{"id":3330,"date":"2025-09-06T22:25:59","date_gmt":"2025-09-06T16:25:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyrepublicbd.com\/?p=3330"},"modified":"2025-09-06T22:26:04","modified_gmt":"2025-09-06T16:26:04","slug":"bangladesh-killers-freed-citizens-crushed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyrepublicbd.com\/?p=3330","title":{"rendered":"Bangladesh: Killers freed, citizens crushed"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

In most functioning democracies, a police raid or a national \u201cred alert\u201d signals a response to genuine threats\u2014terrorists on the move, extremist networks to be dismantled, civilians to be protected. In Bangladesh <\/a>today, those same words have been weaponised.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bangladesh\u2019s Crisis Deepens in 2025: A Nation in Decline<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Unprecedented: Extremists dig out corpse of Nural Pagol, burn it on the highway<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Under Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus\u2019s unelected regime, \u201csecurity operations\u201d have morphed into instruments of repression\u2014not safeguards for citizens but shields for convicted killers and extremist militants. The message is clear: the government\u2019s priority is not justice or public safety. It is survival.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Red Alerts for Terrorists, Raids for Protesters<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

When Yunus\u2019s government declares a red alert, it is less about capturing terrorists than about insulating them from accountability. Acquittals, case withdrawals, and backroom deals replace due process. Meanwhile, the same state machinery unleashes violent crackdowns on civic protests, opposition movements, and even ordinary citizens daring to raise their voices.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Peaceful demonstrators are branded as \u201cthreats\u201d while men with blood on their hands walk free. The state\u2019s \u201cprotector\u201d has become its chief predator.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Law Turned into a Weapon<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the heart of this transformation is the abuse of Bangladesh\u2019s Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Act. Once envisioned as a tool against cybercrime, it is now wielded to silence dissent. Opposition leaders are dragged into courts on fabricated charges. Partisan witnesses are paraded before compliant judges. Raids, arrests, and prosecutions unfold not as matters of justice but as spectacles of political revenge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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October Revolt: Jamaat-ISI final actions to assassinate General Waker, arrest dozens<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is not the rule of law. It is a rule by law\u2014law hollowed out and repurposed as a weapon against the very people it was meant to serve.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Protecting Militants, Persecuting Citizens<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The consequences are devastating. Extremist groups\u2014whose public massacres and brutal street killings once drew international alarm\u2014now operate with disturbing impunity. Meanwhile, citizens face arbitrary arrest, torture, and harassment for little more than demanding democracy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is a grotesque inversion of the state\u2019s purpose: protection for militants, persecution for citizens.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Cry from the Streets<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bangladesh today lives under siege. Security forces who once stood as guardians of public safety now operate as enforcers of a paranoid regime. To dissent is to invite repression. To protest is to risk your life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And yet, history shows that repression cannot silence a people forever. Bengal\u2019s long struggle for justice, dignity, and democratic rights has always outlasted those who sought to extinguish it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The people\u2019s cry today is as clear as it is urgent: Red alerts must not shield murderers. Raids must not terrorise citizens. Security must mean protection for the people, not preservation of a regime.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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