
Imagine Bangladesh (formerly East Pakistan) triggered a war of independence just because the Pakistani government asked Bengalis to speak in Urdu. Bangladesh even earned International Language Day through a UN resolution just for talking in Bengali.
Bangladeshis speak Hindi, watch Bollywood movies, sing Hindi songs and sell Indian chicken tandoori in all major shopping malls despite Bangladesh has been known for great culture and cuisines.
Nobody ever asked what exactly happened under the dictator Sheikh Hasina’s regime that Bangladesh made an u-tern and allowed Indian RAW to control all aspects of life in Bangladesh.
India recruited and deployed 100,000 research and analysis wing (raw) intelligence agents in Bangladesh to control Bangladesh’s military, civil services, government, economy, major projects and foreign policy under former prime minister Sheikh Hasina.
What is RAW?
The Research and Analysis Wing (RAW), India’s external intelligence agency, is responsible for gathering intelligence and conducting covert operations abroad. Research and Analysis Wing (R&AW/RAW) was created in the aftermath of the 1962 Sino-Indian War and the 1965 Indo-Pakistani War when India realised the need for a dedicated external intelligence agency to counter the threats. It was initially a wing of the Intelligence Bureau (IB). It was established in 1968 to handle India’s international intelligence affairs under R. N. Kao, who Indira Gandhi appointed.
RAW in Bangladesh
RAW does control Bangladesh. Given the historical and geopolitical context between the two countries, RAW has been involved in intelligence operations and activities related to Bangladesh, particularly concerning issues like security, terrorism, and northeastern Indian states’ stability.
Bangladesh is a sovereign nation with its own government, and while India and Bangladesh share a complex relationship, RAW does exert control over Bangladesh, especially since Sheikh Hasina granted unrestricted access to the Indian military and RAW in Bangladesh stay in Bangladesh. According to Bangladeshi reports, more than hundreds of thousands of RAW agents operate in Bangladesh.
RAW has infiltrated Bangladesh’s civil services, administration, legal systems, economy, foreign policy, military, arms procurement, internet and significant infrastructure projects.
RAW has achieved significant successes in the Bangladesh Armed Forces by weakening the military and removing officers who are more patriotic and not aligned with the Indian agenda.
Hasina and civil unrest
During the unrest in Bangladesh, false narratives on social media are inciting anti-Pakistan sentiments by RAW. Hundreds of RAW fake X, FaceBook and Instagram accounts spread disinformation accusing Pakistan’s ISI officers of infiltrating Bangladesh to control the media narratives.
Global Defense Corp attributes this to India’s RAW, aiming to keep Hasina in power. Fact-checkers debunk the claims, emphasising the need to counter misinformation targeting Pakistani security agencies.
Geopolitical analysts warn of the dangerous implications for regional stability as India continues to destabilise Myanmar’s civil war and supply arms to the junta.
Amid the ongoing unrest in Bangladesh, reports have emerged of false narratives being created through social media to fuel anti-Bangladesh sentiments in India.
Various X accounts have been found spreading disinformation about Bangladesh in India, aimed at instigating India against Bangladesh.
Additionally, @swwtyzm posted a picture on X, captioning it, “Is this a verified picture of Indian RAW agents in Bangladesh captured by the Bangladesh army?”
RAW Interference in Bangladesh
First of all, RAW is also interfering in other neighbouring countries like Nepal, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Maldives and Pakistan, where RAW interference is vast, so much so that there are even allegations of some Bangladeshi politicians being a RAW agent.
About Bangladesh, Global Defense Corp is sure there is RAW interference as well because that’s the mission of RAW, an external intelligence agency.
Why has RAW interfered? Well, there may be various reasons. RAW is very concerned that Pakistan may be using Bangladesh to conduct anti-India activities in India, and there are some pro-America Bangladesh Nationalist Party in Bangladesh.
RAW is also hugely concerned about Chinese influence, which is increasing in Bangladesh with significant Chinese investments, and wants to check on that. The other reason may be the simple fact that India believes that, as a large and powerful country, it has a right to interfere in Bangladesh. Some in India also say that because India helped create Bangladesh and there are millions of Bengalis in India as well, India can interfere in Bangladesh and use RAW and other agencies to do it. In some RAW documents, RAW referred to Bangladesh as East Bengal compared with the Indian state of West Bengal.
It is very likely that RAW controls all aspects of security matters, especially to ensure Indian interests in Bangladesh. The only reason the current prime minister, Sheikh Hasina, is in power is because of India. She has been in power for years by force, and India is protecting her. The West put extreme pressure at times on Hasina to hold a free and fair election but was not able to establish it because of India. Indian politicians nakedly influence Bangladesh’s internal affairs.
India does everything possible to control Bangladesh and to keep their pawn, Hasina, in power. The majority of the people in Bangladesh believe that RAW has been playing a role in the disappearance of tens of thousands of opposition politicians.
Hasina regime, India’s pet government
Currently, Bangladesh is controlled by the Indian Government. Bangladesh’s previous ruling govt is an Indian pet government.
Moreover, no one was allowed to talk about human rights, freedom of speech, etc. If anyone dared to do such things, then they would be brutally tortured and then executed by the Indian supporters (including law enforcement and other political supporters.)
Indian political leaders made some gruesome accusations against the prophet MOHAMMAD (SAW). Guess what? The Bangladeshi government did not even talk about it, and the prime minister and some other political leaders warned Bangladeshi citizens not to do anything Against INDIA. Otherwise, they would be punished.
Indian RAW and other Bangladesh’s DGFI were responsible for torturing Bangladeshi Muslims.
Online disinformation campaign against Bangladesh by RAW
India’s RAW was directly involved in online disinformation for Bangladesh killings and temple vandalism. Hundreds of anti-Bangladesh accounts on X launched a fake news campaign to implicate Pakistan’s ISI spy agency for temple vandalism and killings in turbulent Bangladesh.
Even as different stakeholders work to bring stability to turbulence-hit Bangladesh, forces inimical to India have launched a disinformation campaign on social media alleging India’s role in the killings and temple vandalism following Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s hasty departure.
On 4 August, around midnight, hundreds of RAW agents were involved in mass murders of people in Bangladesh. On the afternoon of August 5, PM Hasina resigned and fled Bangladesh in the face of growing violence in student-led protests.
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