Kudos to WaPo for publishing this https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/12/08/kashmir-civil-society-khurram-parvez-democracy-summit-india/story. Such a frontal assault is also what’s happening in Bangladesh, albeit sans the religious angle. But Bangladesh being a much ‘smaller’ and perhaps ‘backwater’ country, the journalists who cover her, as I mentioned in my previous post, are simply too incompetent or compromised to be this bold. Or perhaps they’re starry eyed liberals not too far removed from grad school who simply want to hang out with the ‘cool peeps’ (read ‘elites’ of the upper middle class in Bangladesh, a segment of society thoroughly codependent vis-à-vis the ruling one family one party dictatorship).
Quality matters and integrity matters. Both traits are in short supply among those in mainstream Western news outlets, think tanks, and research centers who are given the “Bangladesh” desk.