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We understand you don’t have any other income source except laundering our hard earned money. Dude just get a life, do something useful to earn some money and move on. You and your family looted every single penny from Bangladesh. We are on the verge of bankruptcy.
The recent resignation statement attributed to my mother published in a newspaper is completely false and fabricated. I have just confirmed with her that she did not make any statement either before or since leaving Dhaka
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X (formerly Twitter) is flooded with Bangladesh related communal rumors.
In the last 4 days, Rumor Scanner team has identified at least 20 such rumors spread by Indian accounts.
In the first part of these communal rumors, a total of 10 fact-checks are provided below... – at Dhaka, Bangladesh
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Bangladesh’s Muslim clerics are voluntarily guarding a Hindu temple in Cumilla after reports of attacks on Hindu communities and their places of worship prompted politicians and protest leaders to call for 'resisting' those committing violence.
Photo by Billah Mamun/Facebook
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Who is head of Bangladesh's police, the particular force in Bangladesh that appears to be responsible for most of the shooting and killings of students and protestors in recent weeks? None other than Chowdhury Abdullah Al-Mamun. In December 2021, as then Director General of the Rapid Action Battalion, he (along with five other men) was sanctioned by the US government for "widespread allegations of serious human rights abuse". Although the US invited the UK, EU and other countries to sanction Al Mamun and others, they took no action. Will they act now? netra.news/2021/us-governmen…
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Sheikh Hasina has command responsibility over the massacre of more than 200 students, many of them children. The widespread and systematic nature of the attacks against a civilian population across Bangladesh meets the textbook definition of crimes against humanity. 1/n
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#Bangladesh: let nobody be fooled.
This is nothing but an act of arbitrary detention - and sorry let’s be real - a high risk of torture & persecution.
Repression continues.
We need all that can to speak out.
thedailystar.net/news/bangla…
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Bangladesh student protests turn into ‘mass movement against a dictator’
theguardian.com/world/articl…
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In the last 36 hours, the Students Against Discrimination (SAD) made a rough tally of the fatalities from the state-sponsored brutalities since the 17th of July against their quota reform movement. This is more than the number of deaths that Prothom Alo, Bangladesh’s newspaper of record, was able to corroborate.
As you can see, 78 per cent of the fatalities are students. SAD, whose members are scattered all over, is confident that the number is more than 1,000 as they haven’t been able to check on all hospitals. And there are unmarked graves at multiple locations with hundreds of bodies.
Download main file from this link ➡️ drive.proton.me/urls/GH3Y3T6…
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Here is an example of a prominent Awami League activist, the General Secretary of the Portuguese Awami League, who is now living in the UK, posting a message on Facebook which is threatening the Bangladeshi expatriate community if they criticise the Awami League government over the student killings
"Expatriate [Bangladeshis] who are misleading the people of the country with provocative words for quite some time, these will be taken into consideration in the case of passport renewal and police clearance. A list is being prepared of these individuals." (See below what he posted in the original, and a Facebook translation)
It was posted on July 24, 2024 by which time, Bangladesh media was reporting that 200 people had been confirmed dead as a result of shooting by the country's law enforcement authorities. (Three police officers were also killed). The Awami League is desperate to ignore these hundreds of law enforcement killings and focus solely on the resulting widespread criminal damage, blaming it on political opposition parties (who were not involved in any formal way with the protests)
In Bangladesh, the government in command of the airways, and having closed down FaceBook and YouTube, is simply repeating this false narrative again and again. You now have to be a brave person to speak out and say what actually happened.
However, the Awami League has less control of the narrative outside Bangladesh, and ex-patriate Bangladeshis are at the forefront of publicising the real news of what happened over the last week. The FaceBook poster is an attempt to try and silence them, saying that the Bangladesh High Commission in London is keeping a list of the Bangladesh expatriates who are deviating from the Awami Line and will stop them travelling to Bangladesh.
This conduct appears to be a form of "transnational repression" - akin to what China and Russia are accused of doing in the UK - and the UK authorities should look at this activity including the role of the Bangladesh High Commission.
"Imagine being beaten for raising your voice against discrimination, escaping home only to be attacked again and threatened with death for crying." Is it a country or concentration camp ? Now they are raiding entire #Bangladesh @UNHumanRights
This is painful to watch. In the video is Nurul Haque Nur, the leader of a small political party in Bangladesh, the Gono Odhikar Parishad [People's Rights Forum]. He was involved in the 2018 student quota protests but not these recent ones. Here he is being brought to court after a five day police remand, barefooted, unable to stand without support and clearly in excruciating pain.
