It Is a Rebellion against the Idea of Bangladesh
By New Age Islam Staff Writer
8 August 2024
Sheikh Mujib's Museum
Housing Important Memorabilia Was Burnt Down
Main Points:
1. 2. Sheijh Mujib's statues have been pulled
down.
2. Important buildings have been destroyed.
3. A film producer of film on Sheikh Mujib was
lynched with son.
4. Folk singer Rahul Anand's Dhaka home was set
ablaze.
5. Hindus are being systematically attacked.
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Sheikh Hasina
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Initially it was made to appear that the 'popular' uprising
against Sheikh Hasina's 15 year 'autocratic' regime was spontaneous and the
common people laid down their lives for a 'second independence' from the tyrant
and oppressive regime. More than 300 people, including occasional pedestrians
and children were killed by the army who mysteriously announced that they would
not confront the participants of the Long March on August 5 when they would
obviously attack Sheikh Hasina’s official residence.
But now as more facts are surfacing, the real game plan
behind the ' mass uprising ' and Hasina’s ouster is getting more evident. News
reports of media outlets of Bangladesh and India and emotional outpourings and
vlogs of Bangladeshi intellectuals hint at a larger and sinister conspiracy by
Pak-China-DGFI-ISI-BNP-Jamat nexus exploiting the students' anti-quota
movement. The media in India reported that the plan to oust Hasina and install
Khaleda Zia was hatched in London where the BNP head and Khaleda's son met the
ISI agents. According to the report, Islamic Chhatra Shibir (Jamat Islami’s
student wing) activists infested the peaceful anti-quota movement and turned it
violent and China funded the movement. A narrative against Sheikh Hasina was
circulated on social media from the US labelling her a stooge of India who had
sold out Bangladesh to India. For the last two years, a conspiracy was being
hatched to depose her. 'Boycott India' campaign in Bangladesh was only a part
of the conspiracy.
In a report, Kaalbela, a Bengali news portal of Bangladesh
gave a detailed account of how the student movement against reservations was
organised and turned violent despite the insistence of the student leaders on
keeping the movement peaceful and limited to quota. The three student leaders
who are said to have led the anti-quota movement, Naheed Islam, Asif Mahmood
and Abu Baker Majumdar had links with BNP-Jamat, according to the report. They
formed an independent platform Ganatantric Chhatra Shakti on 8th July and formed
a committee of 65 co-ordinators from all the government universities and
colleges of Bangladesh and organised the anti-quota movement. It means till 7th
July, the movement was confined to students but from 8th July, the movement had
the backing of the global nexus formed to oust Sheikh Hasina. According to the
Kaalbela report, Nahid Islam met BNP-Jamat leaders during this period. On 21st
July the Supreme Court overturned 30 per cent quota and the student stir
temporarily died down. Since the students' demand was met and the stir calmed
down, the triumvirate planned to drag on the movement and now presented a 9
point agenda including Sheikh Hasina's resignation. The movement was revived
after 25th July with the sole agenda of regime change. Obviously, the students
had not launched the anti-quota stir to oust Shaikh Hasina. The trio also
planned to make the movement violent but some student co-ordinators opposed
this move and sidelined those opposing the trio's plan. The trio kept meeting
students in universities and colleges and incited students on violence.
Meanwhile, the army kept firing at students and common unarmed people including
children to provoke common people successfully. Now, the movement was in total
control of BNP-Jamat nexus. On the 3rd of July, a huge rally was organised in Chitgram
where the BNP-Jamat had a strong base and a long march to Dhaka Gana Bhaban was
announced. The army announced that it would not obstruct the march hinting that
it was with the nexus and on 5 August, the army chief told Sheikh Hasina to
leave the country in 45 minutes. Sheikh Hasina had no option but to leave
Bangladesh. The army could have taken her to any secret place in cantonment
area but did not. It was, therefore, a pre-planned peaceful coup.
If it were only a regime change plan, there would not be so
much bloodshed, arson, looting and vandalism after Hasina's exit. It was much
more than meets the eye. Those who opposed a government of the country would
only vent their ire against the political party not against the country itself.
The unruly mob looted Sheikh Hasina's official residence. They even took her
undergarments and ate from her kitchen like hungry people of a poor country.
