4,177 murder cases in 14 months across the country: Is the law only for the Awami League?

Fifteen months have passed under “the Shylock of Bangladesh”, Dr Yunus. In the fourteen months of his illegitimate rule, Dhaka alone has seen 456 recorded murders, according to the Dhaka Metropolitan Police itself. From last September to this October, DMP registered an average of 33 murder cases per month. Nationwide, 4,177 murder cases were filed. And this is only the number of cases. There are many more killings that never became cases. Human rights groups say 216 people were beaten to death across the country during this period. Police say crime has risen partly because 25 percent of the looted weapons from August 5, including deadly ones, are still missing. After coming to power, Yunus released top criminals, and the police can’t control them.

This is just a fragment of Bangladesh’s law and order situation. Under Yunus, there are more bodies in the rivers than fish. According to River Police data from October, 50 bodies were recovered in Khulna in a single year. Deutsche Welle Bangla reported that in 2025 an average of 43 bodies per month were found in rivers.

So many murders, so many bodies. How many criminals have the police arrested—or even identified? The rate is below 20 percent. Yet police have already thrown hundreds of thousands of Awami League supporters and activists in jail solely for political dissent. False cases have become a business, and Yunus supporters are attacking their homes, burning them, vandalizing them, and looting them. The law seems to apply only to Awami League workers.

Before the July militant attacks, the so-called anti-discrimination movement’s coordinators and their civil-society patrons sold big dreams. They claimed change was coming, that BBA graduates would run the country. They sang songs in groups to persuade ordinary people that they were the better alternative, that they were the brave sons of the nation. Those “brave sons”—their chosen rulers, Yunus and Asif Nazrul—are now killing people and dumping bodies in rivers and drains. Ordinary people are crying day and night, while the “BBA alternative” crowd is relaxing in luxury cars, new apartments, and with crores in their bank accounts. And the civil society figures seem to have been silenced with advisory posts, government roles, and money. Otherwise we haven’t seen this kind of silence from them in the past 15 years.⁩