Oversimplified and speculative & sensationational! But not entirely off the mark!
However this is much is certain , the "dainty & sensitive" types will go apolopeptic (check spelling) with rage at yet another assault on Bangladesh's image by US/Zionist imperialists and their Hindoo Indian running dogs!
http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/la-oe-harrison2-2008jul02,0,419761.story
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By Selig S. Harrison
July 2, 2008
While the CIA and the Pentagon search in vain for Osama bin Laden in the mountains of northwest
The founding leader of the Harkat-ul-Jihad-al-Islami in
Bush administration officials privately endorse mounting Indian evidence that Bangladeshi Harkat agents spearheaded a series of terrorist attacks in
Ahmed staged a bloodless coup in January 2007, forcing a figurehead president to give him emergency powers. He has pledged to hold elections in December and return power to a civilian government. The Bush administration, while formally urging him to hold the elections on schedule, has so far ignored his increasingly blatant efforts to rig them.
Ahmed is maneuvering to break up the two biggest secular political parties, the Awami League, which actively opposes Islamist influence, and the Bangladesh National Party. He barred political activity by their popular leaders, Sheik Hasina Wajed and Khaleda Zia, and is organizing a new army-controlled political party to challenge them. Invoking his emergency powers, he is rounding up grass-roots leaders of the two parties and muzzling the media. Harkat, Jamaat-i-Islami
By its silence in the face of Ahmed's power grab, the Bush administration is signaling that it sees little hope of ending direct or indirect military rule. But it is much too soon to write off the prospects for democracy in
As the fourth-largest Muslim country in the world, with 150 million people,
When respected Bangladeshi journalists have attempted to write about Islamist sympathizers in the military regime and their links with
Defenders of the military regime point out that four Islamist leaders were executed last year, but they gloss over the fact that the executions occurred after the four had contacted the media to expose their links with the intelligence agency.
The army contends that past civilian regimes were hopelessly corrupt and practiced only a "feudal democracy" in which corruption, cronyism and the use of private militias by leading politicians were rampant. The military takeover in 2007 was unavoidable, it says, because the last civilian government, headed by the BNP, was rigging forthcoming elections.
But the Bangladesh Constitution requires elections within 90 days of the dissolution of Parliament and allows for only one 90-day extension of emergency powers. Parliament was dissolved on Oct. 27, 2006; thus, the army regime has been unconstitutional since April 2007.
The
Selig S. Harrison is director of the Asia program at the Center for International Policy and a senior scholar of the
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