Dedicated to the restoration of pluralist, representative, democracy in Bangladesh. I write because they can't speak anymore.
After the brutal murder of Abrar by the ruling party’s vigilante terror group BCL, the administration at Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET) showed an iota of spine and banned party-linked politics on campus. Given that BCL is a terror organization like Iran’s Basij whose main task is to use murder, rape, and mayhem …
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There are three incontrovertible facts in Bangladesh’s politics that the regime or its pet media like Dhaka Tribune and Daily Observer dare not broach:
The involvement of Bangladesh’s security personnel in United Nations Peacekeeping Operations is a source of three critical resources for the Bangladeshi dictatorship: The visit of the head of the UN peacekeeping operations to Bangladesh is thus rightly triggered calls from major human rights organizations to do a better job in screening security personnel from that …
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Some of us advocated, called, pestered, wrote, emailed about this since the Trump administration. At times it felt like a useless endeavor given the forces arrayed against this. Now let’s use this…and add phony journalists and their ‘editors’ as well (I mean absolute haters of free elections like Syed Badrul Ahsan and Syed Ishtiaque Reza …
Academic freedom was never really a thing in Bangladesh, despite nonsensical utterances about “Oxford of the East”. Things have only gotten worse since the one-party, one-family dictatorship came to power in 2008 and got rid of free elections and a free press. Universities themselves are little more than factories to nurture and produce the armed …
If there was any doubt that the ‘official opposition’ Jatiya Party (JP) is anything more than a front-organization of the ruling one party Awami League junta, it should be dispelled with this meeting where the Bangladeshi dictator is setting up the leadership of the ‘opposition’. This blog has long maintained that JP—founded by the late …
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That a brutal dictatorship is trying to silence dissenters abroad is not surprising; small mercies for the cartoonish approach to these things. That Bangladesh’s entire “free media”–the Prothom Alo, the BFUJ, the (regime owned) Dhaka Tribune, the Daily Star–are all entirely silent about this says a lot about their phony commitment to democracy. As I …
Under the one-party dictatorship in Bangladesh, the 30 odd public universities serve three purposes: Credential production centers for younger party cadres so they can be absorbed into the nominally competitive civil and judicial services Training ground for the ruling party’s in-house terror squad BCL whereby BCL mid-level leaders can sharpen their skills of murder, rape, …
If sycophancy was an Olympic sport, the so-called journalists of Bangladesh would certainly be in the running for the top three slots every four years. In the run up to the opening of the controversial Padma Bridge last month, ostensibly respectable journalists left no stone unturned to show their obeisance to the unelected “prime minister”, …
Iran’s dictators have their shadowy militia Basij; Bangladesh’s dictators have their “BCL”
