Bangladesh News and Discussion

[ricky_v]

much as the beedis are angling for a beating, the best option for now would be to completely shut down all contact, close down the embassy, other attaches, recall the staff

on the offensive front, stop all electricity citing unpaid dues, tamper with the transmission lines from nepal to bd as they are on indian soil

the reason is that pakistan and bd are not the same issue as people consider them to be, pakistan had a revolution, its society is mature and stable when compared to the bd society which is mentally brittle and skittish, when pakis indulge in terrorism and war making on india it is a ways and means of damaging an enemy, when bd will ultimately resort to this option, it will be due to a zeal of an unfinished revolution that they could not fulfill on their own against pakistan; this brings a lot of loser / emotional energy that we can currently do without in entanglement; iow, a war with pakistan would be a war on both sides, a conflict with bd would be a war from our side and a fight for independence / revolution from their side

the next step in the escalation matrix would be targeting indian military establishments to provoke a response which should be preempted, the play should be to maintain a state of liquid oxygen for the foreseeable future on a G2G level

on a broader scale, it does not matter if yunus is masterminding these to remain in power, ultimately it is the peoples themselves who are undertaking every outrage with over enthusiastic zeal, no one can mastermind that, its an intrinsic value of their society

basic point: the bds are emotional, closer to mentally stunted mongos than regular humans as a society, they are looking to hurt anything that they perceive to be closer to or a proxy to india, remove all such valuables from their reach and stifle them from the outside. In the longer run, their backers will furnish them with adequate facilities inside their country, but that is into the future, we would have lost that avenue anyways down the line

[KL Dubey]

India has one chicken neck and Bangladesh has two chicken necks. So, if they think of attacking our chicken neck, we will attack their two necks.

If Bharat moves on BD neck #1, that will also automatically make our siliguri neck disappear altogether. A 150-km wide connection to the NE states will not be a "neck" any more.

[saip]

Bangladesh has two PIG's throats - a little thicker than a chicken-neck but still eminently severable. And being an Islamic state they love that designation.

[bala]

IG made two mistakes post BD liberation from the Pukes. The first one is not releasing the afsaars of Pak Army (around 5K atmost) and using them to settle kashmore once and for all, ie. return kashmore completely to India. The next blunder is allowing the BDs to have an independent nation with armed forces. The condition should have been no armed forces and Indian armed forces will take over the function of BD protection from outside - mainly Indian Navy which parks itself in chittagong harbor and some BSF types patrolling the border areas.

India has to be prepared to severe both the necks (chicken or pig). The Indian army and navy can easily do the needful, all it takes is one command.

[RCase]

A special military operation to 'monitor' the Dhaka-Chittagong Hwy N1 at Feni river would cut off their access to transportation from Chittagong port.

[sanjaykumar]

Are the Chittagong hill tracts still Buddhist majority, Chakma I believe?

[A_Gupta]

"After fighting for his life for six days, Sharif Osman Hadi, spokesperson for Inqilab Moncho, passed away on Thursday night.

In a Facebook post around 9:40pm, Inqilab Moncho first announced the death. "In the struggle against Indian hegemony, Allah has accepted the great revolutionary Osman Hadi as a martyr.""

While I do not condone violence, the pious wish that Allah rapidly comes into the company of a great many "revolutionaries" keeps intruding in my thoughts. But these words "in the struggle against Indian hegemony" are meant to provoke strong Indian reactions.

I dunno if the newspaper journalists still have any brains left; but point out if you have an opportunity, that Prothomalo and the Daily Star had nothing to do with "Indian hegemony" or the murder of Osman Hadi, and yet their fellow Bangladeshis looted their offices and set them on fire. If they were misled by lies and propaganda to strike Bangla newspapers, then maybe their narrative against an easier target, the big bad neighbor across the border might be also all lies and propaganda. Maybe these journalists can still commit an act of journalism and figure this out.

[A_Gupta]

In 1965, Pakistan launched Operation Gibraltar (that is the name, I think) in Kashmir - the idea was that agent provocateurs would cause the Kashmiri population to rise up against India; and then the Pakistani Army would sweep in. To the Pakis' dismay, Kashmiris exposed these agents to the Indian security forces.

