Rape as a weapon of compliance Part 1

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 sons of Saddam Hussein) during the 1972-1975 rule of the Awami League under Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, the father of Sheikh Kamal and Sheikh Hasina. Sexual assault, often a taboo subject anywhere but especially in conservative societies of South Asia, has a special place in the DNA of the ruling Awami League.https://www.thedailystar.net/backpage/news/mother-four-gang-raped-al-men-1681405

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A Bengali by ethnicity, a college administrator and teacher by profession, and a bibliophile by passion whose heart breaks watching the debasement of Bangladesh's once vibrant pluralist democracy into a one party, one family dictatorship since 2014.