The events of July–August 2024 have added a dark chapter to the nation’s history, and the true nature of that chapter is now slowly coming into focus. A just student movement was cynically exploited to deliberately plunge the country into chaos, to murder police...

Given what has been happening in Bangladesh since August 5, it is only natural for anyone to raise questions. Can a country function like this, where people are dying at the hands of mobs every day? Beatings to death on suspicion of theft, bodies...