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If this protest didnt start, would BD's FB generation now vent their anger on India's NRC development? Like the Myanmar incident last year. Not that huge but still sizable amount. But its totally washed away from BD media. Something isnt right with these mob justice incidents starting from 47. Its justifiable but still satisfies some third parties always. So I dont take any over hyped BD mob seriously.
 
This brought tears to my eyes.

"How will it be morning ma if we don't wake up?" Beautiful poetry....

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Attempts to sweep the issue under the rug. How much money do you need to get back your deceased child?

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And look at a few historical pics,

Feeling a bit entitled? Name of this bastard is Palash Chandra, no he wasn't fired.

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Big fellow trying to beat up a underage woman protester...
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I think the students are doing great. Burn the unfit buses and trucks and the bastards like Shajahan khan who makes money off of this junk...

Legal notice served on Shahjahan Khan

Shipping Minister Shahjahan Khan
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Star Online Report

A Supreme Court lawyer today served a legal notice on Shipping Minister Shahjahan Khan, requesting him (Shahjahan) to explain in 24 hours under what authority he has been holding the post of executive president of Bangladesh Sarak Paribahan Sramik Federation.

Advocate Aklas Uddin Bhuiyan sent the legal notice saying that holding the office of executive president of Bangladesh Sarak Paribahan Sramik Federation (Bangladesh Road Transport Workers Federation) is contradictory to the constitution of the republic.

He said in the legal notice that Shahjahan Khan has been elected a member of parliament unopposed in the election held on January 5, 2014 and he took oath as a minister on January 12 the same year.

As a minister he cannot hold the post of Bangladesh Sarak Paribahan Sramik Federation, as this organisation is a collective bargaining agency (CBA), he said in the legal notice.

He said in the legal notice that the CBA is supposed to bargain with the government about the facilities of the workers and to take action against the workers if he or she is involved in any offence.

As a minister of the government, Shahjahan Khan’s being elected as the executive president of Bangladesh Sarak Paribahan Sramik Federation is against the constitution and morally questionable, the SC lawyer said in the legal notice.

Advocate Aklas told The Daily Star that he will move a writ petition before the High Court seeking necessary order if Shahjahan Khan does not reply to the legal notice served on him in 24 hours.

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Bravo!!

Students should be commended and SHW should feel ashamed!


Students check licenses, discipline traffic

Checking car documents, educating people on rules and regulations

Star Online Report


Taking matters on to their hands in an attempt to bring discipline in traffic management, the students have now engaged in enforcing rules and regulations.

On the fifth straight day of protest today, due to death of two students – victim of reckless driving, the students are checking registration certificate and driving licenses.

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On the fifth straight day of protest on August 2, 2018, due to death of two students – victim of reckless driving, the students are checking registration certificate and driving licenses. They are handing over vehicles without proper papers to police. The photo was taken at Mirpur-10. Photo: Shaheen Mollah
Also, they were forcing the vehicles to drive in lanes, despite the snail-paced traffic due to blockades on different key intersections, our correspondents report from all over.

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Similar news of traffic regulations has been reported from all over – Chittagong, Tangail, Narayanganj, Savar and other places – led by protestors in Dhaka.


In Dhaka, students were checking the registration papers and driving licenses of drivers for cars. For motorcycles, they were educating riders on helmet safety and safe driving.

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Cars and buses are being taught to drive in a straight line, maintaining a single lane, on Mirpur Road near Asad Gate. Photo: Palash Khan

Such reports of frisking were reported from Karwan Bazar, Science Lab, Kakrail, New Market, Jatrabari, Shahbagh, Uttara and Shantinagar – most of the key points in Dhaka.

They have found police officers, Navy officials, and several other general commuters without the possession of valid driving licences or registration certificate of vehicles.

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Photo: Star/ Shaheen Mollah

Public transportations like buses were very few on the road, presumably due to fear following the last few days of vandalism carried out everywhere in Dhaka.

This is what the ongoing student agitation demanding safe roads have synthesised to, after two college students fell victim to reckless driving on Airport road last Sunday.

