Zia’s ghost still haunts Bangladesh’s fragile power pact

For a country born out of a bloody partition from Pakistan in 1971, political transition in Bangladesh has rarely been a peaceful affair. The assassination of President Ziaur Rahman on May 30, 1981, at a government circuit house in the port city of Chattogram, followed a familiar, violent script. Rahman, a decorated liberation war hero The post Zia’s ghost still haunts Bangladesh’s fragile power pact appeared first on Asia Times.

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