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Reportage, debate, analysis — Netra News is an award-winning non-profit platform of public interest journalism focused on #Bangladesh.
- BREAKING — Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus, among the victims of the internet blackout in Bangladesh, sent out an urgent appeal to world leaders and the United Nations “to end the violence against those who are exercising their rights to protest.” netra.news/2024/live-blog…
- BREAKING — Bangladesh’s president has decided to appoint Muhammad Yunus, a Nobel Prize-winning economist and the highest-profile Bangladeshi alive, whom Sheikh Hasina treated as a nemesis, as the head of the new interim government.
- REPORT — The United Nations and the international community should act to put an end to Bangladesh’s “ongoing massacre,” a leader of Bangladesh’s student protesters told journalists in a virtual press conference on 27th July.
- From a secret hideout, one of the coordinators of the student protest movement in Bangladesh spoke to Netra News to send out an appeal to the world.
- EDITORIAL — “A regime that values property over lives cannot be trusted to investigate the loss of life. A government that maims and kills its own citizens with impunity can never hold itself accountable.”
- Sheikh Hasina has resigned, a top official at the prime minister’s office confirmed to Netra News. “There’s no prime minister here. There’s no PMO anymore,” he said. She was flown to an undisclosed location, as a motorcade was not possible due to the security situation, he added.
- EDITORIAL — “Hasina and her Awami League cronies have stuck to their rehearsed crisis management script: dodge responsibility, blame the opposition, promise investigations and punishment, and lament property damage.”
- The coordinators of the student body that led the protest against Sheikh Hasina’s authoritarian rule have declared the formation of an interim government with the country's only Nobel Peace Prize laureate, Professor Muhammad Yunus, as its Chief Advisor.
- Decades later, your story will be one of many remembering the dark day when the government murdered Bangladeshis. But for now, you are the tiger’s twitching paw. You are a fever dream. You are a statistic. You do not exist. — Op-Ed by musician Arafat Kazi
- NEW — As many as 197 people have been confirmed dead in the days of protests in Bangladesh, Prothom Alo newspaper reports on Wednesday. Previously unreported deaths are still being uncovered, as journalists continue to encounter relatives, eyewitnesses, and visit new hospitals.
- ANALYSIS by @TheDavidBergman — If the West is concerned about “stability” in Bangladesh—if it wants to avoid the risks of widespread violence—it should now support the Awami League handing over power.
- Samir wasn’t even outdoors playing. He was inside his home in the Mirpur neighbourhood of Dhaka. When he looked out the window before trying to close it to prevent tear gas from entering, a bullet hit his skull through his eye, killing him almost instantly.
- In his role as education minister, Nowfel is entrusted with the welfare and well-being of the country’s millions of school-going pupils. But the gangsters he harbours unleashed one of the most savage assaults on student protesters during the ongoing unrest.
