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#genzrevolution
in Bangladesh. First time Gen Z kids are toppling an authoritarian police state. Keep all eyes on Dhaka tonight, tomorrow and day after.
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Protesters out on the streets of Bangladesh again. Massive, massive turn out today. And this is one of the most beautiful photos coming out ❤️✊️
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These kids are *not* backing down. Typo in earlier tweet fixed.
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Imagine the US and European response if student protesters were being slaughtered in Iran or Belarus just like they are being slaughtered in Bangladesh. Oh wait, we already know what the response was in those cases! Bangladeshi deaths do not register in Western conscience.
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The way Indian media and some Indian intellectuals are engaging in an information warfare against the people of Bangladesh, esp. the gen z revolutionaries and the interim government, Bangladesh must consider designating India as a hostile state and take appropriate measures.
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Where and when did this happen? This is a blatant violation of police rules of engagement!
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From a secret hideout, one of the coordinators of the student protest movement spoke to Netra News to send out an appeal to the world.
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This is very interesting. Obaidul Quader saying 70% of the BD population waiting to vote for Sheikh Hasina. Where is this figure coming from, did AL conduct a survey? How is he citing this number, one wonders 🤔
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I do not follow cricket. But, a question for my Indian friends: why do you think people in Bangladesh are celebrating the Australian win tonight as if their team won? Thoughts?
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🧐 Macron went to Dhaka to cheerlead Sheikh Hasina. Did he meet or call Yunus then? The French were shamelessly backing the AL police state. The only thing France is committed to is selling airplanes.
Deeply appreciated
@ChiefAdviserGoB
's talent to communicate about his passion to reform the country in those challenging times. France is committed to the development and stability of Bangladesh in support of Dr. Yunus.
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Sheikh Hasina has command responsibility over the massacre of more than 200 students, many of them children. The widespread and systematic nature of the attacks against a civilian population across Bangladesh meets the textbook definition of crimes against humanity. 1/n
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Very pragmatic of BNP.
"We would have held the programme tomorrow. But the ruling party has announced their programmes for tomorrow. So we don't want to create public suffering by calling the programme on the same day..."
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র্যাবের বিরুদ্ধে মার্কিন নিষেধাজ্ঞার ধারাবাহিকতায় বাংলাদেশ পুলিশের ডিটেকটিভ ব্র্যাঞ্চ (ডিবি) ও সামরিক গোয়েন্দা সংস্থা ডিজিএফআইয়ের বিরুদ্ধে নিষেধাজ্ঞা আরোপের আহ্বান জানিয়েছেন মানবাধিকার কর্মীরা।
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give this man a cigarette!
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🧵 A bus set on fire in Kakrail, as police and AL men were attacking opposition BNP activists. Driver and assistant of the bus say the two arsonists, who started the fire, were wearing bullet-proof vests with *police* written on them. Vid by
@muktadirnewage
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Brilliant analysis in
@ForeignPolicy
"It’s high time that the Biden administration walks the talk and helps Bangladesh hold free and fair elections. This will discourage other bad political actors in Asia from forming a common alliance."
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🇧🇩 Apart from regular police, two units are being used against RMG workers demanding fair wages. The US-sanctioned RAB *and* the US-trained BGB.
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All these university students are not Islamists, nor are they jihadis. Pakistan is a distant land for them, both in terms of history and geography.
Thousands of Students of Dhaka University in Bangladesh celebrating loudly when Australia defeated India in the cricket World Cup final. In 1971, with India’s direct intervention, East Pakistan became Bangladesh. What has gone wrong?
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Exactly 10 days ago BNP leader Tabith Awal was meeting
@RCDicksonUK
to discuss violence faced by his party. Today, he is on a hospital bed, bloodied in a targeted AL attack in Dhaka.
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Headline in pro-gov Bangla tribune, citing Hasina's comment in parliament: "who is asking us to sit down with these animals?" Yes, *animals* = opposition.
Who thinks AL is open for dialog?
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I have long said Sheikh Hasina is nothing but South Asian Putin without nuclear weapons. Now even Indian analysts are recognising this.
“[Bangladesh’s] political system now closely resembles Russia...”
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*The Guardian view on Bangladesh’s phoney election: a bad day for democracy*
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Read this: she is in pre-trial detention without charges for *one year*. For hosting a webinar when she was 17. The regime in Dhaka is devoid of any basic human decency.
