This summer Prapti Taposhi She took to the streets along with thousands of her classmates in Bangladesh, outraged by the injustice of a quota system that reserves 30 percent of jobs for the children of freedom fighters who fought in the 1971 war of independence against Pakistan.
The government jobs were good-paying and stable, and the students argued the plan was pointless now that the war was long gone. But then a police crackdown began, and 400 people were killed in what had started as peaceful protests. Angry demonstrators made a new demand: the resignation of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.
journalist David Bergman explain Hannah Moore Nobody saw it coming. Sheikh Hasina is the longest serving female prime minister in the world. She made history, first taking over her own party, the Awami League, after her father, the founding father of Bangladesh, was assassinated.
Then suddenly last week, she did just that, escaping Bangladesh by helicopter. Why was a popular leader, once hailed as the politician who restored democracy after military rule, ousted by students? And why?
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