Send Sheikh Hasina Back To Dhaka, Bangladesh Writes To India

The interim authorities in Bangladesh has despatched a diplomatic notice and urged India to ship deposed Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina again to Dhaka. The 77-year-old Awami League chief has been dwelling in India since August 5 when she fled Bangladesh amid huge protests that introduced down her 16-year-old regime and compelled her to flee.

The Dhaka-based Worldwide Crimes Tribunal (ICT) has issued arrest warrants in names of Sheikh Hasina and her ministers, advisors and former army and civil officers, accusing them of “crimes in opposition to humanity and genocide”.

Touhid Hossain, the international affairs adviser within the interim authorities, advised reporters, “We now have despatched a notice verbale (diplomatic message) to the Indian authorities saying that Bangladesh desires her again right here for the judicial course of.”

Earlier, Residence Advisor Jahangir Alam stated his workplace has despatched a letter to the Exterior Affairs Ministry right here to facilitate Ms Hasina’s extradition. “We now have despatched a letter to the international ministry concerning her extradition. The method is presently underway,” he advised the media.

Mr Alam stated an extradition treaty exists between Dhaka and New Delhi Ms Hasina may very well be taken again to Bangladesh beneath that association.

The diplomatic communication searching for Sheikh Hasina’s return comes weeks after International Secretary Vikram Misri visited Bangladesh and spoke to Chief Advisor within the interim authorities, Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus. Talking to reporters in Dhaka, Mr Misri had stated he had a frank, candid, and constructive change of views together with his interlocutors and mentioned the complete gamut of points within the “extraordinarily essential bilateral relationship”. He stated India had additionally raised the problem of assaults on minorities, together with Hindus, with Bangladesh leaders.

A press release from the Chief Advisor’s workplace had stated that Sheikh Hasina’s keep in India was additionally mentioned. The Chief Advisor had then stated, “Our persons are involved as a result of she is making many statements from there. It creates tensions.”

Forward of the International Secretary’s go to, Ms Hasina focused the interim authorities and accused Muhammad Yunus of operating a “fascist regime”. In a digital deal with to Awami League supporters in London, she alleged that Muhammad Yunus was the “mastermind” behind the political turmoil that ended her regime.

“Since August 5, the assaults on minorities, locations of worship of Hindus, Christians and Buddhists have been rampant. We condemn it. The Jamaat and terrorists are having a free run beneath the brand new regime,” she stated. “Bangladesh is now beneath the grip of a fascist regime the place folks’s democratic rights have been obliterated. Our authorities’s achievements in poverty alleviation and infrastructure improvement, strengthening of democracy have been being undone beneath Yunus’s management,” she added.