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Sunanda K. Datta-Ray | Why monopoly of power is a threat to democracy


DECCAN CHRONICLE.
Updated Jun 10, 2021, 1:03 am IST
In short, no matter how legitimately political power is acquired, justice demands the balancing factor of an opposition
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As the world reeled from the Belarus kidnapping, the crackdown in Hong Kong and Israel’s bombardment of the Gaza Strip, I came across a poignant description not just of another tragedy but of an underlying factor in all such traumas. Looking back at Beijing’s Tiananmen Square massacre of June 4, 1989, when hundreds, perhaps thousands, of demonstrators were killed for demanding democratic governance, the writer spoke bluntly about the corruption of absolute power which undermines democracy. ....

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