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 …
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The One party, One family dynasty ruling Bangladesh
A great tragedy of the Bangladeshi people is that their own journalists have simply disappeared into sycophantic oblivion like the Pravda journalists of yore; the very idea that any newspaper or broadcast show would even ask where does the so-called Prime Minister’s uber-nationalistic son live, or who he is married to, or how he makes …
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Finally….sanctions by the US on the Bangladeshi dictatorship’s chief henchmen
About time…but more needs to be done The sanctions imposed on 5 of the regime’s security leaders and human rights violators by the United States this month https://home.treasury.gov/news/press-releases/jy0526 is a case of better too little and late, than never. Years of engagement by thoughtful individuals in the diaspora has helped move this effort to this …
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All the five Ahmed brothers
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 …
A vassal state like Hungary and (former) DDR
The de facto prohibition in Bangladesh of any peaceful protests against India’s unfortunate actions in Kashmir remove one more figment of doubt that Bangladesh–under the current unelected one party, one family dictatorship–is little more than a vassal state of India. Kind of like Hungary, Poland, and the former East Germany were of the USSR back …
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Thugs with diplomatic immunity..what could go wrong!
After the chilling end of Saudi Arabian journalist Jamal Khashoggi in his country’s consulate in Istanbul, one would think that other dictatorships would pause. But leave it to the Bangladeshi regime to make sure that diplomatic immunity can be used to harass and intimidate the large diaspora, especially in West, which keeps dissenting from the …
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“Transparently fraudulent”
“To give due credit for originality, a slow cooking approach to transforming a budding democracy into an authoritarian regime without officially becoming a dictatorship is perhaps an invention of Zimbabwe’s Robert Mugabe. The robust two-party parliamentary democracy with an independent judiciary that Zimbabwe started with in 1979 was slowly, steadily, and methodically transformed into a …