla. i therefore do believe that bloggers have a social responsibility and a golden opportunity to bring change to their own community and society.

we have given everyone a microphone to speak through and we have set the stage, we only ask for some rules to be followed so that we can maintain a good environment and some etiquette. you have probably seen debates on tv or at gatherings and you know that a moderator will step in if the discussions get too heated and the temper too high. yes, good speakers may get moderated or even have their microphone shut off if they do not follow the rules. moderators and football referees, these are probably the most hated people anywhere as whatever they decide, someone will disagree

we should not state thing against others, government or people, which is not based on facts. that quickly turns into baseless harassment or attack. however, we are equipped to question and remind those who state something we may not immediately agree to or believe. by being empowered to stand together we are stronger than before.

লেখক বলেছেন: yes, you are still safe and i am not in a dilemma

লেখক বলেছেন: perhaps life would be too depressing and leave us in even greater disbelief if we knew the real story behind many of the mysteries surrounding us. its so comfortable just to accept simple explanations and let life continue as if nothing happened.

লেখক বলেছেন: saves us for all the trouble that would have brought.

লেখক বলেছেন: why is it not? i have lived in bangladesh for 15 years, i work here and i call this home. so why is it less my business than yours? just because i am a "foreigner"? i think race or nationality is no reason to exclude me from this discussion, if you knew me better, you would hopefully feel it natural to include me on the same line as your other friends. open your mind.

লেখক বলেছেন: i will not go into a different discussion here. jana has been a very engaged person to build up and be with the blog community and we have a full team working with the blog. she also happens to be my wife. as a blogger, i am participating in the discussion i started in this post. as a person i reply to mails sent to me. unfortunately, my work keeps me too busy to continuously monitor the blog should any of the 300 posts or 8000 daily comments leave a question for me.

back to the main subject: i do not expect the government to read my or others posts, but i know that the bloggers of somewhere in... are writers, journalists and professionals in every sphere, and as such they are among the opinion makers of this society. if of national interest, issues raised here get a spring board to reach way beyond this blog. that is the whole point of my post when requesting that the conclusion is studied, questioned and debated before accepted.

লেখক বলেছেন: you can only find out how and how much i love bangladesh if you really know me, which you do not. i am a person that have learned to accept as true what i have thoroughly questioned and got answered. while i question an issue, you question my right to question. that isn´t fair, is it?

you see, iftekhar, that love for this country made us create something special like this blog, something new that empowered people to break the information embankment. this inspired others to make similar spaces, right? we created a place where we give everyone equal right to enter and share their mind as long as they maintain some politeness. we cannot judge people before we know them. when we learn that people have a mindset against this nation, we ban them. we ban rajakars all the time as and when their true anti-nation beliefs surface.

when you speak through this blog, you are in the limelight. this attracts a multitude of characters and often multiple profiles groomed nicely until used for anti-nation, anti-truth or anti-blog attacks, right? you should know that many people who are here has a different agenda than to make somewhere in... blog a strong platform for change.

so are we accepting whatever is said as truth, or do we question it first to see if it holds the arguments? both of us should be equally interested to know why it happened and who made it happen.

লেখক বলেছেন: সহমত, i just referred to the daily star heading. agree to your point.

লেখক বলেছেন: thank you pial, finally someone picked up on the healthy discussion i hoped to see. i do not know what the true story is, but for sure it is complicated.

লেখক বলেছেন: i have not read the probe report, i have only read daily star today and reacted with this post. when the report now finally is ready, i hope the bloggers will engage themselves in the important debate which is needed.

লেখক বলেছেন: i may have confused you in the sentence you refer to. it refers to the bdr mutiny and the conclusion made and has nothing to do with razakars. the whole purpose of my post was to engage my fellow bloggers to debate whether we feel comfortable with the committee findings or not. not to debate whether this is any of my business or not.

after such a tragedy, we want to know why it happened and who made it happen, and we want to be at peace with the answers.

লেখক বলেছেন: people making propaganda against the liberation war will be banned, that is one of the key rules for banning a blogger. if not on the hour, then normally as soon as the moderation team identifies such persons.

লেখক বলেছেন: my love for bangladesh is my personal subject and it is not related to the subject of my blog post. as entrepreneurs, we have created quite a few good jobs here, together with our great team we have created good things and i, as well as my team mates, make our living from the work we do. there is no conflict in loving a country and creating a business where i live, is there?

somewhere in... blog was the first social media that made it possible for non-techies to write bangla on internet. therefore, for this time, let the creation and operation of somewhere in... blog be the evidence i present for the court for proving my love to bangladesh.

লেখক বলেছেন: we have an abuse report service to notify our moderators about specific posts, we have kono shomosha and we have where complaints can be submitted to the blog team for review. just do not use the public space in the blog to request action against anyone, as that violates our rules and often leads to attack between groups.