The songs are becoming louder because hundreds of protesters turn angles in the central part of Bangladesh capital, marching and calling for the end of steep pedestrian activity in the gang and violent crime.
It was a second rally in as many weeks when young people poured into the streets of Daka to express their dissatisfaction with where the country was moving.
“I came in protest against angry rape cases in the country,” Anindita Biswas said at a gathering last weekend, after the alleged rape of eight -year -old girl in Western Bangladesh caused anger.
Outside the Bangladesh Provisional Government, which was formed after the bloody revolution led by students demolished the previous Prime Minister Sheika Hasina and ended 15 years of authoritarian rule, another protest occurred.
This time, a group of people who sustained injuries in a wide protest last July, who welcomed the security forces safety of brutal actions before the protesters eventually managed to force Hasin to flee the helicopter to neighboring India.
“I need help to treat myself properly for my bullet wound,” said Rikš driver Muhammad Yaquub Ali, showing scars where his bullet went through his leg.
Each protest has a great message for the temporary government of the country, led by 84-year-old Muhammad Yunus, winner of the Nobel Prize for pioneering microfinance to help the poor. He returned to Dhaku to guide Bangladesh transition after protest last summer, fulfilling the request of students who were taking pressure on the change.
His country suffered several weeks of restlessness that left more than 1,400 people after the police were shooting in crowds in an attempt to suffocate the unrest.
The violent breakthrough of the Hasina Government, which has long been charged with corruption and systemic repression of disagreement, could represent crimes against humanity, according to the United Nations. In a report published in February, the UN investigators found that up to 13 percent of the killed were children.
The initial sense of euphoria and relief that welcomed Yunus’ appointment faded seven months later. His government is struggling to deal with an increase in endless protests, and a declining security situation takes care of many in Bangladesh, along with the slow pace of changes.
‘Sorry about our country’
“I’m sorry our country,” said Mahfuj Alam, one of the heads of the student protest movement who was later recruited to be part of a temporary government as a Yunus advisor.
Some police officers refuse to appear at work, he said, which led to more crime and gang activity, which is “angry people”.
Alam told CBC News that the expectations that the Banglades for a quick change had moved against the bureaucratic system, which was so rooted that real reform is almost impossible.
“Everyone thinks the temporary government will pass within one year. So why should we follow their dictates?” The 27-year-old said he described the absence of the nasty he saw from political parties, bureaucrats and police officers in the country.
“It’s a reality. It’s a reality from police, from bureaucracy and corporation,” he said.
“That makes us a temporary government, weak.”
Yunus promised to return the law and order as his government picks up pieces after the damage done to Hasina’s rule.
He toured the secrets of prisons in which they were allegedly held and tortured by the political opponents of the former regime and set it up human rights commissions to investigate further.
Higher police officers were also arrested for out -of -court killings, and Hasina faces hundreds of charges, including murders, crimes against humanity and abduction. She denies the charges.
Tensed ties with India
Still, Yunus is convinced that the former Prime Minister will face justice, although Hasina is hiding in India, and the connections between the two countries are tense.
India did not respond to two arrest warrants and the formal demands of DAKE for her extradition.
“The question of the trial is not” if “it will happen in absence or in its presence,” Yunus told Sky News. “Not only her, but all people related to her: members of her family, her clans, her associates and all oligarchies.”
He said the country would hold elections between December this year and March 2026, but the priority is to ensure that they are reforms to ensure that the vote is free and honest.
Permanent instability in the temporary government also affects the fragile economy of Bangladesh, with double -digit inflation another key concern.
The recent morning, a government truck that sells oil, rice and cereals at subsidized prices along the road in Daki, is almost overwhelmed with dozens of people who have bought and clashes to catch up with discount food.
One woman, Khadija, told CBC News for four hours, but with her 16-month-old baby in her arms, she had to lose her place and leave without cheaper meals, which can cost up to 60 percent more in the regular market.
Yunus must also fight with the head of the Bangladesh Army, General Wacker-Uz-Zaman, who was blunt in speech on February 25, saying that he had “had enough” with the division of politics and unrest. He said Bangladesh was in the “state of anarchy” that was “manufactured”.
“I warn you,” he said to Bengalia. “The independence and sovereignty of this country will be at risk” if restlessness continues.
The general also called on Yunus to maintain his promise to hold elections by the end of the year.
‘What do people really want’
Students who expelled Hasin formed a political party and promised to shake the political landscape of the country, which usually swallowed between two parties, the Hasin’s Awami League and the Bangladesh nationalist party led by family dynasties.
“We are working on a proper democratic transformation,” said Hasnat Abdullah, 26, one of the most recognizable faces from the first lines of the July uprising.
“People will be our most important priority – what people really want.”
His colleague, Samantha Shermeen (33), is a newly minted spokesman for Jatiya Udorik under the guidance of students or a national civic party.
“The Bangladesh Democratic System does not work. It is not democratic at all. So Bangladeski people are fighting,” she told CBC News, adding that their party is more collective to work for change.
His leader, Nahid Islam, who left his place within the temporary government to help launch a party, said he did not think it was possible to hold national elections that are free and honest, given current security challenges.
Adjusting to the new reality
For many who have suffered months of pain and sadness after losing their loved one in July protests, this is not the most appropriate news.
The Rahman family is still adapting to their new reality after the youngest of three boys, Mugdho, police shot last July.
His brothers painstakingly collected evidence and CCTV recordings of the last minutes of their younger brother, when they saw them hand over water and biscuits to fellow protesters.
“I’m still learning how to live my life without him,” Mugdh’s identical twin said, Snigdho Rahman.
“Mugdho was not just my twin brother, he was my best friend. We used to share everything.”
The brothers spent many hours trying to coordinate the victims’ families, which gives them a sense of purpose.
“We are trying to fulfill his unfinished dreams,” said the eldest brother, Mir Mahmuder Rahman, said and helped the Bangladesh people “to make this country beautiful.”
Snigdho Rahman told CBC News that he could only hope for the death of his brother, and from hundreds of other victims she was not in vain.
“It gives me the motivation that now is the time to change, reform everything and make a bright future for our country,” he said.
“Our future generation cannot give its lives like us. Just as Mughdo did.”
After a month of violent unrest, Prime Minister Bangladesh Sheikh Hasin resigned and fled the country. Andrew Chang explains that the protests led by students have turned into a huge and deadly movement that eventually overthrew the Government for the quota of government work.
