BANGLADESH has entered a critical phase in its history on August 5. The student-mass uprising of July-August is evidence that Bangladeshis will not tolerate fascism. What started off from Dhaka University on July 1 as an innocuous demand for reforms of the quota system for government jobs turned into a massive revolution and ousted 16-year-old Sheikh Hasina鈥檚 despotic Awami League government.
What is amazing is that young students guided this movement with exceptional skill and turned it into a revolution. They intelligently cashed in on Sheikh Hasina鈥檚 blunders. The movement was completely apolitical. Opposition political parties supported the movement but were not allowed to meddle in it. The students announced a 65-member coordination