Bangladesh Socio-Political Crisis 2024 and onwards

[ghazi52]

Bangladesh student leader insists ex-PM Hasina should face trial​

Reuters
August 10, 2024

Asif Mahmud (left) and Nahid Islam, the student leaders who led the movement against Sheikh Hasina, take oath as advisers in the newly formed interim government, at Dhaka’s Bangabhaban.—Reuters


DHAKA: A Bangladeshi student leader who was instrumental in overthrowing Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and is now part of an interim government said she must face trial when she returns home as planned for the killings during her term, including during recent protests, which led her to resign and flee on Monday.

About 300 people, many of them university and college students, were killed in the demonstrations that began in July with students demonstrating against quotas in government jobs before spiralling into violent protests to oust Hasina, who had ruled Bangladesh for 20 of the last 30 years.

Hasina’s son Sajeeb Wazed Joy has said she will return to Bangladesh from India, where she is sheltering, once elections are announced in her home country, which the main opposition has demanded should be held in three months.

“I am curious why she fled the country,” student leader Nahid Islam, who is effectively a minister in the caretaker government, said late on Friday in his first interview since joining the government on Thursday as an adviser.

“We will seek justice for all the killings that happened under her, that has been one of the main demands of our revolution. Even if she does not come back, we will work towards that.”

“We want to arrest her — whether that will work through the regular judicial system or a special tribunal on that or not, we are discussing how to proceed on the matter,” said Islam, 26, who now heads the postal, telecommunication and information technology ministries.

Joy, who is based in the US, did not respond to a request seeking comment. Hasina, who is under the protection of the Indian government, could not be contacted.

Another student leader, Abu Baker Mojumder, said they want Hasina to return and face trial.

Islam said one of the caretaker government’s main priorities was to hold a free and fair election after the last election was boycotted by the opposition, and also investigate suspected corruption in the previous government.

Islam said Bangladesh would need electoral and constitutional reforms before any election, so it was not clear when the next vote would be held. He declined to give a specific timeline.

“My ambition on what I next become depends on the people of Bangladesh,” he said when asked whether one day he would like to be prime minister.

He said India had fostered a relationship with Hasina’s Awami League party, but not the people of Bangladesh as a whole. “We want friendly ties with India,” he said. “India also needs to look at its foreign policy, else it will become a problem for the whole of South Asia.”

Published in Dawn, August 10th, 2024

 

[Alter_Ego]

There is now belief among Awami League leaders that the United States was architect of the downfall of Hasina.
Supposedly Hasina was threatened by USA a while ago that she would be ousted from power.

We are talking about AL MPs from Dhaka who are telling this in private.

 

[Mr X]

@Mr X I think this is getting to a point of harrassment now.

I have been putting proper disclaimer if an info is not verified from any social media post that I post.

Apologise for late reply bro

I am not available on this weekend unless need to tackle DDoS issues. Please tag Bangladeshi moderators or other Pakistani mods

@Al-Zakir @Musings @DedBot

 

[ghazi52]

Bangladesh chief justice, central bank chief quit amid protests, officials say​

Reuters
August 10, 2024

DHAKA: Bangladesh’s chief justice and central bank governor have resigned, officials said on Saturday, as student protests that forced Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina to flee widen to target more officials appointed during her regime.

Chief Justice Obaidul Hassan resigned, a law ministry official said on the condition of anonymity, after students warned him of “dire consequences” if he did not. Reuters could not immediately contact Hassan.

Bangladesh Bank Governor Abdur Rouf Talukder has also resigned but his resignation has not been accepted given the importance of the position, finance ministry adviser Salehuddin Ahmed told reporters. Reuters could not contact Talukder.

Days earlier, four deputy governors were forced to resign by 300 to 400 bank officials accusing them of corruption.

Hasina has been sheltering in New Delhi since Monday following an uprising that killed about 300 people, many of them students, ending her uninterrupted rule of 15 years in the South Asian nation of 170 million people.

 

[Alter_Ego]

I don't think minorities will support BNP-Jamaat for obvious reasons.

Which is kind of strange because BNP and Jamat arent minority unfriendly.
There is no equivalent of BJP in Bangladesh.

 

[Musings]

@Mr X I think this is getting to a point of harrassment now.

I have been putting proper disclaimer if an info is not verified from any social media post that I post.

Sorry bro - been out today - I’m on it - PM me any issues

 

[BananaRepublic]

I don't think minorities will support BNP-Jamaat for obvious reasons.

