Authorities confirmed that the explosions caused no casualties. However, the incident added to an atmosphere of fear that has gripped the capital following several days of political unrest and violent disruptions.

Sheikh Hasina, aged 78, is currently on trial in a domestic war crimes case. She faces charges related to alleged crimes against humanity tied to the government’s response to student-led protests in mid-2024.

The former leader has been living in India since August of last year. She left the country after being removed from power during a period of intense political upheaval and mass demonstrations.

The verdict in her case is scheduled for Monday. Officials and residents fear that the announcement may trigger a fresh wave of unrest, regardless of the outcome.

Dhaka has experienced a marked increase in attacks during the buildup to the verdict. Authorities reported that on November 12 alone, more than 30 crude bombs exploded across the capital and nearby districts.

In addition to the bombings, dozens of buses were set on fire on the same day. The attacks forced authorities to heighten patrols and impose strict security measures across key locations.

Police have detained numerous supporters of Hasina’s political party, the Awami League. Officials say the arrests were made on allegations of involvement in arson, explosions, and widespread acts of sabotage.

One of the targeted locations was a local branch of Grameen Bank. The institution gained renewed visibility after the appointment of its founder, Muhammad Yunus, as the head of the interim government.

A train carriage stationed at Dhaka’s central railway terminal was also burned. Images of the incident spread quickly across local media, further heightening public concern about the escalating violence.

The police and auxiliary forces have been placed on high alert. Security officials said they are working around the clock to prevent further attacks and disrupt planned acts of unrest.

Authorities have increased checkpoints on major routes entering Dhaka. Commuters have experienced long delays as officers conduct searches of vehicles and passenger belongings.

The city’s administration has announced restrictions on public gatherings until further notice. Events involving large crowds have been suspended due to the risk of coordinated attacks.

More than 400 personnel from the Border Guard Bangladesh have been deployed across the capital. Their presence is intended to support local police and ensure rapid response capabilities.

Residents of Dhaka say the atmosphere feels increasingly unstable. Many people have reduced non-essential travel and remain indoors after sunset due to safety concerns.

Businesses have also been affected by the unrest. Shops in several commercial districts closed early this week, citing fears of property damage and potential clashes.

Analysts say the situation reflects the broader political divide that has shaped Bangladesh’s recent history. Hasina’s long tenure in power and her abrupt removal have contributed to competing narratives about accountability and justice.

Observers note that uncertainty over the upcoming verdict is fueling tension. Supporters of the former prime minister maintain that the charges are politically motivated, while critics argue that accountability is necessary.

Human rights groups have expressed concern about the rise in violent incidents. They have urged authorities to ensure that security measures respect civil liberties while maintaining public safety.

The interim government has urged the public to remain calm in the days leading up to the verdict. Officials say they are prepared for any scenario and are coordinating closely with security agencies.

As Monday approaches, Dhaka remains on edge. The city continues to brace for possible unrest, even as security forces intensify efforts to stabilize the situation.

For now, residents wait for the court’s decision in one of the most closely watched legal cases in Bangladesh’s recent political history.
The outcome is expected to have lasting implications for the country’s political landscape and public order.

In a cruel twist of fate, the criminals’ progeny now don the robes of righteousness while the true patriots stand accused.

In the dismal theatre of Bangladesh’s recent political tragedy, a new act of deception unfolds. Draped in the solemn garb of justice but driven by blood-soaked ambitions, the International Crimes Tribunal (ICT) Bangladesh now stands as a grotesque caricature of its former purpose.

The very institution once designed to mete out justice for the heinous atrocities of 1971 has been infiltrated—occupied—by those whose ideological ancestors – Jamaat-e-Islami mass-murderers bathed this soil in the blood of innocents.

Today, the hangman wears a wig, and justice lies gagged beneath his boot.

The ICT Bangladesh, once hailed as a beacon of national redemption, is now but a blighted husk—a sanctimonious facade controlled by those who once sought to crush the very birth of Bangladesh in 1971. Its judges, its prosecution panel, and its operatives are no longer guardians of truth. They are, in many cases, ideological descendants or direct cronies of the very Jamaat-e-Islami mass murderers who collaborated with the Pakistani army to massacre our people in 1971.

This is no idle allegation. It is a scream from the soul of a wounded nation. How did the butchers of Al-Badr and Al-Shams—the enforcers of genocide—regain the power to adjudicate truth and fiction? How dare they now point a crooked finger at the very architects of our liberation?

Those who once carried the green flag of Pakistan into our neighborhoods, who torched our villages, raped our mothers, and hanged our fathers, now sit in judgment over HPM Sheikh Hasina—the daughter of our founding father—and the Awami League stalwarts who carried the torch of independence through blood and fire.

