Statement from CA Press Wing


Holiday Post Report: Chief Adviser Press Wing said, When Chief Adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus spoke about pressing the reset button, he meant making a new start from corrupt politics, which destroyed all Bangladesh’s key institutions, pushed the economy to the brink of collapse and robbed the rights to vote and civil liberties of tens of millions of people. He did not mean wiping out Bangladesh’s proud history,.
When you press the reset button, you reset the software to start all over again. It doesn’t change the hardware. The 1971 Liberation War created the hardware of Bangladesh. Some people are misinterpreting Professor Muhammad Yunus’s recent interview with Voice of America.
When he arrived in Dhaka on August 8 to take over as the Chief Adviser of the Interim Government, Professor Muhammad Yunus told reporters at the Hazrat Shahjalal Airport that July-August student-led mass uprising was our Second Liberation — the first liberation being the country’s glorious war of independence in 1971.
Professor Yunus was an assistant professor at Middle Tennessee State University. He formed the Bangladesh Citizens Committee immediately after the independence of Bangladesh which announced and launched a US-wide campaign to persuade the US government to recognize Bangladesh. He published the Bangladesh Newsletter to inform the world about the genocide in Bangladesh perpetrated by the Pakistani army.