New issues -
🇮🇳 India Post -
5 August 2024 - Olympic Games 2024 hosted by Paris - 1 miniature sheet containing 4 different stamps. Rating:- ***.
🇯🇪 Jersey Post -
6 August 2024 - Wetland birds (see Blog 2529) - 6 stamps and 1 miniature sheet containing all 6 stamps (the basic stamps were illustrated in Blog 2529, the miniature sheet is now also illustrated here). Designed by Elvense Illustration and lithographed by bpost. Rating:- *.
🇲🇾 Pos Malaysia -
8 August 2024 - Joint issue of the ASEAN Post organisation. Lithographed. Rating:- ***.
Downfall of Sheikh Hasina in Bangladesh 5 August 2024.
After months of violent protests against her regime, the primeminister of Bangladesh, Sheikh Hasina, the daughter of the country’s leader at the time of the war of Independence against Pakistan, Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, has resigned as protestors stormed her official residence. Hasina fled the country in an aircraft supplied by the country’s military and is seeking refuge in India. During the demonstrations against her oppressive and failed regime, thousands have been killed. Following Hasina’s fight to India a mob tore down a statute of Sheikh Mujib in Dhaka, in a manner similar to the demolition of the statue of Salam Hussein in Baghdad after his overthrow.
This momentous event will undoubtedly have an important effect on the stamps which are issued by the Bangladesh postal administration as for several years many, if not most, stamp issues have iconised Sheikh Mujib as the Father of Bangladesh and as well as featuring Mujib have also frequently depicted Sheikh Hasina. Presumably the stamp subjects and designs were chosen at the behest of Hasina’s government to glorify her increasingly unpopular regime.
So Bangladesh appears to face a new future and with it its postage stamps and I assume we have seen the back of Hasina’s frequent philatelic depictions.
Bangladesh’s most recent stamp issue (17 May 2024) ostensibly to commemorate World Telecommunication and Information Society Day but used as an excuse to include portraits of Hasina and Mujib in the design -
23 September 2022 - one of several recent stamps depicting Hasina and Mujib -
28 September 2022 - stamp commemorating Hasina’s 75th birthday -
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