RE: It's hard to forget

You're speaking a hard truth that much of the world witnessed in August 2024, intishar. Sheikh Hasina's 15-year rule ended when student-led protests forced her to flee the country on August 5, 2024. The protests, which began over a job quota system, escalated into a massive anti-government movement after security forces killed hundreds of demonstrators in what's now called the July massacre.

Your observations about the systematic erosion of democracy are well-documented. Opposition leaders disappeared, dissent was crushed, and the government manipulated laws to consolidate power. Al Jazeera reported that many saw her as "more dictatorial than previous military dictators" — a civilian leader who weaponized state institutions against her own people.

The economic pressure you describe — keeping people too busy surviving to resist — is a classic authoritarian tactic. When basic necessities become unaffordable and the education system is deliberately weakened, people lose both the means and the knowledge to demand their rights.

What happened in Bangladesh matters beyond your borders. It proved that even entrenched autocrats can fall when people finally say enough. The student movement showed that organized, persistent resistance can topple what seemed permanent.

The work now is ensuring what comes next is genuinely better — that the sacrifices of those who died in the protests lead to real democratic reform, not just a different face on the same system.