Sahidul has been the most brave critical and resilient throughout the last 15 years. I am so happy, people like sahidul alam will be recognised for their contributions for the country which we so in need in coming days
Cabinet filled with student and professor activists, brilliant economists, human and minority rights activists, former social workers who worked to empower the poor, former military general who helped bring back democracy in Bangladesh, representation from male, female, member of different religious communities, indigenous groups. All lead by a Nobel peace prize winner! This is a dream team Bangladesh assembled ❤️
@@MamoonAlRasheed Of course but you have to understand the optimism of Bangladeshi people. Intellectuals were never in power before. The country was always lead by people who claim to power was through family lineage or military dictatorship. All of that was backed by ministers whose primary experience leading gangsters on the street like a Mafia capo. Bangladesh’s improvement was always down to the intellectual class who despite all these and massive corruption worked tirelessly to empower the poor. Now for the first time seeing them finally be in center of power is sign of hope and progress!
They are faces. The real power is with the Jamaat ant ISI. Wake up! The Jamaat foot soldiers are on a killing spree. Where are the great students? Why are they not protecting minorities?
Someone is trying to put his house in order by reaching out to all people and you call him a Western Lackey? Give him some time and space to prove what he is
Great to see Shahidul Alam sir free and speaking honestly again. I remember how enraged the Bangladeshi people became when they imprisoned and tortured him during the traffic reform protests. Our nation will prevail, democracy will prevail, and ALL Bangladeshis will have their voices heard; not just the Musilm majority.
Kudos to Democracy Now for bringing on two articulate interviewees who know what they are talking about. Now let us hope the situation in Bangladesh settles down and the Yunos team achieve a consensus to move the great Bangladeshi peoples forward ! ❤ ❤
He is charging 18% interest on his micro loans for poor women! This is a predatory operation! He is living like a king off of his Gramean Banks and users off the poorest women in the world! And he was given a Nobel Peace Prize!?!?
Hasina government in 15 years had totally corrupted Bangladeshi police force. So now when all of a sudden, Hasina resigned, the country is left without an effective police force. That is why a lot of crimes are taking place in Bangladesh. I don’t think it’s Hindu persecution but rather agami league supporters that are being attacked. The new government has put the safety of Bangladeshi people at the top of its priority list. The protesters have said again and again that what we aim for is a country where everyone has equal right no matter what race or religion he/she belongs to. I believe that is the general sentiment of Bangladeshi people.
Dr.Yunus is a beacon of hope for all of us who believe in sustainability. Shahidul Alam is an inspiration to all of us who believe in upholding the truth! Great representatives of Bangladesh 🇧🇩 👏🏽 👏🏽
Sad he didn't get the respect he deserved from our country due to the dictator Hasina for the last decade. We students are really glad he came to lead our country and bring stability when we needed hi the most.
@@Furious_Slap they did not loot.. they downed a old structure which was built on temple.. think another religion construction was made by demolishing macca, will you accept.. looting ..looting.. undergarments, commodes, dresses, suit cases.. shame on you supporting
Hasina,never respect any body who are little opposition, criticism, Of her rule n activities. She destroyed all government sector. Even judiciary. Thankyou.
It is an interim government to arrange for elections. He seems to be the right person to clam the situation for the election. It will be great if he succeed in getting Bangladesh out of the dynamics of family politics
Long Live Shahidul Alam; may Allah gives you His enormous reward for the love you spread to lead people of bangladesh. We salute you with wholeheartedly.
Bangladesh salam from Pakistan, we did not forget that you were key part of our Independence movement in 1947. You are a great people, the students have shown the Bengala nation is honroble, Bangladesh zindabad!
Praises to all involved, and to those who have lost their lives, may Allah reward you with paradise and take care of your families in this world, may all the innocent get justice, and may all the wrong doers face justice.
So happy to see the well respected Shahidul Alam on your show. He was picked up for speaking the truth! I wish you would now do a report with him and others of similar repute on what they think should be of prime concern for Bangladesh, what need to be reformed and how they think we should go about it.
@@apratimchatterjee1503 Not really, although it sounds synonymous. Caretaker government was something constitutionally allowed to hold elections. Hasina erased it from the constitution. The national assembly has been dissolved. So no amendments can be made right now. That’s why we are using a separate term.
