INTERPOL (INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL POLICE COMMISSION)

Thursday, August 9, 2012

Interpol is the name of the international criminal police organization. The word ‘INTERPOL’ comes from the two words ‘international’ and ‘police’ and stands for the International Criminal Police Commission. Interpol is a strictly non-political, non-religious, non-racial organization in which the police forces of more than one hundred different nations co-operate with one another. Its head-quarters are situated in Paris.

The job of the Interpol is to trace criminals. According to international law, the police of one country cannot enter the territory of another country to catch a criminal who after committing a crime, has escaped to that country. Interpol helps in such situation to trace out the criminals. Every country has its representative in Interpol. After the First World War, crimes increased considerably in Europe, specially in Austria. After committing crimes, criminals used to go to some neighboring country and hide themselves there. In order to arrest such criminals, John Scober, the then police chief of Vienna called a meeting of the police official of different countries in 1923. It was in this meeting that twenty countries jointly established Interpol. Its first head office was made in Vienna and John became its first president.

 In 1938, Germany invaded Austria and with this came the end of Interpol. During the Second World War, Interpol remained inactive. After this war, Flaurent Lovagay, Inspector General of Belgium Police revived it. Due to the absence of necessary facilities in Belgium the head office of Interpol could not be established there. Paris became its new head office. By 1955, fifty five countries became members of Interpol. In 1956, was given a new constitution.

WORLD WAR II (DESTROY THE WORLD)

The Second World War was fought from 1939 to 1945. In this war Germany, Italy, Japan, Rumania, etc. were on one side and were known as ‘The Axis Powers’. On the other side , there were Britain, France, America, Soviet, Russia, Holland, Belgium, Denmark, Norway, etc. in all 30 countries and these were known as ‘The Allies’.

The Treaty of Versailles, concluded at the end of the First World War (1914-1918) was very unjust and became the root cause of the Second World War. Extremely unfair terms were imposed by the Allied Powers on Germany. The process of behaving towards the defeated countries of the First World War like Germany, Australia, Hungary and Turkey was humiliating and hence it created feeling of reaction and relation in the minds of Germans and other Allies. The aggressive policy followed by Germany, Italy, Japan and the total failure of the League of Nations to put a check on them was also much responsible for the outbreak of the Second World War. America’s aloofness from the European politics after the First World War also became one of the causes of the Second World War. It encouraged France to humiliate Germany.

Germany attacked Poland in 1939 and it forced both England and France to give up the policy of appeasement and to declare war against Germany on 3^rd September, 1939. Soon after other countries were drawn into this war and it took the shape of the World War 2. The World War 2 came to an end in 1945 when Germany was surrounded by the force of Allied Powers from all sides and Hitler committed suicide on May 3, 1945. On May 7, Germany surrounded un conditionally. With the dropping of the atom bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, on 6^th August and 9^th August, 1945 respectively, Japan also surrendered on August 14, 1945. Thus the Second World War came to an end.

THE BLOODY 1952

Saturday, August 4, 2012

The 21^st February is a red letter day in Bangladesh. Every year on this day the whole nation comes to the martyr’s monument and the ritual seems to effect a purification of souls.

On this day in 1952, the brave son’s of ‘Mother Bengal’ laid down their lives to protect the interest of the mother language. After the birth of Pakistan the ruler of the West Pakistan wanted to impose ‘Urdu’ on the Bengali speaking people as state language of Pakistan. But everybody, especially the students of the then East Pakistan demanded Bengali as the state language. As a result the Language Movement took place and on 21^st February, 1952 Rafiq, Salam, Barkat, Zabbar, Shafiq, and so on sacrificed their lives. Many were injured and hundreds were arrested.

There are millions of martyr’s monument in Bangladesh. Every year on this day people come to these monuments and offer their respect to the martyrs. The government, different organizations and institutions arrange programmes to celebrate the day. Besides, according to a singular decision of the UNESCO on Nov. 17, 1999, this day is now the International Mother Language Day. The 1^st  International Mother Language Day has been observed all over the world with due respect in 2000. On this day in a massage UN Secretary General Kofi Anan said, “This day will help to raise awareness among the nation of the world about the enduring value of their languages.”

This day possesses a great influence for the whole nation as it did in the past. This will go on in the future too. In fact, this movement influenced and led the nation to it’s liberation. However, yet we find inspiration from the dreamy blue of this movement.

The language movement on 21^st February is a unique event in the history of human civilization. We are really glorified by the declaration of the UNESCO that turned a national celebration to an international event. We are proud of our language martyr’s.

Nine/Eleven-Destroy The World Trade Centre

Wednesday, August 1, 2012

The World Trade Centre in America was a magnificent and splendid skyscraper. It was internationally important in all respects. It was a 110 storeyed building with 43,600 windows and 250 elevators that has ever been built. The world people, specially the Americans took a mighty pride for it. It had a good number of permanent tenants including banks, restaurants and other government and non-government offices. The World Trade Centre provided all sorts of facilities of the tenants. About 1.5 million people would visit it daily. Unfortunately an unexpected and unwanted incident happened to it on September 11 in 2001. The terrorists hijacked planes and crushed into it and destroyed both the Twin towers and plunged the Pentagon in Washington into flames in an unprecedented assault on key symbols of the US military and financial power.

The loss of life was expected to be catastrophic from the collapse of the giant towers of the World Trade Centre where about 50,000 people work. The enormous edifice both fell in a cloud smoke and fire within two hours after the initial impacted. The attack, the worst on the US maintenance in modern history, plunged the country into chaos and panic paralyzing communications, closing markets and forcing the evacuation of the key buildings. Hundreds of people were burnt from head of foe. The attack forced the evacuation of all govt. buildings in Washington including the White House and other buildings around the country, cut cell phone communications on the East Coast and grounded all commercial planes in the U.S.A.

One of the planes that was crushed into World Trade Centre was American Airlines Flight-11. The plane blasted fiery gaping holes in the upper floors of the Twin Towers. Within an hour the southern tower collapsed with heavy roar. It is an irreparable loss not for Americans but for the whole world.