Word: bangladeshis
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Senator Edward M. Kennedy ’54-’56 protested the arrests of 12 Bangladeshi academics in a letter to the nation’s government last Friday, just days after the chief of Bangladesh’s military spoke at Harvard and drew criticism for his regime’s crackdown on academic freedom...
...incredibly ironic that at the very moment he speaks at Harvard University, he is presiding over an unprecedented crackdown on Bangladeshi academic institutions,” Emran Qureshi, a fellow at Harvard Law School’s Labor and Worklife Program, told The Crimson in a phone interview Monday...
...than in stable, two-party political systems. In Bangladesh, Sheik Hasina Wazed and her chief rival, Khaleda Zia, both of whom hail from political dynasties, have swatted down past attempts to form new parties. When Grameen Bank founder Muhammad Yunus tried to launch a party earlier this year, many Bangladeshi politicians, including those from Hasina's party, quickly attacked...
...chief of the Bangladeshi military, who took part in a two-day session at the Kennedy School of Government last week, has come under fire from scholars who claim that his armed forces have been responsible for a crackdown on academic freedom at the nation’s universities...
...have been public so that critics of their policy could have aired their thoughts,” Qureshi said in a phone interview yesterday. “It is incredibly ironic that at the very moment he speaks at Harvard University, he is presiding over an unprecedented crackdown on Bangladeshi academic institutions. It boggles the mind...