The word Ziaul Huque uses to describe the recent deadly violence against student protesters in his country of Bangladesh is “despicable”.
“In the end, the government could not survive by resorting to violence,” says Huque, who was once a university student himself. “History has repeatedly shown that no government can survive for long against a radical movement of students.” How quickly that political change can translate into solutions for the country’s many social and environmental problems remains to be seen, though.
