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Bangladesh Slams India as Exiled Hasina Vows Return

Bangladesh Slams India as Exiled Hasina Vows Return

Is India undermining Bangladesh by harboring Hasina or is Dhaka silencing legitimate political opposition?
Bangladesh Slams India as Exiled Hasina Vows Return
Above: Sheikh Hasina in Dhaka on Jan. 8, 2024. Image credit: Indranil Mukherjee/AFP/Getty Images

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India is actively undermining Bangladesh by letting a convicted mass murderer use Indian soil to spread political venom against a sovereign nation. Allowing Sheikh Hasina to address the media in New Delhi — despite Bangladesh's explicit warnings — is a direct affront to the people who died in the July Revolution. Bangladesh deserves a bilateral relationship built on mutual respect, not one where India shields fugitives from justice.

The Bangladesh regime's furious reaction to a single press conference exposes just how threatened it is by legitimate political opposition. Over 20,000 Awami League members have been jailed, hundreds killed and minority communities terrorized since Hasina's ouster — yet the regime calls her irrelevant while scrambling to silence her. Bangladesh under this government is a repression machine masquerading as a democracy.


Metaculus Prediction

There's a 5% chance that Bangladesh's former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will return from exile before 2030, according to the Metaculus prediction community.


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