US had a geopolitical interest in Hasina’s removal and was tellingly quick to welcome her military-installed interim replacement

Indian intelligence agencies, rarely the epitome of self-assured success, have rarely been caught as flat-footed as they were over the weekend when Bangladesh’s Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina hurriedly evacuated her palatial residences for a rather modest government guest house on the outskirts of Delhi.

In a matter of a few hours, the former “Iron Lady” of Dhaka found her position, and perhaps prospects for her life itself, quite unviable, when the head of the armed forces (who happened to be her niece’s husband) communicated the troops’ refusal to fire at “student” protestors who were gathering in force across the country.

https://asiatimes.com/2024/08/bangladesh-as-color-revolution-on-indias-doorstep/

 

Contains an interesting section titled  “So what makes it a color revolution?” — applicable worldwide!