‘Yunus army on killing spree’: Sheikh Hasina’s blering attack on Bangladesh’s interim leader | World News

Former Prime Miner of Bangladesh Sheikh Hasina has accused interim government chief Muhammad Yunus of orchestrating a brutal campaign against her supporters, declaring in a social media broadcast, “Yunus has killed so many of our people.”
Speaking from exile in India, where she fled following her ouster during a nationwide student-led uprising on August 5, 2024, Hasina said Yunus, a Nobel Laureate for peace and former microfinance pioneer, had unleashed “a killing spree” targeting members of the Awami League and ordinary citizens.
“Usurer (a person who lends money at unreasonably high rates of interest) Yunus, in his lust for power, has killed the people of the country, played with the lives of people,” she said in Bengali in a live-streamed address to families of her party’s slain leaders. “Yunus killed so many of our party workers one after the other, killed so many common people—I cannot explain in words.”
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Drawing a parallel to the atrocities committed Pakani forces during the 1971 Liberation War, Hasina said: “Pakan’s invading army shot people dead. This Yunus Bahini is hacking people to death, lathi-charging people to death. They are on a killing spree.”

She also criticised what she described as a politically manipulated martyrdom narrative, claiming that the names of deceased Awami League leaders, police officers, and journals are absent from official ls of victims. “This is the most unfortunate matter,” she said.
In previous remarks, Hasina has accused Yunus of systematically dismantling investigative bodies and using armed proxies to terrorise the public. “The killings were part of his meticulous conspiracy to throw me out of power,” she had said. “I will return and avenge the deaths of our policemen.”
The Bangladeshi government has since stated that repatriating Hasina is among its top priorities. “This government that usurped power has to go,” Hasina had previously said, adding, “Human rights violations under him [Yunus] have been unprecedented, and we have to ensure the people put him out of power.”Story continues below this ad
When PM Modi meet Yunus
In their first meeting since the ouster of Sheikh Hasina last August, Prime Miner Narendra Modi and Bangladesh interim government Chief Adviser Prof Muhammad Yunus underlined their concerns upfront.
During talks said to be a sharp 40-minute meeting on the sidelines of the BIMSTEC summit in Bangkok, Modi raised the issue of the safety of Hindus and other minorities who have been targeted in Bangladesh while Yunus asked him about Dhaka’s request for the extradition of Hasina who fled to India after her ouster.

Modi told Yunus that “rhetoric that vitiates the environment is best avoided”, an Indian government statement said — during his visit to Beijing late last month, Yunus, while seeking “extension of the Chinese economy”,  had said that North-East India was “landlocked” and Bangladesh was the “only guardian of the ocean for all this region”, a remark that did not go down well in Delhi.
“He (Modi) also underlined India’s concerns related to the safety and security of minorities in Bangladesh, including Hindus, and expressed his expectation that the Government of Bangladesh would ensure their security, including thoroughly investigating the cases of atrocities committed against them,” the Minry of External Affairs said.

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