They Can’t Forgive the Army for Choosing the People

They are trying to cover up what really happened during the uprising in Bangladesh in July. The government that is still affected by it.
Something bad is happening across the border. History is being changed quietly. The tool being used is something that looks like journalism. It is not really journalism. The people doing this are from Northeast News, which is also known as nenews.in. It is not hard to figure out why they are doing this if you know where to look.
Let’s start with what happened. In July and August 2024 something big occurred in Bangladesh. The government, which is led by Hasina had been in power for fifteen years. They had control over everything. The courts, the press, the elections. They even made people disappear in the middle of the night. When the students started protesting in the streets the government did something. They started shooting at the students. Over 1,400 people were killed. Many more were. Had to go to the hospital. This was not a way to control the crowd. This was the government hurting its people.
Then something unexpected happened. The government lost power. It was not because of some generals or foreign countries getting involved. It was because the people of Bangladesh were tired of being afraid. This is the fact that Northeast News is trying to make people doubt.
The people who write for Northeast News like Enayat Kabir and Chandan Nandy have a way of writing. They say that some ranking officials were involved in a conspiracy. They say that the army was behind the uprising. They make it sound like they are investigating something. They are not really investigating. They are just creating an atmosphere, a fog of suspicion. They do not have any evidence, like documents or recordings. They just have sources who are always right.
When you look at the specifics their claims do not make sense. For example, they said that the former police chief was arrested by the army but that is not true. He was actually arrested by the police else. The army was not involved. Someone just added that to the story. Then there is the story about General Akbar, who was said to be involved in the uprising. But he was actually abroad at the time so he could not have been involved.
Then there is Ziaul Ahsan, a former major general who is facing charges of crimes against humanity. Northeast News is trying to make him look like a victim. The court has not found him to be a victim. The evidence does not show that he is a victim. This tells you something about whose interests Northeast News really serving.
There is one part of the story that Northeast News is trying to hide because it shows that their whole narrative is wrong. In the hours of the government Hasina’s inner circle asked the army chief to keep shooting at the protesters. They wanted to create a situation where India would have to intervene. That would allow Hasina to stay in power. The army chief said no the army would not fire on its own citizens. The military stood down. That destroyed the whole plan. Without the army’s guns Hasina had nothing left to govern with.
This is the thing that hurts the most for the people who’re still loyal to Hasina. Because if the army stood with the people, then everything else follows. The uprising was real the mandate was genuine. The regime that fell deserved to fall. That means that the fifteen years of authoritarian rule the disappeared people, the rigged elections, the shot students. All of that cannot be justified by a good story told in a foreign outlet.
Instead, there is a pipeline of false information. Stories are written on Northeast News, translated into Bengali and published in outlets like Dinpatra, Daily Times, Dainik Sangbad Sutra and Ajker Kantho Digital. From there they spread to media through people like Nabanita Chowdhury, Masuda Bhatti Nijhum Majumdar and other regional pages. The same false claim appears in six places in twenty-four hours. By the time it is refuted it has already done its job. It has contaminated the conversation.
The Awami League was banned in May 2025. The ban became law in April 2026. There is no way for them to come back to power through elections. What they are doing now is an information war and it runs on an idea: if you cannot change what happened make people uncertain about it so that accountability becomes complicated. Every fabricated story, every invented timeline, every phantom source points away, from one fact: a government tortured and killed its way through fifteen years of power and when its own people finally said enough it ordered the army to keep shooting and was refused. That refusal is the story. Everything Northeast News produces is an attempt to make you look else.
The students who were killed in the streets of Dhaka in July 2024 did not die for a conspiracy theory. They died for an idea: that a government should answer to its people, not the other way around. The army at the moment agreed with them. Northeast News has not forgiven either of them. That unforgiveness is the honest thing they have ever published.