The Role of Trained Militants, dismissed Army Group, and AL Party Insiders.
Hussain Muhammad Imam
Bangladesh interim government’s chief adviser Muhammad Yunus addressed the Clinton Global Initiative at the 79th session of the United Nations General Assembly. He claimed the latest plot to overthrow Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina was well-planned. “It is an amazingly meticulously designed thing. It is not something that suddenly came. Even the leadership doesn’t know who the leaders are, so you can’t catch one. It’s completely diverse.”
Yunus joined the platform alongside former US President Bill Clinton, who introduced two young student leaders. He additionally highlighted his special aide, Mahfuj Alam, the mastermind of the July-August demonstration. Mahfuj Alam is accused of being involved in the outlawed militant group Hizbuj Tahrir while a student at the University of Dhaka.
Professor Yunus also thanked Bill Clinton for his tremendous support.
Many international media, observers, academics, researchers, and military professionals have said unequivocally that the United States was involved in the overthrow of the Hasina administration in Bangladesh.
S L Deshmukh, an Indian military expert, wrote on Defence Research and Studies, “Throughout his trip, Assistant Secretary Donald Lu will reaffirm the United States’ commitment to supporting our partners’ economic growth and promoting stability throughout the Indo-Pacific region” (USDS, 2024), which appears a little disconcerting, given Mr Lu’s actual role in various regime changes around the world.
Intriguingly, Lu visited Bangladesh in May 2024, just a few months before the overthrow of the Sheikh Hasina government. The visit was met with suspicion, as Lu’s reputation had preceded him (Jakir, 2024).
Writer and researcher, Sirajul Hossain stated that year after year, the United States, the United Kingdom, and the European Union, which affirm to be civilized, are destroying the country in a proxy war by providing arms to a terrorist group in Ukraine, even though they are not fighting.
U.S. Development Economist Jeffery D. Sachs claimed on his website that there is significant evidence of the United States’ assistance in toppling Imran Khan’s government in Pakistan, raising the possibility that something similar happened in Bangladesh. Their serious charges against the United States, as reported in the international media, should be investigated by the United Nations because, if accurate, the United States’ activities would pose a fundamental threat to global peace and regional stability in South Asia.
Prime Minister Hasina claims that the United States brought her down. Specifically, she claims that the US forced her from office because she refused to offer the US military bases in a region deemed crucial by the US in its “Indo-Pacific Strategy” to counter China.
Professor Sachs asserts: “Like Imran Khan, PM Hasina had been pursuing a foreign policy of neutrality, including constructive relations not only with the U.S. but also with China and Russia, much to the deep consternation of the U.S. government.”
Lindsey O’Rourke, a political science professor at Boston College, found that the United States conducted at least 64 covert regime change operations between 1947 and 1989.
The United States ousted regimes in Tunisia, Yemen, Syria, Libya, and Egypt during the Arab Spring a decade ago. Countries are currently in conflict with one another due to ethnic differences.
Ben Norton, Editor-in-Chief of Geopolitical Economy, stated on the official YouTube channel, “Exposing U.S. government role in Bangladesh regime change: Why PM Sheikh Hasina was overthrown?”
The New Atlas also covered “U.S. Regime Change in Bangladesh: The Risk of Ignoring U.S. Interference.”
Sirajul Hossain claims that since 1975, efforts have been made to apply the Jakarta approach in various ways in Bangladesh. Attempts are being made to incite a major conflict by teasing Bengali nationalism in a variety of ways so that the Jakarta approach can be completely applied to rid Bangladesh of Bengali nationalism and people’s politics and construct a US-style democracy.
Before and after August 5, they killed thousands of police officers and hung their bodies, set fire to and destroyed major infrastructure, burned down 450 police stations, assassinated Awami League leaders, activists, and sympathizers, including minority Hindus, and looted their homes and businesses. It drives the party’s supporters onto the streets, resulting in a civil war situation. When a civil war started his next goal was allegedly planned genocide. These are presently being proven in various words by the coordinators. This is what happened in Jakarta, Indonesia, as part of the CIA’s Jakarta Method, which has subsequently been used in around a half dozen nations to combat nationalism or socialism that the United States dislikes.
