Year: 2019
Type: article
Abstract: Bangladesh's parliamentary elections, held on 30 December 2018, saw Sheikh Hasina's landslide victory.Hasina's fourth term and third consecutive mandate was a sign of undisputable continuity.Throughout the year the government continued an intensive anticorruption campaign, started when the Awami League came back to power in 2009.As a result, at the beginning of 2018 the Bangladesh National Party's leader and former Prime Minister Khaleda Zia along with a number of party members were jailed.The main opposition party was facing an unprecedented crisis, which did not necessarily depend on the government's anticorruption activity.The economy continued to perform well and foreign policy took a more articulated shape, beyond a not always easy balance between India and China.The Rohingya emergency alleviated, as the refugees' influx to Bangladesh significantly reduced, but hundreds of thousands of refugees were still living in camps and their future looked uncertain.1. 'Bangladesh court orders arrest of Khalida Zia for arson attack', Economic Times, 2 January 2018; 'Khaleda Zia jailed for five years in corruption case', Al Jazeera, 8 February 2008; 'Ex-Bangladesh PM Khaleda Zia Gets 7 Years In Jail In Corruption Case', NDTV, 29 October 2018; 'Khaleda Zia sentenced to 7 years in another graft case', Economic Times, 29 October 2018.Asia Maior, XXIX / 2018 2. 'Democracy decaying in Bangladesh', East Asia Forum, 6 March 2018.See also Nisha Sharmeen Ali, 'Bangladesh: Democracy Stumbles', The Diplomat, 6 December 2013.3. On the Rohingya crisis in Bangladesh, Marzia Casolari, 'Bangladesh 2017: The Rohingya's carnage', Asia Maior 2017, pp.245-266.4. 'Rohingya crisis' (https://www.unicef.org/emergencies/bangladesh_100945.html).5. Anna Ellis-Petersen, Shaikh Azizur Rahman, Michael Safi, 'Bangladesh admits no Rohingya willing to take repatriation offer'
Author: Marzia Casolari
Institution: University of Turin
Language: English
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W4391631121