Dhaka, July 22: Bangladesh’s former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, Wednesday alleged that the country entered a “dangerous phase” following the July-August 2024 political upheaval as the elected Awami League government was overthrown through a “meticulously designed movement” orchestrated by former interim government chief Muhammad Yunus under the guise of the quota reform protests.
Addressing an international strategic dialogue titled, ‘Reinventing Bangladesh: A World Crisis to Overcome’, Hasina alleged that violent extremists were active participants, organisers, and beneficiaries of the 2024 protests.
She said that the extremist leaders began to re-emerge in public life during the 2024 July protests and that their strategy was to “create dead bodies, create outrage, and the government will fall.”
She accused interim government chief Yunus, current Bangladesh PM Tarique Rahman and radical Islamist party Jamaat-e-Islami of pursuing the demonstrations with that objective, describing it as “a meticulously designed operation” and not a spontaneous student protest.(IANS)
