Orders issued by Army Headquarters reassign key operational commanders and senior intelligence officials, including the head of DGFI, the country’s premier military intelligence agency.
The commission has alluded to India, in its report on the 2009 Bangladesh Rifles revolt, saying Hasina conspired with a 'foreign force' to 'weaken the Bangladesh Army'.
With every passing day the army is being dragged deeper into a quagmire of internal politics. 'This may soon lead to a crisis stalling the elections,' said a Bangladeshi journalist.
Warrants were issued against 32 individuals, including ex-PM Hasina & her military secretary Major General Kabir Ahmed. Detentions are among the most extensive within armed forces.
Without a transparent and independent investigation, the Bangladesh Army’s attempt to dismiss the UN’s findings appears to be a shoddy way of hiding the truth.
General Waker-Uz-Zaman was speaking at an army memorial event. This comes after student unions of BNP & Jamaat blamed each other for violence gripping the country.
The banned Islamist outfit Hizb ut-Tahrir is allegedly behind Dhaka’s student-led ISIS flag marches. Its true aim is to use the Bangladesh Army to seize power; it even planned a coup in 2011.
After dominating India’s crude imports since 2023, Russian supplies slowed amid US sanctions, but a 30-day ‘waiver’ amid West Asia tensions could now push flows back towards 2 mbpd.
Trump has ushered in the age of humiliation. His method is to push around America’s friends rudely and publicly. He knows none of them can afford to fight back.
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