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It was under Aziz’s command that the police in Bangladesh registered the outrageous sedition case against ISKCON leader Chinmoy Das, drawing sharp international reactions.
Lawyers from the Hindu community who sought to represent Chinmoy Das were also implicated in false cases, thanks to the Mohammad Yunus’s ‘Yes Man’ Hasib Aziz doing his job well.
Bangladesh has been going through a radical change, much of whose brunt is being borne by the minorities and Awami League activists. While the Bengali-speaking nation has been rocked with massive protests by the Hindu community, the biggest protests took place in caretaker Prime Minister Muhammad Yunus’s home turf – Chittagong – which the Nobel laureate considered an embarrassment.
The smiling, calm and known to be liberal to the world – Yunus – resorted to what any dictator would do. He weaponised the police force and abused the legal apparatus giving sweeping immunity to the force in Chittagong with one instruction – “Crush down minority protest in my hometown”.
Hasib Aziz, who has been promoted as Police Commissioner of Chittagong by the Yunus-led regime, appears the mastermind behind the systematic crackdown to drive out Hindus from the port city. The city has witnessed an unprecedented surge of minority rallies in protest against the unelected interim regime granting sweeping immunity to the perpetrators of communal violence.
The Hindus of Chittagong claim false lawsuits against thousands of them, arbitrary detention of minority community members, putting obstruction to foil minority rallies while guarding hardline Islamists who publicly took out rallies preaching hate campaigns against the Hindus of Bangladesh and protecting the perpetrators of communal violence have been key measures employed by the police on the directives of Aziz.
In Chittagong alone, on November 26, there have been two cases against Hindus where the police are separately looking for 250-300 persons and 400-500 persons according to the case diary. Similarly, on November 27, there have been two cases, where in one case, the police are looking for 600-700 individuals and in another, the police are looking for 300-400 persons. “Most of these cases are extra judicial, illegal, against international norms of human rights and minority rights and targeting the weaker section of the society,” said the Human Rights Congress for Bangladeshi Minorities.
It was under Aziz’s command that the police in Bangladesh registered the outrageous sedition case against ISKCON leader Chinmoy Das, drawing sharp international reactions. The complaint was filed by BNP activist Firoz Khan, on which Aziz acted swiftly. Das was leading rallies against impunity with which the perpetrators of communal violence were operating and was drawing massive crowds which was becoming a cause of concern for the interim government.
Not just Das, but according to the rights body, in five separate false cases filed under different police stations in Chittagong in November, as many as 1,900 people were implicated as unnamed accused and around 100 were named as accused. Lawyers from the Hindu community who sought to represent Chinmoy Das were also implicated in false cases, thanks to the Nobel Laureate’s ‘Yes Man’ Hasib Aziz doing his job well. Blessed by Dr Yunus, Aziz also emerged as the key conspirator in shielding perpetrators of communal violence including arson and looting of Hindu businesses while overseeing the brutal crackdown at a Hindu neighbourhood Hazari Goli in Chittagong where hundreds were unlawfully detained and later arrested.
