The international community often views Nobel laureates through a lens of deified reverence,
assuming that a Peace Prize in the pocket equates to a democrat in the soul. But in Bangladesh, that illusion has shattered. On February 12, 2026, the world witnessed not a “democratic reset,” but a meticulously choreographed execution of the very concept of popular will.
Under the cold, academic stewardship of Muhammad Yunus, Bangladesh has exchanged a flawed democracy for a sanitized autocracy, draped in the robes of “reform” and enforced by the threat of the mob.
While the Yunus-controlled Election Commission boasts of a “peaceful” vote, the reality is far
more sinister. This was an election of the few, by the few, and for the few, a procedural sham
that disenfranchised a third of the electorate to install a government that had already been hand-picked in the backrooms of the “interim” administration.
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