I had a chance to talk to some of the people about the recent BDR mutiny in Bangladesh and I was shocked to see a lot of negative emotion or impressions about the army of Bangladesh. Most people categorically states that army of Bangladesh has become corrupt and they are doing all sorts of wrong doings. While I could respect their opinion, I have to say someone is feeding wrong information to these people and their conspiracy runs deep. Even the recent bloody acts against the Army Officers could not sway their judgment on the Army.

Then I came across this article where the writer tried to depict a clear distinction why people has a bad feeling about the army. There was some obvious propaganda against the army by some influential people of Bangladesh who are mostly hell bent on destroying the foundation of Bangladesh and harm its interests. Their only motivation is to make the Bangladesh a bottom less basket and present as a rouge state. One recent example as the writer put forward is :

“The renegade troops alleged that the Director General of Bangladesh Riffles, Major General Shakil Ahmed Chowdhury [who has been martyred by the renegade troops] was buying edible Soya bean oil for TK. 40 [US$ 0.57] per liter and selling in the market at a rate of TK. 104 [US$ 1.50]. Anyone having minimum knowledge about the world market will agree that, price of Soya Bean oil during the entire period of 2007 [June] to 2008 [October] was above US$ 1,200 per ton. In this case, the import cost of Soya Bean oil was US$ 1.20 or TK. 82.80 per liter. There is 19.50 per cent Value Added Tax and other duties on the import. So the landing cost per liter was TK. 98.88 [US$ 1.43]. Then Bangladesh Riffles purchased the imported edible oil from the local importers [it was not directly imported by BDR]. The importers levied TK. 4-4.50 profit per liter [minimum]. In this case, the BDR director general managed to sell the purchased oil only with a most minimum profit of TK. 0.50 per liter, or may be even less, while in the open market, retail price of Soya Bean oil was above TK. 120 per liter. So, the allegation of the renegade troops was not true at all. Commenting on this, one of the leading oil importers said, it was not possible for the ordinary troops of Bangladesh Riffles to know the import cost etc of the edible oil. “

There are thousands of stories like this that is circulating in the blog and other places. If we sincerely look at all this rumours, we will find out like the previous example most of them are sheer lies , not true and propaganda only. They are only rumored to harm the interests of Bangladesh and make a distance between the briallant and patriotic Army’s of Bangladesh. The army and the patriotic people of Bangladesh needs to be vigilant against this people and watch so that situations like BDR mutiny never happens in this beloved country of ours. We can not loose to this conspirators, rather shine above all.