Young protesters installed Nobel prizewinner Muhammad Yunus as caretaker leader. But time is running out to reform the country’s democratic institutions
In Dhaka, the street art is still visible: a cuffed hand clenched in a fist; an injured student being rushed towards aid on a bicycle; the words “the blood of martyrs shall not go in vain”. These murals were daubed in July and August, after police opened fire on people who had gathered to protest against a job scheme favouring Bangladesh’s ruling Awami League party.
“Over the last 15 years, they pushed the whole partisan control of institutions to an extreme, on the basis that they thought they would be here for eternity,” says Iftekharuzzaman, the executive director of Transparency International Bangladesh, whom Yunus has tasked with overhauling the country’s discredited Anti-Corruption Commission. “There was a collusion between business, politics and bureaucracy.
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