They destroyed the statues of the Father of the Nation, Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur
Rahman who founded Bangladesh. The rioters set fire to the Sheikh Mujib museum
where important and rare documents relating to 1971 war and memorabilia and
destroyed everything. The motive behind all this violence was to remove the
idea of Bangladesh. Students seeking abolition of 30 per cent quota were not
against the idea of Bangladesh!; they were not against Sheikh Mujibur Rahman
and they did not demand Sheikh Hasina's resignation. The demand for Sheikh
Hasina's resignation and the release of all political prisoners was a political
demand and had nothing to do with the non-political student movement.
The violence continues till today and the nature and the
target of the attacks demonstrates that the rebellion is not against Sheikh
Hasina but against the idea of a secular, democratic and multicultural
Bangladesh. The minorities had assimilated themselves into the mainstream of
the Bangladesh society during the last fifteen years. A scientific outlook had
developed among the people. The country had made commendable progress in the
fields of economics and science. In the economic arena, Bangladesh was known as
an Asian tiger. But only in one day, the violence perpetrated by the unholy
nexus undone whatever Bangladesh had achieved. The cultural and religious
harmony coveted by the students was being destroyed. The house of Rahul Anand,
a Hindu popular folk singer of Bangladesh whom French Prime Minister Macron
visited was set on fire. Saleem Khan, the film producer who had made his first
film on Sheikh Mujibur Rahman was lynched along with his son on 5th August
perhaps because of his admiration for the father of the nation and because of
his relationship with the Bengali film industry of India. Hindus are being
systematically attacked and their temples being destroyed for their support for
Sheikh Hasina. A popular and controversial vlogger of Bangladesh Asad Noor has
criticised a Hindu leader of Bangladesh Babulal Pramanik for his claim that
Hindus are not being attacked by the mob. Though he is a critic of Sheikh
Hasina, he is equally a critic of BNP-Jamat for their communal and
anti-minority ideology. He shows a video of poorly clad Hindu men and women
thronging Bangladesh border with West Bengal and seeking help. They say they
are not safe in their country anymore and don't want to live in Bangladesh.
Asad Noor says that he does not want shelter in India but those who are in
trouble deserve sympathy from the neighbours.
Another vlogger has hinted at a conspiracy from the US. He
says that the US, China and Myanmar have long eyed St Martin Island in
Bangladesh. The US has long tried to buy the Island from Bangladesh. The
Bangladesh army and BNP at some point of time even agreed to hand over the
Island to build a military base to monitor the region. Sheikh Hasina
categorically refused to hand over the island either to China or the US. Since
the US hopes that the BNP government may be of help, it has orchestrated the
coup. The cancellation of Hasina's visa by the US and the reported
unwillingness of the UK to grant asylum to her also strengthens the theory.
Interestingly, the US, UK and Canada granted asylum to the alleged perpetrators
of massacre in Bangladesh in 1971. A lobby in India also opposes asylum to
Sheikh Hasina on the ground that it will promote anti-India sentiments among
the people of Bangladesh. This is the same lobby who praised India for giving
asylum to controversial Bangladeshi writer Taslima Nasrin ignoring the
sentiments of Bangladeshi and Indian Muslims. Perhaps, the lobby wants Sheikh
Hasina to get asylum in a country where she can be eliminated easily.The
vlogger also says that the US ambassador to Bangladesh Peter D. Haas left
Bangladesh mysteriously on 23th July 2024 exactly two days before the
anti-quota movement took a deadly turn. Did he know what was going to happen?
He wonders. Peter D. Haas worked in Bangladesh from 2022 to 2024. The vlogger
also says that the controversial US politician Donald lu , in charge of Central
Asia affairs visited Bangladesh only in May. He is the same person who visited
Pakistan before the elections there and after the elections, Imran Khan accused
him of lobbying against him. Sheikh Hasina also accused him of being a
supporter of BNP. Donald Lu is known for his role in regime change in a number
of countries. In an article, Anupam Kumar Singh writes that Donald Lu has a
mastery in regime change operations.
That the Awami League leaders are being killed
systematically shows that the regime change was being used to avenge the War
Crime Tribunal set up by Hasina government that sentenced a number of BNP-Jamat
leaders for their involvement in 1971 massacres. The army has not done anything
to stop the violence. The interim government in charge Md Yunus has only
appealed the people to calm but has not condemned the large scale violence
fearing that he may become unpopular with the army. He has been handpicked by
the US for his inexperience in political matters.
The interim government may take oath today but Bangladesh
has lost its economic gains and has sunk into the mire of death and
destruction. The interim government may run for three or six years according to
reports without popular mandate and will run at the behest of the US until the
objectives of the US are achieved in Bangladesh. BNP and Khaleda Zia may wait.
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