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Nikkei Asia
16-07-2025
- Politics
- Nikkei Asia
Bangladesh's revolutionaries await real change 1 year on
Protesters against former Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina gather at a university in Dhaka on Aug. 13, 2024. In the wake of last year's revolution, reforms have stalled amid disagreements between political parties. © Reuters SYFUL ISLAM DHAKA -- One year since a landmark moment in the revolution in Bangladesh that ousted former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, the protestors that drove the movement have seen little progress on the reforms that brought them out onto the streets. Political parties remain at loggerheads over how to proceed on contentious issues like constitutional reform and the timing of an election. While the students party wants the next national election to be held after thorough reforms and the trial of Hasina, who fled to India, and supporters of her Awami League, the other major political groups have been putting immense pressure on the interim government to hold the country's first election since the revolution in the near future.
Nikkei Asia
16-05-2025
- Politics
- Nikkei Asia
Bangladesh engages with Myanmar's Arakan Army insurgents
SYFUL ISLAM DHAKA -- Four Rohingya refugees were fishing early in the morning near the border at Cox's Bazar in southern Bangladesh earlier this month when they were abducted by members of the Arakan Army, Myanmar insurgents. Luckily for these four, Border Guard Bangladesh managed to secure their release the next day, after negotiating with the Arakan Army. It made a clear contrast to the 55 Bangladeshi fishermen who were released by the Buddhist-dominated insurgent group in mid-April, days and months after they were kidnapped.
