DHAKA (Reuters) - When an ally in Bangladesh's ruling coalition threatened this month to pull out of upcoming elections, elite troops broke open the gates of the party leader's home, brushed aside his guards and hauled him away.
"It was horrible to see sir being dragged into a car in front of our very eyes, and yet we could do nothing," said an official of Hossain Mohammad Ershad's party. The official, who declined to be named for fear of arrest, was at the home of the one-time military ruler at the time of the raid.
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