#freekhadija
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"no clashes, no vandalism and no untoward incidents on the campus that might have instigated the attack. As per media reports, the ruling Awami League's student wing Chhatra League leaders and activists carried out the attack without any provocation."
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Re: 🇧🇩 election.
🇺🇲: "these elections were not free or fair"
🇬🇧: "standards [required for democratic election and process] were not consistently met during the election period"
🇪🇺: ⏳️
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"[BNP] does not have any problem to participate in talks to hold a free, fair and acceptable election [... raises] the question whether there is a congenial atmosphere for holding talks when thousands of party leaders and activists are behind bars."
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🇧🇩 Yunus is the latest, albeit high-profile, victim of the lawfare waged by Hasina and her courts for many years. Let us not forget how Khaleda Zia fell prey to this and how thousands of opposition activists are falling prey to this every day.
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"In 🇧🇩 there is no more room left in the prisons. In the last two weeks alone, almost 10,000 opposition leaders, supporters and activists have been arrested after protests broke out against the ruling government, led by the prime minister, Sheikh Hasina."
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Awami League's "economic miracle" right here.
This breaks my heart. A woman in Chattogram collects wheat on the streets fallen from a truck- risking her life. With food prices skyrocketed, this is perhaps a desperate attempt to feed her family.
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Watch: Is Bangladesh a one-party state?
Gowher Rizvi talking to Mehdi Hasan in
@AJHeadtoHead
. I was in the panel of experts with Abbas Faiz and Syeda Muna Tasneem.
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A major diplomatic crisis brewing in Dhaka. Sacked Bangladeshi deputy attorney general seeking refuge at the US embassy
@usembassydhaka
⬇️
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“The Bangladesh government is making international pledges on holding free and fair elections even as it unleashes autocratic and abusive attacks that clearly contradict those claims.” ~ Meenakshi Ganguly, Deputy Asia Director, Human Rights Watch
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Nameless visa restrictions are not going to work. Unless the US imposes named and targeted sanctions like GloMag, AL regime will not modify its behavior.
By denying unconditional dialogue and declaring the election schedule, the ruling regime has clearly humiliated the USA. Will the USA retaliate? If yes, how tough will it be?
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🇧🇩 "Land Minister Saifuzzaman Chowdhury Javed has at least 260 properties in the United Kingdom for which he has paid at least GBP 134.76 million or Tk 1,888 crore."
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Wow! An AL MP candidate saying AL activists *not* BNP are behind arson attacks in his area. Pretty much confirms what BNP has been claiming about false flag ops.
Minister & Barishal's
@albd1971
candidate Zahid Faruque Shamim has confirmed that the local activists of
#AwamiLeague
are using
@bdbnp78
's peaceful strike as a cover to set fire to establishments to blame these attacks on
#BNP
ahead of the next election.
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Good call!
"Leaders and activists of the Khulna BNP called upon the dead to "not rise from their grave and cast votes" in the national elections to be held on 7 January."
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"The United States said Monday that Bangladesh's election was not free or fair after Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina secured a fifth term in a vote marked by an opposition boycott and mass arrests."
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An old, deleted tweet by Indian journalist Chandan Nandy — outing the R&AW station chief in Dhaka and his role in rigging the 2018 🇧🇩 election — is being shared again. Given the renewed interest and another election coming up, a 🧵 on Bangladesh elections and R&AW station chiefs.
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Excellent OSINT forensic work by Amnesty’s Crisis Evidence Lab! These violations can also be connected to the police officers in charge.
"Amnesty International verifies evidence of excessive use of force against protesters."
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The election was rigged, says staunch AL ally and outgoing MP of Kushtia-2 Hasanul Haq Inu.
The election was rigged, says outgoing AL MP of Manikganj-2 Momtaz Begum.
The election was rigged, says influential AL leader and outgoing MP of Madaripur-3 Abdus Sobhan Golap.
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This man, Ataul Gani Osmani, was the commander-in-chief of Mukti Bahini (Bangladesh Liberation Forces) in 1971. Today, September 1, was his birthday. Looks like the current মুক্তিযুদ্ধের চেতনা government forgot celebrating one of the founding fathers of Bangladesh 😒
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Tens of thousands of BNP supporters peacefuly marched through the streets of Dhaka today. No reported violence; no counter-rally by AL; no police excesses. This is very encouraging.
