Dhaka, Aug. 12 -- Following a series of untoward and dramatic events, Bangladesh's Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina recently threw up the sponge failing to survive a turbulent student movement stained with huge blood. To be noted, Hasina is the first head of any government in the country's history to have ever fled.
Thanks to the Army's timely intervention, its offhand realization that once a government no longer had the people's support, it was no morally obliged to defend that; its sensible appreciation that the entire state's power, including all its pillars and institutions, whether civilian or military, is subservient to the masses and if any of these pillars loses the people's support, it is sure to collapse.
Put to an acid test of pres...