This started as an agitation on 30% reservation given to freedom fighters' families. However it was curtailed in 2018 after violence, last month the court have reinstated the reservation.
My Bangladeshi colleague couldn't contact his family anymore. Two of his juniors at his former uni got slaughtered. He told me of videos where the army was shooting at students from helicopters.
It's fucked.
Now he could reach his siblings using some vpn commected to some banking wifi that had to be restarted as half the country depends on remittances for survival.
He believes he won't be able to return to his country with current government in place. He believes he's blacklisted as most Bangladeshi abroad as they are the ones who can post and tell about the crimes committed by their government.
I'll ask him tomorrow what her resignation means for the future of the country.
I don't know the reality of Bangladesh very well, but I do know that 170 million people in such a small country can easily become a powder keg, and I hope not.
We can say that there are factors that influenced this decision to leave his position... and it is not surprising... in that country and with the number of people who live in that capital... it is not so easy to do what they do in South America and to be more specific in Venezuela! a total dictatorship where no one has the right to have an opinion other than what the government forces say... backed by the armed forces and military... they have done what they want for the last 25 years... a mass exodus of more than 8 million of people with official figures... and a generation that continues to live there indoctrinated in parasitic and begging thinking... how only socialism can create it, in my opinion one of the worst plagues of society...
I just saw the news and I ran to SN. Damn, what great news, I was so happy to see this. The importance of the surrender of the military forces in dictatorships is key. Their happy faces in the photos say it all, it simply makes me want to cry with joy. I hope my country is experiencing that emotion soon.
The latest I'm hearing is that Sheikh Hasina has fled from the country.
1971.