Bangladesh Divided

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This book examines the totalitarian police regime of Bangladesh, responsible, since 2009, for hundreds and thousands of victims. This book calls for peace, tolerance, compromise, social justice, rule of law, and democratically free and fair elections with level playing field for all concerned, especially the major political parties.

Bangladesh Divided: Political and Literary Reflections on a Corrupt Police and Prison State examines the totalitarian police regime of Bangladesh, responsible (since 2009) for hundreds and thousands of victims who have disappeared, been killed, and/or been imprisoned. This book is a contribution toward the need for autocratic Awami power to be openly examined and challenged. Bangladesh Divided calls for peace, tolerance, compromise, social justice, rule of law, and democratically free and fair elections with a level playing field for all concerned, especially the major political parties. This book will interest students and scholars of Bangladesh studies, as well as those specializing in South Asian (regional) studies all around the world.

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Q M Jalal Khan

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“As the titles suggest—this one and the earlier Bangladesh: Political and Literary Reflections on a Divided Country—the two books by Q M Jalal Khan are unique publications devoted to detailing and documenting the political and economic terrorism of the Hasina regime and its tearing and trampling down of human rights, social justice, rule of law, electoral politics, and, above all, the popular democratic opposition of the country, the BNP. The two books provide an unadulterated and unmediated view of the fascist regime and its completely destructive and subversive policies implemented with the help of its brutal and beastly police along with its other state tools—executive and judiciary—taking the country down the dark and dangerous tunnel with no end in sight except a continuation of the regime’s cold-blooded murders, cruel killings and kidnappings, and its barbaric remands and imprisonments, ending, maybe, in a liberating bloodbath. Both volumes are no doubt a fascinating read and resource for those interested in knowing about the bloody perpetrators in the court, police, and civil administration, all led by their autocratic and despotic leader Hasina, whose terrible police repression of the opposition BNP knows no bounds.” —Mina Farah, political writer and columnist
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“Timely, poignant, and comprehensive, Bangladesh Divided is a stark reminder of the deadly political and social crises facing Bangladesh today. It’s fair, compelling, and heartbreaking.” —Md Saidul Islam, Visiting Scholar at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Associate Professor of Sociology at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
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“This book, along with the author’s last volume of a similar title, has splendidly exposed the state of anarchy, brutality, and corruption in the totally unaccountable autocracy of Sheikh Hasina during one of the most eventful periods in the history of Bangladesh, 2009–2018. Q M Jalal Khan has painstakingly narrated as to how and why Bangladesh has turned into a one-party dictatorship in the garb of democracy. The two works are simply an eye-opener for those who want accountable and representative governance not just in Bangladesh but everywhere in the world. This is a must-read for politician¬s, scholars, analysts, and human-rights activists, within and beyond Bangladesh.” —Taj Hashmi, formerly of Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies in Hawaii, University of British Columbia, and National University of Singapore
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“This book is an invaluable contribution on the studies of politics and political developments in Bangladesh, especially during Sheikh Hasina’s authoritarian regime since 2009. The country’s significant economic progress, however lopsided and corruption-ridden that may be, has been overshadowed by the assault on democratic governance for a highly authoritarian system. Ruthless suppression of political and media dissent using the arbitrary mass detention, torture, incarceration, enforced disappearances, wholesale rigging of elections, and unbridled corruption in the legal, administrative, and policing system have raised serious questions about the character, motives, and agenda of the Hasina regime. Constitutional amendments for political manipulation and power politics have made a mockery of any semblance to democratic rule. The country is divided into two mutually hostile camps, with serious repercussions for its future. Q M Jalal Khan’s previously published book, Bangladesh: Political and Literary Reflections on a Divided Country, earned wide acclaim among all those who are interested in Bangladesh affairs. The present volume covers additional, more recent aspects on the subject made up-to-date as of the end of September 2018. Most scholarly studies on South Asian affairs are dominated by topics on India and Pakistan with very little attention to Bangladesh. Khan’s informative and analytical contributions add to the store of research-based studies on the contemporary history of Bangladesh and hopefully will be a very important ingredient for future studies.” —Khalifa Mohammad Abdul Malik, former Professor of Chemistry at the University of Dhaka and Cardiff University and author of political publications on Bangladesh
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