Take back Yunus' Nobel Peace Prize: Taslima Nasrin writes to Nobel Committee

In her letter, Taslima has accused Yunus of evading taxes over the years, disrupting peace and crippling the economic growth of Bangladesh, which saw violent quota protests last year leading to the fall of the Sheikh Hasina government.

Hasina, who has taken refuge in India, fled Bangladesh facing overwhelming protests back home.

In her letter to the Nobel Committee, Taslima wrote, "You awarded the Nobel Peace Prize to Muhammad Yunus of Bangladesh. But he has not done a single act for peace. While at Grameen Bank, he evaded taxes, used foreign donations intended for the bank to establish numerous business ventures, and when women who took microloans failed to repay with interest, Grameen Bank's enforcers would demolish their homes.

Now, he has illegally assumed power in Bangladesh by aligning with jihadi militants. Over the past nine months, under his orders, opposition members and minority Hindus have been killed, their homes burned and destroyed, and many have been falsely imprisoned. He has demolished the country’s history museum and obliterated statues of Bengali heroes. As an agent of Pakistan — the defeated force of 1971 — he is now frenziedly preparing for war against neighboring India."

"He is dragging the country into a terrifying crisis — economic, political, and social. He harbors hatred and vengeance in his heart. His behavior is uncivilized, barbaric, and brutal. He wants to kill all opposition members. He has no desire for peace.

"Not even for a single day in these nine months has there been peace in the country. And you awarded him the Nobel Peace Prize? Please take back his Nobel Prize. Set a precedent in favor of peace," she added.

Taslima, who is known for her writing on women's oppression and criticism of Islam, had earlier taken a dig at Hasina under whose regime the exiled author had to flee Bangladesh.

Taslima said Hasina faced the same fate which she was made to accept in 1999.

The author, who is now based in India, had written on X, "Hasina in order to please Islamists threw me out of my country in 1999 after I entered Bangladesh to see my mother in her deathbed and never allowed me to enter the country again.

"The same Islamists have been in the student movement who forced Hasina to leave the country today."

Bangladesh has witnessed rising cases of attacks on Hindus ever since the Hasina-led government toppled the Muslim-majority nation.

Several temples, houses of Hindus were brought down, torched and even Hindu monk Chinmoy Krishna Das Brahmachari was arrested by Dhaka police for allegedly disrespecting the Bangladeshi flag at a rally in October.