Bangladesh today stands at a dangerous crossroads. What was once a nation born out of a secular, pluralistic vision in 1971 is now being dragged into the abyss of religious fundamentalism. The fall of Sheikh Hasina’s government on August 5, 2024, did not usher in stability; it opened the gates for extremism. And at the center of this crisi...
Bangladesh’s interim period, under the self-proclaimed banner of “restoring democracy and stability,” has instead unleashed a climate of lawlessness, one in which even those sworn to protect the nation are not spared. Police officers, tasked with safeguarding citizens and upholding the law, now face assaults, threats, and killi...
Bangladesh stands at a perilous crossroads. Under the interim government of Muhammad Yunus, arbitrary arrests have become the state’s weapon of choice to control dissent and neutralize political opposition. From grassroots activists to former ministers, respected intellectuals to ordinary citizens attending a procession, people are detaine...
The objective is not to prove Hasina guilty in the legal sense. It is to make her appear guilty in the public imagination, so that when history is written, her chapter can be closed not with respect but with disgrace. In that sense, the trials, testimonies, and headlines are not just about individuals; they are about rewriting the political DNA ...
In most functioning democracies, a police raid or a national “red alert” signals a response to genuine threats—terrorists on the move, extremist networks to be dismantled, civilians to be protected. In Bangladesh today, those same words have been weaponized. Under Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus’s unelected regime, &ldquo...
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