Dedicated to the restoration of pluralist, representative, democracy in Bangladesh. I write because they can't speak anymore.
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 …
Continue reading “Phony secularism of the Bangladeshi dictatorship”
The surprise is not that Bangladesh’s heavily politicized one party state and its military apparatus are so shockingly full of brutality and corruption as shown by the shocking expose of Al-Jazeera’s investigative journalism team. The bigger surprise, perhaps, is the subservient, cowardly, and craven attitude of Bangladesh’s ‘free’ press and ‘intelligentsia’ which is shooting the …
Those who lived through the famine of 1974 in Bangladesh know well how wholesale plunder of relief goods was carried out: tonnes of aid material–tents, blankets, ready-to-eat meals, medicine, toiletries–donated by the UN and major Western countries were whisked away in broad daylight from airports, train stations, and bus depots by leaders at every level …
Continue reading “COVID19 Relief…another opportunity for Awami League loot”
No surprise in the drama called “Dhaka City elections’ where the usual Awami League tactics of a subservient election commission, a silent police, fearful mainstream journos, and pre-poll violence by the inhouse terror squad BCL made sure that there was no doubt how the results will turn out…as they always have at every election at …
Continue reading “Rape…a veritable weapon of intimidation by the Awami League”
Every dictatorship needs its own institution of higher learning to train cadres outside of the military academies. China has its Central Party School; the USSR had its The Higher Party School or VPSch. Saddam Hussein’s Iraq had its Saddam University (now called Nahrein University). The purpose for all these was to train smooth faced interlocutors …