The violence and attacks on minorities increased at an alarming rate just before the 2001 elections. BNP-Jamaat terrorists beat and threatened more than half a hundred families to refrain from voting. According to a news report by the Prothom Alo on October 1, 2001, the leaders of BNP and Jamaat-e-Islam and Chhatra Dal-Shibir systematically thr...
The BNP-Jamaat alliance started plundering countless money from the country's every sector including energy, power, climate, telecommunication, and shipping since they came to power in 2001. Denmark withdrew Tk 264 crores (USD 45.5 million) from the development of Bangladesh's shipping sector in 2002 due to the corruption of Khaleda Zia's shippi...
The regime from 2001 to 2006 will always be marked as a horrible period in the political history of Bangladesh. This regime of BNP-Jamaat is a sign of how hellish a country can be taken by the ruling party. Even today, those days still haunt the people who witnessed the regime. Without waiting, the thugs started a rampage even before coming to p...
The top brushes of BNP-Jamaat grabbed the country’s land using their state and muscle power during their tenure between 2001 and 2006. They built illegal structures by filling up thousands of acres of land in Buriganga, Turag rivers in Dhaka and Shitalaksha river in Narayanganj. As soon as Tarique Rahman gong started illegally occupying 15...
The head teacher of Raghunathpur Primary School of Tala Upazila in Satkhira ran away from the area to save his life after being threatened by BNP-Juba Dal terrorists. As there was no school in that area, Babur Ali, a local, donated 33 decimals of his land and established a primary school in 1991. His son Mizanur became the headmaster of the scho...
The pro-BNP staff in Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman Medical University hospital drove away more than one hundred patients soon in line with BNP-Jamaat leaders' order after forming the government in 2001. They also swooped on doctors who tried to protect critically injured patients. More than a hundred Awami League leaders and activists, who l...
The United Nations took a cautious stance after the nearly one-and-a-half crore fake voters and the BNP’s election conspiracy came to light. On January 22, 2007, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon vowed to cancel all technical assistance for the BNP-Jamaat monopoly elections. They also closed the office in Dhaka to observe the election. The ...
In an urgent recruitment process, the BNP-Jamaat government appointed 300 party cadres as upazila election officers ahead of the January 22 elections in 2007. In the history of Bangladesh, there has never been such quick recruitment through PSC. The Khaleda Zia government tarnished the Public Service Commission and the recruitment process in gov...
BNP-Jamaat leaders and activists started repressing the ordinary people and looting their properties immediately after they formed the government in October 2001. At the beginning of 2002, Jamaat MP Maulana Abdus Sobhan ordered the distribution of 2,100 VGF cards among the leaders and workers of Jamaat-Shibir though it was allocated to the poor ...
Bangladesh Awami League (AL) General Secretary and Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader on Saturday said the main goal of BNP is to bring down the government so that it (BNP) can bring back 'Hawa Bhaban' in the country through militancy, reports BSS. "The fall of the government means power. Take back Bangladesh means Hawa Bhaban...
Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader on Monday described BNP as the main patron of killing, coup, conspiracy, corruption, criminalisation, terrorism and militancy in this country. "Continuing their long-practised politics of falsehood, the BNP leaders are involved in multifaceted plots and ill-efforts, he said in a statement issued &ls...
The Canadian Federal Court in Ottawa, Ontario in Gazi v. Canada (Citizenship and Immigration) (2017 FC 94) held that BNP is indeed a terrorist organization. The court took into account that BNP is a party that uses armed struggle or violence to reach political objectives, uses ‘ammunitions and arms’ like hand bombs, pistols, and big swords like ...
The period 2001-06 is considered as one of the darkest chapters in the history of Bangladesh during which period large-scale corruption flourished with direct patronage from the highest level of the kleptocratic 4-Party Alliance Government led by Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP). During the reign of the then Prime Minister Khaleda Zia, the cor...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has reaffirmed to continue her government’s ongoing drive against terrorism, militancy, narcotics and corruption, saying that this “sickness” of the society will have to be rooted out.“Due to the misdeeds of those, who ruled the country for 21 years after the assassination of Bangabandhu in 19...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has sought cooperation from all including lawmakers, public representatives and noted personalities irrespective of parties and opinions to work in unison to stamp-out irregularities, injustices and corruption from the society for the continuation of the development. “I seek cooperation fro...
Describing adulteration of food as one kind of “corruption”, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today said this ill practice must be stopped at any cost to save the life of the people. “We earned a huge success in anti-terrorism drive. We are also continuing our operation against corruption, and adulteration of food is one sort of g...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today urged the home ministry officials to work for uprooting corruption, drug and militancy aimed at building Bangladesh as a peaceful nation in South Asia. “Corruption, drug and militancy grasped the whole society like deadly diseases as the military dictators ruled the country for a long time,” she sa...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina came down heavily on BNP for making a convict its chairman and expressed her doubt about the ability of the party to do any good to the people as "it has taken corruption as its principle". "I want to tell the countrymen and parliament members through hounourable Speaker what work will be done by a party which...
Stating that the government didn't withdraw any case against her, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has said those who will commit corruption and terrorism and get involved in militancy must be tried to ensure the country's peace and development. "We want to bring a peaceful environment ... we want to develop the country and change the lot of the pe...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has described BNP chief Khaleda Zia's punishment as natural consequences of her past deeds particularly her role in burning to death innocent people in the name of political campaign in 2013-2015. "Khaleda Zia looted public property when she was in power . . . she burnt to death over 500 people and injured ove...
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