His wife interviewed here is saying: "My husband is not a criminal. He was beaten cruelly for 5 days during his remand. He was taken from home on July 20 at 3 in the morning. When they took him he was completely healthy. he was missing for 40 hours. when he was presented to the court on 22nd July he was still relatively well. Now he can't even walk. I don't know how to describe what I'm seeing. we have two small kids. One is 1 year old and the other is 5 years old. My older kid is not even eating (since his dad's arrest). The least you can expect is to see [him] healthy. In this condition what he needs right now is medical treatment. They are not giving him any treatment. He was not even connected to the current movement."
Note that is required by law to bring someone to court within 24 hours, otherwise it is defined as an enforced disappearance.
m.youtube.com/watch?si=RebrY…
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This is painful to watch. In the video is Nurul Haque Nur, the leader of a small political party in Bangladesh, the Gono Odhikar Parishad [People's Rights Forum]. He was involved in the 2018 student quota protests but not these recent ones. Here he is being brought to court after a five day police remand, barefooted, unable to stand without support and clearly in excruciating pain.
His wife interviewed here is saying: "My husband is not a criminal. He was beaten cruelly for 5 days during his remand. He was taken from home on July 20 at 3 in the morning. When they took him he was completely healthy. he was missing for 40 hours. when he was presented to the court on 22nd July he was still relatively well. Now he can't even walk. I don't know how to describe what I'm seeing. we have two small kids. One is 1 year old and the other is 5 years old. My older kid is not even eating (since his dad's arrest). The least you can expect is to see [him] healthy. In this condition what he needs right now is medical treatment. They are not giving him any treatment. He was not even connected to the current movement."
Note that is required by law to bring someone to court within 24 hours, otherwise it is defined as an enforced disappearance.
m.youtube.com/watch?si=RebrY…
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“We understand that many people were subjected to violent attacks by groups, reportedly affiliated with the Government, and no effort was made to protect them,” said @volker_turk, the @UNHumanRights High Commissioner, on the current situation of #Bangladesh – at Dhaka, Bangladesh
#Bangladesh: @volker_turk calls on authorities to urgently disclose information on protests crackdown amid reported cases of horrific violence.
Estimates indicate over 170 people killed & thousand injured.
Law enforcement operations must abide by international human rights law.
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PM Hasina in Bangladesh scorned student protestors as “militants” who deserve deadly force. The only “militant” is Hasina, who ordered troops in UN peacekeeping vehicles to attack & kill students. The Biden Admin must act boldly against this repression. Sanctions must be imposed.
News Analysis: In Bangladesh, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s bloody crackdown on protests has created a major challenge to her dominance. nyti.ms/3LAElf2
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A student led initiative has started documenting every killing in the ongoing massacre by Sheikh Hasina regime in Bangladesh. Here is the link.
shohid.info/?lang=en
This list is particularly important for the international community. They should understand how ridiculous, irresponsible, and inaccurate the government narrative is- that this is a movement backed by “Islamist/terrorist/Jamaat/opposition” or whatever propaganda they come up with. Please scroll it and see how Hasina regime is killing school and college going children and youths for only participating in protests.
@amnesty @hrw @USIP @geoffreymacdon @usembassydhaka @dhruv_rathee @TOIIndiaNews @the_hindu @htTweets @Dawn_News @ndtv @RahulGandhi @narendramodi
@StateDept @SecBlinken @DaveHallFCDO @FCDOGovUK @hrw @amnesty @UN @antonioguterres @POTUS @Keir_Starmer @UNPeacekeeping @Lacroix_UN @EU_Commission @BBCWorld @bbcbangla @cnni @AJEnglish @DeutscheWelle
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The academics and scholars of Bangladeshi origin working in the UK strongly condemn the recent events in Bangladesh. Here's our joint statement signed by 175+ academics. Please stand with Bangladeshis fighting for equal rights, free speech and justice.
#AllEyesOnBangladesh
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Bangladesh police. Who do you serve? #SaveBangladeshiStudents
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It looks like years of inaction by the #InternationalCommunity in #Bangladesh has created an overwhelming sense of impunity although it seems finally that the #HasinaRegime has overestimated its position. There are always red lines. This, finally, is one. It is a useful reminder to the senior political, military and law enforcement officials that bear individual criminal responsibility that the @IntlCrimCourt is watching closely.