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  • Feb 4, 2025 | mdpi.com | McKenzie Brandt |Jason Malone |Thomas Kean

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  • Aug 20, 2024 | insidestory.org.au | Thomas Kean

    To borrow from Hemingway, Bangladeshi prime minister Sheikh Hasina’s downfall this month, after fifteen years of increasingly iron-fisted rule, came about in two ways: gradually, then suddenly. All the signs of the brewing discontent were there. After coming to power in 2009, Hasina quickly established an implicit contract with both the Bangladesh people and the country’s foreign partners.

  • Aug 12, 2024 | almendron.com | Thomas Kean

    The remarkable downfall of Bangladesh’s leader Sheikh Hasina was shocking in its speed, but the prime minister’s hasty escape to India as angry protesters converged on her Dhaka residence on Aug. 5 was not a total surprise. The signs of deep rot have been clear for several years. Bangladesh’s “economic miracle”, which lifted so many out of extreme poverty, was beginning to sour.

  • Aug 11, 2024 | qoshe.com | Thomas Kean

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  • Aug 11, 2024 | asia.nikkei.com | Thomas Kean

    Thomas Kean is International Crisis Group's senior consultant on Bangladesh and Myanmar. The remarkable downfall of Bangladesh's leader Sheikh Hasina was shocking in its speed, but the prime minister's hasty escape to India as angry protesters converged on her Dhaka residence on Aug. 5 was not a total surprise. The signs of deep rot have been clear for several years. Bangladesh's "economic miracle," which lifted so many out of extreme poverty, was beginning to sour.

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Thomas Kean
Thomas Kean @tdkean
21 Mar 25

RT @ChiefAdviserGoB: Bangladesh’s Interim Government has vowed to hold elections on schedule, refusing to delay the vote for any demands, C…

Thomas Kean
Thomas Kean @tdkean
27 Feb 25

A visual explainer from the @CrisisGroup team of the Arakan Army's war in western #Myanmar. Having seized control of much of the state, the group now faces huge challenges making its territory viable in the face of regime airstrikes and blockades. https://t.co/OFSnYW4Edj

Thomas Kean
Thomas Kean @tdkean
27 Feb 25

Excellent analysis of the challenges and dilemmas that ascendant ethnic armed groups face in #Myanmar.

Morgan Michaels
Morgan Michaels @morgmichaels

New report asks what's next for Myanmar's ethnic armies now in control of the borderlands. Military victories haven't brought stability and there's no clear way to remedy this. More pressure on the centre won't necessarily push the regime to the table. https://t.co/1jzB7zLx0c