"Brave fellows, these military intelligence officers: they abduct people under cover of night, they avoid any due process, they outnumber their target, make sure that only they themselves are armed and that their target is blindfolded, and then they collectively teach their target some lessons in patriotism. The quick formula: to be a patriot under a military dictatorship, be a good slave who keeps quiet and follows orders."

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"Bangladesh's Internet users are besieged. With disregard for free speech, free thought, and fundamental rights, the military-led government has taken unprecedented steps to snoop on the data and lives of citizens, without proper judicial oversight and at the whim of the government security apparatus. So now we're forced to take measures to protect our rights. This article shares some simple steps."

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"A year has passed since the military assumed power in Bangladesh, and the silence of much of the world amounts to complicity in the destruction of the country's democratic potential. The army is becoming politicized and democracy is being delegitimized. If these trends continue, a Pakistan-like outcome is not unlikely: The military will have the final say in society, the political class will be decapitated, and grassroots Islamism will strengthen as an alternative." (Illustrations by Abro)

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"For two years the US continued to ignore more democratic possibilities and kept on shoring up the general in Pakistan. And despite the growing signs of failure in that policy, the US administration has been replicating it in Bangladesh, supporting another group of generals and their large-scale political purging there. Has the time not come for US policy to become transparent and consistent, along the lines of its own founding principles?"

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"After months of oppression, the strange peace of a cremation ground hangs over Nandigram. But across Bengal and India, the people of Nandigram have become a symbol of resistance against unethical corporate practices supported by an unethical government. It will go down as a watershed event, a recognition that the strength of most political status-quos is perhaps overrated, and a source of inspiration to this part of the world, where civil liberties are under constant assault."

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