Monthly Archive for March, 2008

My wife says I talk too much and invite trouble. On May 11, 2007, her observation was confirmed: I “invited” trouble by talking too much against the military-backed interim government in Bangladesh. With a midnight ring of my doorbell, three or four plainclothes men — who identified themselves as the “joint forces” — entered my Dhaka apartment, detained me without charge, and seized my passport, cell phones, computers and documents. I was threatened at gun-point while my wife, holding my six-month-old son, watched. I was pushed into a car, blindfolded and handcuffed.

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