May Allah guide and protect Bangladesh’s new government. Bangladesh’s people health, education, and protection first. The country’s people is its most precious critical resource, above gold, oil, … ❤
The problem is not how to enforce democarcy, it's sustain it. There are thresholds for it, for example adequate income, educated middleclass, etc. I hope Bangladesh won't become the second India.
@@Prateek-dw4ngthat disgust in your eyes is evident. See the thing is we don’t see Hindus with that kind of disgust, and that’s the difference between us . We are not the same even if we are of the same colour .
Old regime was in power through corruption of the democratic process. That is why there was an overthrow of regime by the people. They paid dearly for it with almost 1000 dead and many more injured.
Hasina has blood on her hands! ( If I said this 2 weeks ago, I would've been jailed, kept in a torture cell, tortured everyday indefinitely). Each and every one of us can feel the freedom now! Salute to the GenZ of my country!
@@AjitJoshi686 There's lawlessness everywhere, and it should soon be allright. And any person with brain bigger than a pea would realize it's only Awami League who gains if minorities are attacked. The police was Hasina's goons, and they are not there now. But your media is like the Star Plus TV shows they did 20 yrs back, so much drama and exaggeration!
@@AjitJoshi686 Stop spreading fake news Indian.There were no cases of rape of hindus after Hasina fled. You guys are spreading even videos which happened in your country and claiming it to be in Bangladesh
I hope you all remember SK Sinha sir, the former Chief Justice of Bangladesh Supreme Court who is an honest Hindu been tortured and forced to leave country by dictator Hasina. Hasina basically took advantage by making these kind of targeted attack to our Hindu friends and families. We love to live together with peace and amity people From all religious and community.
How come you didn't ask about the looting, destruction and killing of the Hindus since Hasina left. All these were orchestrated by ISI, ISIS and Ronhingyas. Pretty soon, we will see East Pakistan again on our Eastern border.
@@ahmuqasim7540 dude , I was intrested in islam , but the uncontrolled immigration from both pakistan and bangladesh and type of people they infiltrate insude my country being pickpockets , Odd jobs , electrician , plumbers , carpenters is totally dominated by 5 crore illegal rohingyas
We Bangladesh need to take control of our rivers, our lands, and our people. We have all of the resources to become the glorious Bangal that we once were, the richest area in the hole of Asia, Bangladesh should be a capital for world trade. We should build daam after daam. Bangladesh should supply its people free electricity, we can build enough daams to even supply energy to other parts of the world and give our people free health care and education for all of Bangladesh 🇧🇩. Bangladesh zindabad , Allahu akbar
Right after Hasina's fall members of her party tried to cause unrest by targeting some Hindu properties, a tactic BAL used many times before to frame oppositions. But general people and military took immediate measures to avoid such incidents. In many places madrasa students and local people guarded Hindu temples.
Hindus are respected and safe in Bangladesh. They are safe and respected not because India “gave” freedom to Bangladesh but because we are good humans.
@@ishkhann If they were safe & respected,yunus wouldn't be tweeting & appealing people of Bangladesh to stop killing minorities. Why don't you ask him to delete that comment first,since there is no killing of non muslims in Bangladesh??
For the sake of Bangladesh's future and for the benefit of all, I wish Mohammad Yunus could somehow be the elected PM for quite some time. He is an internationally renowned academic and revered by friends and foe alike--at least it seems that way. I believe he will act selflessly to lead Bangladesh back to law, order and economic progress. The whole world has witnessed the total chaos created by divisive politics and a meddling military in Pakistan. Bangladeshi's must realize that great achievements mean making great sacrifices and having great patience, great optimism. Impatience in the fledgling government and demanding alternatives too soon will lead to total chaos like Pakistan. Look and learn how inclusivity and political stability in the past two decades has helped transform India to the 5th largest economy in the world. Too all Bangladeshis--may your new Government live up to its great expectations and deliver...
Bangladeshi students should be so proud of themselves. Their compatriots should be eternally grateful. I hope that with this new PM, they secure a strong democracy that will remain intact. Congratulations comrades ✊ 🇺🇸 🇧🇩 🇺🇸🇧🇩🇺🇸🇧🇩
Theres no indian accent.. people from south have a different accent.. people from north india have different accents... People from the east and west side of India have different accents
Bangladesh is gone this is not students protest this is ISLAMIC fight, why singer rahul is attacked and his house is burned because he is hindu, why all hindus were attacked , this is insane no media reported those killing women are kidnapped and raped ....Shame on Bangladesh .....
