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. ------ Sheikh Hasina ----- 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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