“How Inqilab Moncho’s Chittagong protest turned Osman Hadi’s death into an anti-India street weapon”, First Post, December 20, 2025
“The protest staged by Inqilab Moncho, an organisation inspired by 2024 students protests, outside India’s diplomatic mission in Chittagong following the death of Sharif Osman Hadi marks a troubling inflection point in Bangladesh’s contemporary politics. What should have remained a domestic demand for justice was deliberately converted into a strategic provocation, redirecting public anger toward a foreign state without evidence and testing the limits of international diplomatic norms.
This was not spontaneous grief spilling onto the streets.
It was directed mobilisation.
Osman Hadi’s death is a subject of investigation but it does not confer immunity from law, nor does it justify the erosion of diplomatic conventions that exist precisely to prevent internal turmoil from spilling into international crises…..”
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