What happened in Bangladesh?
For the past twenty days, the internal situation of Bangladesh has been the center of attention of the international media.
The politics of Bangladesh have also been affected. After Sheikh Mujib, his daughter Sheikh Hasina Wajid has been competing against her rival Bangladesh National Party, and Khaleda Zia and Annan have been holding power continuously. Khaleda Zia's last government was ended in 2007 by military generals imposing martial law. An interim government was established, which held elections two years later. Awami League's Hasina Wajid won the elections, and Khaleda Zia faced corruption cases. He was condemned to seventeen years by the courts on debasement accusations. In 2019, Khaleda Zia was granted six-month parole at her home on clinical grounds, and from that point forward, the half-year term has been served multiple times. Khaleda Zia is detained at home.
Since Sheikh Hasina Wajid assumed power in 2009, Aaj Tilak has been in power continuously. In Bangladesh too, the military imposed martial law three times and made three failed attempts to overthrow the elected government in 1980, 1996, and 2011, which were caught. In other words, the role of the army has been "important" there as well. Hasina Wajid made the Bengali system a bit stronger on economic grounds and also gave privileges to the military generals so that the power could remain happy. During this time, the salaries of government employees were increased considerably.
Government job salaries in Bangladesh are high. Therefore, these jobs have their own special importance. Be that as it may, 33% of these positions are given to specific voting demographics under the portion framework, and 33% are saved for families whom the Bangladeshi state considers legends of the "battle of opportunity."The market for recommendations and bribes heats up for the remaining half of the jobs.
For the past few years, there has been a public outcry over these job postings. The majority of the people believe that this job system is biased and completely against merit. Therefore, this quota system should be abolished and jobs should be given on open merit. Exactly fifteen days ago, student organizations raised their nine-point demands in this regard and started protesting. A student rally was lathicharged; tear gas was used, resulting in deaths.
The Bangladesh Supreme Court, taking suo motu notice of the law and order situation, ordered the government to negotiate with the students on these points. The government accepted the order. But on the other hand, he cracked down on the students again, acting cautiously. Hasina Wajid came on TV and made an angry statement in which she compared the students who demanded their rights to the "volunteers" who helped the Pakistani army in 1971, calling them enemies of the country. It spread across the country, and students across the country took to the streets.
To deal with this situation, once again the forces attacked the students. There were deaths. And things went to such an extent that a curfew was imposed across the country. Mobiles and internet services were jammed. Hasina Wajid, while addressing the forces committee, once again termed the students as terrorists and enemies of the country and issued instructions to the army to deal with them strictly. Government Law Minister Anisul Haq said in a press conference, "Right now we are showing restraint." There is also a limit to our tolerance."
The intensity of the mass protests reached such an extent that three hundred students were killed. Thousands were injured. The whole arrangement of the nation was incapacitated. Today the Army Chief has accepted the resignation of Hasina Wajid. The army has taken over the system of the country. Hasina Wajid has been sent in a military helicopter to the Indian city of Agartala, where she will be a guest of the Indian state. Martial law has once again been imposed in Bangladesh. Time will tell when "democracy" returns there, whether it does or not. Student organizations have welcomed this move. It will be seen whether the demands of the students are accepted or not. A new type of military government is established, or the military plans to take over the interim government and hold elections in a short period of time. Nothing is clear about this yet.
This whole scenario sounds familiar. The history of Pakistan is also full of more or less similar incidents. *Joy Bangla Rajakar*
Pakistan had left the Pakistanis who loved Pakistan alone in the maqtal of Dhaka; today time has raised them in the maqtal. When Salim Mansoor Khalid wrote 'Al Badr', he poured all his pain into the attribution: the name of the blood that was shed for Pakistan and remained a stranger in Pakistan. Who is the first person to be congratulated in this country except Salim Mansoor Khalid that the one who was a stranger in the blood of dear love has become good news in the blood of death?
* How people were hanged by Hasina Wajid. Generations were sacrificed for Pakistan, but the governments of Pakistan did not look back at them. In their old age, people were hanged in Maktal because they had loved Pakistan in their youth. Alas, these people were killed one after the other; the dead were garlanded, but none of them wavered. Not one apologized.
