The Grim Ordeal Under Yunus’s Illegitimate Regime in Bangladesh

Bangladesh today bleeds profusely.

The pulse of a nation once radiant with promise, development, and dignity has been brutally interrupted by an unlawful puppet regime imposed upon its people. Since the CIA-engineered coup of 5 August 2024, orchestrated in collusion with Pakistan’s ISI and abetted by their direful collaborators, right-wing fundamentalist cohorts, the country has sunk into darkness. On 8 August 2024, Dr. Muhammad Yunus ascended illegally to power—a coronation not by the ballot of the people, but by the fiat of foreign masters and their local accomplices. The result has been catastrophic: no press freedom, no freedom of writing, no peace, no liberty, no development. Only fear, mob violence, killings, and a ceaseless persecution of the very freedom fighters who gave their blood to create Bangladesh in 1971.

Had our valiant freedom fighters not waged war in 1971 and given birth to our sovereign homeland—Bangladesh—would the very street urchins who now masquerade as moral guardians, those hellish brutes who assaulted Latif Siddiqui, journalist Panna, Professor Curzon, and others, have ever had the right to breathe its free air?

We must cast those lawless mobs, along with the Yunus-aligned conspirators, back to their spiritual homeland—Pakistan, a rogue state by any moral measure—where they may feast upon the stench of their own decay.

The Fruits of Treachery

History has witnessed many betrayals, but seldom with such swiftness has a nation been robbed of its sovereignty. Sheikh Hasina, the most successful Prime Minister in Bangladesh’s history, had transformed the nation into a rising economic power, a model of social development, and a beacon of stability in South Asia. Roads, bridges, digital infrastructure, power plants, and international recognition stood as living testaments to her vision. Poverty rates plummeted, literacy soared, and women’s empowerment became a proud hallmark of her governance.

Yet this march of progress became intolerable to foreign conspirators, particularly those in Washington’s deep state, who could not stomach a self-reliant Bangladesh asserting its independent course. The CIA, hand in glove with Pakistan’s ISI and their Jamaati-Shibir operatives, set in motion the blueprint of subversion. Their chosen pawn was none other than Dr. Yunus, a Nobel-garlanded figure whose smiling visage concealed a dangerous ambition and pliancy to foreign diktats.

A Nation in Chains

Since Yunus’s unlawful seizure of power, Bangladesh has plunged into a nightmare. Press freedom has been throttled; journalists silenced, abducted, or incarcerated. Independent voices are drowned under censorship, intimidation, and fear. Writers who once chronicled the spirit of 1971 now cower in the shadows, or languish in prison cells.

Mob violence and killing sprees run rampant, often encouraged by the regime’s “mango-twigs”—a ragtag army of thugs and collaborators who terrorize neighborhoods, desecrate institutions, and target Bangladesh’s founding political party Awami League, its leaders, workers, activists and supporters. Freedom fighters, the very souls who forged this nation from blood and fire, are rounded up like criminals, subjected to arbitrary detention and humiliations. It is a grotesque inversion of justice: the liberators in chains, while the heirs of mass-murderers of 1971 -Al-Badr and Razakars roam free with impunity.

The people cry out for peace, but none is found. The streets, once lit with the energy of growth and ambition, are now cloaked in uncertainty and dread. Commerce falters, investment flees, and ordinary families suffer in silence as the promise of development evaporates under the regime’s incompetence and tyranny.

The Anatomy of a Puppet State

The fingerprints of foreign manipulation are everywhere. Dr. Yunus presides not as a leader, but as a mere steward of an externally dictated agenda. His government is propped up not by popular will but by military might, Western indulgence, and covert intelligence patronage. Policies are crafted to please foreign capitals, not to address the cries of the Bangladeshi people.

This regime’s survival depends upon repression at home and flattery abroad. Every foreign trip of Dr. Yunus is less about diplomacy and more about deception: selling a false narrative of legitimacy while his countrymen drown in despair. The shamelessness is staggering. Behind the velvet rhetoric of “democracy” and “freedom” lies the naked truth of authoritarianism imposed at the barrel of a gun.

A Bleeding Continuum

The wound inflicted on 5 August 2024 has not healed—it festers. Each passing day under Yunus’s illegitimate rule deepens the injury. Bangladesh is now trapped in a continuum of bleeding: freedom bleeding, justice bleeding, development bleeding, and above all, hope bleeding. The people’s collective spirit, once vibrant with the cry of Joy Bangla, is suffocated under the jackboot of oppression.

This bleeding is not metaphorical alone; it is real and visible. Families grieve for sons slain in protests. Mothers weep for daughters arrested in midnight raids. Journalists vanish, never to return. The soil of Bangladesh is once again soaked in blood—not in liberation’s cause, but in the defense of tyranny’s fragile throne.

Toward a Banana Republic

If the Yunus regime continues unchecked, Bangladesh risks descending into the abyss of a banana republic. Already the signs are unmistakable: governance supplanted by gangsterism, institutions hollowed into shells, corruption flourishing under the guise of “transparency,” and sovereignty mortgaged to foreign patrons. Yunus’s unlawful and puppet regime has been dragging Bangladesh to the brink of ruin in Bangladesh.

The proud traditions of self-determination, won at such immense sacrifice in 1971, are now mocked daily. The legacy of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman—the Father of the Nation—is dragged through the mud as his daughter, Sheikh Hasina, is forced into exile and vilification. In her place stands a hollow man, propped up by conspirators, incapable of either vision or courage.

History teaches us that no nation survives long when divorced from its people’s will. Should this puppet regime endure, Bangladesh will forfeit its hard-earned dignity and independence, reduced to a pawn on the geopolitical chessboard, manipulated by foreign interests and looted by local collaborators.

The Call of Conscience

What, then, is to be done? The answer is both urgent and clear: the Yunus regime must be halted—eternally and in haste. The people of Bangladesh deserve to reclaim their destiny, free from foreign puppeteering and domestic treachery. The return of Sheikh Hasina is not merely a political option; it is a moral and historical imperative. Only under her leadership can the bleeding be stopped, the wounds healed, and the march of progress resumed.

This struggle is not about partisanship. It is about the very survival of Bangladesh as a sovereign, democratic, and dignified state. To remain silent in the face of such tyranny is to betray the martyrs of 1971, whose sacred blood consecrated this soil.

The world must awaken to this truth. International media, rights organizations, and foreign governments must shed their illusions about Dr. Yunus’s so-called “interim leadership.” They must recognize it for what it is: a mask for authoritarianism, a betrayal of democracy, and an assault on the people’s will.

Terminus Point: At the Edge of the Abyss

Bangladesh now stands at the edge of the abyss. Since 5 August 2024, the coup-born regime of Dr. Yunus has pushed the nation into its gravest crisis since independence. Every day brings more evidence of collapse: no freedom, no peace, no development—only violence, lies, and despair.

Yet even at this dark hour, the spirit of 1971 endures. The people of Bangladesh have never submitted to tyranny, whether foreign or domestic. They will not do so now. The illegitimate rule of Dr. Yunus, like every regime built on deceit and repression, is doomed to fall. The question is not if, but when.

Bangladesh must rise again—not as a banana republic, but as the vibrant, sovereign nation it was born to be. For this to happen, the puppet strings must be cut, the usurpers cast aside, and the rightful leader, Sheikh Hasina, restored to her helm. Only then can the bleeding be stopped and the nation’s future reclaimed.

Written by: Anwar A. Khan 

Bio: The writer was a freedom fighter in 1971 to establish Bangladesh and is an independent political analyst based in Dhaka, who writes on politics, human-centred leadership, and international affairs.

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