Cherie Blair and we
The recent comments by Cherie Blair regarding our democracy, I think, were totally out of place. She told the reporters that Bangladesh was not going to be another Myanmar and that Sheikh Hasina's trial would follow the due course of law. Whatever my personal opinion regarding the present government may be, I totally fail to see the point of her remarks, unless of-course as the spouse of a former British premier, she has Hillary Clinton inspired objectives.
I hope she did some background research on Bangladesh before she flew in. The people arrested and incarcerated so far read like a formidable who's who of Bangladesh's politics and the related dynasties. Does she realise how much popular support that 1/11 (the day the caretaker government took over in 2007) had? The fact that I am sitting in my office without electricity for hours at a stretch and living in a city that is the second most polluted in the world is definitely a reflection on our so-called democracy. This has happened because these “Ladies of the Durbar” failed to do anything except patronizing their own cronies!
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