Supporters of Bangladesh’s Jamaat-e-Islami and 7 allied political events shout slogans throughout a rally to current their calls for earlier than the subsequent normal election, anticipated to be held in February, in Dhaka, Bangladesh, on November 11, 2025. | Photo Credit: AP
Unidentified assailants set fireplace to a department workplace of Muhammad Yunus-founded Grameen Bank in japanese Brahmanbaria early within the day. Later, an deserted railway carriage was torched at Dhaka railway station amid a collection of low-intensity blasts throughout the capital.
Though no casualties have been reported, a number of buses have been set ablaze whereas crude bombs exploded at Dhaka University and different elements of the town. The violence comes forward of Thursday’s (November 13) deliberate “Dhaka Lockdown” referred to as by Hasina’s now-disbanded Awami League, coinciding with the tribunal’s announcement.
Mr. Yunus, who’s at the moment the Chief Adviser of the interim authorities, based the Grameen Bank in 1983 and received the Nobel Peace Prize in 2006 for his work in poverty alleviation and the empowerment of poor girls.
The Home Ministry stated legislation enforcement businesses have been positioned on excessive alert with orders to behave with “zero-tolerance” towards any try to create unrest. Police carried out safety drills throughout the capital metropolis and deployed personnel at key places.
“There isn’t any trigger for concern or concern. Dhaka metropolis dwellers will stand towards the Awami League’s subversive actions,” Dhaka Metropolitan Police Commissioner Sheikh Mohammad Sajjat Ali advised reporters.
Hasina, at the moment in exile in India, is being tried in absentia by the International Crimes Tribunal–Bangladesh (ICT-BD).
Prosecutors have sought the demise penalty for her alleged function in ordering the violent suppression of final yr’s student-led “July Uprising,” which ultimately toppled her authorities on August 5, 2024.
Earlier this week, U.Ok.-based legislation agency Doughty Street Chambers submitted an “pressing attraction” to the United Nations, alleging that Hasina was being tried “in an atmosphere charged with political vengeance” beneath an “unelected interim authorities with no democratic mandate.”
Over latest weeks, the Awami League has filed a number of complaints in worldwide courts accusing the interim administration of political repression and human rights violations. Last month, the get together lodged a case with the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague, accusing the Mr. Yunus-led authorities of crimes towards humanity, together with killings and arbitrary arrests.
Former Foreign Minister A.Ok. Abdul Momen, who additionally served as Bangladesh’s everlasting consultant to the United Nations, final month wrote to the U.N. Human Rights Council alleging “political suppression, enforced disappearances, instances towards navy officers, impunity for criminals, and assaults on journalists”.
The predawn arson assault on Grameen Bank’s Chandura department in japanese Brahmanbaria broken paperwork and furnishings however spared the vault. It was the second such assault on the establishment after crude bombs have been hurled at its Dhaka head workplace on Monday (November 10).
That identical day, an natural meals outlet owned by interim cupboard member Farida Akhtar was focused in an analogous assault, whereas almost a dozen principally empty buses have been torched, killing one driver.
Low-intensity bomb and arson assaults occurred on Tuesday (November 11) as properly, prompting authorities to implement a round the clock safety vigil with orders for the arrest of any suspect on sight.
Police stated that they had arrested 552 Awami League activists prior to now 10 days and one other 44 on Wednesday (November 12) alone for allegedly creating unrest. Officials estimate that over 3,000 members of the “banned” get together have been detained since final month.
Last week, the Bangladesh Army withdrew half of its 60,000 personnel deployed on policing duties for “relaxation and coaching,” whereas further Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) models have been mobilised to take care of vigilance in and across the capital.
Published – November 13, 2025 01:09 am IST
