Since the fall of autocrat Sheikh Hasina, there is an increase of inflammatory media commentary and political rhetoric against Bangladesh coming from certain Indian quarters. There is now an echo chamber filled with misinformation, fuelling persistent anti-Bangladesh sentiment. The latest attack on the Bangladeshi consulate in Agartala highlights the destabilising effects of disinformation, which only creates division and discord among neighbours.
International stakeholders must acknowledge that a destabilised Bangladesh, with near about 200 million people, is not in the interest of any country. It is crucial to objectively understand what led to Hasina's ouster, what has been happening in Bangladesh since she fled to India, and why it’s imperative to forge people-to-people ties between Bangladesh and India, beyond any particular person or political party.
Bangladesh faces many challenges, but we have largely been, and will remain, a land of religious harmony and territorial sovereignty, where the rights and freedoms of every citizen are protected, irrespective of race, caste, and religion. I urge my fellow Bangladeshis to show utmost restraint and not fall prey to any provocation.
Muslims in #Bangladesh have been guarding Hindu temples and houses for the past few months. And today in the #Chittagong court premises, #ISKCON terrorists broke down a Muslim mosque and hacked a Muslim lawyer to death.
Sheikh Hasina ruthlessly employs full force of the state apparatus to cling to power, orchestrating violence through acts of murder, vandalism, arson, and cocktail bombs. The violent Awami League regime distorts the narrative to legitimize repression, unjustly framing BNP leaders with a series of fabricated accusations.
Following the recent grand rally of BNP, police filed numerous cases against thousands of opposition figures. The creation of an illusory accused list, including our late leaders Sanaullah Miah and Nasir Rahman, who respectively died over three years and one year ago, exposes the depth of this judicial deceit.
Such erosion of democracy, where deceased and incarcerated BNP leaders encounter fictional and indiscriminate charges, presents a grim portrayal of our nation’s struggle against a pervasive clampdown on rightful dissent.
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Analysts say that Hasina’s government now has the judiciary and the police fully under its control, and has weaponised them in her fight against the opposition. This week, a video clip captured police officers patrolling with a group of armed Awami activists chanting “capture BNP people, one by one, and slaughter them all”.
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The ongoing violence orchestrated by the Sheikh Hasina regime, which has claimed yet another victim in the struggle for fair wages for garment workers, represents a sinister effort to suppress rightful demands. Since the BNP grand rally on 28 October, 17 lives have been lost due to the human rights violations of AL and its politicized law enforcement agencies.
I vehemently condemn these killings, targeting innocent police, journalists, workers, and BNP activists. This brutality, employed as a repressive tactic to maintain power and silence dissenting voices, cannot go unanswered. We urgently demand an immediate halt to the thousands of arrests made each passing day. We will ensure justice prevails in the democratic and inclusive Bangladesh we strive to rebuild, and hold the perpetrators accountable.
Last Tuesday night at Kishoregonj (October 31) police went to arrest municipal BNP president and district BNP organizing secretary Aminul Islam Ashfaq at his house. But he was not there. When the police did not find him , then they took Ashfaq’s two twin sons at their custody.
BAL sets yet another barbaric example of using state apparatus against civilians - and this time the victims are minors. Police forces kidnapped two underaged twins of a local BNP leader failing to get a hold of him.
@UnderSecStateJ@UnderSecStateP@SecBlinken@amnesty
The ruling @albd1971 and government agencies have started playing with torching buses again like in the past to hinder the movement of pro-democracy people.
Today they set fire to three passenger buses in Elephant Road, Newmarket and Jatrabari areas of Dhaka. They started this #violence and destructive game from last October 28. #AwamiViolence #bdpolicebrutality
#StepDownHasina #PoliceState #ProtectTheProtest
" আমি রাজনীতি করি। কোনো অপরাধ করলে গ্রেফতার করবে। কিন্তু আমাকে থানায় নিয়ে পুলিশের উপস্থিতিতে অত্যাচার-নির্যাতন করা হয়েছে। আমরা কোন যুগে বসবাস করছি। আমি কি চোর, না ডাকাত? আমি এর বিচার চাই।"
- বিএনপির প্রচার সম্পাদক, বিএনপি মিডিয়াসেলের সদস্য সচিব ও সাবেক সংসদ সদস্য শহীদ উদ্দিন চৌধুরী এ্যানি আদালতের শুনানিকালে বিচারকের সামনে এভাবেই নির্যাতনের বর্ণনা করেন।
আমরা জানতে চাই, কে বা কারা, কিজন্য পুলিশের উপস্থিতি একজন বিরোধীদলীয় নেতাকে নির্যাতন করেছে???
এবং এরসাথে এসব জুলুমের অবসান ও অবিলম্বে তার মুক্তি দাবী করছি।
#FreeAnee #StepDownHasina #TakeBackBangladesh
Begum Khaleda Zia is getting punished for being the most popular person in #Bangladesh .
Sheikh Hasina's illegal regime has detained her for long 6 years with a ploy to secure their power permanently.
They have even denied her right to medical treatment during such detention.
On the Sixth Genocide Remembrance Day, we stand together with the #Rohingya refugees in sympathy and solidarity. The repressed refugees are far from returning to their homeland, while President Ziaur Rahman and Prime Minister Khaleda Zia sheltered them, mounted global pressure on Myanmar, and conducted successful repatriations.
Let us strive for a world where universal human rights are respected, and such atrocities never happen again. @RefugeesIntl@Refugees@amnesty@hrw