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Bangladesh's Sheikh Hasina alleges US role in ouster, says could've remained in power if she surrendered sovereignty of Saint Martin Island (m.economictimes.com)

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

omg that woman is a giant

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Unless she employs small people in her guard this image is photoshopped. This page says she is 5 feet 4 inches.

https://starsunfolded.co/sheikh-hasina-biography/

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

That's the average male height in Bangladesh

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago

Ok, so she is tall on average but her guard are 2.5 feet tall. Gotcha

[–] [email protected] 19 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Why does she look like a damn giant next to these people? Is that a child army?!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

I thought it was a picture of her behind them?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 months ago

".... and THAT'S why it's totally justified for me to have murdered thousands of my own citizens, rather than behave like a democratically elected leader".

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Why are they using a Photoshopped image?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

You mean this one?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

That website is unusable.

[+] [email protected] -1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

These guys aren't in some kind of parade or ceremonial display, nor do they appear to be at a guard post.

They're just soldiers standing by. In that situation there's no need for a uniform display to impress anyone. Keeping soldiers at drill precision 100% all thetime is a good way to fatigue soldiers who don't need to be perfect quickly.

Besides which, all of them have a hand near their trigger guards and most have hands resting on the barrel of their weapons so are reasonably prepared if someone does try something.