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The
@bdbnp78
Dhaka city (North & South) units today organized two mass marches in Dhaka demanding the resignation of
#SheikhHasina
and free and fair elections under a
#NonPartisan
election-time
#CaretakerGovernment
government.
#StepDownHasina
#TakeBackBangladesh
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Donald Lu urging three major 🇧🇩 parties for unconditional dialog is welcome. But, how can there be any dialog when most of the BNP leaders are in prison?! Would calling for the release of BNP leaders break 🇺🇲 neutrality?
@usembassydhaka
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This is beyond disgusting 🤮
#Bangladesh
@albd1971
minister made misogynist remarks on female
@bdbnp78
leader for having a meeting with diplomats. This party is full of misogynist perverts who rape women for casting votes against them.
@usembassydhaka
@UKinBangladesh
@MarieMasdupuy
@LillyNichollsL
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"The incident took place just four and half months before the general election in 2018. The attackers were leaders and activists of the ruling Awami League known as associates of the local member of parliament."
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Why do they need M16 assault rifles to deal with a street protest?!
US trained SWAT are seen using military graded weapons to disperse political activists days before the BNP rally in Dhaka on Human Rights Day.
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I sincerely hope the senator moves from observation to concrete action soon.
I am closely observing the situation in Bangladesh with deep concern. The right to peaceably assemble and protest is a cornerstone of a democratic society. Violent repression of the student protest is wrong and will only lead to more unrest.
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"Awami League has formally declined the United States' call for a meaningful dialogue among key political parties before the forthcoming national parliamentary elections, citing a lack of time and an unconducive environment in the current reality."
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Joseph Goebbels gets the assignment he deserves.
গুজব ও অসত্য প্রচারণার মূলোৎপাটন করে বাংলাদেশের বিরুদ্ধে ষড়যন্ত্রের জাল ছিন্ন করার প্রত্যয় ব্যক্ত করেছেন নবনিযুক্ত তথ্য ও সম্প্রচার প্রতিমন্ত্রী মোহাম্মদ এ আরাফাত : প্রেস বিজ্ঞপ্তি
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"A Ph.D. student at Michigan State University said his mother was arrested in Bangladesh after he criticized the country's government in a Facebook post."
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With 99.5% of confidence Amazon Rekognition face comparison says this is the same guy.
On November 22, Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) Commander, Lt. Col. Arif Mohiuddin Ahmed, claimed that during the interrogation following the arrest of Babul Miah, the so-called BNP youth wing activist in Dhaka, it was revealed that he had been acquiring explosives to manufacture
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Voter turnout in the 12th Jatiya Sangsad election around 28%. A review of Election Comission dashboard data confirms. More to follow in
@NetraNews
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“I was on the road to foil BNP's programme. I beat [BNP Natore district unit leader] Rahim Newaz and hit his legs with a stick.” ~ Rashidul Islam Koel, a very honest Awami League activist, told The Daily Star 😑
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🇧🇩 "The country's best-read and most respected newspaper Prothom Alo reported Sunday that at least 7,835 people had been held, based on reports from its correspondents across the country."
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🤣 "Narendra Modi refused to get off his aircraft at Waterkloof Air Force Base because 🇿🇦 government had only sent a Cabinet minister to officially welcome him... By contrast, Cyril Ramaphosa had personally been on the tarmac to greet 🇨🇳 Xi Jinping..."
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"Any action that undermines the democratic elections process - including violence, preventing people from exercising their right to peaceful assembly and internet access - call into question the ability to conduct free and fair elections." ~ 🇺🇲 Amb. Haas
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Independent fact-checkers = "BNP stooges". All because they called out disinformation spread by an AL MP. Arafat, as it happens, is one of the most prolific disinfo expert on the AL camp.
Interestingly some BNP stooges are claiming some of the pictures that I posted to be old not today’s and posting old news paper snapshots. It is difficult to distinguish BNP’s acts of violence from old days and now proving my point that BNP is & have been a terrorist organization
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🇧🇩 "As protests in Dhaka turned increasingly violent, two garment workers have been killed, allegedly after being shot by police in the first wave of protests. And last Wednesday, another woman died after being shot in the head."
