How USAID and NED Funded the Bloody Biden Color Revolution in Bangladesh with $1.73 Billion
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Ever since the elected Prime Minister of Bangladesh Sheikh Hasina was overthrown on 5 August 2024, radical Muslims close to Clinton-related “interim” dictator Muhammad Yunus have been conducting violent pogroms against Hundus, Sikhs and Christians, as The Gateway Pundit reported. A new report details how the violent overthrow of the democratically elected government was funded by USAID and the National Endowment for Democracy.
The report “American Aid and Regime Change in Bangladesh: A Primer” by Jaibal Naduvath was published by the Indian Observer Research Foundation.
Sheikh Hasina ran afoul of the US Deep State “Blob” regime change apparatus over her refusal to take sides in the US-Russia conflict over Ukriane. “Hasina has accused Washington (read: USAID and NED) —of undermining her government through an extensive web of influence operations, allegedly in retaliation for her refusal to cede control of Saint Martin’s Island in the Bay of Bengal to the US which was planning to set up an airbase there to counter China,” the ORF report states.
Bangladesh was delaying signing two military agreements pushed by former Under-Secretary of State Victoria Nuland, which would bind Bangladesh to closer military-to-military cooperation with Washington, as Jeffrey Sachs wrote on Common Dreams.
Speaking to Newsmax in February, cyber security expert Mike Benz stated that NED and the International Republican Institute (IRI) in tandem with USAID “funded Bagladeshi rap groups and transgender dance festivals and the local universities to push radicalization messages and overthrow the democratically elected government.””
Between US fiscal years 2020 and 2024, Bangladesh received a total of US$2.29 billion in aid, of which US$1.73 billion came from USAID alone”, the ORF report states. Within days of the new “interim” government in Bangladesh assuming office, USAID signed a US$200-million development agreement with it for what it described as support “in advancing development, strengthening governance, expanding trade and creating greater opportunities for the Bangladeshi people to build a brighter and more prosperous future.”
The new “Chief Adviser” for the new government is Muhammad Yunus, a close associate of Bill and Hillary Clinton who is a donor to the Clinton Foundation. Yunus attended the Clinton Global Initiative in September 2024 and boasted that the seemingly spontaneous “revolution” that toppled Hasina had actually been “meticulously-designed,” The Grayzone reported.
“Yunus is not the only new Bangladeshi leader with clear ties to Washington. In 2021, his new foreign minister, Touhid Hossain, served as a “featured guest presenter” at a USAID workshop which trained Bangladeshi reporters on “countering misinformation.””
According to The Grayzone, the International Republican Institute IRI “spent millions in the lead-up to Hasina’s overthrow covertly coaching opposition parties and establishing an opposition network concentrated among the country’s urban youth.”
According to the report, rapper Towfique Ahmed was awarded “advocacy grants” for the production of two music videos, Tui Parish (You Can!) and E Daay Kaar (Demand It!).
“Released on Facebook and YouTube, the former is a rallying cry for urban youth disillusioned with the government, including calls to street protests, while the latter shines a spotlight on social problems, such as poverty and denial of labour rights, all intended, according to the report, to “build up disappointment and…dissent to government”. (During the 2024 student protests against Hasina, Ahmed offered to provide legal assistance to protestors.) Further, as part of efforts to engage the LGBTQI+ community in effecting political change, transgender dance troupes were also given grants to stage performances in urban centres, symbolising defiance. The report also mentions groups being brought together for a performance on national TV featuring what the report terms messages of “tolerance, civic right and reform procedures”.
As per the report, the IRI awarded “a total of 11 advocacy grants to artists, musicians, performers, and organisations, leading to 225 art pieces being created which highlighted political and social issues. It provides precise figures of the efforts to woo the LGBTI+, Bihari, and other ‘ethnic communities’ too: 77 activists were trained, 326 citizens were engaged with to formulate 43 policy recommendations, which were then presented to 65 government officials. The activists were given advocacy training, as well as support in cohesively organising themselves, which were framed as efforts to broaden citizen participation. The programme could arguably be said to have provided the marginalised groups with both ideological and practical tools to challenge the government’s authority.”
While NED was implementing USAID grants and telling the US State Dept its programming was designed to “destabilize Bangladesh’s politics” USAID sponsored “Countering Misinformation” workshops there and brought in the head of PolitiFact https://t.co/Mgshd2dEVD pic.twitter.com/9Y8HYSuCOp
— Mike Benz (@MikeBenzCyber) February 8, 2025
Another IRI project between February 2021 and September 2022, received US$900,000 from the NED, to “enhance marginalized voices, especially (of) youth and women, within political debate and decision making” and to “build the capacity of women political leaders, elected representatives, and political candidates to contest elections and assume leadership positions at the sub-national level.”
“Franchise building” by these agencies after Sheikh Hasinas 2018 election also involved the training of student political participants to “infuse resilience” into Bangladeshi student politics, holding of “capacity-building programmes” for a variety of civil society organisations as well as training tens of thousands of mainstream politicians to overcome what a USAID report described as the “absence of a healthy opposition (which) weakens the checks-and-balances needed for representative parliamentary democracy”.
In support of such interventions, the IRI cited various ‘public opinion’ surveys which “confirmed” that there had been democratic backsliding in the country and public disaffection towards Hasina’s government was high. The NED thus “meticulously laid the groundwork for regime change,” the ORF report states.
In July 2024, student protests led to the downfall of Sheikh Hasina’s government, with the Prime Minister’s residence Assembly and government buildings in Dhaka being stormed in a manner reminiscent of Jan. 6 or Jan. 8 in Brazil. Remarkably, no one ever charged the protestors who brought down the Bangladesh government with “insurrection” or “election denial”.
“The architecture of the resistance in Bangladesh which led to Hasina’s downfall and hasty departure to India—the well-organised protests, the imagery and storytelling that shaped compelling anti-government social media narratives, and the sudden rise of a network of social media influencers opposed to her—points to careful planning and was arguably far too sophisticated to have been purely organic”, the ORF report states.
“The architecture of the resistance in Bangladesh which led to Hasina’s downfall and hasty departure to India—the well-organised protests, the imagery and storytelling that shaped compelling anti-government social media narratives, and the sudden rise of a network of social media influencers opposed to her—points to careful planning and was arguably far too sophisticated to have been purely organic.”
Sheikh Hasina was also targeted by USAID-funded Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project OCCRP, which also funded the hit pieces against Rudy Giuliani which led to the first impeachment attempt against Donald Trump.
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