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Mohamed Yunus would never have declared himself "Superman"; this is just Nirupama Subramaniam's imagination. But I do think calling for elections within two years of the student-led coup of the corrupt, murderous, anti-human rights Hasani regime, including all her collaborators, is too early for a country still trying to find its feet after the 1971 war between two villains, India and Pakistan (they're both alike despite their so-called religious differences). It's hard to imagine demands for a new -- and balanced -- constitution can be drawn up in a short time, even after the next elections, if they're held. There are far too many competing interests waiting to grab state power and all its spoils. You only have to look at Pakistan, and also the wildly corrupt, rightwing Hindu racist-nationalist, bloody-minded BJP regime under Modi. In any political contest, it'll be the weak masses in society -- if there is a society at all in Bangladesh -- who lose even more, who'll be further marginalized, as if their lot hasn't been less characterized by the late Frantz Fanon as the "wretched of the earth".

Under those conditions it's seem to me impossible for Yunus to being any kind of political order to a Bangladesh that keeps tearing itself apart. There's almost a non-existent economy in Bangladesh to speak of, whilst it continues to export its labor to countries in the Middle East and Malaysia where manifestly corrupt operators -- almost all of whom are connected to the Malaysian state -- fundamentally exploit indentured Bangladeshi laborers, those who come in legally but especially those illegally imported under the very nose of the Malay regime.

That the hideous and violent Modi regime harbored Hasina after he escape from Dhaka from the hands of students to India deserves outright condemnation. If Modi has an ounce of principles and morality left in his sagging old body, he would ensure Hasina held in prison until the ICC can launch and issue a warrant for her arrest for her crimes against innocent Bangladeshis, including dissidents against her corrupt regime. Or better still return her to Dhaka and let Bangladeshis stone her to death. It's what she deserves.

Being one of the most impoverished countries in the world, it's unsurprising that Yunus has tried to forge relations with a murky China. Yunus must know to be careful over what he wishes for from the ideologically bankrupt, untrustworthy Xi-CCP regime, as is the ideologically-bankrupt and murderous Putin regime in Russia. China-Russia don't make strange bedfellows, per se, but a Bangladesh-China union will be, as bankrupt Pakistan found out after it towed Beijing's line for money and the relationship began to crumble.

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