Are you indian? If so dont speak you are a hypocrite, india is hell for anu foreigner especially muslims, india fanned the flames with their fanatical leader.
@@kidez22k singer Rahul’s house wasn’t attacked because he was a Hindu. His band “Joler Gan” posted and clarified through their official Facebook post. Stop with your despicable mentality.
Proposal has been made to recruit largest groups of teachers for skills training and upgrading the education system to bring the country to the forefront of modern society. These are colossal tasks. But a huge population cannot be productive without extraordinary skills and efforts. If any one can do it Dr. Yunus can do it.
Thank you for all that you have done keeping facts spoken inorder to help the people understand how important it is to hear and see what real current events should be.😊
There have been some reports of violence against minorities. but what people don't want to understand is that they are being attacked because of their relation to the Sheikh Hasina's regime. which is not good obviously. but they are not being attacked because of their religion. a huge number of muslim people are also being attacked also because of their connection with the regime and their wrong doing. and again its not morally justified. the people who are doing this are leveled as "Radical".
It's their fault in the first place for supporting a corrupt regime. Besides, majority of the people are together, hindu and muslim, and are in support of the interim govt. and against hasina's corrupt regime.
I find striking similarity to our student-led demonstrations that brought down the New Order regime in Indonesia in 1998. Our sincere prayer to the people of Bangladesh, your aspiration is our inspiration.
One of the surprising thing even to Bangladeshis were the sudden neutrality of the army chief. He was assigned to the post by Hasina because he is the husband of Hasina's cousin and a known loyalist to Hasina like all of the army chiefs before him. Army initially even followed Hasina's orders to deploy troops throughout the country to scare and fire on student protesters but, it seemed after seeing the destruction army had caused on civilian population, and many officers within the army getting furious with the decision of being used as a government tool. the army chief too had a change of heart and declared that army won't fire a single round on any civilian and would only work as a defense force for the remaining of the protest. Hasina even called the army chief a traitor on the day she fled because he was the one who explained the situation to Hasina that she either has to resign and leave the country or face the protesting mass who were heading towards the pm residence. She wanted army to open fire on the mass again but he refused. He even had a chance to take over power once Hasina fled, but decided to help transition the power peacefully, had all the security forces leader arrested who were loyalist to Hasina and took part in all of Hasina's cruelty in last 15 years. The arrests within the security forces are still on going. He was under threat himself of facing a coup from Hasina's loyalist within the army but he held his ground. Also, I'd like to say thanks to the general people of India and rest of the world for speaking up about the student protest. It helped a lot to put foreign pressure on Hasina's authoritarian regime from using deadly forces further. I know currently the country is still in turmoil with vandalisms going on in the absence of police who went on strike because people have completely lost faith in them after they've done in last 20 days or so. But it's slowly coming back to normalcy. This interim government by far is the most non-political, diverse and progressive government in the history of Bangladesh. We know good things are ahead of us. We will make a great Bangladesh where everyone irrespective of their faith and demographic will enjoy freedom of speech, security and justice.
Any fool can take billions in debt and create massive infrastructures but only an educated person will realise that country with immense debt is a very unhealthy country and will be prone to external pressure and instability. Debt based progress is no progress at all, it’s a death trap.
It is very questionable if micro-credits actually reduce poverty... They tend to commodify poverty. These credits give people (often women) access to loans who otherwise wouldn't have access. But poverty is structural and intrinsic to monopoly capitalism. And these credits are designed to put huge social pressure on those taking up credit... leading to things like suicide.
“Designed to put pressure…” I beg to differ. Have you heard any firsthand testimony from those who have received it? Poverty begins in individuals and families so these people don’t care about structures, just that they can afford to now eat, start a small business and pay rent.
You're stupid. Having lived in a village for my childhood and recently moving back there i have seen Just how useful and important micro credits are. Just about everyone takes these loans to get Through troubling times. A typical example A day labourer who dosent receive payments in time or cant find enough work will take a micro loan to pay for the families expenses and pays it back after the person can start working again. Maybe theres a big medical bill that they cant pay immediately. They take out These small loans and pay Them back slowly. Without this service their lives would be so much more difficult. Yes there have been many cases where taking loans have ruined the lives of people but thats true for any types of loan. This is not exclusive to micro credit system
Hopefully he's a bit more peaceful than his fellow Nobel laureates: Kissinger and Obama to name two. It's not as big a recommendation as you seem to think.
