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Bangladesh’s ex-foreign secretary says restoring order is ‘first priority’ — RT World News
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Bangladesh’s ex-foreign secretary says restoring order is ‘first priority’ — RT World News

Published August 15, 2024
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Shamsher M. Chowdhury, country’s former diplomat, has talked to RT about the road ahead after regime change

Resolving the concerns of the nation’s youth is key to addressing strife in Bangladesh, a former Foreign Secretary of Bangladesh and a senior diplomat, Shamsher M. Chowdhury, has said in an interview with RT. 

The former government minister, who also served as ambassador to Sri Lanka, Germany, Vietnam and Russia, shared his observation days after deadly demonstrations in Bangladesh against discriminatory job quotas forced the country’s Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina to resign and an interim government to be sworn in. 

The “main force” driving change in the country’s electoral politics, Chowdhury noted, is the youth, which constitutes around 50% of the population. Hence, every effort has to be made to provide them with “a sense of safety and security” of “jobs, economic opportunities, and a “more fair” distribution system for wealth, he added.

The first priority is to restore order, calm, and peace in society, the diplomat said, noting that sporadic incidents of violence are still being witnessed in the strife-torn nation. Over 400 people, mainly students, as well as dozens of police officers, have been killed in the protests, according to media reports. 

The head of an interim government, economist Muhammad Yunus, 2006 Nobel Peace Prize winner and globally known as the “banker to the poor” for founding a robust micro-lending model in Bangladesh, was sworn in last week. 


“Elections in Bangladesh do not enjoy the public trust anymore because of the polarization of the main political parties,” Chowdhury explained, referring to the main opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party and the recently ousted Awami League, led by now-ousted Sheikh Hasina. He advised that a non-party interim government should conduct the next election, to restore the people’s trust in the election process.

Chowdhury also questioned Hasina’s allegations that foreign countries were behind her ouster from power. Hasina was earlier quoted by the Economic Times as saying that she could have retained power if she had agreed to host a US military base on Saint Martin Island in Bangladesh. Notably, she has long blamed the United States for attempting to unseat her. After the last general election, the White House alleged that the polls were neither free nor fair.

However, Chowdhury insists that the recent protests that led to a change of government were rather “organic.”

Following the resignation of Hasina, reports of violence against Hindus, the largest minority in Muslim-dominated Bangladesh, emerged. At present, Hindus constitute around 8% of Bangladesh’s population. On Wednesday, Yunus met some members of the Hindu community at the Dhakeshwari Temple in the capital, Dhaka. He had condemned the alleged attacks and described them as “heinous.”

Meanwhile, neighboring India has set up a special panel to monitor alleged atrocities against Hindus in Bangladesh and turbulence along the country’s 4,000-kilometer long border with Bangladesh.

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