Many detractors argued Bangladesh, as it hurtled from one disaster to another, was not a sustainable country . Mujib s death sealed the fate of democracy as two successive military dictators Generals Ziaur Rahman and H.M Ershad launched Bangladesh back on the road to Pakistan-type military-sponsored theocracy by legitimising Islamist parties and declaring Islam as the state religion, undoing secularism as a basic precept enshrined in Bangladesh s 1972 Constitution. No wonder, American author Lawrence Lifschultz sub-titled his book on Bangladesh as the
Last December in Geneva, the UN Working Group on Enforced Disappearance said that 76 people are missing in Bangladesh and called for a probe into the cases.
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