০২:২২ অপরাহ্ন, আগস্ট ০২, ২০১৮ / সর্বশেষ সংশোধিত: ০২:২৮ অপরাহ্ন, আগস্ট ০২, ২০১৮
ডিআইজির ড্রাইভারের লাইসেন্স নেই, গাড়িরও নেই কাগজ

স্টার অনলাইন রিপোর্ট



গাড়িতে ‘পুলিশ’-এর সাইনবোর্ড নিয়ে পার পেতে চেয়েছিলেন নৌপুলিশের ডিপুটি ইন্সপেক্টর জেনারেল (ডিআইজি) হাবিব। কিন্তু, বিক্ষুব্ধ শিক্ষার্থীদের হাতে তিনি আজ (২ আগস্ট) ধরা পড়লেন রাজধানীর ব্যস্ততম কারওয়ান বাজার এলাকায়।

নিরাপদ সড়কের দাবিতে রাস্তায় নামা বিভিন্ন স্কুল-কলেজের শিক্ষার্থীরা ডিআইজি হাবিবের গাড়ি থামিয়ে গাড়ির কাগজপত্র দেখতে চাইলে তিনি তা দেখাতে ব্যর্থ হন। এমনকি, গাড়ির চালক তার ড্রাইভিং লাইসেন্সও দেখাতে পারেননি।

পুলিশের পোশাক পরিহিত দেহরক্ষী নিয়ে ডিআইজি হাবিব কোন রকমের বৈধ কাগজপত্র ছাড়া চলছেন দেখে বিস্মিত হন উপস্থিত সবাই।

ঘটনাস্থলেই দ্য ডেইলি স্টারের পক্ষ থেকে নৌ পুলিশের সেই উচ্চপদস্থ কর্মকর্তার কাছে এ বিষয়ে জানতে চাওয়া হলে তিনি বলেন, “এটি সত্য যে গাড়িটির কোনো রেজিস্ট্রেশন পেপার নেই। এমনকি, চালকেরও কোনো ড্রাইভিং লাইসেন্স নেই।”

“এটি সরকারি গাড়ি এবং গাড়িটির বিষয়ে আমি কিছু জানি না,” যোগ করেন হাবিব।

এছাড়াও, আমাদের চট্টগ্রাম সংবাদদাতা জানান, বন্দর নগরীর দামপাড়া এলাকায় নিরাপদ সড়কের দাবিতে আন্দোলনরত শিক্ষার্থীরা বাংলাদেশ নৌবাহিনীর একটি জিপ থামিয়ে এর কাগজ-পত্র দেখতে চাইলে তা দেখাতে পারেনি গাড়িটির চালক।

Long story short - it is now abundantly clear that the next generation's education and intelligence has exceeded the governing capability of the schmucks now in power. Go students !!!!
 
Maybe challenging DIG is the result of BCL and police joint attack on kids.
Those awami dakoos ( and police who beat them ) should be punished in Bangladesh.
However these are those Awami dakoos who were doing mauz masti in India with bogra bank loot money while peoples were dying in battle field, now pretending to be the caretaker of freedom fight .
Those awami thangare (ঠ্যাঙাড়ে ) dakoos shouldn't have a place in Bangladesh.
Who fled during a civil war and then pretending to be the sole agent of freedom fight, And now torturing our folks in gestapo style from BAKSHAL era to now they deserve heavy punishment.
Only then justice will be served.
 
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I have seen pictures of the Police Officers taking the wrong way riding motorcycles. Very bad culture. High people do not obey laws. Laws are for the ordinary people.

they can be easily disciplined if top leadership show by example .
 
This brought tears to my eyes.

"How will it be morning ma if we don't wake up?" Beautiful poetry....

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by: Poet Kazi Nazrul Islam

আমি হব সকাল বেলার পাখি
সবার আগে কুসুমবাগে উঠবো আমি ডাকি।

সূয্যি মামা জাগার আগে উঠবো আমি জেগে
হয়নি সকাল ঘুমও এখন মা বলবেন রেগে।

বলবো আমি আলসে মেয়ে ঘুমিয়ে তুমি থাকো
হয়নি সকাল তাই বলে কি সকাল হবে নাক ?

