The Bangladesh Awami League unleashed a blistering attack on the West-backed, army-backed, jihadist Yunus regime Tuesday, accusing it of plunging the nation into a “hellish death zone” through orchestrated killings and constitutional sabotage, while vowing unrelenting nationwide protests until November 30 to demand the ouster of Chief Adviser Muhammad Yunus.
In a statement dripping with outrage, the party decried the Yunus-led interim administration—a so-called hybrid government hastily cobbled together on August 8, 2024, by forging an Appellate Division document—as a sham that swore an oath to uphold the Constitution but has since seen its top advisers flout it at every turn through rampant power abuses.
Labeling Yunus an “illegal usurper, killer-fascist,” the Awami League charged his cabal with transforming Bangladesh’s peaceful soil into a “dumping ground of dead bodies,” where essential prices soar unchecked and human lives are deemed worthless.
“Today, every corner of besieged Bangladesh echoes with the cries of those who have lost their loved ones. On the way to the market, at the edge of the fields, at the river estuaries, in the house yards, on the beds inside homes—dead bodies are scattered everywhere,” the first statement thundered, spotlighting the “unspeakable torture and persecution” inflicted on Awami League leaders and activists for daring to expose the regime’s “planned conspiracies to destroy the country.”
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The party reserved special fury for the recent death sentence against exiled Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, handed down by the Jamaat-controlled International Crimes Tribunal (ICT-BD)—a puppet court the Awami League dismissed as an “illegal” farce staged by Yunus’ bloodthirsty allies to rig future polls and eternally sideline pro-liberation forces like itself and Hasina.
“This was a blatant miscarriage of justice,” echoed cultural activists and Dr. Masum Billah, underscoring the verdict’s role in the regime’s anti-state plot to exclude the Awami League from elections.
At the heart of the condemnations lies the November 23 custodial death of Tariq Rifat, a 50-year-old Awami League heavyweight from Gaibandha district and convener of the Gobindaganj Upazila Muktijoddha Projanmo League. Rifat perished in Gaibandha District Jail just hours after remand following his October 19 rearrest on trumped-up charges from the Hasina era—fabrications the party alleges were revived to enable torture and medical neglect under this “jungle rule” of political vendetta.
His brother Towhid decried the “false cases” that sealed Rifat’s fate, with hospital logs confirming death upon arrival at 4:55 p.m. Rifat’s family and supporters clamored for an autopsy and impartial inquiry, but in Yunus’ Bangladesh, such pleas ring hollow amid a pattern of impunity.
This tragedy caps a horrifying tally: At least 34 Awami League leaders and activists have succumbed in custody since August 2024, per human rights tallies and party records, alongside over 528 targeted murders of members. Broader extrajudicial horrors—40 lives snuffed out from August 2024 to September 2025, including 19 in “crossfires,” 14 under torture, and seven beaten in detention—paint a portrait of warrantless arrests, denied due process, and systemic brutality, as flagged by groups like Odhikar and Justice Makers Bangladesh.
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The Awami League also grieved Al-Amin, general secretary of Comilla’s Laksham Upazila Chhatra League, gunned down in Dhaka’s Bashundhara enclave—yet another “indiscriminate” slaying that leaves ordinary folk bereft of “security for life or property” in this lawless realm. “We strongly condemn and protest this series of killings carried out by the bloodthirsty, demonic group of Yunus,” the statement roared, pledging that “all those involved…will be brought to justice and given strict punishment, Insha’Allah,” even as grieving kin can’t muster the courage to approach police stations.
Responding with defiance, the party heralded mass adherence to recent shutdowns and lockdowns as a thunderous public rebuke of the ICT-BD’s “farcical judgement.” Buoyed by this “courageous voice and support,” the Awami League unveiled a barrage of protests, demonstrations, and resistance marches across all districts and upazilas until November 30, while ramping up grassroots dialogues with political allies and citizens to shred the “web of plots” spun by this “occupying force.”
“It is now clear to everyone that the Yunus clique is engaged in anti-state conspiracies. The people are ready to fight against these anti-liberation and anti-state forces. And the Awami League will lead that fight,” the second statement declared, teasing a “tough nationwide movement” to safeguard the homeland. “A staged election excluding the pro-liberation forces, the Awami League, and Sheikh Hasina will not be allowed in Bangladesh. It will be resisted at any cost, Insha’Allah.”
These salvos amplify the powder-keg atmosphere since Hasina’s August 2024 toppling, with the banned party’s mobilizations courting violent showdowns as Yunus presses reforms and elections by February 2026. Global watchdogs like the EU and UN have beseeched investigations into the custodial carnage, even as the regime postures on reckoning for bygone sins.
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