Criticism of Awami League
[1] Notable examples include the Murder of Abrar Fahad, the Padma Bridge graft scandal, the Murder of Biswajit Das, the Murder of Sagar Sarowar and Meherun Runi, the Bangladesh Rifles revolt, the 2013 Shapla Square protests, the Bangladesh quota reform movement, the Violence of Bangladesh Chhatra League, the S Alam Group scandal, the Logi Boitha Movement, issues over disputed elections in 2009, 2014 and 2018, and the corruption at the Rooppur Nuclear Power Plant, etc.
[2] The Rakkhi Bahini committed various human rights abuses, including extrajudicial killing,[3][4][5] forced disappearances,[6] shooting by death squads,[7] and rape.
"[9] Anthony Mascarenhas chronicled the activities of Jatiyo Rakkhi Bahini in his book Bangladesh: A Legacy of Blood, where he writes: The Jatiyo Rakkhi Bahini, which roughly translated means National Security Force, was an elite para-military force whose members had to take oaths of personal loyalty to Mujib.
[11] On 17 March 1975, agitated Jasad supporters tried to set up a barricade in front of the residence of the Home Minister Muhammad Mansur Ali after the rally.
But prepared JRB personnel started firing indiscriminately upon the crowd leaving several people dead on the spot.
JASAD decided to form a rally towards Home Minister Mansoor Ali's house and surround it as a counter to that incident on 17 March.
[11] The rally that started from Paltan was forwarded to the Home Minister's house but the Jatiyo Rakkhi Bahini opened brush fire and at least 50 JASAD activists were killed on the spot.
[12] During the regime of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, thousands of youths were killed due to the suspicion of having a connection with JASAD by Jatiyo Rakkhi Bahini.
[4] Among them was a leader of Bangladesh Krishok League central committee and a teacher of Nawabganj High School Siddiqur Rahman Khan was killed on 10 October 1972.
On 17 September 1973, JASAD Student's League leader Bablu, Robi, Ebadat Ali, Motaleb, Kalu, and many others were killed in daylight by Jatiyo Rakkhi Bahini.
[4] Notable victims include: General Secretary of City College Students' Union Jahangir, student of Jahangir Nagar University Shah Borhan Uddin Rokon, student of BUET Nikhil Chandra Saha; Narshingdi JASAD leader Alauddin; JASAD leader from Gazipur Akram, Joinal, Shamsu, Badal, Anwar; Manikganj JASAD leader Shahadat Hossain Badal, Delwar Hossain Haraj, Abdul Awal Naju, Najim; activists from Jamalpur Giasuddin Master; JASAD activist Abdur Rashid, Hasu Miah; leader from Mymensingh Masuduzzaman, Abdul Jabbar; Madaripur JASAD activist Jahngir, Saddam, Ali Hosen, Mofijur; Faridpur's Kamaluzzaman, Abdul Hakim; Moniddin Ahmed, Salam Master, Rafique Uddin from Razshahi; Ata, Ranju, Manik Das Gupta, Tota, Colonel Rana, Khalil, Rajjak of Bagura; Natore's JASAD leader Nasiruddin; leader from Pabna Ashfaqur Rahman Kalu.
[13] On 28 December 1974, the government announced the first-ever state of emergency in the history of Bangladesh to arrest all the terrorists and opposition leaders.
Former Prime Minister Moudud Ahmed believes that because Shahjahan allegedly belonged to the student wing of the Jatiyo Samajtantrik Dal, an opposition political party, the Rakkhi Bahini killed him and secretly disposed of his body.
[21] The court held that the Rakkhi Bahini version of events was "a pure concoction" that "demonstrates complete disregard of the law of the country.
[24] Ayesha Faiz[25] is the widow of Faizur Rahman and the mother of novelists Humayun Ahmed and Muhammad Zafar Iqbal.
[citation needed] According to Jahan, Sheikh Mujib's political plan was to replicate in Bangladesh, India's variant of the Westminster model—a "one-dominant party" parliamentary democracy.
[29] She also argued that the "second revolution" did not bring any radical change as the new model was no better than 'putting old wine into new bottle' through 'keeping the same old leadership with the same factional cleavages and the same style'.
[30] Though, the revolution was aimed at fostering national unity, Mujib has been criticised for not making any visible steps to achieve the objective.
[31] Only eight out of hundred fifteen posts of the central committee was given to the leaders of those parties who joined the platform of national unity, BaKSAL.
[38] The Daily Star commented on Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's sagacious handling of the situation which resulted in the prevention of a further bloodbath".
[60] The couple's murder received high-level political attention and widespread media coverage in Bangladesh and also attracted German interest as Sarowar had lived in Germany and worked as a journalist for Deutsche Welle.
That morning, Das was on his way to his shop, Amantron Tailors at Shankhari Bazaar in Old Dhaka, when one or more small bombs exploded near an anti-blockade procession of BCL activists from Jagannath University.
Between 2009 and 2021, under the leadership of Sheikh Hasina, individuals who expressed dissent or criticism against the Awami League government were secretly apprehended and subjected to torture within its confines.
Media outlets including Prothom Alo and Pabna Samachar reported that Golam Faruk Khandakar Prince, MP of the area, was involved with this organization.
[87] The bullish trend was initiated by the end of the two-year political crisis and re-emergence of democracy when Awami League won the December 2008 polls,[88] and was largely unaffected by the BDR Mutiny.
[90] Share prices continued to fluctuate, reaching the annual high in mid-2009[91] before plummeting by the end of 2009,[92] with retail investors threatening a hunger strike.
[99] Within December 2010 and January 2011, the DGEN index fell from 8,500 by 1,800 points, a total 21% fall,[100] with masterminds of the crash making about BDT 50 billion ($ 667 million) out of the scam.
One form this rampant corruption takes is senior officials in public sector banks making imprudent loans to well-connected private companies.
[112] BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir expressed deep concern over the incident in a statement.
[113] Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami condemned and protested the attack on the convoy of the Sechchhasebak Dal's president and the resulting loss of life.
