Sazid Rahman

A Graduate Student in Industrial Engineering at University of Arkansas

[Sazid Rahman @MdSazidRahman6]

@emanabdelhadi Quran is a ugly book with immoral verses. I wonder why don’t you question its morality when you read it?

[Sazid Rahman @MdSazidRahman6]

@MiguelDelaney @YewChooba Even if it is doesn’t mean this tournament shouldn’t exist. It should’ve existed way before. Why everything has to be Europe centric? Stop criticizing so much and help the sport grow everywhere for a change. You suck!

[Sazid Rahman @MdSazidRahman6]

@a_ramo @zohebmotlekar @JacobsBen You know nothing about this and still making assumptions! Why? This competition should have existed from the very beginning. At least it gives a platform to the other continents’ teams to compete against European teams. Which is more important than what you English fans think.

[Sazid Rahman @MdSazidRahman6]

@realDonaldTrump As a Bangladeshi, I agree with everything you said here. Even though I know this is just you catering to the hindu voters.

[Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump]

I strongly condemn the barbaric violence against Hindus, Christians, and other minorities who are getting attacked and looted by mobs in Bangladesh, which remains in a total state of chaos.

It would have never happened on my watch. Kamala and Joe have ignored Hindus across the world and in America. They have been a disaster from Israel to Ukraine to our own Southern Border, but we will Make America Strong Again and bring back Peace through Strength!

We will also protect Hindu Americans against the anti-religion agenda of the radical left. We will fight for your freedom. Under my administration, we will also strengthen our great partnership with India and my good friend, Prime Minister Modi.

Kamala Harris will destroy your small businesses with more regulations and higher taxes. By contrast, I cut taxes, cut regulations, unleashed American energy, and built the greatest economy in history. We will do it again, bigger and better than ever before—and we will Make America Great Again.

Also, Happy Diwali to All. I hope the Festival of Lights leads to the Victory of Good over Evil!

[Sazid Rahman @MdSazidRahman6]

@617617617a https://t.co/hPmsMqKnTX

@MdSazidRahman6

[David Bergman @TheDavidBergman]

The #Bangladesh government is now trying to round up opposition leaders - as they seek to blame them for the protests and resulting violence. I have just heard that at around 9.30 pm on July 20th (second day of the army-enforced curfew), 15-20 plain clothes policemen wearing police vests, came to the house of Abdul Awaal Mintu, a leader of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party, looking for him. He was not home. One of the police officers apparently said. "We are nice people but the next people who come may not be so nice." He is now in hiding.

[David Bergman @TheDavidBergman]

It is surely time for @UNPeacekeeping to immediately stop Bangladesh from providing peacekeepers to the United Nations until it undertakes an independent investigation of the violence used by the police, military and other para-military groups which has allegedly resulted in nearly 200 deaths of students and other protestors. If they cannot keep peace in Bangladesh, and instead cause killing and maiming, the country's security forces should not be trusted in other countries.

[Chuck Schumer @SenSchumer]

I am closely observing the situation in Bangladesh with deep concern. The right to peaceably assemble and protest is a cornerstone of a democratic society. Violent repression of the student protest is wrong and will only lead to more unrest.

[Shahedur Rahman @shahed_rhm]

#StepDownHasina
#ProsecuteSheikhHasina

[Sabria Chowdhury Balland 🇺🇸 @SabriaCBalland]

We are launching a process to prosecute #SheikhHasina at the International Criminal Court (ICC) for her crimes and human rights violations. Please read the details below. #Bangladesh
#ProsecuteSheikhHasina

[Sazid Rahman @MdSazidRahman6]

@bdootottawa Fuck off

[David Bergman @TheDavidBergman]

Always risky to predict what will happen in Bangladesh, but I am increasingly of the view that there is now no way back for prime minister Sheikh Hasina and the Awami League to govern normally in the country. Why do I say this?

(a) At least 155 people have been confirmed killed by law enforcing authorities but local observers are saying the true figure could well be many multiples of this number. The issue of "quotas" is now no longer the principal concern of students/supporters - it is the shooting of civilians by the state.

(b) The Awami League government has now lost a key rationale for its presence in power - its ability to allow the public to get on with their lives without political conflict and violence. A large proportion of the public in Bangladesh may not have liked the Awami League that much, were critical of its restrictions on freedom of speech/assembly etc and would rather it have allowed free and fair elections, but at the same time they appreciated the peace and stability that the party provided them, particularly since the opposition violence of 2015. However, now, it is clear that the Awami League cannot provide peace and stability in the future, and so it has lost a crucial basis for it to remain in power.

(c) Since Friday afternoon, the government has shut down the internet. It is likely this was done to:
- stop images of killings and police violence from being shared online;
- prevent people from accessing news from online media websites;
- hinder students from being able to organise protests. However, the government cannot keep the internet blocked for too long - as so much of its economy is so dependent on it.

