General's assertions
Recently, Mr. Moeen U Ahmed, the former chief of army, in an interview with a Bangladeshi media in the USA claimed that he was the only general who never tried to grab power. He, a few days ago, bragged again in another news media that if he wanted to be the president of the republic, there was none who could stop him. It seemed to me that perhaps his rant is the outburst of pang for his controversial role in the immediate past regime.
Yes, he is the only general who issued myriad political sermons, wrote a political book which surely were a transgression of the service norms and rules and has set bad instances for the present and future government servants.
Yet, I can remember that he is the only general who was considered as the “meddlesome” general of the country by the Time magazine in 2008. Mr. Ahmed should know that history itself determines the proper niche of any ruler, mere vaunting exposes only the hollowness of its merit.
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