Bangladesh’s private universities: the next hunting ground of ruling party terror squad BCL

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, …

A little less outrage and a little more action

The outrage expressed by the chief envoys of the US, UK, and EU regarding the brutal murder of Abrar Fahad is commendable. What would be much better would be for these diplomats to exercise their reserve authority as head of consular missions, and impose temporary sanctions on nonimmigrant visa applications by members of the BCL …