Bangladesh President Sheikh Hasina at a security conference in Munich, Germany, February 18, 2017. Photo: AFP Forum/Tobias Hase
Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has won a fourth term. Photo: Asia Times Files / AFP Forum / Tobias Hase

EDITORS’ NOTE: Asia Times has learned that the credentials and identity of author “Doreen Chowdhury” are false. This article appears to have been a despicable plant by the Sheikh Hasina government or forces allied with it. We do not stand by the points made in the piece.