Bangladesh Socio-Political Crisis 2024 and onwards

[alphapak]

The Turkish folks have done it. I am petty sure these BD gen Z kids can do it too....

Pakistani's also need to learn from the Turks on how to get rid of traitors
within the Army. Even in Bolivia they arrested their Army Thief for trying
to do a military coup.

 

[Al-Zakir]

Yep. Entire BAL, its goons and its ideology will die a very painful death.

What are the reports from Sylhet? I see police is still in action sylhet but elsewhere they are backing off. Sylheti needs to put these Awami dalal animal in the cage.

 

[AbuShalehRumi]

What are the reports from Sylhet? I see police is still in action sylhet but elsewhere they are backing off. Sylheti needs to put these Awami dalal animal in the cage.

Today our Sylhet Division was a disgrace and a disappointment. Habiganj was on fire after police killed a protester. Lets see...

 

[Al-Zakir]

Today our Sylhet Division was a disgrace and a disappointment. Habiganj was on fire after police killed a protester. Lets see...

dui ekta gulabi laashor daarkar.

 

[LeonBlack08]

Latest reports:

2 more students died yesterday in Uttara Dhaka.

Protests across the country continues. Clash with police in Khula University

Jamaat e Islam and Islami Chatra Shibir has been banned, as BAL trying to impose the India influenced narrative that this revolution is act of Jamaat Shibir and a terrorist act. The reason I call it Indian narrative is because both current ambassador Veena Sikri and former ambassador Harshbardhan Shringla had been claiming this is Jamaat Shibir terror from day 1, to defend the brutality of Hasina and distract international community.

Army Chief called for an urgent meeting with all officers in Dhaka Cantonment area journalist Zulkarnain Sami reports.

Actors, and musicians have come out openly in solidarity with the students. Musicians have refused to participate in the BAL organized Joy Bangla concert and have instead will be gathering on August 3 to be on the street with the students. This is important because BAL have been propagating propaganda that the clashes are with Jamaat Shibir and that this is a terrorism issue. However, secular artists and musicians joining with the students makes BAL lose their credibility even further.

 

[LeonBlack08]

"In order to prevent the further deterioration of democracy in Bangladesh, the United States must partner with the international community to support the right of the Bangladeshi people to a representative democratic government that upholds human rights and respects individual freedoms."

22 Senators & Congressmen writes to Secretary of U.S. Department of State

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[LeonBlack08]

Bangladesh Army memo: Army chief to meet with officers in Dhaka and Mirpur on August 3 2024

 

[LeonBlack08]

Reports coming that influential BAL leaders are leaving the country.

BAL mp and crime godfather Shamim Osman reported to have flown to Thailand for "medical" reasons.

 

[Afif]

Bangladesh Army memo: Army chief to meet with officers in Dhaka and Mirpur on August 3 2024

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Never heard of something like that.

Of course I am not claiming there is a chance of any coup. But this is unprecedented.

 

[LeonBlack08]

Never heard of something like that.

Of course I am not claiming there is a chance of any coup. But this is unprecedented.

The timing and everything suggests the COAS is meeting with officers to either calm them down OR prepping them for the next set of crackdown. Either way it is significant development.

 

[ghazi52]

Bangladesh students call for nationwide civil disobedience​

AFP
August 3, 2024

Students shout slogans during a protest march as they demand justice for victims arrested and killed in the recent nationwide violence over job quotas, in Dhaka on August 3, 2024. — AFP
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Student leaders rallied Bangladeshis on Saturday for a nationwide civil disobedience campaign as Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s government weathered a worsening backlash over a deadly police crackdown on protesters.

Rallies against civil service job quotas sparked days of mayhem last month that killed more than 200 people in some of the worst unrest of Hasina’s 15-year tenure.

Troop deployments briefly restored order but crowds hit the streets in huge numbers after Friday prayers in the Muslim-majority nation, heeding a call by student leaders to press the government for more concessions.

Students Against Discrimination, the group responsible for organising the initial protests, urged their compatriots to launch an all-out non-cooperation movement from Sunday.

“This includes non-payment of taxes and utility bills, strikes by government workers and a halt to overseas remittance payments through banks,” the group’s Asif Mahmud told AFP.

Mahmud’s fellow student leaders also said another round of nationwide rallies would be staged on Saturday. “Please don’t stay at home. Join your nearest protest march,” Mahmud wrote on Facebook.

