(source : ANI) ( Photo Credit : ani)
In Geneva, Switzerland, on October 1, Shaymal Khan, the general secretary of the Switzerland Awami League, slammed Bangladesh’s interim government under Muhammad Yunus as totally illegal. He accused Yunus of seizing power through a terrorist attack and fueling religious extremism across the country.
“The Yunus government is completely illegal,” Khan told reporters. “He took state power through a terrorist attack and keeps doing illegal things in Bangladesh. Yunus is promoting religious extremism there. We demand his immediate resignation.” He added that not just Hindus, but other minorities and free-thinking people are suffering greatly from this chaos, with daily killings and disappearances.
Khan claimed that half of Bangladesh’s population backs the Awami League, the party once led by former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina. He called the upcoming February elections a total joke without the Awami League’s involvement. “Holding even one election without us is a joke,” he said. Khan also pointed to Bangladesh’s 1971 independence from Pakistan, warning that pro-Pakistan forces still linger and are now teaming up with Yunus to rebuild ties with Islamabad. He accused them of undermining Bangladesh’s freedom and acting against India for no good reason.
This comes amid a lively protest by Awami League supporters at the Broken Chair monument in Geneva, right outside the ongoing 60th session of the UN Human Rights Council. The group aimed to spotlight what they call severe human rights violations in Bangladesh under Yunus’s leadership, including killings, rapes, forced disappearances, arson attacks, and fake legal cases.
Sheikh Hasina, Bangladesh’s ousted prime minister, joined the rally via phone, rallying the crowd. Protesters waved banners calling for Yunus to step down and for the world to strip him of his Nobel Peace Prize. They chanted “Terrorist Yunus!” and “Step Down Yunus!” while holding signs labeling him “Killer Yunus” and urging a global boycott. The group also cheered for Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, the nation’s founding father.
The protest followed a seminar at the same UN session that painted a grim picture of Bangladesh’s human rights crisis. Dr. Nuran Nabi, a Bangladeshi scientist, shared stark details: “Widespread human rights violations are happening, with mobs killing people left and right. The economy is in shambles, and folks are starving. Many say life was better before this government took over.” He criticized Western countries for backing Yunus, a Nobel winner, hoping he’d bring peace—instead, Nabi said Yunus has stirred up violence and helped religious fundamentalists gain ground, pushing toward a society like Afghanistan’s.
The seminar ended with a strong push for the international community to step up, protect human rights defenders, minorities, and vulnerable groups in Bangladesh and even Pakistan.
Back in May, Bangladesh’s interim government banned all Awami League activities. The party, under Hasina’s leadership, fell after a massive student-led uprising last year. General elections in Bangladesh are set for February next year, but tensions over politics, religious extremism, and human rights violations continue to boil.
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