To Bangladesh, where the country’s ousted former prime minister – and aunt of Labour MP Tulip Siddiq – has been found guilty of crimes against humanity and sentenced to death. A special tribunal judged Sheikh Hasina responsible for ordering a violent crackdown on student-led protests in 2023 – during which up to 1,400 people died, according to UN estimates. Good heavens…

Protests arose over Bangladesh’s policy of reserving almost a third of civil servant jobs for veterans of its war of independence from Pakistan in 1971 – and their descendants – which tended to go to supporters of Hasina and her Awami League........

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