BANGLADESH

MY HOPES, FEELINGS, FEARS and ASPIRATIONS for BANGLADESH

I, feel elated, exhilarated, happy and hopeful that Sheikh Hasina, the former prime minister has resigned and fled the country. I am feeling that our beloved country Bangladesh is free again; it is free from the curse of Awami League controlled and Hasina led government. 

While they have ruled the country for the last fifteen years illegally and with iron fist and have broken every record on human right's abuse that I have witnessed. 

All my life I have been exposed to the changes that have taken place in Bangladesh since 1971.

At Sheikh Hasina’s direct command and control people in their thousands have been killed, arrested, abducted, forcibly disappeared, tortured and kept in captivity without any due process. 

Political opposition has been destroyed and opposition political leaders have been killed, locked up on fictitious charges or disappeared. 

Sheikh Hasina’s government including MPs, civil servants, police officers, members of security agencies and members of her political party have squandered the nation’s wealth, stolen huge sums of foreign aid money and amassed personal fortune locally and abroad. 

The judiciary and security services have been politicised and used as an extension and tool of the government’s abuse of power and control of local people. 

The nation’s population has lived in fear for over fifteen years and now they are breathing a massive sigh of relief. The brave and audacious young people lifted the curtain of fear and led a protest movement until the despicable and authoritarian regime finally fell. 

The people are calling it the second independence of Bangladesh. What we are witnessing is a “Bangladesh spring” for a better and brighter future. We are hopeful that this Bangladesh spring will not be destroyed by the illegitimate foreign regimes. I truly feel hopeful that this country will grow stronger, fairer and prosperous with its citizens remaining focused and united.

I have been deeply disturbed by the merciless murder of so many religious students/scholars and now our young students, the future of our nation by Sheikh Hasina and her security forces. As more and more bodies are unearthed, I feel more and more sick to my core because of the realisation of the size of the massacre. 

I am left feeling deeply sad by the brutal measures taken by Sheikh Hasina’s regime but my biggest disappointment is that Hasina and some of her cronies were given a safe passage to escape the country and avoid immediate imprisonment and future prosecution. 

Protests have brought freedom and that makes me proud of those young people who delivered to the country freedom when many political parties failed to achieve this through years of struggle. 

I have huge concerns that during Bangladesh’s transition from autocracy to democracy, it will be scuppered by the ghosts of Awami League and Hasina’s cronies along with their foreign backers; they may attempt to highjack the country and derail the transitional process. 

My fear is that India will play its dirty tricks to destabilise the country and push it further into chaos and violence, which will be used by India as a precursor for invasion of Bangladesh under a security pretext. 

I am also concerned that some international powers and institutions will take advantage of this situation and attempt to undermine the legitimacy of the newfound movement and their democratic aspirations. 

I am extremely concerned that Bangladesh will be forced to accept unfavourable political conditions for economic support from loan sharks and unethical regimes. 

I am concerned that economic and political uncertainty may force its people to disunite and fall into disputes. 

I want Bangladesh to enjoy total autonomy and independence to determine and develop its own future and be given total support by the international community without interference, or imposition of strings of unethical, colonial and unjust measures. 

Bangladesh has a great future with its people who have the most amazingly resilient and entrepreneurial spirit. It is a fertile land where human ideas, natures seedlings and innovations will flourish.

𝗔𝗡Y 𝗘𝗩𝗜𝗟 LEADERS/PEOPLE 𝗪𝗜𝗟𝗟 𝗕𝗨𝗥𝗡 THEIR 𝗢𝗪𝗡 𝗡𝗔𝗧𝗜𝗢𝗡 𝗧𝗢 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗚𝗥𝗢𝗨𝗡𝗗 𝗧𝗢 𝗥𝗨𝗟𝗘 𝗢𝗩𝗘𝗥 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗔𝗦𝗛𝗘𝗦.

Listen. Learn. Recognise. Analyse. Understand. Resistance is Existence. Sharing is Caring. Reject Racism. Reject Zionism. Reject Hate. Reject Genocide. Reject Wars. Reject the Axis of Evil and Darkness. Reject Injustice. Respect International Laws. Defend Humanity. Respect Humanity.

SAVE AND PROTECT THE CHILDREN AND THE FUTURE GENERATIONS. UNITY OVER DIVISION.

BANGLADESH FOREVER, BANGLADESH ZINDABAD.