The horrendous attacks on Hindus across Bangladesh–under an ostensibly secular regime–lay bare the dirty secret of the unelected Bangladeshi regime that none of the pet press dares touch: in the absence of legitimacy gained from the ballot box, the dictatorship (like many others in developing countries) has leaned on religious zealots for a veneer of …
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