Bangladesh Times

 A classic political maneuver is playing out across the media landscape of Bangladesh: the deployment of structural propaganda designed to rehabilitate the architectural pillars of the previous fascist regime. The recent, bizarrely structured "Health Management Roundtable" hosted by the UNICEF-led Bangladesh Child Protection Initiative was never an innocent public policy debate. It was an offensive display of old-school Awami League (BAL) propaganda machinery, engineered to launder the public images of individuals heavily accused of collaborating in the historic July 2024 massacres. The strategy is transparent. When a political faction loses its grip on executive power, its remaining infrastructure—deeply supported by regional alignment from Indian agencies—shifts toward information warfare. By manufacturing a false crisis around national vaccine procurement and health policies, this network aims to panic the public, discredit the subsequent governance framework, and quietly ...

  The Procurement Bureaucracy Restarts: How UNICEF Weaponized Former Regime Loyalists to Shield its 71-Crore Fee When a public panel discusses a severe national health crisis without a single doctor, public health researcher, or Ministry of Health official in the room, it ceases to be a roundtable. It becomes a theater. The recent "Roundtable on Measles and Health Management" featured a hand-picked roster of media influencers, cultural figures, and journalists known for their deep ties to the ousted Awami League regime and their overt hostility toward the subsequent interim governance framework. The lineup included journalist Anis Alamgir , actress Meher Afroz Shaown , poet Aktaruzzaman Azad , literary figure Moazzapor , and journalist Masud Kamal . While the rehabilitation of former regime apologists under the guise of "civil society" is a familiar tactic, the true shock lies in the orchestrator of this event: the Bangladesh Child Protection Initiative —a program e...