"Politics is a crime, making money is a crime, being a middleman is a crime, selling food for profit is a crime, providing aid to flood victims is a crime, and now even feeding hungry people is a crime. This posture fits not a 'caretaker' government but a paranoid unelected government whose favorite pastime is to blame others for everything that goes wrong." (Photos by Belinda Meggitt)

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"Bangladesh’s caretaker government is facing a grave crisis. Its actions, especially the politicized cleanup and the violation of human rights, have come back to haunt it, driving discontent in two of its major support bases: foreign diplomats and the local media. The balance of its third support base, the middle and low-income classes, now hangs delicately in the consequences of the its economic (mis)management." (Photos by Mikey Leung)

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"Who knows if there really is any restriction on what can be published and what cannot be! Everyone knows the names of the people who have committed this murder, but no one dares to utter them ... Can we relieve ourselves of this humiliation by ensuring justice to the offenders through a proper investigation? Can we ensure that there will never be another such brutal incident on the soil of Bangladesh?" (Translated from Bengali by Mahrukh Mohiuddin)

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"'I should shoot you,' he said. 'You are a traitor. You have betrayed your country. How dare you describe the country as a haven for terrorism? The nation would immensely benefit if I eliminate a traitor.'

'You are humiliating an independence war-veteran,' I retorted angrily. 'If I had not helped create the country in 1971, you would have remained a constable.' Exasperated, he pulled a baton from behind his chair and began beating me."

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"The climate of impunity in Bangladesh must be challenged through the legal system. We want a fair and complete investigation and a fair and complete trial and a fair and complete conviction. If this seems like a tall order in the context of Bangladesh today, we also know that to accept anything less it to concede defeat. Part of the struggle for justice is the struggle against forgetting, against the short memories of governments and publics, of acts of injustice."

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"Instead of carefully reintroducing checks and balances, the emergency government has further distorted them in favor of increasing executive powers, which may actually deteriorate the long-term prospects of keeping corruption at bay... We need to begin restoring a sense of fairness rather than promoting vengeance in the country." (Photos by Rajiv Ashrafi)

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Four months have passed since an interim government took over in Bangladesh under emergency powers. Many progressives have had mixed reactions, with support for the government’s well-intentioned actions, but criticism about its lack of transparency and due process. Our critical support has prompted many questions. Here’s an attempt to clarify our position. (Photos by Matthew Wickert)

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