The UK chapter of the Awami League has been holding protests in London to denounce political repression against the partyโs activists and supporters, the culture of impunity, and looting of public funds by the Yunus-led interim government.
Hundreds of activists from the UK and other European countries gathered near the hotel where the illegal chief adviser, Muhammad Yunus, is residing and holding meetings with officials of different business entities.
Yunus and his entourage arrived in London on Tuesday on a four-day trip and checked into The Dorchester hotel at Park Lane.
Former ministers, state ministers, and MPs were spotted among the demonstrators.
The Awami League protesters demonstrated on the road in front of the hotel from 6:30am to 9:00am, featuring former minister Abdur Rahman, state minister for shipping Khalid Mahmud Chowdhury, Sylhet mayor Anwaruzzaman Chowdhury, MPs Habibur Rahman, Abu Zahir, Shofiqur Rahman Choudhury, and Ranjit Chandra Sarker participating in the protest, according to bdnews24.com.
They are showing placards that show slogans and demands for his resignation as well as the release of over 1,40,000 leaders and activists of the Awami League languishing in jail without trial and the withdrawal of over 80,000 cases filed against them.
On Tuesday, the protesters chanted slogans against Yunus and his cohorts, held an effigy of Yunus with a garland of shoes, and also showed wastebins with photos of Yunus and his most hated press secretary, Shafiqul Alam.
On Wednesday, vehicles were moving around the hotel with digital screens showing the misdeeds of the Yunus Gang to make the Londoners aware of the Bangladesh developments, as the media has been suppressing the ugly side of the illegal government.
The media in Bangladesh has also blacked out the protests that have created a buzz on social media, including Facebook, X, and YouTube.
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Yunus must step down. So many blood on his hand! His true face has been reveled in Bangladesh through his own action for the last ten months. Everyday is a suffocating day in Bangladesh for liberal minded people.
Yunus is a villain in disguise of a hero and philanthropist. He is dragging Bangladesh backward in terms of economic development, women empowerment, secularism, democracy, human rights and freedom of speech. He is patronizing the Islamic extremists and terrorists. His main agenda is to establish an Islamic Caliphate in Bangladesh. In his government several high officials are part of Islamic extremist groups. His own strong association with Jamat Shibir is a direct message for Bangladeshi people that he does not support secularism.
Yunus is a pure symbol of hypocrite and double standards when it is the question of women empowerment in Bangladesh. World media must dig deeper into his Grameen Bank projects and real stories behind microcredit. He used Bangladeshi poor rural women and their stories as his steps to reach high destinations. The world saw whatever he wanted to show them. Microcredit in Bangladesh is a clear evidence of double face which strongly holds patriarchal values and also sings about women empowerment. It’s a light covered with deep darkness in its core which most people cannot see with open eyes, particularly the foreigners. It’s the rural women of Bangladesh whose spirits and struggles have glorified microcredit, not Yunus; Yunus only gave a little amount of money but it’s the women who turned it into something more sellable. There are so many untold stories which do not come on the front page of the newspaper or world media. Bangladeshi women those take microcredit, they have to fight several fights – patriarchal rules and regulations within the microcredit system, patriarchy in family and society, violence and humiliation within the microcredit system, violence in family and society.
If money is the only factor that gave Yunus the power to use the potential of women in Bangladesh then it is the Bangladeshi money which should get the Nobel peace prize.