Bangladesh Unrest | Ex-Envoy: Yunus Is Jamaat Mouthpiece, Bangladesh Becoming 'Pre-1971 Pakistan'

On Statecraft, former Indian High Commissioner to Bangladesh Veena Sikri analyzes the escalating violence and political instability in Bangladesh. Sikri asserts that the ouster of Sheikh Hasina was a 'regime change operation' orchestrated by Pakistan, America, and Jamaat-e-Islami to establish a 'pre-1971 regime'. She characterizes Chief Adviser Muhammad Yunus as a 'mouthpiece of the Jamaat-e-Islami', criticizing his administration's failure to control Islamist mobs and the targeted lynching of Hindu worker Deepu Chandra Das. Sikri also condemns the 'partisan approach' of Western missions, specifically the German Embassy for flying its flag at half-mast for assassinated student leader Sharif Osman Hadi while ignoring minority persecution.