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| Piazza Perestrello, Torpignattara. ROME, 5 August 2024 |
After a month of civil struggle, with many victims, especially among students, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina finally gave in and resigned, fleeing to India, in the morning of August 5.
For a large part of the Bangladeshi community living in Rome, it was like a liberation.
The end of fear for families and friends in their country.
The celebrations took place in various squares of Rome, Piazza Vittorio, in Torpignattara, in Centocelle, until late at night.
For many, it was like a second 1971.
In a certain sense, these are images that will remain in the history of these places.
It all started with the students' request for a change in the quota of public works which resulted in street protests and the violent reaction of the police who shot at the students.
On July 16, Abu Sayed was the first of the students killed, in front of his University in Rangpur, becoming the symbol of this struggle.
According to the official media, the victims, since that July 16, are around 200, but everyone knows that they are highly underestimated and have exceeded 3000.
Keywords and coincidences to understand this story.
RAZAKAR: So, at the beginning of the protests, Hasina had contemptuously called the students. The “Razakars” were the internal collaborators of the Pakistani army during the struggle for Independence. Certainly among the most hated people in Bangladesh because they betrayed their own people. Hasina called them that because if the students were against a law of the Awami League then they were like the Razakars in the time of the War. Since then the students have made that name their battle cry.
ABU SAYED attended and was killed in front of the Begum Rokeya University. Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain, commonly known as Begum Rokeya, was a prominent Bengali feminist thinker, writer, educator and political activist in British India at the turn of the century. She is considered a pioneer of women's liberation in Bangladesh and India. She is the symbol of education in Bangladesh.
This was absolutely the struggle and revolt of the students and Abu Sayed became their National Hero.
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| Piazza Perestrello, Torpignattara, ROME, 5 August 2024 |
It was heartbreaking that students, young and free, became the victims. But also this is made the students are real students. They aware of the social lacks, not only care about themselves. Deep condolences to those who was gone and may Allah grant patience to their families
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