The July–August 2024 events in Bangladesh—twisted into a grotesque narrative of state-led genocide—are being weaponized by these impostors. 98% murders were committed by the Jamaat-Shibir butchers and their direful mango-twigs! But they have now seized the ICT Bangladesh as their instrument, not of justice, but of revenge. They seek to rewrite history, to humiliate the legacy of 1971, to exonerate the traitors and criminalize the freedom fighters.

This is a blasphemy of the highest order.

The tribunals have become kangaroo courts where truth is the first casualty. The prosecutors do not seek justice; they seek retribution for the defeat their fathers suffered in 1971. The judges do not interpret the law; they distort it, drape it around the gallows they build for patriots. These are not courts of law. They are execution chambers for history itself.

Let us remind these usurpers: HPM Sheikh Hasina’s government did not commit genocide in July–August 2024. Her government sought to preserve order when chaos was unleashed by foreign-backed infiltrators, aided by the very ideological heirs of Jamaat-e-Islami.

The arson, sabotage, and killings were not orchestrated by the state, but by a coalition of dark forces determined to unseat the legitimate government and restore the regime of direful collaborators.

Let there be no confusion—this is not merely a judicial matter. It is an existential crisis. The ICT Bangladesh has mutated into a Trojan horse of the Jamaati-Shibir nexus. Its continued existence in this form is a mockery of every martyr who bled on the soil of Bengal for freedom. The very men who once branded the war of 1971 as “haram” and pledged allegiance to the occupying Pakistani forces are now masquerading as custodians of justice.

How far have we fallen when the freedom fighters must plead their innocence before the ideological descendants of their oppressors?

In courtrooms darkened by deceit, verdicts are preordained. The hallowed robes of justice are smeared with the filth of hypocrisy. And those who cry for a fair trial for Sheikh Hasina and her colleagues are dismissed, vilified, and condemned.

Yet it is the nation that must rise.

We must speak not just as citizens, but as inheritors of a sacred cause. We must rise in unison against this vile masquerade of justice. We must denounce the ICT Bangladesh for what it has become—a collaborator’s tribunal, a platform for vengeance, a stage for the desecration of our liberation war.

The institutions that betray the soul of a nation have no right to exist.

It is, therefore, imperative that ICT Bangladesh in designedly the current form be disbanded—tout de suite. Its structure, infiltrated by Jamaati sympathizers, has lost all credibility. Its verdicts are poisoned, its judges compromised, its mission perverted. The house must be torn down, brick by brick, and a new temple of justice must be built upon its ashes—one that honors the martyrs, that reveres the truth, and that punishes the real criminals of our blood-stained past.

This is not merely a political stance. It is a moral imperative.

Let us revisit the history these court jesters now seek to erase. In 1971, over three million of our people were butchered. Over three hundred thousand women were raped. The killers were not nameless shadows—they wore uniforms provided by Pakistan and were guided by the murderous hands of Jamaat-e-Islami and their Al-Badr militias. They swore to crush the dream of Bangladesh. They failed—because brave men and women stood tall, among them Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, his true-blue lieutenants and his indomitable daughter HPM Sheikh Hasina.

And now, fifty-four years later, we see the grotesque irony of history: the children of those butchers deciding the fate of those who built this nation.

No! A thousand times, no!

We cannot allow this to continue. We must name the imposter judges. We must unmask the collaborators in prosecutor’s clothing. We must confront every verdict that reeks of vengeance and vendetta. The ICT Bangladesh, as it stands today, is a dagger in the back of our history. It has become a safehouse for the ideological murderers of 1971.

If we stay silent, we become complicit.

This is the hour to rise—not with arms, but with truth. Not with blood, but with remembrance. Let every Bangladesh’s people who still feels the heartbeat of 1971 throb in their veins raise their voice. Let the youth know that justice is not a costume, that truth cannot be handed over to traitors, that history must be defended.

Sheikh Hasina is not on trial. Bangladesh is.

This tribunal is not about the past. It is a cold war for the future.

Do not allow the hangman’s wig to fool you. Beneath it is the same rotting head that once declared our liberation illegal, our flag a provocation, our language a blasphemy.

Disband ICT Bangladesh as it is twisted now to serve their evil designs. Root out the Jamaati infestation. Purge the judiciary of traitors. Let the nation reclaim the moral compass of 1971.

And to those who sit in judgment today—be warned. The people of Bangladesh are not blind. The river of our memory runs deep. And when justice returns, as it must, it will not be cloaked in hypocrisy. It will come roaring like a storm, not to hang patriots, but to redeem them.

History does not forget.

And neither shall we. A vile masquerade of justice – The International Crimes Tribunal, Bangladesh beneath Jamaati-Shibir butchers’ cloak.