"The government holds power with the help of fundamentalist Islamic groups that are changing Bangladesh s secular character; local Hindus and Christians are fleeing to neighbouring India in the thousands, and the authorities are furious at media reports that Bangladesh is playing host to jihadis from Afghanistan and beyond. Rather than address these concerns, the government has systematically muzzled journalists and Opposition leaders who try to get the story out. Since October, more than 4,000 people have been arrested and 44 have died in custody during a government crackdown supposedly directed at organized crime and euphemistically called Operation Clean Heart."
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Saleem Samad February 10, 2003 article in Time Asia, quoted in Y Rosser, Indoctrinating Minds: Politics of Education in Bangladesh. 2004 page **123
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