Time for some soul searching
Nurul Kabir
It is indisputable that a significantly large section of our people was happy when the military intervened in the political arena on January 11. They welcomed the ‘caretaker’ government of Dr Fakhruddin Ahmed that was midwifed by the military the next day, to the extent that they were not much bothered by the imposition of a state of emergency that instantly took away certain ‘inalienable’ fundamental rights of the citizens. Indeed, a people who had once relentlessly fought against emergencies and military interventions in politics had their immediate reasons to passively accept, if not actively support, the new takeover by an apparently apolitical group of individuals..............
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