bdnews24.com :
US Secretary of State John Kerry has met his colleagues at the embassy before leaving Dhaka and said this is a “complicated” world.
“It is different from anything I grew up in the Cold War in the 1950s, ’60s, ’70s, ’80s, ’90s; still the Berlin Wall fell. That was simple compared to today,” he said. “But now we have individuals, one person, who can decide to take on a nation, just by blowing themselves up. It doesn’t lead to anything.”
He remembered the murder of Xulhaz Mannan the former US embassy official and LGBT rights activist who was hacked to death by extremists earlier this year, and also the Jul 1 terrorist attack at the Holey Artisan Bakery during the
“meet and greet” at the chancery. He told his Dhaka-based colleagues that they were “serving here in Bangladesh in a very exciting time, a time of transformation, a time of huge possibilities, and yes, a time of challenge”.
US Secretary of State John Kerry has met his colleagues at the embassy before leaving Dhaka and said this is a “complicated” world.
“It is different from anything I grew up in the Cold War in the 1950s, ’60s, ’70s, ’80s, ’90s; still the Berlin Wall fell. That was simple compared to today,” he said. “But now we have individuals, one person, who can decide to take on a nation, just by blowing themselves up. It doesn’t lead to anything.”
He remembered the murder of Xulhaz Mannan the former US embassy official and LGBT rights activist who was hacked to death by extremists earlier this year, and also the Jul 1 terrorist attack at the Holey Artisan Bakery during the
“meet and greet” at the chancery. He told his Dhaka-based colleagues that they were “serving here in Bangladesh in a very exciting time, a time of transformation, a time of huge possibilities, and yes, a time of challenge”.
