Modi, the butcher of Gujarat, claimed on the Victory Day that it was a victory of India. No mention of Bangladesh in the victory is not only a deliberate lie, it is also audacious with ulterior motives. But India has been doing it since 16 December 1971. India, in 1971 and later, saw the defeat of the Pakistan army as a […]
The illegitimate regime in Dhaka is now blaming the opposition parties, particularly the BNP and Jamat-e-Islami for the ongoing student movements against the existing quota system on government services and the subsequent carnage in Bangladesh. The main argument of the regime is that it is a student movement and that political parties have nothing to do with it. The second argument is that BNP-Jamat elements have infiltrated […]
What is happening? At least 200 people have been killed and thousands wounded throughout Bangladesh since 16 July, when security forces launched a crackdown on students protesting the country’s quota system for state jobs. Since the demonstrations began at the start of July, hundreds of thousands of students and sympathisers have marched to express their […]
The Coalition for Human Rights and Democracy in Bangladesh (CHRD Bangladesh) strongly condemns the rising death toll of student protestors and members of civil society in Bangladesh. The security forces, working with the student wing of the ruling Awami League known as the The Chattra League, have unleashed unprecedented and deadly violence on the protestors. […]
The Coalition for Human Rights & Democracy in Bangladesh (CHRD Bangladesh) strongly condemns the violence unleashed on university student protesters across the country. Hundreds of students have been injured by the Bangladesh Chatra League (BCL), the student wing of the ruling Awami League Party. The BCL members are armed with weapons, hammers, knives and bats, […]
University students oppose the reinstatement of a quota system for government jobs that was abolished in 2018. Tens of thousands of students blocked the main streets of Bangladesh’s capital, Dhaka, on Thursday, demanding that quotas for civil service jobs be abolished and those jobs given to candidates on the basis of merit. The protests broke […]
Through the farcical election of 7 January 2024 by barbaric repression of the opposition and brazen rigging of the election of a very low turnout, Sheikh Hasina has retained her illegitimate power. Disaster has befallen on Bangladesh in addition to the last 15 years of killings, tyranny, and reckless plunder by the fascists and the hegemonists. […]