আমরা যদি না জাগি মা কেমনে সকাল হবে
তোমার ছেলে উঠলে মাগো রাত পোহাবে তবে।

আমি হব সকাল বেলার পাখি
সবার আগে কুসুমবাগ উঠবো আমি ডাকি।

কাজী নজরুল ইসলামের এই কবিতায় আমি সুর দিয়েছি। নিজের সুর বলে নয়, আসলেই আমার দেওয়া সুর খুবই শ্রুতিমধুর। প্রতি দুই লাইনের সুর ভিন্ন। জাপানে স্টেজে বাংলাদেশিদের সমাবেশে দুই একবার গেয়েছি। সবাই পছন্দ করেছেন।

ফরিদপুরে প্রায় দুই বছর আগে এক অল্পবয়সী মহিলার সঙ্গে দেখা হয়েছিল, নজরুল গীতির একজন অতি সুগায়িকা। উনি মোবাইল ফোনে আমার এই গান রেকর্ড করে নিয়েছিলেন। পরবর্তীতে কোনো অডিও রেকর্ড করেছেন কিনা আমি জানিনা। খেয়াল রাখবেন আমি কিন্তু সুরকার নই। আর এই গানের সুর নজরুল গীতির সুর থেকে ভিন্ন।
 
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12:00 AM, August 02, 2018 / LAST MODIFIED: 04:36 AM, August 02, 2018
Dhaka shaken by youth spirit

Thousands take to streets for fourth consecutive day; govt orders closure of all schools, colleges today
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Students block Science Laboratory intersection in the capital and chant slogans on the third day of widespread protests demanding safer roads. The photo was taken yesterday morning. Photo: Sheikh Mehedi Morshed
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“I am suffering, of course. But the student protest is logical. Suppose, I'm standing by the road; now what if a bus runs over me?”

said Md Ainuddin, who came to Birdem hospital at Shahbagh from Rajbari for treatment.

Student protests spread like wildfire across the capital and elsewhere in the country yesterday, with the demonstrators vowing to remain on the streets until their demands for road safety are met.

Angered by police beating on the previous day, thousands of students in uniforms and schoolbags on their back poured onto the streets of Dhaka and blocked various streets, halting traffic.

On Tuesday, police beat up dozens of agitating students, injuring at least 20.

All educational institutions in the country will remain shut today for “students' safety,” Education Minister Nurul Islam Nahid told The Daily Star.

A number of educational institutions in the capital were closed yesterday, the fourth day of the protest that began after two college students were killed in a road crash near the airport on Sunday.

Some 70 vehicles were vandalised during the protest at Shanir Akhra, Mirpur and Uttara, according to witnesses and our correspondents.

Venting their anger and frustration through fiery slogans and creative and thought-provoking placards, many students took matters into their own hands to restore order on the otherwise disorderly road.

For a day, they assumed the role of traffic police, checking documents of almost all modes of transports in presence of police. They took away the keys from those who failed to show their licence.

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This image captures the moment a truck ploughs through protesters and runs over a student at Shanir Akhra yesterday morning. Photo: Video Grab

Despite their sufferings on the road, many commuters expressed solidarity with the protest because of their pent-up grievances for years over the anarchy in the public transport system.

“I am suffering, of course. But the student protest is logical. Suppose, I'm standing by the road; now what if a bus runs over me?” said Md Ainuddin, who came to Birdem hospital at Shahbagh from Rajbari for treatment.

At Shahbagh, students burned an effigy of Shipping Minister Shahjahan Khan for his remarks about the accident that left two students of Shaheed Ramiz Uddin Cantonment College dead and at least nine others wounded.

Dia Khanam Mim and Abdul Karim Rajib were killed on the spot when a Jabal-e-Noor bus ploughed through a crowd while competing with another bus of the same company. It was later revealed that a third bus was also involved in the race.

Bus owner Shahadat Hossain was arrested yesterday. Earlier, Rab arrested all the tree drivers and two of their assistants.


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A policeman receives flowers from protesters at Science Laboratory intersection. As a friendly gesture some protesters handed flowers to policemen.

'ARREST ME…I WANT JUSTICE'
To press home their demands, students took to the streets at Farmgate, Bangla Motor, Karwan Bazar, Shahbagh, Panthapath, Science Laboratory intersection, Mirpur-1, Mirpur-10, Mirpur-13, Kakrail, Motijheel, Rampura, Sher-e-Bangla Nagar, Shyamoli and airport intersection in the morning amid huge presence of law enforcers.

Traffic returned to normalcy after the students left the streets around 4:00pm.

The students of Shaheed Ramiz Uddin Cantonment College blocked the Airport Road from 11:45am till 4:00pm.

No public bus was seen plying the road during the time. The demonstrators allowed private cars, CNG-run three wheelers and motorbikes upon checking their licences. Vehicles carrying hajj pilgrims and ambulance were also allowed to pass through.

