Bangladesh Elections: Sheikh Hasina Faces No Opposition, Accusations Of Crushing Democracy Explained

Sheikh Hasina is all but assured of winning a fifth term as bangladesh’s prime minister on Sunday, with the opposition boycotting a poll they say will be neither free nor fair. Hasina once helped rescue Bangladesh from military rule but her time in power has seen the mass arrest of her political opponents and human rights sanctions against her security forces.
The 76-year-old Hasina, the daughter of a revolutionary who led Bangladesh to independence, has presided over breakneck economic growth in a country once written off by US statesman Henry Kissinger as an irredeemable “basket case”.
Critics accuse her government of unjustly jailing her chief leadership rival, passing draconian anti-press freedom laws and a litany of rights abuses including the murder of opposition activists. Hasina herself is a product of chaos and tragedy. But her government’s intolerance towards dissent has given rise to resentment at home and expressions of concern from Washington and elsewhere abroad.
Five top Islamist leaders and a senior opposition figure were executed over the past decade after convictions for crimes against humanity committed during the country’s brutal 1971 liberation war.
Instead of healing the wounds of that conflict, the trials triggered mass protests and deadly clashes.
Her ‘secular’ credentials are also being questioned now. In 360 Degree with Anjilee Istwal, we explain why Hasina’s run for the country’s top job is marred even though the leader has given the country an unprecedented economic push and has a ancestry that makes her a political elite.

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