Newsinc24 Team 
Bangladesh’s exiled former prime minister Sheikh Hasina on Friday launched a sharp attack on the interim government led by Mohammad Yunus,accusing him of running an "illegal, violent" regime and plunging the country into what she described as an age of terror, lawlessness and democratic exile. In an audio message played at the Foreign Correspondents’ Club of South Asia in New Delhi, Hasina accused the Yunus-led administration of pushing Bangladesh into an era of terror, lawlessness and democratic exile, and called on her supporters to rise up to "overthrow the foreign-serving puppet regime."
The event, titled 'Save Democracy in Bangladesh', was attended by several former ministers from Hasina's Awami League government and members of the Bangladeshi diaspora. Though Hasina did not appear in person, her speech - broadcast to a packed hall - was sweeping in its rhetoric and unsparing in its characterisation of Yunus, whom she repeatedly labelled a "murderous fascist," "usurer," "money launderer," and "power-hungry traitor." Hasina also called for an end to acts of violence and lawlessness in Bangladesh and an “ironclad guarantee” for the safety of religious minorities, women and the most vulnerable sections of society. She demanded that the United Nations should conduct a “new and truly impartial investigation” into the events since the fall of her government.
Describing Yunus as a “corrupt, power-hungry traitor” who had a hand in a conspiracy to oust her government, Hasina said: “In this grave hour, the entire nation must rise united and galvanised by the spirit of our great Liberation War. “To overthrow the foreign-serving puppet regime of this national enemy at any cost, the brave sons and daughters of Bangladesh must defend and restore the Constitution written in the blood of martyrs, reclaim our independence, safeguard our sovereignty, and revive our democracy.”
"Bangladesh stands today at the edge of an abyss, a nation battered and bleeding, navigating one of the most perilous chapters in its history,” she said, invoking the legacy of the Liberation War and her father, Sheikh Mujibur Rahman. “The entire country has become a vast prison, an execution ground, a valley of death.” Hasina alleged that since August 5, 2024, when she was forced out, democracy had effectively been driven into exile.
