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Feb 2021
24m 11s

All the Prime Minister's Men: Part 1

Al Jazeera
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All the Prime Minister’s Men is a gripping, true-crime story of a high-level coverup happening right now in Bangladesh. Through undercover recordings, confessional interviews, historical analysis and primary source documents, Al Jazeera Investigates exposes the corrupt and ongoing relationship between a criminal gang of brothers and the country’s leader. It’s a relationship that’s lasted more than 30 years.

Part One begins with a murder on the streets of the capital of Dhaka.

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