A bit of background: Two buses were 'racing' (for passengers) and killed two students who were simply waiting for a bus. A minister's comment further outraged the public. He smiled and wanted to...
A bit of background:
Two buses were 'racing' (for passengers) and killed two students who were simply waiting for a bus.
A minister's comment further outraged the public. He smiled and wanted to change the topic when journalists brought up the incident. "A road crash has claimed 33 lives in India's Maharashtra; but do they talk about it the way we do?" he asked. He wanted to normalise it.
The protests have largely been peaceful. Students took to the roads themselves checking vehicles for licences. They even caught a minister breaking the traffic rules.
What brought things to a boiling point is the amount of violence with which the police and government-affiliated organisations have used against the protestors. Local media is censored. Those trying to film are also threatened with violence. I've been hearing from people that the govt. is trying to shut down social media.
Please try to spread the news, trend on social media whatever is possible. These are minors some as young as 12-13 and the issue is not getting the attention it deserves.
I have been reading a lot of comments on reddit, and here is one explanation of the cause that caught my eye. Also, he is not the only one saying this: Source also: Source and: Source
I have been reading a lot of comments on reddit, and here is one explanation of the cause that caught my eye. Also, he is not the only one saying this:
Bangladeshi Canadian here. Actually, the reasons are a lot more conniving and nepotistic. They are against safer roads because a big reason why roads are unsafe is because the minister of transport (who is besties with the party leader, obviously) owns the largest public transport company AND is also the head of the transport union. So for all intents and purposes, anyone who works in a bus is untouchable and so can get away with killing pedestrians. That's the reason why the government doesn't want to respond. Because responding would mean taking action against a man who is central to the party.
When journalists asked the cabinet member who is head of bus-truck driver lobby (a clear conflict if interest btw), he smirked and commented that people die in accidents all the time in other countries, but you don't hear their citizens complaining about it. His smiling remarks infuriated the students.
5 years back there was an accident for which some bus-truck drivers were on trial. This man brought thousand bus-truck drivers to the capital for protest in a showdown of power and held the country hostage by suspending service
Why is the Bangladeshi government against safer roads?
Because the head of bus-truck driver lobby is a cabinet member and there is absolute impunity for so called 'accidents'. The 'incident' that sparked all this involved three buses racing each other to pick up passengers. While two students were boarding the bus that arrived first, the second bus came and over took the first bus from left (illegal), killing the two students and injuring 13 others. 7000+ people die every year in road accidents in Bangladesh. Half the drivers do not have driving license and are drug addicts. They are allowed to ply on roads due to systemic corruption.
This is all over reddit right now but the comments/posts are being deleted. I'm not sure of the policy of linking reddit here but just sort by new in the top last hour
This is all over reddit right now but the comments/posts are being deleted. I'm not sure of the policy of linking reddit here but just sort by new in the top last hour
Yeah it's kind of odd that all of the comments are being deleted. I know that a couple of the posters are worried for their safety due to the government crackdowns, but for the most part I think...
Yeah it's kind of odd that all of the comments are being deleted. I know that a couple of the posters are worried for their safety due to the government crackdowns, but for the most part I think it's mods being overly strict with rule enforcement.
I saw one stickied comment that said a bot was being triggered by certain terms, possibly "Hitler" in "Hitler Youth" which the main OP used to describe the governement's goons. The mod said they...
I saw one stickied comment that said a bot was being triggered by certain terms, possibly "Hitler" in "Hitler Youth" which the main OP used to describe the governement's goons. The mod said they were manually undeleting them.
As I understand it, we can post to Reddit, etc if the discussion is unique. Though there is no official policy, I think. This story is actually occurring on Reddit to a large extent. The...
As I understand it, we can post to Reddit, etc if the discussion is unique. Though there is no official policy, I think. This story is actually occurring on Reddit to a large extent. The desperation and hopelessness in his messages really got to me. I'll post them for non-Reddit users:
A bit of background:
Two buses were 'racing' (for passengers) and killed two students who were simply waiting for a bus.
A minister's comment further outraged the public. He smiled and wanted to change the topic when journalists brought up the incident. "A road crash has claimed 33 lives in India's Maharashtra; but do they talk about it the way we do?" he asked. He wanted to normalise it.
The protests have largely been peaceful. Students took to the roads themselves checking vehicles for licences. They even caught a minister breaking the traffic rules.
What brought things to a boiling point is the amount of violence with which the police and government-affiliated organisations have used against the protestors. Local media is censored. Those trying to film are also threatened with violence. I've been hearing from people that the govt. is trying to shut down social media.
Please try to spread the news, trend on social media whatever is possible. These are minors some as young as 12-13 and the issue is not getting the attention it deserves.
I have been reading a lot of comments on reddit, and here is one explanation of the cause that caught my eye. Also, he is not the only one saying this:
Source
also:
Source
and:
Source
This is all over reddit right now but the comments/posts are being deleted. I'm not sure of the policy of linking reddit here but just sort by new in the top last hour
Yeah it's kind of odd that all of the comments are being deleted. I know that a couple of the posters are worried for their safety due to the government crackdowns, but for the most part I think it's mods being overly strict with rule enforcement.
I saw one stickied comment that said a bot was being triggered by certain terms, possibly "Hitler" in "Hitler Youth" which the main OP used to describe the governement's goons. The mod said they were manually undeleting them.
Oh I guess that makes enough sense.
As I understand it, we can post to Reddit, etc if the discussion is unique. Though there is no official policy, I think. This story is actually occurring on Reddit to a large extent. The desperation and hopelessness in his messages really got to me. I'll post them for non-Reddit users:
Here is the post the post on BestOf - Student is frantically on Reddit trying to get attention to the fact that his friends are being raped and murdered by his government.
This includes a link to a mirror of all of the videos and photos that FB is censoring on behalf of the despicable Bangladeshi gov't. [NSFL]
Females in Dhaka are guarded by teenage students after 4 girls got raped today by the thugs of the Bangladeshi government for protesting against dangerous roads.
r/Bangladesh - lots of great info
Live Thread - 2018 Bangladesh/Dhaka Protest Crisis