During the July-August uprising, the trained militant group Hizbut Tahrir, the right-wing war criminal political party Jamaat-e-Islami and their student wing Islami Chatra Shibir, another militant group like Ansar Al Islam fled from jail, a group of army officials dismissed for the allegation of involvement in extremist activities who proudly introduced them as a follower of Bangladesh’s founding father’s self-proclaimed killer dismissed Major Shariful Haque Dalim.
Brigadier General (rert) M. Shakhawat Hussain, the Yunus government’s adviser, stated that ordinary citizens were killed with 7.62 rounds, which police did not use. Then Yunus, the interim government head, moved his portfolio from the most crucial Home Ministry to the less significant Ministry of Textiles, Jute, and Shipping. Many people now believe that trained militants and discharged army personnel might kill students and ordinary people to escalate the uprising.
Furthermore, numerous prominent national coordinators of the quota movement, including Nahid Islam, Asif Mahmud, Hasnat Abdullah, Sarjis Alam, Sadik Kayem, and S.M. Farhad, have been exposed as the secret leaders of Islam Chatra Shibir and other parties. Hasibul Islam Hasib, one of the national student organizers, admitted in an interview that they could not have been ousted from Sheikh Hasina without setting fire to the metro station and killing police.
In addition, insiders from the Awami League Party could be involved in the conspiracy. The most powerful trio in A.L., General Secretary Obaidul Quader, Privatization, Industry, and Investment Adviser Salman F Rahman, and State Minister for Information and Broadcasting Ministry Mohammad Ali Arafat, failed to comprehend the US manoeuvre against the administration. Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, on the other hand, has repeatedly stated in public and parliament that “the U.S. wants to overthrow my government, and I can stay in power as long as I want if I allow the country to set up a military base on Saint Martin Island.”
Quader’s political rhetoric fueled the uprising against the A.L. government. Salman and Arafat were the key negotiators for the government and party, along with former US Ambassador Peter D. Haas and Assistant Secretary of South and Central Asian Affairs Donald Lu.
Haas and Lu have been accused of using US-funded NGOs, CIA-cultivated contacts, indoctrinated educational organizations, and bought-out politicians to destabilize the Hasina government, as well as mobilizing allies in civil society, the student community, teachers, lawyers, journalists, and cultural personalities. U.S. think tanks, IRI and NDI, are also accused of being complicit in the overthrow of Sheikh Hasina on August 5, 2024.
Yunus’ government is currently under fire for pursuing severe political retribution against minorities and political parties, particularly the Bangladesh Awami League and its leaders, activists, sympathizers, journalists, cultural activists, students, and intellectuals. They have already banned the Bangladesh Awami League’s student wing, also known as the Bangladesh Chatra League.
Yunus recently stated to the Financial Times, “In the short run, Sheikh Hasina and the Awami League have no place in Bangladesh.” However, Sheikh Hasina’s son Sajeeb Wazed claimed the F.T. in August that allegations that his mother was responsible for violence against demonstrators were unjustified, and that she was willing to face any charges “because she did nothing illegal.”
Interim government administrations are accused of committing gross human rights violations, including mob lynching, which is widespread in Bangladesh.
For political reasons, the premises of the Bangladesh Supreme Court are no longer safe. Former Supreme Court Justice Shamsuddin Choudhury Manik, as well as countless other Awami League leaders, former members of parliament, and ministers, were physically abused on Bangladesh’s judicial grounds.
When Professor Yunus took office, he promised to make Bangladesh more equitable for all by upholding freedom of speech, freedom of assembly, the rule of law, and equality. However, Executive Magistrate Tapashee Tabassum Urmi and many others have been removed from government positions for exercising their right to freedom of expression and liberty.
The citizens are quite vocal on social media, and rallies have been organized. The media has already reported on people’s frustration with security, social crime, and unreasonable price hikes for commodities.
Yunus’ overt and covert partners, including Jamaat-Shibir-BNP-Hefazat, Hizbut Tahrir, and other communal forces, assassinated thousands of Awami League officials, workers, sympathizers, police, minorities, and ordinary citizens, as well as robbed homes and businesses. The people of Bangladesh want peace, stability, security, justice, equitable human rights, and an uninterrupted electoral process.
The young generation, widely known as Gen-Z, who had only experienced the Awami League’s rule and enjoyed all of the advantages of cutting-edge, technology-dependent Bangladesh, is currently witnessing the Interim Yunus administration and the allegedly subservient rule of the BNP-Jamaat.
Hussain Muhammad Imam
EU Bureau Chief, The Voice.