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@UNHumanRights
chief is now in Dhaka. Here is a Netra News investigation about ED we think
@mbachelet
will find very useful. If she wants to visit this facility, provided that GOB gives her access, I am adding a Google Map pin in my next tweet.
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As Bangladesh undergoes UPR, this special report by
@the_nazmul
reveals the scale and patterns of extrajudicial executions in Bangladesh. As part of the report, we are releasing a database that contains records of each killing from 2009 to 2022.
2,597 killed in 13 years — data captures the staggering scale of extrajudicial executions, fatal shootings and custodial torture across Bangladesh.
➡️
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"the single biggest threat to the wellbeing of Bangladeshi Hindus in 2023 is an authoritarian and increasingly dysfunctional political landscape where most members of the community are treated as the expendable untermensch by the powers-that-be."
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I was on
@dwnews
talking to
@clarereports
about the ongoing Bangladesh protests. Anyone looking for an overview of the crisis, watch.
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GM Quader and Mujibul Haque Chunnu of Jatiya party had a meeting today with the R&AW station chief in Dhaka. Note: minister for consular and edication is the cover posting.
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Citing the latest
@AJIunit
report on Bangladesh, UK Labour MP Chris Bryant (
@RhonddaBryant
) queries UK FCDO minister for Indo-Pacific
@annietrev
re: sanction (or lack thereof) against Rapid Action Battalion. Very strong statement 👌 Vid. via
@ZulkarnainSaer
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“১৫ই আগস্ট ২০১৭ তারিখের অভিযানের পর দিন গণভবনে মাননীয় প্রধানমন্ত্রীর সাথে দেখা করি। আমাকে দেখে তিনি বললেন, ‘‘এত কাছাকাছি জঙ্গি এনে অপারেশনের নাটক না করলেই পারতে।’’’
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"গণ-মানুষের ট্যাক্সের টাকায় পরিচালিত একটি বিশ্ববিদ্যালয়ে পড়াই। তাই এই প্রতিষ্ঠান যে কোন সরকারের কিংবা একক কোন গোষ্ঠীর অথবা কারো বাপ-দাদার চিরস্থায়ী বন্দোবস্ত নয়।" ~ অধ্যাপক মাইদুল ইসলাম
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ℹ️ Since 1973, there were 11 parliamentary elections in Bangladesh: 7 of those (1973, 1979, 1986, 1988, 2/1996, 2014, 2018) were rigged by the ruling party. Only 4 were free, fair and credible (1991, 6/1996, 2001, 2008), all were conducted by neutral caretaker governments.
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Yep, this is how Modi/BJP sees Bangladeshis. Seen through that lens, Hasina is the efficient exterminator in charge, keeping the bugs in check.
Modi supports Hasina - His party leaders call Bangladeshis 'cockroaches' infesting India.
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The farce thickens 🥴
"More than 225 of the 265 Jatiyo Party candidates have pulled out of Sunday's race, terming the election 'one-sided and staged', a top JP leader said."
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Apparently, people who signed the letter supporting Yunus were paid for their signatures 🙄 This is what the 🇧🇩 state minister for foreign affairs, Shahriar Alam, is suggesting. I really feel bad for the diplomats who need to deal with this guy regularly.
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"Police, alongside men in plain clothing, have been seen using hammers, sticks, bats and iron rods, among other objects, to beat protesters. Many opposition supporters – as well as some police - have been injured."
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EC dashboard recorded 28% voter turnout, based on data sent throughout the day by election officials across the country. Report in
@NetraNews
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🇧🇩 authorities have given assurance he will not be harmed.
"Sacked deputy attorney general Imran Ahmed Bhuiyan, who along with his family went to the US embassy in Dhaka this afternoon to "seek shelter", is returning home after three and a half hours."
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This is a very, very serious allegation. We shall see if this matches the EU statement issued after the election.
I would like to draw the kind attention of,
@WhiteleyEU
@MarieMasdupuy
@GerAmbBD
@HCSarahCooke
@EU_Commission
@Europarl_EN
@JosepBorrellF
@NLinBD1
@SwedenAmbBD
@EUinBangladesh
@GermanEmbassyBD
@EU_Partnerships
@EU_FPI
@eucopresident
@vonderleyen
To the attached “letter”
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🇧🇩 press freedom. A day before the election, BTRC/NTMC blocks the website of
@DailyManabzamin
, one of the last remaining independent newspapers doing crucial journalism.
