Unfortunately, these stories are a legion not only in this recently concluded ‘general election’, but throughout the reign of the Awami League since 2009. Or even before. In fact, the late Sheikh Kamal, the brother of the current dictator Sheikh Hasina, was well known for abducting co-eds from Dhaka University (in true style of the …
Monthly Archives: December 2018
Bangladesh’s Schutzstaffel
Since the beginning of its reign in 2009, the Awami League party (which just won the ‘elections’ with 96 % of the seats lol) has used its in-house vigilante squad, acronymed “BCL”, to visit terror on its opponents when even it’s pet police and official paramilitary units demurred such acts on the basis of being …
Just like in Syrian elections
So, as expected, the Bangladeshi junta got about 90 % of the vote in the just concluded ‘parliamentary’ elections which its security chiefs claimed were the ‘most free’ in history. That is usually the percentage that dictators often get in their ‘elections’…the other 10 % of the vote a reflection of possibly a few very …
The myth of a democratic Bangladesh post-2008
Let us be perfectly candid: never in the history of Bangladesh has a political government presided over an election that it has lost…and this is not going to change by some magic this Christmas. Not only is this a function of the normal human greed for power when left unchecked, but also of a structure …
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