The evil has fled! People have won their freedom in a epic liberation struggle. Let's go Bangladesh!
@Kartal1 @TR_123456 @Sanchez @Yasar_TR @Nilgiri and just about everyone.
Mixed feelings.
SHW time to go was clearly overdue. Every problem is not a nail for her to flex the same hammer on....but she has long gone into a shell o ultra-defensive mode pscyhologically and deploy easiest levers at reach rather than work each issue in its proper context and in proper tiers first to resolve (and earn better credibility from BD people in win win way as well - something lost to her in her "family, political tribe first" complex).
Even with that in mind, its ridiculous looking back now her response strategy in the space of time from original high court ruling (pro-quota) to the one month or so later when the supreme court overruled the lower court and brought the quota to nominal single % like it was before (after the last flare up in 2018? regd it when SHW and/or court first brought it down to that new low level from earlier inertia of 30% or 40% whatever it was ever since liberation war conclusion and downstream it turning into a front for typical big BAL nepotism scam etc). Earlier in her tenure she was lot more tactful in comparison, things had frayed in this late stage by accumulation of all kind of missed opportunities though it must be said.....and the whole propaganda spiel to plaster over it each time.
BD friend of mine cleared up to me (I was unsure) that she did communicate the SC would rule against it and to wait for their ruling etc. But the deployment of chetona, chatra league goons and then police and some say units of army too to hammer the protestors (given large avenue of other ways to defuse far more reasonably) that way during that month was incompetent and like you say evil.
Then the blood spilled left its consequence that could not be made right for the protestors (who increased their demands wanting ministers responsible for the police brutality to resign and SHW to apologise - pretty reasonable if you ask me) and SHW buckled down even more in defensive mode as the ego dictated to her internally a long time.
Then both sides went all in regd this latest round and ultimately the BD army sensed the pendulum had shifted sufficiently to make its machiavellian move from its half in- half out testing water stance in the earlier bloodbaths.....and changed the terms of the working arrangement worked out with SHW/BAL ever since the BDR mutiny in 2009.
In annals of history the crucial details will never be resolved and held accountable to degree required to pass judgement on BD army role here. It has long been the case regd 1971 to begin with,...the partials vs the complicits, what are the definitive conclusions versus the greyness regd the BD army "new formative re-org" and its uneasiness in SMR tenunre, its role in SMR assassination, army role during Ziaur's tenure, Ziaur's own assassination, junta greyness, Ershad tenure and then post Ershad era when elections were commenced again to bring in the contours of the current arc and again the BD army role w.r.t "working arrangements" each tenure in all that too as state of comprehensive institutional heft and civilian oversight of it....is again partial and a grey area in the end.
I empathise somewhat with your transient joy on this. But I know it will be transient one as you are an intelligent astute and keen one, esp for your age IMO....and you will see and judge whatever comes in the months and years ahead to judge and analyse.
The deep problem is the deep political dysfunction of Bangladesh....that makes these things transient....as far too many things that should be solid in its core....are tenuous and deeply unresolved.
Sad because the bulk of BD people that like any other people in the world largely are transactional with politics (rather than being deeply ideological about it to some nutty degree)....and deserve a lot better. But these are the circumstances baked in....there is no clear way, there is no manna drop out of the political dysfunction that produces the characters like SHW and all the equivalents in other large power centers of BD.
