The prospects for change are not without hope in Bangladesh.
The investigation agency of the International Crimes Tribunal has found the involvement of eight police personnel, including former Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) Commissioner Habibur Rahman, in crimes, including killings, committed during last year’s mass uprising in the capital’s Chankharpool area.
Last year, 17-year-old Nur Mostofa, like many of his peers, took to the streets, standing shoulder to shoulder with the masses to protest the killings of hundreds at the hands of law enforcers during the July uprising and to demand the resignation of then-prime minister Sheikh Hasina.
Pahela Baishakh is the biggest non-communal and soulful festival of Bangalees.
Democracy, though globally dominant since the fall of communism, is far from a one-size-fits-all system.
Right now, there are two major issues: progress of reforms, and the prospect of election
The 1971 Liberation War was the culmination of a long struggle for a democratic, secular, and egalitarian society.
BNP’s adversarial politics hurts more because it was expected to lead a new culture of politics.
The two platforms became largely inactive after they floated their political party -- National Citizen Party (NCP) and student body Democratic Student Council
From actively participating in protests to strategising and coordinating activities, women contributed at every level
Ousted prime minister Sheikh Hasina told Nitor doctors neither to treat those injured in the July uprising nor to release those who were hospitalised, said Chief Prosecutor Mohammad Tajul Islam at the International Crimes Tribunal.
In at least seven instances, two separate murder cases have been filed over the death of one July uprising victim, with conflicting information, and different accused and witnesses.
Both the previous government (Awami League) and opposition groups recruited, paid, and used children in violence during the July uprising, a United Nations Fact-Finding Mission has reported.
There’s no denying that July altered the political reality of Bangladesh. The uprising toppled a deeply entrenched despot and unleashed a wave of change that felt as sudden as it was transformative.
As of 3:00pm, the protesters remained on the streets, chanting slogans
For more measured and deliberate changes, Bangladesh might look towards the American and Glorious Revolutions.
With Adviser Nahid Islam almost certain to be the convener of the new political party being floated by the July uprising activists, differences of opinion have emerged among the leaders over the member secretary post, the second-highest role in the party hierarchy.
The United Nations fact-finding report has exposed disturbing accounts of gender-based violence during the July uprising last year, with women protesters facing physical assaults, rape threats, and arbitrary detention.
The court, however, fixed February 19 for hearing the remand prayer in his presence
