Bangladesh Needs Change, Not Old Executioners

When Sheikh Hasina, Bangladesh’s ousted prime minister, was condemned to death last week, many in the country saw the sentence as appropriate for a leader who unleashed security men with rifles on helpless protestors. Others, more quietly, will have seen it as a straightforward act of judicial vengeance.

It is also a signifier of the missed opportunities and misplaced priorities of those who replaced Hasina in power. They chose retribution instead of reconciliation, and now they’re losing their chance at peace and stability.