"'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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"No longer are South Asian Muslims building stupendous monuments, producing powerful art, or setting standards in statecraft. They are battling corruption, dictatorships, poverty, nepotistic politics, or chauvinistic majoritarianism; to say nothing of their increasing limelight in the spectacle that is the war on terror. Akbar would have certainly been dismayed." (Photos by Sebastian Tkaczyk)

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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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