Bangladesh, Oct. 19 -- There are moments in a nations life when it must pause, reflect, and ask: who truly stands guard when the storm arrives? In Bangladesh, that answer has never been ambiguous — it is the Armed Forces. Through cyclones and floods, pandemics and insurgencies, and the collapse of governance itself, the nations soldiers have been its final line of defense. Yet today, the very institution that embodies sacrifice and national pride stands under siege — not from an enemy across borders, but from within its own discourse, its own politics, and its own misguided narrative of justice.

Nowhere in the civilized world do citizens vilify their own defenders the way Bangladeshs military has been vilified in recent times...