Bangladesh Democracy in Crisis

摘要

Completing their 5-year term in late Oct 2006, Khaleda Zia's Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) duly handed over power to a Caretaker Regime. In a strategic mistake, the Awami League (Allied opposition did not agree to Retired Chief Justice K M Hassan, the man who (according to the Constitution) was to be the Head of the Caretaker Regime, as being "partial" to BNP. A man of great integrity and known impartiality, Justice Hassan himself refused the office, leaving the doors open for the President lajuddin Ahmed (who is very partial to BNP) to double as Chief Advisor.