Five-time Prime Minister and Awami League President Sheikh Hasina has highlighted the state-sponsored mob culture, extortion, corruption, suppression of press freedom, arbitrary arrests, wholesale cases, targeted killings, and impunity to depict the fascist mindset of the Westโs puppet Muhammad Yunus.
Yunus has collected information on the Awami League activists at the upazila and union levels using hired agents and made a database to identify the popular leaders, future leaders, and their relatives, she said in her recent audio speech.
His followers are admitting their role in arson attacks and police murders. But false cases are being filed against the Awami League members, she added.
The Yunus Gang has created an atmosphere of terror and anarchy with the help of the associates, Jamaat-Shibir and BNP, as during the Liberation war and the post-2001 election period.
She said Yunus has made a world record by filing over 80,000 cases against the Awami League leaders and activists and unnamed persons, arresting more than 3,60,000 people in 10 months, and imprisoning at least 1,37,000 Awami League men without trial.
โThen, who is the fascist?
โThere should be a limit on false accusations. They are harassing me, my sister, and our children with false cases. Every Awami League leader and activist, their relatives, children, and even in-laws are not spared.โ
Disappearance of Salahuddin
Sheikh Hasina said: โThey blame me for enforced disappearance and murders. Whom have I killed? Will the militants, killers, and arsonists not be arrested and imprisoned?โ
In the case filed by BNP leader Salahuddin Ahmed, Sheikh Hasina said he filed it against her for his disappearance. โHe was in India. How did he get a travel document from India? Does it mean I send him to India? If that is the case, he is so lucky that I kept him in excellent shape in India.โ
The BNP Standing Committee member submitted his complaint to the International Crimes Tribunal (ICT-BD) on June 3, accusing seven people, including Sheikh Hasina.
The other accused are former home minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal, former police chiefs AKM Shahidul Haque and Benazir Ahmed, former army official Major General Ziaul Ahsan, former DMP chief Asaduzzaman Mia and former head of the CTTC unit Monirul Islam.
Salahuddin disappeared from Uttara on March 10, 2015, and was located in Shillong on May 11, 2015.
His wife, Hasina Ahmed, alleged at the time that law enforcement agencies had detained him and taken him to an undisclosed location. Salahuddin was then the partyโs spokesperson.
In Shillong, local police detained him and charged him under Indiaโs Foreigners Act for illegal entry, with formal charges filed in a lower court on July 22, 2015. He was acquitted in 2018, but the Indian government appealed, requiring him to stay in India.
Following a protracted legal battle, the court acquitted him on appeal on February 28, 2023, allowing him to return to Bangladesh. On May 8, 2023, he sought travel clearance from the Assam state government, which was denied.
He returned to Bangladesh on August 11, 2024, and filed a complaint about his disappearance on October 15, 2024.
โYunus is responsible for murdersโ
She described how the terrorists and militants have killed her party leaders and activists. The militants have looted and torched their houses. Those who escaped death are staying away from their families.
The killers are so brutal that they are not afraid of chopping or shooting someone in broad daylight. People are also afraid to protest. Robberies and looting by mobs are taking place in houses and offices every day. People are killed if they refuse to pay the toll. Women and children are raped every day. But not all incidents are reported.
There is video footage and photos of the killings. Analyse them and find the culprits.
โCan the journalists honestly say that you can write what you see? No, you cannot write without fear. There will be arson attacks.โ
She said Yunus captured power by spreading propaganda and using militants and terrorists and has now taken the country to the verge of destruction.
โI returned to Bangladesh on May 17, 1981, and faced death every now and then. But I did not retreat.
โBut this time, had I tried to stay in power [on August 5], maybe several hundred more people would have died. But I did not want it.
โYunus is responsible for the deaths of Abu Sayed, Mugdho and others. He had regular conversations with the student coordinators over the phone. They even talked on August 1. The students advanced their program by a day from August 6, the day when a Dhaka court was set to deliver a verdict in the tax evasion case.โ
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