Bangladeshs future stuck in an inescapable past

“This was a destruction not of a house but of our history, of my history,” said a veteran of Bangladesh’s 1971 liberation war. He was speaking to me of the destruction on February 5 of the Dhaka home of Sheikh Mujib ur Rahman, Bangladesh’s first leader.   The address, 32 Dhanmondi, is as well known in Bangladesh as 1600 Pennsylvania […]
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