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...ready to go to jail if necessary, but I want to go back to my country.' SHEIKH HASINA, former Prime Minister of Bangladesh, after being barred from boarding a flight from London to Dhaka. Bangladesh's interim government has asked airlines not to allow Hasina to fly into the country, after fighting between her supporters and those of political rival Khaleda Zia led it to impose a state of emergency in January
...like "epistemologically" and "baneful." But, as Bangladesh's current boss, the 66-year-old Ahmed is showing a steely resolve. Beginning last October, the capital Dhaka was struck by violent street clashes between rival supporters of outgoing Prime Minister Khaleda Zia's Bangladesh Nationalist Party and opposition leader Sheikh Hasina's Awami League. In January, a state of emergency was imposed, elections scheduled for that month were indefinitely postponed, and Ahmed was named Chief Adviser-in effect the Prime Minister-of a caretaker government made up largely of technocrats backed by the military. Since then, Ahmed has gone after allegedly...
...This political mayhem has its roots in the compromises sometimes required in Asia's more fragile democracies. After Bangladesh returned to civilian leadership in 1991 following 15 years of mostly military rule, the two main political parties-the secular, nationalist Awami League led by Sheikh Hasina and the more Islamic-leaning and pro-business Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) led by outgoing Prime Minister Khaleda Zia-agreed that the incumbent party would step down a couple of months before every election. A neutral caretaker government would briefly run the country and the election commission until a new government was elected...
...Western diplomats in Dhaka, Bangladesh's capital, say the party's stubborn refusal to compromise on any of its demands, its calls to take the fight to the streets and its decision earlier this month to boycott the election-"we'll resist the one-sided polls at any cost," Hasina told a rally-all made confrontation inevitable. "It's hard to see that there's a good-faith effort on either side," said one Western diplomat before Iajuddin called off the election...
...possible. Before Iajuddin called off the ballot, Zia described the Awami League and its allies as "conspirators" plotting to undermine the electoral process. It doesn't help that there's a seething rivalry between the two main leaders-Zia, 61, the widow of assassinated President Ziaur Rahman, and Hasina, 59, daughter of Bangladesh's first President, Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, who was also murdered. Hasina believes Zia's husband knew of the plot to kill her father. Six years ago, on a visit to Dhaka, former U.S. President Jimmy Carter tried to get the two to shake hands, but neither could...