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Some context: Students are protesting to reform the quota system. Which was abolished in 2018 after protest but recently brought back again. The Quota system ba
by hackerlytest 2y ago
Some context: Students are protesting to reform the quota system. Which was abolished in 2018 after protest but recently brought back again. The Quota system basically reserves 56% of public sector jobs, i.e. 30% to relatives of war veteran.
The war happened in 1971. To get public job and avail the quota, it must be their 3rd or 4th generation now. Which is plain unfair.
But it’s not about that, the gov loyalists and their goons fake these veteran certificates to land these jobs. Bangladesh is one of the most corrupted countries in the world after all. So real veteran relatives are seldom the beneficiary.
These students just wanted to reform this system. But our fascist gov and their goons used force and killed 50+ unarmed students until yesterday (3 from my alma mater alone.) This was completely unprovoked and unnecessary. Basically any forms of dissent have been dealt with this way since 2009. No one can criticize or protest the big brother.
We have a dictatorship since 2009. People are angry - due to corruption, inflation, joblessness and tyranny. This is just some outburst of it.
When you see the videos how the police are killing teenagers and university students in the road - our future generation - no one can tolerate this.
Now the fascist gov has closed all internet and phone connection to outside world. I can't contact my family anymore. I don't know their well being.
There is of course more to it. But this is the summary.
- xeromal 2y agoThank you for the information. I'm sorry for you and your family. Are public jobs so numerous that a lot of people survive off of them?
- geodel 2y agoNope. It won't be numerous but grab whatever of the tiny pie is the point. I am from neigboring country but situation is same for jobs. For 10 govt job, 10K people can show up and create riot like situation in little time.
- csomar 2y agoI think it's more about justice than the number of jobs or whether you get it or not. Many people will be happy when they perceive that a fair process has been established in granting these jobs. Especially when income is hard to come by.
- Willian03 2y agoAt 140,000 square kilometres, Bangladesh is about the size of New York State, with 170 million people. Problems are inevitable, there are not so many job opportunities at all, and there will always be people who are dissatisfied
- alephnerd 2y ago> Now the fascist gov has closed all internet I agree that Sheikh Hasina is extremely authoritarian and corrupt dictator but imo JeI are the actual fascists, and the BNP has absolutely been enabling them. That said, I agree with you that Hasina's authoritarianism needs to end. Ideally all these old fossils (Hasina, Zia, Rahman, etc) need to be purged and the actual youth (who are the majority of Bangladesh) get a chance to have their voice in power. It's a handful of elite 70 year olds who have been running a country where the median age is 25 and are ruining it due to their own personal drama from the 70s and 80s.
- Karrot_Kream 2y agoYeah I think "fascist" is too much for any actor not JeI but authoritarian is right. They've cut off Internet and telecom access after all, a dangerous game given how physically close they are to West Bengal.
- BadHumans 2y ago> Fascism is a far-right, authoritarian, ultranationalist political ideology and movement,characterized by a dictatorial leader, centralized autocracy, militarism, forcible suppression of opposition, belief in a natural social hierarchy, subordination of individual interests for the perceived good of the nation or race, and strong regimentation of society and the economy. Source: Wikipedia This sounds like the very definition of fascism to me.
- alan-hn 2y agoMany people want to either tiptoe around or flat out ignore the far right leanings of fascism to avoid what it says about the US
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- arrowsmith 2y ago
- dotancohen 2y ago> But our fascist gov and their goons used force and killed 50+ unarmed students until yesterday (3 from my alma mater alone.) Is this what those students with the colored flags have been protesting about in US universities for the past half year or so?
- 0x1ch 2y agoNot sure if you're a troll or not, but that would be related to Israel and Palestine.
- einpoklum 2y agoI'd call it a US-manipulated military oligarchy with a democratic facade: https://theintercept.com/2023/06/05/imran-khan-interview/ https://theintercept.com/2023/06/05/imran-khan-interview/ https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/8/10/did-us-ask-for-imran-khans-removal-as-pakistan-pm-after-he-visited-russia https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/8/10/did-us-ask-for-imra...
- tempodox 2y agoThank you, the news article was suspiciously stingy on these salient details.
- constantcrying 2y agoWhy are you seething about this from the other side of the world? You are presumably an intelligent person, but you, and everyone else that could, left your home country for economic opportunities elsewhere. Now, your home country is administrated and governed by the people without the opportunity to leave and you are on the other side of the world. I think it is extremely weird to see the people with the best opportunity to reshape their country leave and then from overseas complain about the politics in that country.
- AlexeyBelov 2y agoWhat do you mean by seething? Their comment appears emotionally balanced to me. Honestly, it sounds like you want to gatekeep political discussion. Am I misunderstanding you?
- constantcrying 2y ago>Honestly, it sounds like you want to gatekeep political discussion. Seething about the politics of the country you left behind means you have gate kept yourself already.
- ramon156 2y agoHuh? Even if he was seethings, why is caring about your family a bad thing? Is your opinion suddenly not relevant anymore when you've fled the country? Weird mindset
- constantcrying 2y ago>Is your opinion suddenly not relevant anymore when you've fled the country? Again and again the most intelligent people emigrate to the West and then seethe about the politics in their home country. I get why they do it, but it is really obnoxious. One main reason why developing countries have bad politics, is because everyone intelligent is leaving for the west and the same people who, for their own economic interest have left, are then agitating from the other side of the world for political change. In some real way, leaving your home country also means leaving behind the ability to change anything about it.