Dhaka: Bangladesh's Awami League Party has alleged that last year’s violent July demonstrations were not a spontaneous revolution, but a "carefully orchestrated coup" executed by unelected technocrats, backed by foreign powers, and led by Muhammad Yunus, the Chief Advisor of the interim government in the country.
On the morning of August 5, 2024, Bangladesh witnessed the fall of the government led by former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina. "The architects of this coup did not just remove Sheikh Hasina — they attempted to erase everything she and the Awami League stood for.
"With one stroke, the legacy of Bangabandhu was thrown into question, the hard-earned achievements of the past 15 years were cast aside, and the machinery of the state was handed over to opportunists and ideological mercenaries," the Awami League said in a statement issued this week.
The party stated that from the beginning, last year's movement "masquerading as a student-led protest over quotas" showed signs of deeper engineering. Awami League questioned how a policy dispute could balloon overnight into a national crisis, and who funded the logistics behind massive rallies, media campaigns, and legal battles.
