Roadmap for solidarity to peace in Bangladesh
Farhana Binte Jigar Farina
[Organizer in the central committee, Bangladesh Democratic Student Council]
Correlation between peace and human rights
I come from a country where the term human rights is somewhat of a myth. Since childhood, I have only seen one single political party ‘Awami League’ ruling my country. And the term peace, here, had a different definition. To live in peace, you had to support the 'Awami League', you couldn’t question them, and you couldn’t say a word against their any sort of discrepancies. Peace was ensured by forcing the people of the country to keep silent. The whole world saw some dummy developments under the umbrella of PPP (Public Private Partnership) projects that have drained billions and billions of dollars from the government fund and made us in debt to organizations like the World Bank and IMF. Freedom of speech, the right to live or have a political say was pretty much prohibited. Opposition political leaders were forcefully vanished, killed, and put in jail. Students were restricted from protesting for any legal or rightful demands. Even during the first quota movement of 2018, there were several such issues. False cases were filed against whoever dared to say anything about the fascist government. International agreements were made with the neighboring country that violated the basic need for food and electricity for our people.
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I never thought of myself as a female protestor, nor did my male mates ever make me feel so. We all were warriors against one evil power. Everything was bearable for me, as I'm pretty used to doing rebellious things. But the situation worsened when the police went to my house and mentally tortured my parents as I was not being found. At that moment I failed as a child. But finally, when we succeeded in ousting the fascist government, the proud tears on my father's face made my life.
Roadmap for solidarity to peace in Bangladesh
Farhana Binte Jigar Farina
[Organizer in the central committee, Bangladesh Democratic Student Council]
Correlation between peace and human rights
I come from a country where the term human rights is somewhat of a myth. Since childhood, I have only seen one single political party ‘Awami League’ ruling my country. And the term peace, here, had a different definition. To live in peace, you had to support the 'Awami League', you couldn’t question them, and you couldn’t say a word against their any sort of discrepancies. Peace was ensured by forcing the people of the country to keep silent. The whole world saw some dummy developments under the umbrella of PPP (Public Private Partnership) projects that have drained billions and billions of dollars from the government fund and made us in debt to organizations like the World Bank and IMF. Freedom of speech, the right to live or have a political say was pretty much prohibited. Opposition political leaders were forcefully vanished, killed, and put in jail. Students were restricted from protesting for any legal or rightful demands. Even during the first quota movement of 2018, there were several such issues. False cases were filed against whoever dared to say anything about the fascist government. International agreements were made with the neighboring country that violated the basic need for food and electricity for our people.
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I never thought of myself as a female protestor, nor did my male mates ever make me feel so. We all were warriors against one evil power. Everything was bearable for me, as I'm pretty used to doing rebellious things. But the situation worsened when the police went to my house and mentally tortured my parents as I was not being found. At that moment I failed as a child. But finally, when we succeeded in ousting the fascist government, the proud tears on my father's face made my life.