View from Dhaka Tribune: Bangladesh youth-led revolution has delivered a new beginning

There are some incidents in world history that are so momentous that they transcend ideology or party politics.

The recent movement which has culminated in the resignation of the prime minister was one such movement, because, regardless of whether one is an Awami League supporter or an intractable foe of the party, the events of the past month have the potential to be far more earthshaking and consequential for Bangladeshi politics than any mere political spat between what we have become accustomed to calling Bangladesh’s two major political parties.

What we saw over the past month was the coming of age of an entire generation of young Bangladeshis. It was glorious to watch, as they conducted themselves with courage, commitment, and conscientiousness, and found inside themselves fight, spirit and resolve that even they perhaps did not know were there before.

They showed us that the future of Bangladesh is in good hands and that we have raised a generation of young men and women of whom we can all be proud, a generation of young men and women who care deeply about fairness and justice and working together for the betterment of society and are willing to put themselves on the front lines, willing to sacrifice...

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