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International
Under Sheikh Hasina’s iron-fisted rule, the country descended into a parody of third-world despotism
Zafar Sobhan
It was the party’s obsession with 1971 that eventually brought the prime minister down
David Bergman
Any campaign of Western-backed assassination would likely trigger not some democratic revolution but an explosion of anger and outrage
Mark Galeotti
Latin American democracy may be stronger than the plans of ambitious generals to rule through the barrel of a gun
Nigel Jones
Europe
Fifty years ago today, on April 25, 1974, Europe was stunned by an almost bloodless military coup that removed the continent’s most durable dictatorship