America is taking full advantage of this miserable condition of textile workers. Everyone is well aware of the US Ambassador’s extreme activities regarding free, fair, peaceful and inclusive elections. The US and the European Union are alert about the human rights situation in Bangladesh.
However, after BNP’s October 28 rally was disrupted and the party went on the backfoot, it looks like America has also gone on the backfoot. However, Ambassador Peter Haas kept going back and forth between the political parties with a letter from Donald Trump, the US Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asia, calling for negotiations.
In that letter too, a threat was made to implement the visa policy if the elections were not to their liking. But once the call for talks was rejected, Peter Haas went abroad on ‘holiday’. He is back.
During his tenure outside the country, there was no election-related activity either in the US embassy or in European countries. But in one of her speeches, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina said that due to not being able to do anything in the elections, BNP now wants to cause economic loss to Bangladesh. Explaining the importance of free, fair and impartial elections, the Chief Election Commissioner went a step further and said that nothing should be done which would lead to foreign interference in the elections of Bangladesh.