https://www.scmp.com/rss/519484/feed Dr Intifar Chowdhury is a youth researcher and lecturer in government at Flinders University, South Australia. en https://assets.i-scmp.com/static/img/icons/scmp-meta-1200x630.png https://www.scmp.com “Inni, we are independent!” my 26-year-old cousin chanted from Shahbagh, a neighbourhood in Bangladesh’s capital Dhaka, as millions joined a major protest march on Monday to the country’s Parliament House. Soon after, social media was flooded with news of “a new independence” – a free Bangladesh reborn after the autocratic leader of over 15 years, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, fled the country in the face of defiant public demand for her resignation. It was the startling culmination of weeks of... https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/opinion/article/3273881/will-young-bangladeshis-be-empowered-lead-real-change-after-ousting-pm-hasina?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/opinion/article/3273881/will-young-bangladeshis-be-empowered-lead-real-change-after-ousting-pm-hasina?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 10 Aug 2024 02:00:16 +0000