Posted on 08/25/2024 5:19:50 AM PDT by MtnClimber
Wherever one looks, socialism leaves behind a legacy of suffering and death on a mass scale, and Bangladesh’s socialist experiment was no exception.
In 1971, Sheikh Mujibur Rahman led his country, Bangladesh, to independence from Pakistan. Afterward, he ruled as a brutal tyrant, turned to communist economics, and starved to death over one million people. Then he was assassinated.
However, his surviving daughter, Sheikh Hasina, later rose to power in Bangladesh, establishing a cronyist, leftist dictatorship. Her regime never reinstated her father’s communist economic policies, but it did create a personality cult of Mujibur Rahman, commonly known in the region simply as Mujib.
Mujib was proclaimed the ‘greatest Bengali in a 1000 years.’ His daughter’s regime dedicated a whole month of each year to “mourning” Mujibur Rahman’s assassination.
Sheikh Hasina herself was overthrown recently amidst outrage over her regime’s brutal repression of student demonstrators. Urban liberals, conservative nationalists, and radical Islamists united behind the protest movement, forcing Bangladesh’s armed forces to depose Hasina.
As Bangladeshis take their country back from decades of leftwing misrule and historical falsification, it is now more important than ever to tell the forbidden truth about Mujibur Rahman, for he was the worst communist-inspired mass murderer in the history of the Indian subcontinent.
Mujib started his career as a pragmatic, populist politician during the British Raj when the colonial authorities first arrested him. After the Indian subcontinent was partitioned in 1947, Bangladesh found itself awkwardly lumped together with a linguistically and culturally alien Pakistan in a single Muslim-majority state.
Mujib wasn’t known for any interest in communism; he demanded linguistic and political rights for Bangladeshis. For this, various military regimes that came to rule Pakistan jailed him. The famous British-Pakistani investigative journalist Anthony Mascarenhas, Mujib’s friend for many years, suggested that Mujib’s prison...
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Here is a hint: Don’t try marxism/socialism/communism again.
Let me guess, anti ‘gouging’ price controls were part of his ‘for the people’ program.
Speaking of Sheikh Hasina, the daughter:
Bangladesh prime minister says Clinton personally pressured her to help foundation donor
Circa.com ^ | 5/11/17 | Sara Carter
Posted on 5/11/2017, 8:22:09 AM by blueyon
WATCH | An update on Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s conversation with Hillary Clinton over Dr. Muhammad Yunus’ removal from Grameen Bank.
While secretary of state, Hillary Clinton made a personal call to pressure Bangladesh’s prime minister to aid a donor to her husband’s charitable foundation despite federal ethics laws that require government officials to recuse themselves from matters that could impact their spouse’s business.
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What side was “The concert for Bangladesh” on?
George Harrison didn’t get nearly the respect he deserved while with the Beatles. But as a political “force” he struck out,big time...costing a million plus people their lives.
Seems like the last socialist to figure out that socialism didn’t work was Mussolini....
Let’s add another million dead innocents to the communism/socialism total.
On this guy’s side.
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