WThe chicken, Muhammad Yunus, returned to Bangladesh in August, received by dark scenes. The streets were still a blood stain, and the bodies of more than 1,000 demonstrators and a child accumulated in Morgez were full of bullets fired by the police.
Sheikh Hasina had been overthrown by a revolution led by the students after 15 years of authoritarian rule. She escaped from the country on a helicopter as civilians, seeking revenge on its atrocities, looting its residence.
In 84, Yunus – a Economist who won the Nobel Prize For the pioneering younger financing – has long abandoned his political aspirations. He had faced years of defamation and persecution by Hasina, who looked at a political threat, and had lived in the United States for decades.
But when the demonstrators asked him to lead a temporary government to restore democracy to Bangladesh, he agreed.
“The damage it caused was huge,” Yunus told the Guardian newspaper. “It was a completely destructive country, like another Gaza, but it was not the buildings that were destroyed, but the entire institutions and policies, people, and international relations.”
Hasina’s era dominated the allegations of tyranny, violence and corruption. It reached its peak in a few weeks, bloody during the month of July and August, when more than 1,400 people were killed against its repressive rule, a violent campaign by the police, which could amount to a “crime against humanity”, according to the United Nations. I have denied all the use of excessive strength.
Younis’s return to Bangladesh was the dawn of a new era for the country. In the six months since he took responsibilityand Senior police officers – who are no longer under the protection of Hasina – were tried due to the killings outside the judiciary, and secret detention centers, as it is claimed that Al -Hoceima’s critics have been released, human rights committees were established and Hasina faces hundreds of charges, which they deny. Yunus has pledged that, between December of this year and March 2026, Bangladesh will hold the first free and fair elections in decades, after which he will hand over power.
But walking in the streets of Dhaka, there is a feeling that the country is standing on the edge of the abyss. While Yunus is still widely respected, questions about his governance capabilities and the speed of promised reform were raised.
The political parties, especially the BNP National Party (BNP), was desperate to return to power and exert increased pressure on Yunus to hold elections, while questioning its legitimacy. Students who led the revolution also launched their party.
The Supreme BNP character, Amir Chaudhry, said the elections could not come soon. “This government was only aimed at a temporary measure,” he said. “Now no one is responsible on a daily basis and they have no political weight, authorization and mobilization to implement reforms.”
Lower law and order
The police, who face public anger and criminal charges on their actions during the Hasina era, were reluctant to return to their positions, and the security situation was rapidly. Gang crime is rampant in the streets of Dhaka, and minority groups are harassing. On Monday, the demonstrators burned a doll from Jahanger Allam Chaudhry, Minister of Internal Affairs, demanding that he be removed from his post because of his failure to reduce the increasing crime..
Yunus denied any suggestion that the streets were less safe than Hasinah’s rule, but others warned that the country’s security situation threatened to domain outside the control of his government. “It will be impossible to hold free and fair elections in this current situation and arrangement.”
In a letter of strongly drafted last week, the commander of the Bangladesh Army, General Woz Zaman-who played a pivotal role in the departure of Hasina and the return of Yunus-in the country was in a “chaos”, and if the divisions that nourish the turmoil continued, “independence and dislocation in this country will be at stake.
Younis confirmed that he had a “very good relationship” with the army, and that there was no “pressure” from the army commander. However, some took the words of the general as a strong reprimand for the leadership of Yunus and even a warning that military intervention may be on the horizon.
Younis is determined to framing the country’s problems as severe punishable From the rule of Al -Hasinah: “Al -Hasinah’s regime was not a government, it was a family of bandits. Which of the president’s request was done. Someone causes problems? We will make them disappear. You want to hold elections? We will make sure to win all seats. You want money? Here is a $ 1 million loan from the bank that you never have to pay.”
The size of the corruption that was implemented under Hasina left the banking system very exposed and the economy is in a state of advancement. Among the relatives of Hasinah who fell in the financial scandals, her sister’s daughter, Tulip Siddiq, UK’s Labor Vice. My friend resigned from her role in the treasury because she faced questions about the assets that he claims to be linked to a Hasina system and was called corruption in Bangladesh. I have denied all violations.
There are operations that involve financial authorities in the United Kingdom, the United States and Switzerland in an attempt to restore more than $ 17 billion, estimated to be taken from banks in the country by the Hasinah allies. But his hopes for returning it any time soon decrease.
“The banks were granted a full license to loot people’s money, with the active participation of the government,” Yunus said. “They will send their officials with guns to get everything signed.”
Eunus has also been accused of not doing enough to contain an increase in the extreme Islamic religious right in recent months. During the reign of Hasinah, Islamic parties such as the Islamic Group were banned, and Islamic political leaders faced widespread persecution. They are now free to work and have seen a swelling of support, while the banned Islamic armed groups have become more active. There were incidents of football matches for teenage girls who were stopped after intervention by militant Islamic groups, and on Friday, the police used tear gas to disperse hundreds of Hizb-UT-Tahrir’s banned uniforms while they were on Daka demanding the Islamic caliphate.
Yunus Trump Courts
Some of the greatest pressure on Yunus came from outside Bangladesh. When she was in power, Hasina has a close relationship with India and is now hiding in the neighboring nation with the disintegration of bilateral relations between countries. India did not show great interest in reforming it while Yunus is responsible, as Delhi recently accused Dhaka “normalization of terrorism.”
In December, an official delivery request was submitted to India to send Hasina to a trial in Bangladesh, but Yunus confirmed that there was no response from the Indian government. He said that Al -Hasina will face a trial against humanity, even if it is absent.
Hasina has become increasingly voice in her criticism of Yunus: I recently described it as “mobster” who unleashed the “terrorists” in the country.
Yunus said that India is hosting will tolerate it, but “allowing it to use India as a platform for its campaign to try to retract everything we have done. It shakes the stability of the country.”
The government of India is not the only problem of Yunus: Donald Trump’s return to the White House is also bad news. The Biden Administration was one of the largest supporters of Yunus, politically and financially. But it is unlikely that the restoration of democracy in Bangladesh is a priority for Trump.
Bangladesh has a strike from Trump’s GSID Agency for International Development (USAID), which has pledged more than one billion dollars in recent years. In a speech, Trump claimed that millions of dollar the US Agency for International Development dedicated to the strengthening of the political scene in Bangladesh were used to elect a “communist narration” without providing any evidence.
In an attempt to bring the United States alongside, Yunus recently called on Trump’s billionaire billionaire Illon Musk to bring the Internet over the Internet to Bangladesh. Sources about Yunus said that the visit to the country was expected in April.
Yunus expressed his hope that Trump would see that Bangladesh is a “good investment opportunity” and a commercial partner, and he said He intended to put this on musk during his visit. He said: “Trump is a deals maker, so I say to him: Come, deal with us.” Yunus said that if he did not do it, Bangladesh will feel a little pain. “But this democratic process will not stop.”
Redwan Ahmed contributed to reporting
