Dhaka, Nov 26: Bangladesh’s Awami League party on Wednesday accused the Muhammad Yunus-led interim government of turning the country into a “dumping ground of dead bodies”.
Expressing grave concern, the party stated that as the prices of essential goods continue to rise, human life in the country seems to hold no value at all.
“Today, every corner of besieged Bangladesh echoes with the cries of those who have lost their loved ones. On the way to the market, at the edge of the fields, at the river estuaries, in the house yards, on the beds inside homes—dead bodies are scattered everywhere. Leaders and activists of the Awami League are subjected to unspeakable torture and persecution for speaking out against the planned conspiracies of Yunus and his bloodthirsty followers to destroy the country. They are even being killed indiscriminately,” read a statement issued by the Awami League.
Slamming the Yunus regime, the party alleged that the indiscriminate killings of Awami League leaders and activists across the country were carried out under a pre-planned blueprint. It added that recently, Gaibandha District Awami League leader Tariq Rifat was killed inside prison, while in Dhaka’s Bashundhara residential area, Al-Amin, the General Secretary of the Awami League’s student wing Chhatra League from Comilla district, was murdered.
The Awami League further asserted its leaders and activists continue to fall victim to targeted killings, while ordinary citizens also have no security for their lives or property in what it described as an “unsafe” Bangladesh.
“We strongly condemn and protest this series of killings carried out by the bloodthirsty, demonic group of Yunus. Today, the families of the victims cannot even think of getting justice—let alone file a case with the police station. We want to clearly and firmly state that in the near future, all those involved in these killings will be brought to justice and given strict punishment,” the party stressed.
Earlier on Tuesday, the party announced nationwide protest programmes until November 30, demanding the resignation of Yunus and rejecting the verdict of the country’s “illegal” International Crimes Tribunal (ICT) against former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.
Revealed documents cast doubt on Yunus’ role in microcredit model
Decades-old documents unearthed by former Bangladeshi intelligence officer Aminul Hoque Polash challenge Muhammad Yunus’s claim as the founder of Grameen Bank.
Polash, now living in exile, says the microcredit model was originally a university research project at Chittagong University from 1976 to 1983, run by junior researchers Shapan Adnan, Nasiruddin, and H.I. Latifee, funded by a Ford Foundation grant.
Yunus, then a professor, was reportedly only involved in managing a specific cooperative. The documents indicate that the Bangladesh Bank had planned a nationwide rollout of the microfinance program before Yunus took control.
After the 1983 Grameen Bank Ordinance, Yunus became Project Director and later Managing Director, eventually acquiring full control of the institution developed with public funds.
Polash accuses Yunus of hijacking the model and claims his influence now extends to the state machinery, alleging corruption, nepotism, tax exemptions for Grameen companies, and manipulation of legal and financial systems.
He warns that the same methods used to capture the microfinance project are now being applied to govern Bangladesh, enriching loyalists and consolidating power, raising serious concerns about the integrity of both Yunus and the institutions under his control. (IANS)
