When Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina fled in the face of a mass uprising last week, a power vacuum was left in the 170 million-person country. After Hasina left the country, the army took over and swiftly established an interim government to steer Bangladesh towards free and fair elections within three months. Amid hopes for […]

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“Inni, we are independent!” my 26-year-old cousin chanted from Shahbagh, a neighborhood in Bangladesh’s capital Dhaka, as millions joined a major protest march on Monday to the country’s Parliament House. Soon after, social media was flooded with news of “a new independence” – a free Bangladesh reborn after the autocratic leader of over 15 years, […]

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