With clenched fists and fierce voices, a group of fearless women stood before the locked gates of their residential halls on the night of July 14, 2024. There were no commands, no central leader -- only rage and a deep sense of injustice. They broke through the gates and poured into the streets.
In the immediate aftermath of the changeover on the August 5, the police were nowhere to be seen.
It was July 19 – the day 28-year-old Monir Hossain was shot dead during the quota reform protests in Dhaka and a string of further tragedies started befalling the ill-fated family.
The sudden twitches of his left hand and his attempts to speak in too weak a voice are just about the only signs that 16-year-old Raiyan Ahmed is still alive.
Says mother of Munna who was shot dead in Dhanmondi
Says mother of Raihan, 17, who died of bullet wounds
The real test lies in the reform strategies that can steer a country toward justice.
Fear cannot ever lead to forgetting.
If the ruling party leaders don’t understand or pretend not to understand why students are not staying back at home (their campuses and dormitories remain shuttered), we are in much deeper trouble than one could imagine
The real test lies in the reform strategies that can steer a country toward justice.
Fear cannot ever lead to forgetting.
If the ruling party leaders don’t understand or pretend not to understand why students are not staying back at home (their campuses and dormitories remain shuttered), we are in much deeper trouble than one could imagine
The government has announced a three-day general holiday on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday for ensuring public safety amid the ongoing violent protests across the country
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today said those who are engaging in sabotage in the name of protest are no longer students, but criminals
The High Court today rejected a writ that challenged the legality of keeping six coordinators of Anti-Discrimination Student Movement in DB custody and the use of live rounds at demonstraters
A number of vehicles at Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University (BSMMU) were torched this morning by unidentified people
Thousands of protesters have gathered at the Shahbagh intersection in the capital this morning and blocked it to press home their one-point demand -- resignation of the government
At least 93 people, including 14 cops, were killed across the country in the clashes surrounding the Anti-Discrimination Student Movement
The problems are economic, social and political in nature.
