http://voiceofsouth.org/2007/12/01/miracle/ Online platform for South Asian community development (Beta) Wed, 09 Jul 2008 03:22:45 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=MU http://voiceofsouth.org/2007/12/01/miracle/#comment-1506 shakib Wed, 12 Dec 2007 08:14:57 +0000 http://voiceofsouth.org/2007/12/01/miracle/#comment-1506 sidr has brought out the good bad and ugly of the fishing trade. its the unending trap of debt that keeps the 7 yrs olds like obaidul away from school, sorting and drying fishes like his unfortunate mother, becoming little more than bondaged labours in a futile attempt to pay their way out of the highly exploitative fishing trade. The stories that had been reported in the daily stars gives a vivid picture of how bahaddors lure unemployed young men in the promise of a high paying seasonal job only to be duped into a form of indentured slavery. If that was not enough certainly the arbritary pricing of the middlemen which forces the fishermen to sell their catch at two third of the market price back to the bahaddors should have been screaming from the front pages of all major newspapers had our journalists paid more attention to the plight of our fishermen, before sidr. the trawler owners and head-hunters are financed by the fishing mafiosi (like major retd zia uddin) who are the unspoken law, distributing relief and withholding it, in these treacherous waters. Has the government thought of how to clean the fishing trade which is the second highest economic crop of our country of its money laundering and labour malpractices? sidr has brought out the good bad and ugly of the fishing trade. its the unending trap of debt that keeps the 7 yrs olds like obaidul away from school, sorting and drying fishes like his unfortunate mother, becoming little more than bondaged labours in a futile attempt to pay their way out of the highly exploitative fishing trade. The stories that had been reported in the daily stars gives a vivid picture of how bahaddors lure unemployed young men in the promise of a high paying seasonal job only to be duped into a form of indentured slavery. If that was not enough certainly the arbritary pricing of the middlemen which forces the fishermen to sell their catch at two third of the market price back to the bahaddors should have been screaming from the front pages of all major newspapers had our journalists paid more attention to the plight of our fishermen, before sidr. the trawler owners and head-hunters are financed by the fishing mafiosi (like major retd zia uddin) who are the unspoken law, distributing relief and withholding it, in these treacherous waters. Has the government thought of how to clean the fishing trade which is the second highest economic crop of our country of its money laundering and labour malpractices?

]]> http://voiceofsouth.org/2007/12/01/miracle/#comment-1499 Global Voices Online » Bangladesh: Miracle Boy Tue, 11 Dec 2007 16:11:12 +0000 http://voiceofsouth.org/2007/12/01/miracle/#comment-1499 [...] Voice Of South on a “miracle-boy” - a seven year old child saved from the cyclone. Share This [...] [...] Voice Of South on a “miracle-boy” - a seven year old child saved from the cyclone. Share This [...]

]]> http://voiceofsouth.org/2007/12/01/miracle/#comment-1431 Abdus Salam Wed, 05 Dec 2007 06:47:08 +0000 http://voiceofsouth.org/2007/12/01/miracle/#comment-1431 This is a pathetic story. I hope some one will come forward to help this boy. He is only 7 years old and he has no bright future ... This is a pathetic story. I hope some one will come forward to help this boy. He is only 7 years old and he has no bright future …

]]> http://voiceofsouth.org/2007/12/01/miracle/#comment-1430 Siraj Wed, 05 Dec 2007 05:05:57 +0000 http://voiceofsouth.org/2007/12/01/miracle/#comment-1430 This is really miracle, কথায় যেমন বলে- আল্লাহ যদি কাউকে বাঁচিয়ে রাখলে কার সাধ্য কিছু করে। Wishing his mother's stay in heaven and his safest, as well secured living on earth. This is really miracle, কথায় যেমন বলে- আল্লাহ যদি কাউকে বাঁচিয়ে রাখলে কার সাধ্য কিছু করে। Wishing his mother’s stay in heaven and his safest, as well secured living on earth.

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