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.
The students’ awakening was unsurprising for those with some political sensibility left.
Resulting damage could have severe long-term impacts
There is no shame in admitting that in the last few days many of us have cried helplessly, over the senseless deaths of students—teenagers or in their early twenties—the same age or close to the ages of our children.
It is a special kind of horror to see the semi-abstract theories you studied for your semi-abstract major come to life, and begin to apply to events 20 minutes away from you.
The Appellate Division verdict of July 21 has opened the scope for resolution of the main issue around the demands coming from the quota reform movement.
Legal action for violence is vital, and so is addressing popular anger
The impact of all these on the poor and low-income groups will be devastating.
The verdict is in. The Appellate Division through its observations has recommended that quotas be restricted to seven percent: five percent for freedom fighters’ descendants, one percent for ethnic minorities, and one percent for people with disabilities.
