Dedicated to the restoration of pluralist, representative, democracy in Bangladesh. I write because they can't speak anymore.
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 …
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So the old joke is back in currency: Dhaka City’s two municipal corporations will have ‘elections’ again in January now that the supposed term of the previous city bosses is over. Sounds very normal and democratic and civic, except it’s a cruel parody that most Western journalists–never mind the local ones–simply gulp in stride. Sure …
Continue reading “Selecting Dhaka’s mayors: some call it ‘city elections’”