Hanging Cops from Bridges Were Planned to Oust Sheikh Hasina
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Bangladesh Student Leader Admits Violent Plans to Overthrow Sheikh Hasina
By Raisina Correspondent
New Delhi, October 28: A month ago, the Chief Advisor to the Interim Government in Bangladesh, Muhammad Yunus, told the Clinton Centre that the campaign to oust Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina was “meticulously” planned.
A key architect of the students’ violent campaign was Hasib Al Islam who revealed the designs of the planning in a television interview in Dhaka. A section of Bangladesh watchers claims that the students’ protests against the Sheikh Hasina-led government was orchestrated with foreign funding and training.
The Clinton Foundation felicitated Yunus on his US visit last month. The top political leadership rolled out red-carpet for Yunus. He introduced three students’ activists to the Clinton Foundation who had played key roles in staging the ouster of Hasina from power.
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The Students Against Discrimination (SAD) Coordinator Hasib Al Islam told a Dhaka-based television in an interview that “destruction of state property and police killings were part of the movement to bring down the Awami League Government of Sheikh Hasina”.
Islam also told the television channel that lynching the police personnel to death and hanging their bodies from bridges were part of the plan to intensify protests to oust Hasina from power. The Bangladesh Police said after the ouster of Hasina that as many as 44 police personnel were killed during the July-August movement and anti-government agitation.
“The mass-upsurge or revolution, whatever you call it, did not follow any constitutional norms or laws. If we followed the law, then this revolution would not have happened,” Islam told the television channel in a live interview.
Islam confessed that “if structures like the metro rail weren’t burnt down or if the police were not killed then this revolution would not have easily happened and we would not have been able to secure Sheikh Hasina’s downfall…”
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The violent protests in two months had seen instances of burning down of public properties and torching of the police stations. “Although, others have disputed this death-toll claiming that the Interim Government led by Yunus is supressing the real figure, which is likely to be higher,” said Bangladesh Watch in a post on X.
It stated that the Interim Government of Bangladesh “recently announced a de-facto indemnity for the police killings and other serious crimes committed by the protesters in July-August”. Some of the key activists of the protest groups are now part of the Yunus-led government in Bangladesh.
The SAD had previously been claiming to have spearheaded a peaceful protest campaign. The public opinion was turned against the Hasina government after she used force against the protestors.
“This claim now stands debunked, and the reason for the de-facto indemnity clarified, by the recent statement delivered on live-TV by one of the coordinators of the SAD platform, Hasib Al Islam,” added Bangladesh watch in a statement on X.
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