The Bangladesh experiment is entering a crucial phase. Probably the next 6 months will determine whether it is one of the few (perhaps the only) country apart from Turkey to return to full and unfettered democracy within two years of a military intervention, writes former US ambassador to Bangladesh William Milam. "I found no quarrel across civil society with the view that the army had no alternative but to intervene on January 11, if civil strife, bloodshed, martial law were to be avoided," Milam, currently at the Woodrow Wilson Center in Washington DC, writes in Pakistan newspaper Daily Times. Read article
Worked over six years as a fulltime reporter for Bangladesh's leading English language newspaper, 'The Daily Star', till November 2008 on completion of a four-year stint as a university correspondent. Joined Desh TV, a private satellite TV channel, later as a Web Editor. I returned to The Daily Star in December 2010 as Web Editor (Content).
"I found no quarrel across civil society with the view that the army had no alternative but to intervene on January 11, if civil strife, bloodshed, martial law were to be avoided," Milam, currently at the Woodrow Wilson Center in Washington DC, writes in Pakistan newspaper Daily Times.
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