There’s supporters and there’s henchmen.

Supporters should not be punished.

Henchmen definitely need to be dealt with by the law.

Like the Hindu policeman who murdered the young Major.

 

[Joe Shearer]

I don't think minorities will support BNP-Jamaat for obvious reasons.

With all goodwill for Bangladesh as a country, with full empathy for the trauma that the Bangladeshi has been subjected to by the traumatised daughter who lost her parents and all but one other sibling at the hands of assassins, this is a fact that the Bangladeshi man and woman in the street must recognise.

Whether understood or not is another step; whether sympathised with, or not, is yet another step.

This is the basic recognition.

When an eminent Bangladeshi member includes in his joyful post the cry, "Nara e takbeer, Allahu Akbar", he cannot expect to have any Bangladeshi Hindu to be with him. Not against him, perhaps, but certainly not with him.

That is why the BNP, with its indelible bond with the Jamaat, whichever partner be senior and which junior set apart, is unlikely to have much support from Bangladeshi Hindus. Hardly to be set at the doors of Hindus, and hardly a reason to intimidate them.

 

[Joe Shearer]

Henchmen definitely need to be dealt with by the law.

Like the Hindu policeman who murdered the young Major.

No one knows this incident. Tell us more, not to inflame passions, but to explain 'henchmen'.

 

[Joe Shearer]

Which is kind of strange because BNP and Jamat arent minority unfriendly.
There is no equivalent of BJP in Bangladesh.

So do we assign it to irrational thinking?

 

[Alter_Ego]

So do we assign it to irrational thinking?

It think it more about AL being better at presenting itself as a minority friendly. BNP for some reasons arent interested in that but they arent anything minority unfiendly. Jamaat mostly dosent seem to care about anything other than islamic and muslim issues, again really aloof about non-muslims, for the most.

The BD political landscape is strange. BNP and AL is almost identical on most political issues. Small parties like Jatio Party arent different from BNP AL either.

 

[Afif]

No one knows this incident. Tell us more, not to inflame passions, but to explain 'henchmen'.

Well, it was one of the most talked about incidents in 2020. Thing gotten so bad that government in the end Transferred the police forces of an entire district=COXBAZAR. The Officer in charge of a police station who happened to be hindu ordered a killing of a highly decorated ex army major (ex SSF, who happened to be muslim) to hide his illegal involvement with local drug business. The killing was extraordinarily brutal.

After being shot twice, major Mohammad Sinha was still alive, he was asking for water, than OC Pradeep stomped on his neck to kill him.

The OC and another police officer (muslim) who took the shot both were sentenced to death later.

By some, it was seen as, under BAL government backed by India (that idiot said something like, 'back door of Indian high commission is always open for me. No one could do sh*t) some bad Hindus could kill our most decorated army officers like dogs in the streets and get away with it.

By most, it was usual BAL/police thuggery that has gone too far. And testimony to how we are increasingly living under an evil regime.

 

[Joe Shearer]

Well, it was one of the most talked about incidents in 2020. Thing gotten so bad that government in the end Transferred the police forces of an entire district=COXBAZAR. The Officer in charge of a police station who happened to be hindu ordered a killing of a highly decorated ex army major (ex SSF, who happened to be muslim) to hide his illegal involvement with local drug business. The killing was extraordinarily brutal.

After being shot twice, major Mohammad Sinha was still alive, he was asking for water, than OC Pradeep stomped on his neck to kill him.

The OC and another police officer (muslim) who took the shot both were sentenced to death later.

By some, it is seen that, under BAL government backed by India (that idiot said something like, 'back door of Indian high commission is always open for me. No one could do sh*t) bad Hindus could kill our most decorated army officers like dogs in the streets and get away with it.

By most, it was usual BAL/police thuggery that has gone too far. And testimony to how we are increasingly living under an evil regime.

What a horrible incident!

Unbelievable!!

 

[Afif]

What a horrible incident!

Unbelievable!!

Yes, one of many such incidents.

if there is one hindu evil police officer like that, then there are 9 more such muslim police officers. That's why after the revolution police has simply dissappear irrespective of religion. (500 high level police officers has fled.) Also, why army personnel now has to gaurd the police stations across the country with heavy firepower.

 

[Nilgiri]

Congrats to Bangladeshis for their success, hopefully it will not be "Asman se gira, khajoor mai atka" instead their struggle will bring more prosperity. Hopefully we'll have better relation with them once we get ride of khaki duffers.

Hey sugarcane, long time no see. Hope you are doing well.