When a peace prize becomes a shield for power and denial, truth itself bleeds. The question before the world is simple: will it listen to the victims, or to the man who calls their suffering fake?

Bangladesh’s tragedy today lies in its paradox: a Nobel laureate whose name once evoked moral redemption now presides over a republic of denial. Professor Muhammad Yunus, hailed for lifting the poor through micro-credit, has refashioned himself as the interim Chief Adviser—a statesman cloaked in sanctimony. Yet when confronted with reports of Hindu killings, temple desecrations, and targeted terror, he offers not contrition but contempt.

The ‘saint’ who refused to see blood

In his now-notorious interview with journalist Mehdi Hasan, Yunus declared with professorial hauteur: “These are fake news. One of the specialties of India is fake news.” Thus did a man once garlanded by Oslo and feted by Davos dismiss the documented anguish of a besieged minority. His protest was not a slip of tongue; it was a strategy—an attempt to delegitimise testimony by smearing the witness.

Reuters and The Hindu have both chronicled the disturbing rise in anti-Hindu attacks since Sheikh Hasina’s ouster in 2024: temples torched in Rangpur, idols decapitated in Khulna, families driven from ancestral land in Faridpur. The Bangladesh Hindu Buddhist Christian Unity Council recorded more than 2,400 hate crimes between August 2024 and June 2025, a figure echoed by Human Rights Watch and the Dhaka Tribune. To call these “fabrications” is not merely dishonest—it is a desecration of grief itself.

A history written in ashes

No understanding of today’s Bangladesh can be divorced from the longue durée of its communal torment. From the genocidal convulsions of 1971—when, as........

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