Shahbagh saw some of the fiercest protests around noon.

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Students check a driver's licence near Science Laboratory yesterday afternoon. They did the same in other areas of the city.

Earlier at about 11:00am, some 1,500 students from Dhaka College, Dhaka City College and Dhanmondi Ideal College blocked the Science Laboratory intersection.

Some of their placards read: “Hang the killers, the demon must stop laughing,” “Arrest me, beat me…I want justice, I want safe road”; “My brother is in grave, why the killers are outside?”

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They stopped vehicles and demanded licence from the drivers. They seized two human hauliers and asked the police to take action.

An hour later, they started marching towards Shahbagh where they found a police barricade in front of Aziz Super market. But they broke through the cordon and gathered at Shahbagh intersection around 12:20pm.

A group of Dhaka University students joined the protest and asked the protesters to take position in the middle and said they would shield them if any attack comes. They sat on the street, chanting slogans.

"We believe police will not attack us, because we are like their children,” a DU student said on loudspeaker.

When the effigy of Shajahan Khan was brought at Shahbagh around 1:00pm, the agitating students started throwing bottles and pulling it down on the street, they started stomping. They later burnt it.

"We have paralysed Dhaka city. If our demands are not met, we will paralyse the whole country,” warned a protester from City College.

The demonstrators there said they would not leave the street until their nine-point demands were met and warned that they could not be fooled by the government's false assurances, like it did in case of the quota reform movement.

In Mirpur, more than a thousand students, including female ones, from different educational institutions took to the streets and blocked Mirpur-10 roundabout and Mirpur-14 from 11:00am.

No policemen were seen there.

Around 12:30pm, a group of students from the demonstration started marching towards Mirpur-1. On their way, they vandalised at lease 50 vehicles, mostly buses.

Several hundred students of different schools, including Mohammadpur Government High School and Sher-e-Bangla Nagar Government Boys High School, blocked the Mirpur Road near Shyamoli and Aarong for about three hours, creating tailbacks on the road as well as on the adjacent Manik Mia Avenue, Asad Avenue and nearby allies.

As police tried to remove them, they brought out a procession and marched towards Asad Gate. Later, they joined students of Mohammadpur Residential Model School and College and St Joseph Higher Secondary School, who had been demonstrating in front of Aarong since noon.

Outside the capital, several hundred students of two public universities -- Jahangirnagar University and Shahjalal University of Science and Technology -- formed human chains and brought out processions in a show of solidarity with the agitating students.

In Mymensingh, students of different institutions brought out a procession at the Town Hall area around noon.

They vandalised at least 15 vehicles, said Mahmudul Islam, officer-in-charge of Kotwali Police Station.

Protests also took place in Narayanganj and Gazipur.

Besides, students of different schools and colleges staged demonstrations in College Gate area on Dhaka-Mymensingh highway demanding safe road.

In Chittagong, students of BAF Shaheen College, Government Haji Mohammad Mohsin College, Government City College and Dewanhaat City Corporation College formed a human chain and brought out processions in front of Chittagong Press Club.
 
https://www.dhakatribune.com/opinion/op-ed/2018/08/03/living-the-anarchist-s-dream-for-a-day

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Living the anarchist’s dream for a day
Anupam Debashis Roy
  • Published at 12:05 pm August 3rd, 2018
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Protesting students form a human chain in Shahbagh area on August 2, 2018 Mehedi Hasan/Dhaka Tribune



The core belief of anarchism is that people are better at governing their lives than the state—and the state is mostly a threat to the freedom of common people


What we have in Bangladesh today is every anarchist's dream. Let me give you a quick rundown of why that is:


1. Two days ago, the students stopped the police and checked their license and registration papers. They found many anomalies. The police brought and showed them their licenses the following day. In many places, including in my home ground, Uttara, they made police officers write tickets against other police officers. This proves that the citizens can not only police themselves, but also can police the police better than the police.

2. They didn't just block roads, they showed how traffic can be controlled in a proper fashion. Vehicles were required to stay within their lanes and slow and fast vehicles were channeled into different lanes. They even created an emergency lane for ambulances and fire trucks. The state has never been able to implement this—despite trying for at least five years. Thus, the students can make the citizens obey the laws better than the state.

