The chants become louder when hundreds of demonstrators in the central part of the capital Bangladesh bend, march and demand an end to a steep hike of gang activity and violent crime.
It was the second rally in so many weeks in which young people flocked to the streets of Dhaka to express their displeasure about where the country goes.
“I came to protest against the rapists in the country,” said Anindita Biswas last weekend after the alleged rape of an eight -year -old girl in western Bangladesh’s outrage.
Outside the offices of the preliminary government of Bangladesh, who formed a bloody revolution in front of the former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and ended her 15-year-old authoritarian rule, there was another protest.
This time it was a group of people who had suffered injuries to the broad cheese protests last July who were met with a brutal procedure of the security forces before the demonstrators finally succeeded in forcing Hasina to flee from neighboring India with the helicopter.
“I need help to get proper treatment for my gunshot wound,” said Rikshaw driver Muhammad Yaqub Ali and showed the scars in which a ball went through his leg.
Every protest has a strong message for the provisional government of the country under the direction of 84-year-old Muhammad Yunus, a Nobel laureate for pioneering microfinance to help the poor. He returned to Dhaka to lead the transition from Bangladesh according to the protests of last summer, and met a request from the students who directed the advance to change.
His country had suffered turbulence for several weeks, in which more than 1,400 people were dead after the police shot the crowd to suppress the unrest.
The violent approach of the Hasina government, which had long been accused of corruption and systemic suppression of Dissens, could, according to the United Nations, mean crimes against humanity. In a report published in February, UN determined that up to 13 percent of children killed were children.
An initial feeling of euphoria and relief that welcomed the appointment of Yunus faded seven months later. His government is struggling to get an increase in lawlessness under control, which promotes continuing protests, with the declining security situation many in Bangladesh and is concerned with the slow pace of change.
“Sorry for our state”
“Sorry for our state,” said Mahfuj Alam, one of the leaders of the student protest movement, which was later hired as a consultant of Yunus part of the interim government.
Some police officers refused to appear for work and lead to more crime and gang activity, which “makes people angry”.
Alam told CBC News that the expectations that bang charges had come to a bureaucratic system due to quick change that is so anchored that the real reform is almost impossible.
“Everyone thinks the preliminary government will go within one year. Why should we follow their dictations?” The 27-year-old said when he described the casualness he had seen from the political parties, bureaucrats and police officers in the country.
“This is reality. It is the reality of the police, bureaucracy and companies,” he said.
“It makes us weak.”
Yunus promised to restore law and order when his government takes up the parts after Hasina’s rule.
He visited the secret prisons in which the political opponents of the former regime were allegedly held and tortured and have set up human rights commissions to further examine.
High -ranking police officers were also arrested for extrajudicial murders, and Hasina is suspended hundreds of charges, including murder, crimes against humanity and kidnapping. She denies the indictment.
Tense relationships with India
Nevertheless, Yunus is convinced that the former prime minister will be exposed to justice, although Hasina is hidden in India and the connections between the two countries are tense.
India did not respond to two arrest warrants and formal inquiries from Dhaka for their delivery.
“The question of a process is not ‘if. It will happen in the absence or in its presence,” said Yunus about Sky News. “Not only she, but also all people connected to her: their family members, their clans, their employees and all oligarchs.”
He said the country will hold elections between December of this year and March 2026, but there is a priority to ensure that reforms are available to ensure that the vote is free and fair.
The persistent instability of the interim government also affects the fragile economy in Bangladesh, whereby the double -digit inflation is another important problem.
On a recent morning, a government car that sold oil, rice and grain at subsidized prices on the roadside in Dhaka was almost overturned that dozens of people who dress up and tried to get the reduced food into their hands.
A woman, Khadija, told CBC News that she was waiting for four hours, but with her 16-month old baby in her arms, she had to extend her place and without the cheaper rations that can cost up to 60 percent more on a regular market.
Yunus also has to deal with Bangladesh’s army chief, General Waker-Uz-Zaman, who was dull in a speech on February 25 and said that he had “enough” with the split politics and unrest. He said Bangladesh was in a “state of the anarchy”, which was “produced”.
“I warn you,” he said in Bengali. “The independence and sovereignty of this country will be at risk” if turbulence continues.
The general also asked Yunus to maintain his promise to hold an election by the end of the year.
“What people really want”
The students, who displaced Hasina, have now founded a political party and swap to shake the country’s political landscape, which normally weakened between two parties, the Awami League of Hasina and the Bangladesh nationalist party, both of which were led by family dynasties.
“We work for an appropriate democratic transformation,” said Hasnat Abdullah, 26, one of the best -known faces from the front lines of July uprising.
“People will be our top priority – what people really want.”
His colleague Samanta Shermen, 33, is the newly shaped spokesman for the Jatiya Nagorik or the National Citizens’ Party.
“The democratic system in Bangladesh does not work. It is not democratic at all. So the Bangladesh people fight,” she told CBC News and added that her party is more of a collective that will work for changes.
His leader Nahid Islam, who left his post within the interim government to start the party, said that he was not of the opinion that in view of the current security challenges, it will be free and fair national elections.
Adaptation to the new reality
For many who have suffered months of pain and grief after they lost a loved one in July, these are not the most welcome news.
The Rahman family still fits their new reality after the youngest of three boys, MuGdho, was shot by the police last July.
His brothers carefully collected evidence and CCTV film material from the last minutes of their younger brother when he was seen how he divided water and cookies.
“I still learn how to live my life without him,” said Mugho’s identical twin, Snigdho Rahman.
“Mugdho was not just my twin brother, he was my best friend. We always shared everything.”
The brothers have spent many hours to coordinate compensation for the victims’ families, which gives them a feeling.
“We try to fulfill his unfinished dreams,” said the oldest brother, Mahmuder Rahman, and help people in Bangladesh to make this country a beautiful. ”
Snigdho Rahman told CBC News that he could only hope that the death of his brother and that of the hundreds of other victims was not for nothing.
“This gives me the motivation that it is now time to change, to reform everything and to make a brilliant future for our country,” he said.
“Our future generation cannot give your life as much as we do. Just like Mughdo.”
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