USA INTEREFERING IN BANGLADESH

SARASIJ MAJUMDER

We do not need USA as  WORLD leader AND SELF-APPOINTED GURDIAN OF GLOBAL DEMOCRACY anymore. In a quick developing multi-polar world, all that the US needs to do is to have faith in the ability of people across the world to make choices for themselves in matters of their own countries. USA keeps on spoiling  this  using Military power, Clandestine operations, economic sanctions, offices of UNO … all with disastrous results. Many times, USA retreated with a broken and bloody Nose—still this country never learns!

I rather completely blame USA CITIZENS not forcing their leaders, and CIA to stop interfering with other countries—particularly who are economically, and politically weak.

The not so  recent push by the USA to ‘ensure democracy’ in South Asia has been in Bangladesh with US Secretary of State Antony Blinken recently announcing that any individual seen as undermining the democratic election process in Bangladesh would face visa restrictions. The US Assistant Secretary, Bureau South and Central Asian Affairs Donald Lu also reiterated the centrality of ‘promotion of democracy across the world’ in the Biden - Harris administration.

Some have seen this move as a mere retaliation to the removal of police protocol of four diplomatic missions to Bangladesh, including the USA. But not only Sheikh Hasina’s allegation against the USA, where she accused them of seeking a ‘regime change’ but also the history of USA’S  interference across the world points towards a more complex situation.

We will discuss GLOBAL INTERFERENCE later. Today we talk about our eastern neighbour—BANGLADESH.

Humanitarian concerns of USA in Bangladesh is actually CROCODILE’s TEARS SHED  and is a  US decision of  unnecessary intervention in a  South Asian country.

Not required at all, particularly when BANGLADESH is having a difficult time since Murder of Bangabandhu, masterminded by another USA’s stooge—Pakistan. Under Begum—Bangladesh was  completely controlled by  Islamist Fundamentalists. Under Sheikh Hasina, slowly it is recovering from that. She is daughter of BANGABANDHU, and know her country, and her people well.

USA wants to disturb this process by installing a PUPPET authoritarian regime in Bangladesh ala Pakistan.  In the context of the chequered US history of intervening in countries to promote democracy it would be wise for Sheikh Hasina to tread carefully as the elections in Bangladesh coming closer. After the US imposed sanctions several members of Rapid Action Battalion, an elite paramilitary unit which the US alleges were sanctioned for alleged extra judicial killings and disappearances, followed by US Ambassador to Bangladesh Peter Haas meeting families of victims as well as opposition leader Shahidul Islam Sumon’s family, it is clear that the USA has set its sights on fiddling with Bangladesh election.

Sheikh Hasina, foreseeing imminent interference, has typically not minced her words, saying in Parliament that, “They are trying to eliminate democracy and introduce a government that will not have a democratic existence, it’ll be an undemocratic action.”

India too must keep a close eye on these developments.  It seems India’s PM already spoken to President of USA.

BUT WHEN  THE DEVIL HAS  LISTEN TO THE SCRIPTURES ??