Students are demanding a public apology from Hasina for last month’s violence and the dismissal of several of her ministers.

They have also insisted that the government reopens schools and universities around the country, all of which were shuttered at the height of the unrest. Crowds on the street have gone further, chanting demands for Hasina to leave office altogether.

Students shout slogans during a protest march as they demand justice for victims arrested and killed in the recent nationwide violence over job quotas, in Dhaka on Aug 3, 2024. — AFP


“She must go because we don’t need this authoritarian government,” Nijhum Yasmin, 20, told AFP from one of many protests staged around the capital Dhaka on Saturday.

“Did we liberate the country to see our brothers and sisters shot dead by this regime?”

“Now the tables have turned,” Illinois State University politics professor Ali Riaz told AFP.

“The regime’s foundation has been shaken, the aura of invincibility has disappeared,” he added. “The question is whether Hasina is ready to look for an exit or fight to the last.”

The premier had on Saturday offered “unconditional dialogue” with the students to address their demands, her press secretary Nayeemul Islam Khan told AFP.

“She is ready to sit with them. She does not want conflict any more,” he added. Mahmud told AFP that students had rejected the overture.

32 Children Killed
Hasina, 76, has ruled Bangladesh since 2009 and won her fourth consecutive election in January after a vote without genuine opposition.

Her government is accused by rights groups of misusing state institutions to entrench its hold on power and stamp out dissent, including the extrajudicial killing of opposition activists.

Demonstrations began in early July over the reintroduction of a quota scheme — since scaled back by Bangladesh’s top court — that reserved more than half of all government jobs for certain groups.

With around 18 million young Bangladeshis out of work, according to government figures, the move upset graduates facing an acute employment crisis.

The protests had remained largely peaceful until attacks on demonstrators by police and pro-government student groups.

Hasina’s government eventually imposed a nationwide curfew, deployed troops and shut down the nation’s mobile internet network for 11 days to restore order.

Foreign governments condemned the clampdown, with European Union foreign policy chief Josep Borrell this week calling for an international probe into the “excessive and lethal force against protesters”.

Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan told reporters last weekend that security forces had operated with restraint but were “forced to open fire” to defend government buildings.

At least 32 children were among those killed last month, the UN said on Friday.

 

[ghazi52]

Protesters seek Hasina’s resignation; 20 injured in fresh Bangladesh clashes​

Agencies
August 3, 2024

ACTIVISTS take part in a “justice for victims march” in Dhaka, on Friday.—AFP

DHAKA: Twenty people were injured in clashes and police fired rubber bullets and tear gas to disperse crowds as thousands protested in the Bangladeshi capital and other parts of the country on Friday, calling on Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina to resign.

The clashes came after thousands of people heeded a call by six top members of the group which organised protests last month, to return to the streets on Friday, defying torrential monsoon rains.

The six activists were released from detention on Thursday.

“We want justice for the murders of our sisters and brothers,” a leader of Students Against Discrimination, the group behind the demonstrations, said in a statement.

“Why are our brothers in graves and the killers outside?” one crowd chanted outside Dhaka’s Baitul Mukarram Mosque, the country’s largest.

Students Against Discrimination had demanded the release of its detained leaders, three of whom were forcibly checked out of a hospital and taken away by plainclothes police last week.

Their release was a sign the government was hoping to “de-escalate tensions” with protesters, University of Oslo researcher Mubashar Hasan said on Thursday.

But other demands by the students remain unmet, including a public apology from Hasina for the violence and the dismissal of several of her ministers.

They have also insisted that the government reopen schools and universities around the country, all of which were shuttered at the height of the unrest.

She must Go
Many protesters have gone further, demanding Hasina step down altogether. “She must go,” writer and activist Arup Rahee said after a rally in the capital. “There will be no justice for the student murders if she remains in power.”

 

[Al-Zakir]

The timing and everything suggests the COAS is meeting with officers to either calm them down OR prepping them for the next set of crackdown. Either way it is significant development.

History is in the making. It's their last chance to regain their lost honor.

 

[Al-Zakir]

Haqiqi Azaadi Zindabad. Victory is near in sha Allah.

 

[UKBengali]

But is it just students out on the streets or is the rest of society joining in en masse?