International sanctions may be imposed on Bangladesh - New York Times

The Dhaka Times Desk The world's influential newspaper New York Times has reported the latest crisis in Bangladesh in their editorial and there they said that international sanctions may be imposed on Bangladesh if the crisis is not resolved!

The New York Times It is said that recently the opposition party went on a strike for 6 consecutive days and brutally suppressed the opponents of the government, resulting in the death of innocent people. In addition, several top leaders of the country's main opposition parties have been arrested and unjustly jailed and remanded, and many human rights activists have also been detained by the Sheikh Hasina government.

The New York Times says that the current Prime Minister of Bangladesh, Sheikh Hasina, is responsible for today's political crisis. Unethically, he abolished the caretaker government system from the constitution and inserted the process of forming an interim government under the current government.[1]* This process is basically not acceptable to the leader of the opposition Khaleda Zia.

In the New York Times editorial, it is also said that the current head of the government of Bangladesh wants to win the upcoming January elections and retain power, in this case they are suppressing the opposition in various ways.

In the last part of the New York Times report, they say about Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islam, an organization banned by Bangladesh's Supreme Court for war crimes.

The New York Times also claimed that the trial of the International Criminal Tribunal formed to prosecute war criminals during the Great Liberation War of Bangladesh in 1971 for genocide, looting and rape was also motivated.[2]* The New York Times claimed that the verdicts already given by the International Criminal Tribunal were made to target several leaders of the opposition in the name of false and fabricated war crimes, and their execution is also questionable.

After all, the New York Times said in their observation that if the Sheikh Hasina government arrests and persecutes opposition parties and human rights activists in this way and conducts one-sided elections, international sanctions may be imposed on Bangladesh in the future. So Sheikh Hasina government should bring back the independence of judiciary in Bangladesh and create a fair election environment in the country.

[1] [The constitution of Bangladesh gives the parliamentarians the power to change the constitution by a vote of 2/3 of the representatives elected by the people of Bangladesh, and the Bangladesh Awami League has that number of parliamentarians. ]

[2] [The International Crimes (Tribunal) Act 1973 is a law passed in 1973 under which Bangladesh can detain and punish under criminal law all members of the armed forces, defense and any of its auxiliary forces under international law, including genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity.]