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And here it is. We win a certificate of excellence at the Global Shining Light Awards ☀️
@gijn
@NetraNews
#GIJC23
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The Bangladeshi police chief, Benazir Ahmed, is reportedly holidaying with his family in Italy. I am keen to know which EU embassy issued a visa for this individual recently sanctioned by the US govt. for his role in gross human rights violations in Bangladesh.
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Yeah, BNP should have participated so that its MP candidates and grassroots could be brutalised by AL just like 2018. Lazy analysis 🙄
The BNP boycott is a principled position-a rejection of an election it thinks will be rigged/unwinnable.
But the BNP decision only helps the AL and hurts itself. It won't be able to claim the AL stole the election if AL has no opponent to steal it from.
BNP boycott=an own goal.
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"[Nurul Haque Nur] and 20 more leaders and activists of [Gono Odhikar Parishad] came under attack by activists of the Bangladesh Chhatra League on the Dhaka University campus on Wednesday afternoon."
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"[Nasir Jamshed], who used to compile countrywide data on police actions, attacks, and arrests against the main opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party, was recently arrested from the Naya Paltan party office by [DB], hampering data collection."
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"The United States condemns recent violence against workers in Bangladesh protesting over the minimum wage, as well as the criminalization of legitimate worker and trade union activities." ~
@StateDept
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What a quagmire! Biden and Hasina in Delhi for G20. A sacked deputy attorney general seeking refuge at the US embassy in Dhaka. Think about the morning brief Biden is going to read 😬
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A peaceful assembly subjected to unprovoked and brutal police attack.
"... police from both sides -- Fakirapool and Nightingale intersections -- of the BNP headquarters charged the rally venue as BNP leaders were addressing the programme."
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"Hundreds of articles praising 🇧🇩 government policies apparently by independent experts have appeared in national and international media but the authors have questionable credentials, fake photos, and may not even exist, an AFP investigation has found."
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Obaidul Quader is citing the "latest opinion poll in Bangladesh" to claim that 70% of the people support Sheikh Hasina and are waiting to vote for her. What is this opinion poll? Where was this published? Does anyone know?
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"Bangladesh's public finances are coming under increasing strain as mounting loan repayments for Chinese, Russian and other infrastructure projects are poised to put a deeper dent in the country's foreign exchange reserves."
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Any serious analyst in India knows that the Indian government can not put its eggs in the AL/Hasina basket anymore. That basket now belongs to Beijing. That is exactly why conversation between India and BNP, backed by US guarantees, could secure Indian interests in Bangladesh.
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“For the last 10 years, I have been told that my father will come back but this wait never ends. I want to be hugged by my father. I want to celebrate Father’s Day. I don’t want to be a part of this ‘Disappearance Day’ anymore.” ~ Adiba Islam Hridi (12)
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🇧🇩🇮🇳 Really insightful column by Chandan Nandy. India is losing (if not already lost) its control over AL and Hasina. IMHO, the best card Indians now have is cutting some kind of deal with BNP, Tarique. The West will not back a 1/11 style army takeover.
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Nasty piece of hit job. Mushfiqul Fazal once working with Khaleda does *not* mean or prove Milam and Danilowicz are working for Tarique. How can a deputy foreign minister of a country stoop so low and share batshit crazy conspiracy theories!?
Everyone must know these ex diplomats are not impartial. They never were, even when they were serving in Dhaka. Question is, are they doing it free of charge ? If not, who is paying them ? We know the 'why' answer.
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"In its letter, the BFIU stipulated five working days to submit the bank details, including transactions and deposits in all means and forms, of Zillur Rahman and the CGS."
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Dhaka Cyber Tribunal sentences Adilur Rahman Khan and ASM Nasiruddin Elan of Odhikar to two years in prison + fines. The price for human rights advocacy in Bangladesh.
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I see a lot of whataboutery on Twitter. BNP government's crackdown on and police violence against AL activists in 2001-2006 does *not* in any way justify AL government's crackdown on and police violence against BNP activists in 2023. Is that too hard to understand? 🤔
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