McKinnon's comments
A citizen, On e-mail
I am very surprised that you have given so much prominence to the comments made by the Commonwealth Secretary General Don McKinnon with regard to the lifting of emergency in Bangladesh. Commonwealth as a colonial institution is a dead duck waiting to be devoured. Britain having strangled this institution long time ago kept the skeleton as a museum show piece for the Africans and the Asians, at best it is an expensive club for the ruling elites. The Commonwealth Secretary General should not meddle in the internal affairs of Bangladesh. He should speak out against the illegal war in Iraq and fight the draconian laws passed by Mr. Howard to gag free speech of the Islamic organisations in Australia. Dr. Fakhruddin should do what is best for Bangladesh, that is to provide space so that it can breath freely without being strangled again by the devilish characters who had been devouring the country since its independence. The West never likes a developed, decent, economically independent and powerful state emerging in South Asia.
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