* The crimes and brutality of the Mukti Bahini were covered up, and the trials of Al-Badar and Al-Shams started. The standard of testimony was that if any news was printed against anyone in any Awami League newspaper, then that was declared as evidence. Executions started in 2022 and 2024 for the 1971 incidents. False trials, brutal court, and then murder.*
* People continue to be hanged smiling even after 55 years, but the governments of Pakistan have become strangers as if they do not know who they are who are still being hanged for the crime of loving Pakistan.*
* Even the British Supreme Court has recently shelved these cases, but this brilliant decision of the British Supreme Court could not be discussed anywhere in Pakistan. I wrote a column on it in English, that too when Salim Mansoor Khalid drew attention and insisted. I think if a friend is killed, then we are. From Ali Geelani to Mullah Abdul Qadir, we have left everyone alone in Maktal who loved Pakistan. The heart breaks.*
* Insistence on 40% quota for criminals of Mukti and Bahini even today and killings on protest—this attitude shows that like father, daughter also had nothing to do with democracy. It was horror. Sheikh Mujib was also aware of such horrors, and when the assassination took place, the editorial of the Bangladesh Observer, published the next day, began with the phrase:*
*"The killing of Sheikh Mujab was a historic Naxaste."*
* Pakistan released Sheikh Mujib from prison and sent him to Bangladesh, but in August 1975, he was killed along with his children, wife, and daughter-in-law in a military coup in Bangladesh. Only two daughters survived in the family who were outside the country. Have we ever considered that if the whole problem was caused by the decision makers of West Pakistan, then why did the Bangladesh army kill their Bangabandhu in the third year?
*The answer is very simple; He also did the same actions that Hasina Wajid was doing. At the time of her father's murder, the girl was out of the country. Otherwise, the killers had not even spared Sheikh Mujib's ten-year-old son Arsal. And now the child is probably gone because she ran away from the country. Sheikh Mujib's fascism was also shameful; his daughter's fascism was also shameful.
Who killed Sheikh Mujib? These were not the people of West Pakistan. These were Bangladesh's own soldiers. And there were no ordinary soldiers either. Three of them were those who were declared regular war heroes by Bangladesh for having fought the "war of freedom" along with the Mukti Bahini. It was revenge for the rape of the family. The killers were also the "heroes" of the Mukti Bahini.
*Three of Sheikh Mujib's assassins were considered heroes in Bangladesh. The question is, Why did he become a murderer?*
*Sheikh Ghulam Mustafa, President of the Dhaka Awami League and Sheikh Mujib's right-hand man, kidnapped the Bengali Major's wife and daughter. And when the Bangladeshi army troops in anger spread across the city to search for him, Sheikh Mujib made peace at his house like the dawn of the underworld. No action was taken against Sheikh Ghulam Mustafa; however, the officers were fired. Incidentally, the officers of the same regiment were later involved in the assassination of Sheikh Mujib.
* An Awami League goon and local president Muzamil seized the car of the bride and groom in a procession. The groom was killed there. After robbing the honor of the bride, her body was thrown two days later. The army arrested Muzamil. Sheikh Mujeeb ordered to release him. It is said that Major Farooq joined Sheikh Mujib's killers in response to the same incident.
* This Awami League goon Muzamil was the federal minister in Bangladesh at that time, and the arrests and executions of the people of Badr were going on under his supervision.*
Hasina Wajid was a brutal dictator like her father. When the movement arose, he took the easy route of crushing it and said that they are all "Rajakars." That is, all of them belong to Al Badr; that is, they are traitors and agents of Pakistan. The answer he got was that the next day thousands of students were on the streets in six major cities chanting:
*Yours, Amy's?*
*Rajakar Rajakar*
*(So who, who am I? Volunteer, volunteer)*
*Jete Gillam, Half Car*
*Boy Gillam Rajakar*
*(Only one way to meet demands: volunteers)*
It was a post-truth that his father cashed in and betrayed the Shah of India. It had nothing to do with democracy; I have written a series of detailed columns on all this, so no chance to repeat it here.
* Time lifts all veils. The traitor's daughter ran away and took refuge in India. Even if the daughter of the protagonist of the Tala Sash case runs away, where? In the same city as Tala.
* Those who went to death remained red-faced; those who were in power ran away humiliated. There will come a time when Mir Jafar's Namak Haram duo will be joined by another Namak Haram duo in Bengal. Salt is a lesson for those who are forbidden.
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