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Sunday, June 17, 2007

The Siren of Road map to Democracy

New Age
The siren song of ‘Roadmap of Democracy’
NM Harun
Here, in Bangladesh, the elites across the board ‘con-spire’, that is, breathe the same air of hate against the ‘two women’, Hasina and Khaleda, and have been nurtured essentially in an anti-politician mindset since General Ayub’s martial law of 1958. The ‘Roadmap of Democracy’, the latest project of the emergency rulers, may sound like a siren song to many of them
The government on Friday debarred Sheikh Hasina, the Awami League president, from going to the United States to attend to her pregnant daughter. One day earlier, on Thursday, the government did not allow her to go to Chittagong on a visit to the landslide-devastated areas. Hasina has been denied her freedom of movement both on private and public callings..........

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