The Bangladesh Army Chief blamed Tuesday for internal struggles to deteriorate the law and order, warning that the profits of the revolution led by students who knocked down the government last August were at risk.
Bangladesh has been struggling to stop an increase in violent crime, and security forces arrested thousands of this month attacking gangs allegedly related to the party of the expelled prime minister, Sheikh Hasina.
“If you cannot go beyond your differences and continue to be entrusting and fighting among you, the independence and integrity of the country will be at risk, I warn you,” said General Wakeruz Zaman, without pointing out any group by name.
“Since interested parties are busy accusing each other, criminals find the situation favorable. They believe they can go out with their own, ”he said in an army commemorative event.
Bangladesh has been divided by a wave of crime, as well as protests this month where the crowds broke buildings connected to the Hasina family.
Last week, the features of rival students faced a university campus, a sign of serious discord among the instrumental groups to boost the uprising against Hasina.
The security forces have arrested more than 8,600 people since he launched “Operation Devil Hunt” on February 8, which the Government accused of being Loyal Hasina and wanting to “destabilize” the country.
“The anarchy we have witnessed is manufactured by us,” said Zaman.
‘Trapped in the same cycle’
Bangladesh has a long history of military blows.
While it was Zaman who took charge after Hasina fled by helicopter to India on August 5, he had also urged people to support the pioneer of microfinance winner of the Nobel Prize Muhammad Yunus.
Yunus, 84, promises to institute long -range democratic reforms and celebrate general elections at the end of 2025 or early 2026, and Waker had sworn in the interim government.
“At first, I said it would take 18 months to celebrate an election,” Zaman said. “We are on that path. Professor Yunus is doing everything possible to keep us together. Let’s help it. “
The leading student protest leader, Nahid Islam, resigned on Tuesday to the government cabinet, where the Telecommunications Ministry headed, before the expected launch of a new political party on Friday.
Yunus has said that he inherited a “completely broken” public administration and justice system that needs a comprehensive review to avoid a future return to autocracy.
The Army Chief said that the security forces accused of a series of accusations “of forced disappearances, murder and torture must be investigated.”
“The punishment must be guaranteed,” he said. “Otherwise, we will be trapped in the same cycle.” The Armed Forces received judicial powers such as the Police, including the realization of arrests, after the revolution.
But Zaman, a career infantry officer who has spent almost four decades in the army, fulfilling two tours as a UN pacifier, said he just wanted a break.
“I just want to take the country and the nation to a stable point and then take a vacation,” he said.
“After that, we will return to our barracks. “
