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.
Reconciliation cannot occur without truth-telling, accountability, and a commitment to dismantling the structures of violence that perpetuate inequality and injustice.
It must stop crackdown on protests, mass arrests
Can we envision a future where such pervasive violence and control are no longer defining elements of our daily lives?
What is good politics for a party, or any party, may not result in good economics
Blinded by unquestioned power, the government is refusing to accept the new reality.
Free all detained students, protesters without delay
Maybe it was the anger at a system that demanded martyrdom before acknowledging legitimate grievances
Govt must allow independent probe into the deaths of protesters
When Bangladesh bleeds, no one scores any political point, however lofty their political ideologies are.
Why did a student movement that started with a demand to reform a discriminatory and unconstitutional system get so violent?
