My Dear Fellow Hunters,
Thank you so much for your immense concern towards me. But rest assured. My family, friends, employees & I are perfectly safe & well. Bangladesh's future is currently uncertain but for the first time in 20 years... I look at the coming days of our country with a strong feeling of hope.
This woman, Hasina & her father (Sheikh Mujib) had done much to destroy my country. What they did to my country was basically rape. Not a rape of the flesh... but a rape of our economy, a rape of our freedom & a rape of our dignity. They made Bangladesh a neocolonial possession of India. And they were permitting India to have a say in our domestic policies as if they owned us (including our firearms & hunting laws).
Hasina's father amassed significant credit as the "Father Of The Nation". But let me tell you all somethings today, as a gazetted freedom fighter myself:
1) He never fought for a single day during the 1971 War of Independence. He was comfortably under "House Arrest" in Pakistan, smoking imported tobacco & having access to his personal chef 24/7 (as well his own bespoke tailor)... while the rest of us were risking our lives fighting against the Pakistani army (due to a feud which HE started with the Pakistani government for HIS OWN BENEFIT). He came back to Bangladesh in 1972 after the war was over, and was actually visibly fatter than when he had been placed under house arrest. After he came, he took credit for “Winning The War”.
2) From 1972 up until his assassination in 1975, he treated our local people like slaves. He had two personal paramilitary forces: Rakkhi Bahini & Lal Bahini. The sole purpose of these two paramilitary forces was to suppress any opposition against him. He would have his mercenaries chase innocent unarmed college students into tin sheds and blow them up to kingdom come with grenades. If you opened your mouth to say anything even remotely critical about him, your life was forfeit. There’s a very strong reason why the Bangladesh army drove tanks into his house in 1975 and massacred him & his entire family (okay, I don’t support the death of his family members but his sons were just as tyrannical as he was). There’s also a very strong reason why people in Bangladesh were publicly distributing sweets on the streets on the day that he was killed.
3) He never even originally intended for East Pakistan to become independent and for Bangladesh to be born. He originally wanted to be the leader of both East & West Pakistan. When the West Pakistani government refused to let him be their leader, Sheikh Mujib went to India and asked them for help to overthrow the Pakistani government. India (who wanted to destabilize Pakistan because they think that all of South East Asia belongs to them) agreed to help Sheikh Mujib break East Pakistan away from West Pakistan; with the unwritten agreement between Mujib and India being that India would have a lot of say in Mujib’s new country’s domestic policies. He never cared about making his country independent. He just wanted to stay at the top.
His daughter, Hasina was running our country like a God for the last 28 years. Her government looted our people’s assets, sabotaged relationships with any country whom India felt threatened by & taxed the living hell out of the ordinary people. If anybody protested, she would have them labeled as “Radical Islamic terrorists” to the outside world and then she would have them killed. Since the last one month, she has made police and her militias murder upwards of 2000 civilians (mostly teenaged college students). Even until yesterday morning, she was confident that she would stay in power. Whenever people would protest, she would order nationwide curfews and have the internet shut down. The only reason why she was overthrown, was because our army turned out to have a spine & a pair of testicles. Yesterday morning, she ordered them to fire on the unarmed masses but they instead refused and told her that it was time for her to step down.
It’s too early to tell, but our new government is handling everything very maturely. They have publicly made in very clear that Bangladesh equally belongs to people of all religions: Muslims, Hindus, Christians, Buddhists, Aethists & even Jews (after a 53 year ban on Judaism in Bangladesh). People from every religion & socio economic class worked together in order to overthrow her.
I know that Indian media is working very hard to portray to the outside world that Bangladesh has fallen to Islamic radicalism and that people from non-Muslim faiths are no longer safe here. They are doing this, because they will directly benefit from Hasina’s government running our country. But nothing could be further from the truth. We have no grudge against any religion. We don’t even have any grudge against India. But we do not want Indian interference in our nation anymore. For 53 years, they have reaped the benefits off the blood & sweat of the Bengali people. They tried to build a nuclear power plant in our protected forest. They took our prized Hilsha fish. They used the Farakka Dam to bully us by depriving our crops of water during draught (only opening the dam during monsoon season so that our country gets flooded). No more.
The people of India are not bad. But the Indian government had been using our previous regime to cripple our economic growth in every possible way.
This picture was taken today. This has always been the Bangladesh that I have dreamt of. A country where people are seen for their hard work & integrity. Not their faith. It took me 74 years to see it. But yes, miracles do happen.
Yes, there was some looting & vandalism and extra judicial killings last night. But it was strictly against supporters of the previous regime. I don’t personally support the practice but I can understand why the people are so angry. The previous regime did much injustice to the common people. It is just that they answer for what they’ve done.
Anyway, things are completely normal now. My grandchildren have finally been able to go to school today after a month.
As for me, I’ve been offered a spot as a potential candidate for a new post “IGF” (Inspector General of Forests). Only time will tell if I accept.
Warmest Regards,
Habib
P.S: Please don’t believe everything that international media writes. They mean well but they only write overviews of the real story without going in-depth. The first series of protests started with the quota. The last series of protests were over the 996 innocent civilians whom her regime murdered while they were protesting in regards to the quota.
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