Perhaps a similar operation is on in Bangladesh - agents to foment unrest, all directed against India. Yesterday's riots and lynching of a Hindu youth were the latest in this. The question to me is, if my surmise is valid, why are Banglas more susceptible to this instigation?

[A_Gupta]

A further thought - Banglas' connection with the wider Bharatiya civilization would be through West Bengal. However, West Bengal has, to put it kindly, stagnated. E.g., just from the point of view of economy, W.B. went from in rankings from 3-4th state in 1971 to now the 13th state in 2025. This is not a very attractive connection to have. I'm not trying to claim that an economically and culturally vibrant W.B., bristling with the soft power of long ago, would overcome the effects of Islamic radicalization in Bangladesh; I am saying that it would slow it down.

From this POV, settling the issues in India's northeast and its borders requires a good, high performance Bharatiya-culture-oriented state government in W.B - NDA or otherwise. Those who can work for it must.

Don't bring up East vs West Punjab - the situation and history in Punjab is very different. Bangla-Bharat is its own unique situation.

[Rudradev]

I see this being settled much as Egypt was after the Arab Spring. For awhile, a Muslim Brotherhood swine known as Mohammed Morsi manage to seize power through heavily compromised (i.e. mob-violence contaminated) "elections"... with the US State Dept's blessing. Ultimately he was ousted by an army coup and Egypt came under the military rule of the pragmatic Gen. Al-Sisi, who continues to govern to this day.

The BD armed forces have many factions, including a pro-Jamaat Islamist one, but the mainstream appears to be quite pragmatic. Indeed, they are the ones holding the line against a complete Islamist takeover by force even today; the police are essentially nonexistent following murders of over 1100 cops since Yunuq took power.

An advisable strategy is for India to let BD spiral into ever worsening internal chaos while not lifting a finger against ANY provocation. As in Egypt, when a military coup finally comes it will have the support of the masses. Meanwhile India needs to identify its candidates among the BD military and work behind the scenes to ensure that its man is the one who successfully comes out on top.

A key difference between Egypt and BD is that there was no Pakistan equivalent backing Morsi in Egypt. What India needs to do while ignoring BD provocations is to sort out Pakistan, exacting retribution for the Al Falah bomber network and inflicting as much sustained pain on TSPA/ISI as practically possible. This will inhibit the capacity of Pakistan to continue interfering in BD and leave the field open for our desired outcome.

[vera_k]

A further thought - Banglas' connection with the wider Bharatiya civilization would be through West Bengal. However, West Bengal has, to put it kindly, stagnated.

I read an economic article that attributes West Bengal's decline to the creation of East Pakistan/Bangladesh. The theory was that Kolkata lost its hinterland and therefore stagnated.

[A_Gupta]

I read an economic article that attributes West Bengal's decline to the creation of East Pakistan/Bangladesh. The theory was that Kolkata lost its hinterland and therefore stagnated.

That was true for a while. But the hinterland to the west of Kolkata did develop.

I am told that in the 1990s when the PC was first introduced, and companies wanted to computerize, West Bengal labor unions went on strike with the support of the government. It was at that time companies started migrating to Bangalore from (then) Calcutta, and as they say, the rest is history.

[chetak]

what was the necessity for the amrikis to do this, especially since they have never condoled the death of any "local leader" anywhere.

this is a crude but unmistakable endorsement of the idea of "greater kangladesh" that the amrikis are backing, just to keep the pot boiling


US Embassy mourns death of Sharif Osman Hadi

The US Embassy in Dhaka on Friday expressed deep sorrow over the death of Sharif Osman Hadi, spokesperson of Inqilab Mancha.

In an official statement posted on its verified platform, the embassy said: "We join the people of Bangladesh in mourning the loss of youth leader Sharif Osman Hadi and extend our deepest condolences to his family, friends and supporters."

https://www.dhakatribune.com/bangladesh ... osman-hadi

[uddu]

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