3. Students didn't let politically influential people get away with illegalities. They even turned away two ministers’ cars, including the car of once-influential student leader Tofail Ahmed, when they entered a road from the wrong direction—or couldn't present proper papers for their vehicles. Thus, the students broke the colonial cycle of differential treatment for the elite—something that intellectuals and activists have been trying to do for the past 47 years.


The core belief of anarchism, or libertarianism for that matter, is that people are better at governing their lives than the state—and the state is mostly a threat to the freedom of common people. Thus, libertarians attempt to limit state power in essential matters, while anarchists dream of abolishing state power. Although, today's Bangladesh has not proven that the country could survive without the state in the long term, is has certainly underlined that the state is running the things horribly— and the citizens can run them much better.

However, the anarchist dream is fleeting. Like any good revolutionary practices, dreams often wither in the absence of strong revolutionary laws, practices, and policies that espouse civil liberties and the rule of law. Therefore, although today has tickled the hidden anarchist in me, and many of my peers, the structural problems the young revolutionaries have exposed need to be dealt with—through sound permanent policies so that the citizens don't have to take over the state functions every day.

And the state should do this quickly for its own sake. Otherwise, the country may realize that it doesn't need a state altogether.

Anupam Debashis Roy is the Editor of Muktiforum
 

See the stark difference in their attitude and behavior.

look at the this chutia police officer and the way he's trying to speak in broken English to scare off the boys. How do these half learned idiots manage to get into our security service? Do u know what is OC ? U f...ing kidding me u illiterate fool?
 

See the stark difference in their attitude and behavior.

look at the this chutia police officer and the way he's trying to speak in broken English to scare off the boys. How do these half learned idiots manage to get into our security service? Do u know what is OC ? U f...ing kidding me u illiterate fool?
What do you expect from the Police guys of Shonar Bangla? Basically, all of us are the same and similar in nature. So, we cannot criticize others.
 
07:52 PM, August 03, 2018 / LAST MODIFIED: 07:53 PM, August 03, 2018
Students’ blockade part of mass upsurge: Moudud

BNP Standing Committee Member Moudud Ahmed. File photo

Star Online Report

BNP senior leader Moudud Ahmed today said the ongoing students’ movement as part of a mass outburst, warning that angry countrymen will soon take to the streets soon against the government’s misdeeds.

“It is a part of mass upsurge. Like the agitating students, people will take to the streets with pent up anger. And, it must happen,” Moudud, also a standing committee member of BNP, said.

Addressing a discussion organised by Labour Party at the National Press Club in Dhaka, he said the agitating students do not trust the government’s assurance of meeting their nine-point demands.

“Our students are saying they want to see a safe and peaceful Bangladesh instead of Awami League’s Digital Bangladesh,” the BNP leader said.

He applauded the agitating students for carrying out a peaceful movement maintaining discipline on the streets and said common people will come to the streets merging voices with the agitating to bring discipline and restore democracy in the country.
 
BNP supports students movement, demands govt's resignation
Published: August 02, 2018 15:15:12

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BNP has extended its support to the ongoing student movement and demanded government’s resignation for failure on all fronts, including restoration of discipline in the transport sector.

The party’s secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Thursday said, "We're giving full support to the logical demand of the students."

Speaking at BNP's Nayapaltan central office, he also demanded resignation of the government for its failure on all fronts, including restoration of discipline in the transport sector.

Mentioning that the government is destroying all the institutions and people's all hopes and aspirations through its dreadful misrule and repression, Fakhrul called upon people to put up a strong resistance against it to ensure its fall.

Students of different schools and colleges took to the streets for the fifth consecutive day today, demanding safe roads and punishment of those responsible for Sunday's road accident that killed their two fellows in the city.
 
Mentioning that the government is destroying all the institutions and people's all hopes and aspirations through its dreadful misrule and repression, Fakhrul called upon people to put up a strong resistance against it to ensure its fall.
All the development talks are only in the newspapers, but the reality is on the ground which we can see with our eyes. The shameless BAL has illegally usurped 153 Parliament seats out of 300 and is now trying to cling to power through repression by its BCL caders. The continuous street movement by the students proves how unfit this BAL is at the head of a government.

It must resign and declare a new date for the general election. Otherwise, a day is coming when the population will force them all to take shelter in their BandhuDesh India. BGB should be vigilant of their illegal trespassing through the border.
 

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