PM Modi Refuses to Silence Hasina Online: Yunus React, Bangladesh Boils Over Her Speeches from India

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Bangladesh interim leader Muhammad Yunus claims he asked Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi to block Sheikh Hasina’s online speeches — but Modi refused, saying, “It’s social media, you can’t control it.”  Yunus, who now leads Bangladesh after Hasina’s ouster, made this revelation during a talk at Chatham House in London.  As Hasina continues to address the Bangladeshi public from India, tensions rise, with Yunus accusing her of stirring unrest.  Meanwhile, Yunus’ own anti-India remarks and outreach to China have alarmed New Delhi.  Is Bangladesh heading into deeper turmoil? And is India taking a firm stand on digital freedom?    #Modi #SheikhHasina #MuhammadYunus #BangladeshPolitics #IndiaBangladesh #SocialMediaFreedom #Geopolitics #ChathamHouse #DigitalDiplomacy #ModiHasina #SouthAsia #ChinaInBangladesh  ~HT.318~PR.274~ED.103~GR.125~

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00:00All this anger is in there, and the whole anger and everything is now transferred in India.

00:06When I had a chance to talk to Prime Minister Modi, I just simply said,

00:10you want to host her? I cannot force you to.

00:14Modi's answer, I quote.

00:16He said, it's a social media, we cannot control it.

00:21What can you say?

00:22They sent notices to Hasina for all the crimes she has committed, part of the crimes.

00:27There's so many other crimes coming up.

00:28We want to build the best of relationship with India.

00:31It's our neighbor.

00:32Fake news is coming from the Indian press.

00:35As you described, if I had a chance to show the one-minute video of it,

00:41one-minute video for the entire thing, so whatever somebody captured,

00:45you'll understand what it is, how the things happened,

00:47how terrible things, how cruel things happened.

00:50So it's not the one minute.

00:52It goes on month after month that happened and came to the peak of this in July.

00:58And finally, 5th of August, the government disappeared.

01:02So all this anger is in there.

01:05And the whole anger and everything is now transferred in India

01:09because she, the prime minister, went there and started, not only she's living there.

01:15The problem is, when I had a chance to talk to Prime Minister Modi,

01:20I just simply said, you want to host her?

01:23I cannot force you to abandon that policy.

01:29But please help us in making sure she doesn't speak to Bangladeshi people the way she is doing.

01:39She announces on such and such day, at such and such hour, she will speak.

01:44And the whole Bangladeshi gets very angry.

01:47That's why she's speaking.

01:48Why is she keeping this whole anger thing inside of us now?

01:53And is India doing what you asked?

01:56No.

01:57Modi's answer, I quote, he said, it's a social media.

02:01We cannot control it.

02:03What can you say?

02:06It's an explosive situation.

02:08You can just walk away by saying it's a social media.

02:11So this is what is still going on.

02:13May I ask you, I believe in technical terms, you've written an informal, an unsigned diplomatic note to India.

02:20Yes, we did.

02:23Asking for her extradition.

02:24Absolutely.

02:25And they've noted that it has arrived.

02:27But does that mean, in a sense, you're leaving it to the next government?

02:31This will continue.

02:32But in the meantime, another stage has come that I just want to add.

02:38Now there's a case, the International Criminal Tribunal has started the trial process.

02:46They send notices to Kassina for all the crimes she has committed, part of the crimes.

02:51There's so many other crimes coming up.

02:53So they have to respond to that notice.

02:55This is a legal notice now.

02:57So we have to go to the Interpol and all the other things that happen through that.

03:00This is the process that we are following.

03:02We want it to be very legal, very proper.

03:05We don't want to make sure that we do something out of anger or something.

03:10We want to build the best of relationship with India.

03:13It's our neighbor.

03:14We don't want to have any kind of basic problem with them.

03:18But somehow things go wrong every time because of all the fake news coming from the Indian press.

03:25And some, many people say it has connections with the policymakers on the top and so on.

03:33So this is what makes Bangladesh very jittery, very, very angry.

03:38We try to get over this anger.

03:39But the whole barrage of things keep happening on the cyberspace.

03:45We can't just get away from that.

03:48Even if I try to peaceful anger, suddenly they say something, do something, anger comes back.

03:54So this is our now big task to make sure that we can have at least a peaceful life to go on with our life,

04:03to create the life that we are dreaming of.

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