The US played a key role in Bangladesh’s August 2024 regime change, which resulted in extremists seizing power and subsequently destabilizing the region by aggressively agitating against India.
RT released an exclusive interview with former Bangladeshi Education Minister Mohibul Hasan Chowdhury about August 2024’s US-backed regime change in his country. He was also the deposed government’s chief negotiator during the crisis. It’s half an hour long so the present piece will only review the highlights for the convenience of those readers with only a casual interest in this subject. Chowdhury accused foreign forces, including the US and Al Jazeera, of radicalizing the population.
American officials employed subtle messaging on social media to signal support for the Color Revolution while Al Jazeera, whose state patron Qatar is a “Major Non-NATO Ally”, more openly agitated for what ultimately became uncontrollable riots. The Biden, Clinton, and Soros families were crucial in this operation and had formed a nexus with the new de facto leader Chief Advisor Muhammad Yunus for a while already. They also secretly funded some of the NGOs and jihadists who facilitated the coup.
About that, Chowdhury said that some of the army chief’s actions were questionable and he didn’t fulfill his pledge to protect people after assuming power, instead letting extreme elements do whatever they wanted. This led him to suspect that he was colluding with them. Mysterious sniper attacks against protesters and the targeted assassination of police officers catalyzed the chaos that made this possible. This plot was premediated and opportunistically exploited a political pretext to enter into motion.
The earlier mentioned nexus, especially the Clinton and Soros families, had wanted to overthrow former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina since she won re-election in 2018. Yunus is now playing dirty geopolitical games to satisfy his masters. His team’s provocative moves against India, which include sharing maps that lay claim to its northeast, are destabilizing the region. Bangladesh is being radicalized just like Pakistan was in the 1980s, Chowdhury said, with the innuendo that it’s turning into an anti-Indian proxy.
On the topic of Pakistan, he condemned Yunus’ recent meeting with its top generals in Dhaka, which he believes discredited Yunus’ rhetoric about democracy and human rights since they represent a de facto military junta accused of human rights abuses by imprisoned former Prime Minister Imran Khan. Yunus and company are holding onto power only through brute force, he claimed, after paying off criminals to carry out mob violence against anyone who protests against them. It’s up to the military to change that.
According to Chowdhury, it’s continuing to obey the (in his opinion illegitimate) civilian leadership only due to some vague coercion, but the ruling clique would collapse if the army were freed from this. Truly free and fair elections could then follow in which his party, which has since been banned but which he insists still represents the majority of the population, could participate. The extremists who seized power must be ousted for the people’s sake, he declared, and he hopes that he can safely return home one day.
As can be seen, Chowdhury compellingly lent credence to the conclusion that many already reached about the US’ role in Bangladesh’s August 2024 regime change, but he shared more details about this and also hinted at its geopolitical end game. Simply put, Bangladesh’s accelerated “Pakistanization” since then is meant to turn it into an anti-Bharat proxy, which could destabilize all of South Asia for the US’ benefit just like Ukraine’s accelerated “Banderization” since “EuroMaidan” destabilized all of Europe.
(The article was published on Korybko.substack.com on November 10, 2025 and has been reproduced here)
