Dedicated to the restoration of pluralist, representative, democracy in Bangladesh. I write because they can't speak anymore.
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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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 …
Continue reading “Finally….sanctions by the US on the Bangladeshi dictatorship’s chief henchmen”
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”
“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 …