As Bangladesh ushers in Victory Monthโthe sacred dawn of December that immortalises the blood-soaked triumph of 1971โthe Awami League has unleashed a thunderous clarion call, likening the current interim regime under Muhammad Yunus to the marauding Pakistani invaders of yesteryear.
In a blistering statement released on the eve of this historic month, the party of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman rallies the nation’s pro-liberation forces to rise once more, vowing to evict the “occupying, killer-fascist Yunus group” and restore the hard-won sovereignty of Sonar Bangla.
The statement, emblazoned with the roaring fists of freedom fighters against a backdrop of flames and the eternal green-red flag, paints a grim portrait of the post-August 2024 cataclysm. “A dark cloud of disaster spread over the fate of the nation,” it declares, charging that the Yunus-led cabalโdecried as puppets of “foreign masters” and anti-liberation conspiratorsโhas plunged Bangladesh into economic freefall.
Factories shuttered, workers cast into unemployment’s abyss, farmers starved of fertiliser, and the vulnerable stripped of social lifelines: these are the hallmarks of a regime, the League asserts, hell-bent on dismantling the constitutional edifice erected by the martyrs’ sacrifices.
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“This illegitimate occupying force serves external powers, aiming to hand Bangladesh over to foreign interests and diminish the glory of our independence,” the statement thunders, drawing a direct line from the genocidal atrocities of 1971โthree million martyrs slain, 250,000 mothers and sisters brutalisedโto today’s “killer-fascist” encroachments. The July-August 2024 upheaval, orchestrated by domestic and foreign foes, is framed not as a popular uprising but as a meticulously plotted coup to resurrect Pakistani ideology and communal poison in the veins of a secular republic.
Yet, amid the shadows, the Awami League kindles the unquenchable flame of resistance. Invoking the unbroken chain of Bengali valourโfrom the Language Movement’s defiant cries to the Six-Point thunder, the 1969 Mass Uprising’s fury, and the nine-month inferno of 1971โthe party pledges an inexorable resurgence under Sheikh Hasina, the unyielding torchbearer of Bangabandhu’s vision. “The Bengali nation has never been defeated and has never bowed down,” it proclaims. “In that same spirit… we shall once again rise stronger and free our beloved motherland from illegal occupiers and all anti-Liberation War forces, InshaโAllah.”
The call to arms is unequivocal: Unite under the martyrs’ ideals, Bangabandhu’s philosophy, and the Liberation War’s indomitable ethos. Pro-liberation patriots, Awami League cadres, and every soul scorched by the Yunus regime’s depredations are urged to forge a bulwark against this “jihadist-army-backed syndicate”โa nod to whispers of Islamist extremists and military shadows lurking in the interim power structure. The goal? A resurgent Bangladesh: happy, prosperous, democratic, and non-communal, untainted by the occupiers’ treason.
Following successful programme like shutdown and lockdown amid Sheikh Hasinaโs international interviews, the party activists and supporters are considering her directions a manifesto for national redemption. As Victory Month unfoldsโculminating in the joyous surrender of December 16โthe League’s words hang like a gauntlet thrown: Will the sons and daughters of 1971 heed the summons and hurl the Yunus interlopers back into oblivion, reclaiming the freedom that was seized, not bestowed?
In the words of the statement’s crescendo: “Let us free the country from illegal occupation and together build… Sonar Bangla is inspired by the spirit of the Liberation War.” The battle lines are drawn; the victory echoes await.
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