Muhammad Yunus, who headed Bangladesh’s Interim Government between August 2024 and February 2026, was heckled by critics at New York’s John F Kennedy Airport who labelled him a “terrorist” and accused him of destroying democracy in Bangladesh.
While critics of Muhammad Yunus have held him responsible for allowing fundamentalist mobs to target minorities and several renowned institutions, Yunus’s government had simply labelled them “law and order” incidents.
Attacks on minorities in Bangladesh had seen a sharp rise as the interim government led by Yunus had released terrorists from jail and emboldened radicals within the country. During Yunus’s regime, several Hindus were killed, and a Hindu monk, Chinmoy Krishna Das, has been incarcerated for months on flimsy, trumped-up charges for raising his voice and calling for solidarity among Hindus. NCP Diaspora Alliance USA, a support group affiliated with the National Citizen’s Party in Bangladesh that came into being during the Yunus regime and is known for several radical statements and anti-India comments by its leaders, condemned the ‘harassment’ in a statement on social media platform X. A video shows a man accusing him of killing thousands of children and police officers and of destroying democracy. The party’s former leader has since been convicted of crimes against humanity.
The UN has said as many as 1,400 people may have been killed in the July 2024 uprising, the vast majority shot by security forces.
Yunus’s government had simply labelled them “law and order” incidents and denied the targeted harassment of minorities, especially Hindus in Bangladesh after the fall of the Sheikh Hasina government in August 2024 following violent protests in the country While critics of Yunus have held him responsible for allowing fundamentalist mobs to target minorities and several renowned institutions. “According to reports from New York, activists of the banned Awami League confronted him on his arrival from Doha. This is not the first such incident,” the NCP Diaspora alliance said in the post.
