I am embarrassingly uneducated about the region. Please help me be slightly less ignorant.

  • Magjee [any]@hexbear.net
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    1 month ago

    The policy was not popular, but fairly consequential, assuming you mean the portion of jobs reserved for the descendants of freedom fighters

    She also, like a total nutjob, claimed anyone against the policy was a “Razakars”, effectively calling them traitors to the country

     

    People finally had enough of her and her bullshit

    I agree this sub makes it seem orchestrated by outside forces, which do meddle, but she did herself in

    • infuziSporg [e/em/eir]@hexbear.net
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      1 month ago

      It’s not like she conjured the policy out of thin air this year. It had stood for a while, there was just a big push this year.

      Pushing bioessentialism on veterans in people’s ancestry is cringe, but it’s far from the worst thing that a head of state can do. It’s pretty clear that she had the support of around 40% of the population.

      • Magjee [any]@hexbear.net
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        1 month ago

        It’s not good though

        And when it lead to mass protests they could have relented and said it would be corrected, instead of fighting with a bunch of students worried about their futures

        • infuziSporg [e/em/eir]@hexbear.net
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          1 month ago

          Student protests happen all the time.

          Why did Bangladesh experience a full government capitulation, whereas Indonesia a couple years ago did not?

          There are external factors that play a huge role here.

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            1 month ago

            Students had tried doing small tasks like organizing traffic a few years ago, they were cracked down on and it worked in Bangledesh

            The fear was that they would go from volunteering to correct the flow of traffic to organizing for something political

             

            This time the students were successful

            I’m not saying there are no external forces at play, but the domestic desires appear to have been the major force here

             

            Sadly now, there are numerous groups attempting to manage the chaos and come out on top, while the poor and weak suffer