A leaked directive from the Sylhet Metropolitan Police (SMP), dated September 27, 2025, reveals a chilling order from the Police Commissioner.
โAll Officers-in-Charge of the SMP area have been instructed to take necessary actions, by December 2025, to ensure that no one associated with the Awami League or its affiliated groups should be able to live openly in their areas. ACs, ADCs and DCs will supervise the matter,โ said the order.
This marks a dangerous descent into fascist-style policing, where entire groups of citizens are being targeted, harassed, and effectively criminalised, not for crimes committed, but for their political identity.
Such orders amount to collective punishment and political cleansing, in direct violation of Bangladeshโs Constitution, international human rights law, and the basic principles of democratic governance.
This is not an isolated incident. In recent weeks, the Yunus Regime has increasingly employed policing methods that echo out the darkest chapters of 20th-century Europe:
1. On September 24, 2025, the Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) urged residents to โinformโ on Awami League activists or affiliates staying in hotels, flats, or hostels- offering confidentiality for informants. This encourages surveillance, neighbour-on-neighbour suspicion, and the erosion of basic freedoms.
2. On September 18, 2025, the Chattogram Metropolitan Police (CMP) used loudspeakers in the Karnaphuli area) to warn property owners of โsevere consequencesโ if they rented flats or houses to Awami League members or affiliated groups- effectively stripping citizens of housing rights on the basis of political belief.
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Such directives are not merely administrative measures. They represent:
– Violation of fundamental rights: Freedom of association, political participation, and non-discrimination are cornerstones of democracy.
– Criminalisation of dissent: Equating political affiliation with criminality mirrors tactics of Mussoliniโs Italy and Hitlerโs Germany.
– State-orchestrated persecution: Using law enforcement as a tool of political cleansing erodes the rule of law and replaces it with authoritarian control.
The Yunus Regimeโs policies signal an alarming normalisation of political persecution, pushing Bangladesh further away from democratic norms and closer to a police-state model.
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History teaches us that when law enforcement is weaponised against political opponents, it is not only the opposition that suffers; society as a whole is stripped of its freedoms, dignity, and security.
These fascistic measures must be documented, resisted, and condemned at home and abroad before Bangladesh slides irreversibly into authoritarian darkness.
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