Aaqib Hasib

Journalist and Communications Consultant. Views are my own. 🇵🇸

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@windscribe Merry Christmas guys

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@elonmusk Awww Elon still has a kid who doesn’t hate him (for now). That is so sweet.

[David Bergman @TheDavidBergman]

Indian journalism on #Bangladesh remains incredibly ill informed and highly communal - and this article by @sayantan_gh is yet another example. The whole premise of the article that "the situation remains dire [in #Bangladesh], particularly for the Hindu minority community" is simply inaccurate and based on bias as clearly shown by some really good journalism by @netranews (see in thread below). https://t.co/FbfB2ywKYI

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@USAmbUN You are not fit for your job. Pathetic for someone whose ancestors were once oppressed to be siding with literal war mongering, genocidal Israeli NAZIS

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@ninadrama Didn’t bring enough drama to the table.

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https://t.co/k7KXB4xIji

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Hey guys, I just started my substack. Here is my first post. Please let me know what you think.

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@ZulkarnainSaer Lmfao. I am always wondering about ulterior motive when it comes to this guy.

[Taqbir Huda @taqbirhuda]

The people of Bangladesh have united against deadly flooding in the same way it united against a dictatorial regime, without even catching a break. From overcoming autocracy to combating climate change, #Bangladesh is presenting a model of resistance to the world.

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@sushanta1612 @ChiefAdviserGoB @Yunus_Centre @narendramodi @PMOIndia @RussEmbDhaka @KremlinRussia_E @RahulGandhi @BJP4India Bro you call yourself a journalist? Lmao. What a joke.

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@TamjidulH24v2 I don’t think Wakkar said that. It was another captain who spoke at the meeting.

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@ZulkarnainSaer This needs a follow up now. More extensive.

[David Bergman @TheDavidBergman]

This post by @andcsontos is one I would have liked to have written myself. It provides six good reasons why #Bangladesh’s interim government should abandon its attempt to prosecute the former prime minister sheikh hasina and other key figures (allegedly responsible for the hundreds of killings by the country’s law enforcement authorities) in the country’s own international crimes tribunal (ICT) and should seek a proper investigation by the international criminal court (iCC) in The Hague. Prior/parallel to this the government should support a UN Commission of Inquiry to investigate events thoroughly.

And language matters. At this point people should talk about investigations not prosecutions. Collect the evidence first!

[Andras Csontos @andcsontos]

Hasina's regime committed horrific atrocities b/w mid-July & 5-6 Aug. The perpetrators must be brought to justice. However, a domestic Int'l Crimes Tribunal is not the right way to do it. Instead, civil society & the interim govt should push for charges @IntlCrimCourt. A🧵on why:

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Student politics must be abolished in Bangladesh.

[David Bergman @TheDavidBergman]

This is the Chaatra Dal, the student wing of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP), which was the main opposition party when Sheikh Hasina's Awami League was in power. During that period, the Chaatra Dal were hugely victimised - many were killed, disappeared or jailed.

However, with the Awami League gone, the BNP and Chaatra Dal are ascendent and we are now seeing another face of the student wing, a face that looks eerily similar to that of Awami League's student wing.

In the video Chaatra Dal activists are outside a building that was once the house of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, Bangladesh's pre-eminent Independence leader and once the leader of the Awami League. He was assassinated along with his family on 15 August 1975. Here BNP's Chaatra Dal are shouting slogans, apparently to intimidate any Awami Leaguers from coming and putting down flowers. They are shouting slogans that include: "Dhanmondi Thana, Chaatra Dal. The will power of Khaleda zia" (Thana means police station). This suggests that the Chaatra Dal at least believes the BNP is now in control of the police station in the area, and indeed there are very few police, if any at all, present.

There is nothing new about this politics, and it is everything people hated during the Awami league period. What has BNP learned from its years in the opposition. Not much positive it seems.

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@MichaelKugelman Great interview. Thank you Michael!

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@MAarafat71 It is disgusting that you now want to use them for this propaganda. If you even admitted now that your hands are stained with blood, maybe the country would have forgiven you. Well will see you in court soon.

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@MAarafat71 You are able to only mention two of the most popular names to have become martyred as a consequence of your government’s orders to the police to shoot on sight, I know countless other names, as I had to write the about their tragic deaths by the bullets of your cops.

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@MAarafat71 Since you want to come and make this statement now, I wish you would at least give those families some respect. You visited them, so what? You and your government also took their lives when you refused to resign and apologise. When you shut internet and killed indiscriminately.

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@MAarafat71 You’re such a clown man. Stop it now. How many lies can one person tell so many lies. If you stop talking maybe the mobs won’t come after you. Cause you deserve to have a trial in court. Not mob justice.