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The Muhammad Yunus-led interim government, constrained by its own limitations and a volatile political climate, risks continuing the abuses of the Sheikh Hasina regime in its…
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With seven months having passed since Muhammad Yunus took over the leadership of a caretaker government in a chaotic Bangladesh in the wake of the hurried…
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Reports from the United Nations and Human Rights Watch confirm the Awami League regime’s responsibility for the bloodshed of the Monsoon Revolution, but also warn the…
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From 5 August to 5 February. It was exactly on the 180th day of her ouster in a bloody upsurge that Sheikh Hasina, the deposed Bangladeshi…
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Bangladesh’s relationship with Pakistan has become markedly more friendly since the fall of Sheikh Hasina, even as anti-India sentiment has reached an all-time high in the…
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After mass protests forced long-term Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina to resign and flee the country in early August, Bangladesh found itself in a unique moment of…
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Bangladeshi public intellectual Afsan Chowdhury says that this is because countries such as Pakistan and Bangladesh failed to imbibe the Constitutional values British rule had given…
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The fall of Sheikh Hasina is arguably the most significant political event in the history of post-independent Bangladesh. Her one-and-a-half decade grip on power has finally…
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The overthrow of Sheikh Hasina is a remarkable political feat for the Bangladeshi youth. However, many challenges lie ahead. By all quantifiable measures, Bangladesh’s now deposed…
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PEOPLE’S power has toppled one more authoritarian regime. Another bloody day in Bangladesh ended in triumph for the uprising in that country. Defying a nationwide curfew,…
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Student protests against the Bangladeshi government’s job-quota system culminated in a weeks-long violent crackdown and a ruling from the Supreme Court that 93% of public-service jobs…
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Violent protests in Dhaka may have subsided, but Bangladeshis’ underlying grievances have not. The streets of Dhaka are less heated and violent than they were two…
