The rule of law and language</tile> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"> <meta http-equiv="description" content="The rule of law and language"> <meta http-equiv="keywords" content="The,rule,of,law,and,language"> </head> <body> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width="10" height="39"> </td> <td width="99%" height="39"> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width="16%"><a href="http://inttranews.inttra.net"><img src="http://inttranews.inttra.net/images/inttranews_grey_2.jpg" width="192" height="37" border="0"></a></td> <td width="50%" valign="middle"> <p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"><b><font color="#CCCCCC" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="1">KNOW.<br> HOW.</font></b></font> </p> </td> <td width="34%" align="right" valign="top"><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="1" color="#666666">22-12-2004</font></td> </tr> </table> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="10"> </td> <td width="99%" > </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="10"> </td> <td width="99%" > <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width="100%"><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"> <b>The rule of law and language</b></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="100%"> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="100%"> <font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Dhaka, Bangladesh (The Independent): The rifts between people that sometimes start and end in war are often based on language, because it forms the cultural framework for our way of living, and our way of percieiving the world. We are what we speak. This is demonstrated in the article printed today in the Bangladesh Independent about the history of Bangla: <br>“Soon after the establishment of Pakistan in 1947, a historical Language Movement was launched to make the mother tongue of the Bengali people one of the two national languages of Pakistan. That movement finally culminated in the war of liberation in 1971 that gave birth to Bangladesh. The heritage of the Language Movement influenced the adoption of the Constitution that ignored the word "language" in Article 28. Thus the very base of secularism and democracy was laid with discrimination and violation of the rights of the linguistic minority, which has been granted in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and other Declarations and Covenants. In Bangladesh the loss of language and tradition is the first step in the dissolution of cultural identity of Biharis and indigenous people, Santhal, Chakma and others in Bangladesh. This is a conversion from one faith of culture to another, and a silent progressive alienation from their cultural ethos” <br> <br>For more information, please visit: <br><a href="http://independent-bangladesh.com/news/dec/22/22122004op.htm " target="blank">independent-bangladesh.com/news/dec/22/22122004op.htm </a> <br></font></td> </tr> </table> </td></tr> </table> <script type="text/javascript"></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="<http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show