April 19, 2025
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Bangladesh party decries protesters as offices torched

A Bangladeshi party formerly close to the regime ousted by a student-led revolution said yesterday that some protesters were “splitting” the nation, a day after a mob torched its offices.Jatiya Party chief Ghulam Muhammed Quader, a former commerce minister under toppled ex-leader Sheikh Hasina, said the offices were burned down in an arson attack by furious protesters late on Thursday.“The country is now divided”, Quader told reporters in Dhaka.“They disregard everyone else, splitting the country into ‘pure’ and ‘impure’ factions… They determine who is culpable and who is not, leaving no room for justification. Once they tag someone as culpable, it’s final.”Quader’s Jatiya Party was criticised for taking part in elections in January boycotted by the main opposition, and in which Hasina won a fourth consecutive term.Hasina’s rule saw widespread human rights abuses, including the mass detention and extrajudicial killings of her political opponents.She fled to India by helicopter on August 5 after months of protests against her 15-year autocratic rule.Some of the top student protest leaders are now part of the cabinet of the interim government, which is led by Nobel Peace Prize winner Muhammad Yunus.Dozens of Hasina’s loyalists have since been detained.“They decide everything – they can vandalise, set fire to our offices, and remain above the law,” Quader said, without specifying names.

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