Eighteen-year-old Alif Hassan Rahat, a student from Milestone College in Uttara, dreamed of becoming a rocket engineer.
Identity and ideology politics also played an essential role in brewing the Bangla Bashanta.
After Hasina’s fall, we must strive to build a pro-people, inclusive society
Bangladesh is heading down an extremely dangerous path
Students who were shot dead and injured were simply exercising their democratic rights and posed no threat to anybody.
When Tahir Zaman Priyo was gunned down around 5:00pm on July 19 just behind Labaid Hospital in Dhaka’s Dhanmondi, his friend Faria Ulfath Syed heard just a single gunshot.
The July massacre has brought the credibility of this regime into question.
It is astounding how little a regime in power for 15 years understands the new form of student politics.
Is it not easier to defeat your enemies in parliament than to be permanently on the warpath against some shapeshifting enemy?
What is said by the power and what is believed by the people may not be the same.
The infiltrators were handed the opportunity on a silver platter the moment BCL ensured that violence took over the movement.
While the micro and messo levels of losses are immediate and short term, macro level losses would be medium to long term.
The government wasted time while the violence continued.
History and ordinary people in general will remember very well what happened over the last week or so.
They are struggling to provide necessary care to patients
As a grandchild of a freedom fighter, I would have felt ashamed to use the quota after so many lost their lives over this issue.
It is critical that there should be proper accounting for who authorised this kind of use of force, which has been excessive and disproportionate
The vigour of youth emerges because they have not been disillusioned into accepting the deficiencies of the present.