@@SaltySalman Many hopes for the people of Bangladesh, but I'm not personally involved enough to do that level of legwork. My idleness, I guess, is to hope I can get some of that incisive analysis from Democracy Now rather than tracking down his pros and cons myself. My comment wasn't to be snarky, or expose my own admitted ignorance about the individual. It was to highlight this story's multiple references to this many-times sullied trophy as though it can be cited as a legitimising shorthand for virtue. To me, this displays intellectual sloppiness (unbecoming from this channel), which can sadly undermine subsequent solid journalism. That seemed long winded for a RU-vid comment, so I went with the sound bite - just the sort of thing I was criticising! LOL [Oh, yes, also hoping you wanted to know this and you weren't just being a troll. Tone is so tricky with a comment section.]
@@Wraithing well let me tell you the truth as a Bangladeshi. Dr yunus has never wanted to be in power. Never dabbled in politics seriously. And before 2008 he well respected by all the political parties Around the 2006-8 election when the country Was going Through lots of unrest and divide dr yunus proposed to open a new party "citizens power" and asked for feedback. But due to lack of interest from eligible candidates he scrapped the idea. And because of that... Simply because he thought about opening a independent political party the next pm sheikh Hasina who clung onto power for 4 terms started despising dr yunus. She detests having competition or getting ANY amount of criticism. Said things like "newcomers in the political arena is dangerous. They often do more harm than good" Another politician even called him a traitor to the nation All because he didnt like the state of Bangladeshi politics which was simple gang wars. Since 2008 even though yunus didnt open a political party to oppose Hasina. Even though he never seriously dabbled in politics.. The Hasina government started launching false cases against him one after another. They launched 200+ cases. They spread lies over and over Again. Like accusing him of misappropriating funds given by norway.. Which Norway stepped in to clear up. Or saying his micro credit formula has ruined lives. But any sane person understands that taking loans of any kind has its risk. Still Grameen bank has had the lowest interest rate for loans in the ENTIRE WORLD But Hasina never stopped. Dragging the 70 year old from one court to another burying him in a Ocean of judicial proceedings. But then hasina managed to kick dr yunus out of his own company the Grameen bank by citing retirement age. The crass,disgusting and disrespectful comments and behaviour continued till hasina got kicked out. She even suggested that dr yunus Should be captured and dunked in the padma River twice. Just enough to not kill him. Just earlier this year now that Hasina has control over the entire justice system. She was able to Have dr yunus sentenced to 6 months in jail. He got out on bail. Hasinas behaviour of Being insanely hostile to critics and opposition did not start with dr yunus and was not limited to him either. The leader of opposition Khaleda Zia was also arrested multiple times and Then kept under house arrest for 10 years. Countless opposition politicians or personal were accused of every crime imaginable and jailed especially during election time . Those who she Couldn't jail she used RAB. A law enforcement organisation which has the power to do whatever Hasina asks with complete immunity. They carried out countless extrajudicial killings.forced disappearances. Kidnappings. Cia style torture chambers etc. She also Had chatro league the student "activist" Branch of awami League. Which was in reality her personal gangster squad she used against her government. These are in every legal definition civilians. Not law enforcement but she armed them. Gave them pistols shotguns and More. Allocated huge funds to hire more 'supporters " and arm them with machetes and other weapons. They would do drive by shootings. Home invasion to murder,ambush and assassinate whoever Hasina wanted gone. In the streets Whenever there was protests these hasina supporters would stand Against the protesters (in reality they're charto League) and Their job was to stop the protests by force. They would start the aggression and when the situation worsens and the protests turn into brick throwing the chatro league opens fire. The police NEVER stop them. Instead the police join them and stick charge the protestors. Chatro league also charges but with guns and machetes. Btw all the political parties has These gang like organisations and they have fought Such gangwars for decades. This is what dr yunus criticized. But Hasina Being hasina. Lashed out at any and all Who she saw as a threat. Just take a look at how many journalists have been killed by police/Chatro League or assassinated, kidnapped etc. Not a single election after 2008 was deemed free and fair by independent watchers and international human rights groups
@@SaltySalman Your comment is such a lovely and welcome gift to a stranger - and I hope it is read by more than just me. I thank you for taking the time and am very glad you have a strong potential for positive change in Bangladesh. Global resource predation and local violent gangs go hand in glove with the corrupt officials Capital needs to divide good communities from better futures, but Dr. Yunus sounds like he knows well how to organise and teach the next generation. The road will not be easy, but it's a start. I know more now. Many thanks to you.