(d) Imagine then what will happen when the internet is opened again - there will be an outpouring of rage against the government on both social and online news media sites, and there will likely be an avalanche of highly critical social media posts about the police killings and violence, with photos and videos. This will feel overwhelming for the government.

(e) Since Friday night, the government declared a curfew and brought the army onto the streets. A curfew, enforced by the army, with apparent shoot to kill instructions, effectively brought to the end students protests, except in isolated places. But how long can this last. At some point in the near future, the government will have ro remove the curfew and allow the army to go back to the barracks.

(f) And when that does happen, there will surely be a huge resurgence of student protests (catalysed by by the outpouring of social media news etc discussed above) against the killings and the violence meted out by the law enforcing authorities. If the government allows the students to protest without facing police violence, then there is a good chance the protests will get bigger and bigger, with the involvement of more and more ordinary citizens, and the government would become overwhelmed. If the government uses the police to shoot on them again, the cycle of violence will start again, and the government will again be forced to declare a curfew and bring the army, something that would become unsustainable

(g) The Awami League government is not going to just resign - and there is no civil society entity independent or powerful enough to persuade it to resign. Remember, the government is authoritarian in nature, and has been willing to use brutal violence in the past to remove any threats to its position. It will do everything to hang onto power. The only way there can be a transfer of power away from the Awami League is if the army decides to take a role. And I believe the situation in Bangladesh could well force the army to make such a decision

(h) As set out in the thread written earlier (see below) the head of the army is loyal to the Awami League and he would do everything he can to preserve the government. However, due to a combination of the argument set out above, there will be a point where the army realises that in order to avoid chaos it will have to take charge, and this will require forcing the government to resign, taking over power temporarily, and hopefully allowing the possibility of free and fair elections.

(i) Of course the Awami League and Sheikh Hasina has managed many crises before - indeed one critic of the prime minister has described her to me as an "indestructible cockroach." However, she has never had to deal with a situation quite like this one, and it would require quite monumental political skills on her part to remain in power after a crisis like this one, ironically a crisis completely of her own making.

[Steve Hanke @steve_hanke]

Under PM Sheikh Hasina's AUTHORITARIAN rule, Bangladesh imposes a curfew with a SHOOT-ON-SIGHT order for protestors demanding the end of government job quotas favoring members of Hasina's party.

[Pinaki Bhattacharya @PinakiTweetsBD]

In the video footage, you can see submachine guns being directly fired at the protesters by Lieutenant Colonel Muhammad Redwanul Islam, an officer of the military deputed to BGB, from the 13 Bengal Regiment, who has also worked with RAB and the Special Security Force. He will be put on trial for committing genocide once fascist Hasina is ousted from power.

[David Bergman @TheDavidBergman]

This is what the Bangladesh government and its supporters have said over the last 15 years: "Our elections are free and fair". A lie. "We have freedom of speech in Bangladesh". A lie. "We do not secretly detain and disappear people" A lie. "Our courts are independent." A lie. "The opposition are terrorists." So many lies. And now in response to the current killings by law enforcement authorities (current confirmed number: 155) and the resulting violence by the protestors, the authorities are lying again.

The Home Minister Asauzzaman Khan told journalists on Saturday that "Not many people were killed in police firing. They (protesters) are the ones who are firing. I have seen quite a few members of our Chhatra League ( student wing of the ruling Awami League party) and our leaders and activists were injured. The style ( of the violence) shows that Jamaat and BNP [Bangladesh opposition parties] have done it together."

[Pro-Bangladesh Indian media issaying much the same thing, blaming Islamists for the violence]

To save themselves, Bangladesh government ministers have become serial liars. Will anyone be taken in by this?

[Sazid Rahman @MdSazidRahman6]

Following the attacks on the students leaving 50+ (confirmed so far), the Bangladesh Government have completely shut down it’s internet cutting it off from the world ahead of the Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s trip to Spain. It is anticipated that a massacre of much bigger scale can take place within the next two days. We need attention here in Bangladesh, people are absolutely hopeless here.

#AlleyesonBangladesh
#StepDownSheikhHasina
#SaveBangladeshiStudents
#BangladeshBleeding
#StarlinkforBangladesh

[Sazid Rahman @MdSazidRahman6]

@jonstewart Please check out these hashtags. We need help in Bangladesh.

#SaveBangladeshiStudents
#StepDownSheikhHasina

[Sazid Rahman @MdSazidRahman6]

Following the attacks on the students leaving 50+ (confirmed so far), the Bangladesh Government have completely shut down it’s internet cutting it off from the world ahead of the Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s trip to Spain. It is anticipated that a massacre of much bigger scale can take place within the next two days. We need attention here in Bangladesh, people are absolutely hopeless here.

#AlleyesonBangladesh
#StepDownSheikhHasina
#SaveBangladeshiStudents
#BangladeshBleeding
#StarlinkforBangladesh