PakAl
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- Sep 27, 2007
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The stories about economic development are all a sham. It is like driving a BMW on lease but claiming you own it. The national debt has grown over 100 bn, and corruption is at an unprecedented level. Drivers, office assistants of leaders have multi million dollar net worth - all thanks to corruption.
Now you can see with inflation rising and falling forex reserves, the lies about fudged up gdp numbers are coming to light. There is not enough job compared to the size of the economy. 2+2 no longer adds up to 4. Hence you are seeing this protest.
Whatever growth there is, it's because of hardworking entrepreneurial people of Bangladesh. Even there Hasina and her goons extort and oppress the businesses. You can't go about running business without paying protection money to the BAL thugs. You go to gov offices, you have to bribe to get your shipments out or do anything literally. This level of unchecked corruption and oppressiob is unsustainable.
Those Bangladeshis who rave about gdp and economy are either BAL members themselves or are completely detached from ground reality.
It's similar to problems in Pakistan and rest of the developing nations, the elite and their pals loot everything. What Bangladesh needs is a few new political parties with a future vision for Bangladesh, a party that wants to make changes, in the electrol system to make it fair, update the governmental system, create more provinces to devolve the power, free and independent institutes, the merit system to select people so competent and hard working people climb the ladder, reforms in health, police, judiciary, tax, education etc.
This will not happen because it will harm the current status quo, so they will not allow it, will cause civil wars rather than loose their power, power is everything for them.
So the solution is for the Bangladeshi people to unite and say enough is enough, we will never vote for these old corrupt parties and start campain against them, expose them and their activities, completely bring them down on their knees, form political parties and challenge them. If 80% of the population changes then it's game over for them, someone in the military or higher up will realise this is not going to work for too long, they will then come to the negotiation table. This may not sound possible but there is no other way except a rebellion which is not suitable for anyone.