One year ago today, a popular uprising in Bangladesh deposed its long-serving Prime Minister.

The country now faces multiple long-term challenges related to climate change, public health,

and more immediately, political instability and the threat of tariffs.

In partnership with the Pulitzer Center, our Fred de Sam Lazaro recently traveled to Bangladesh

and has the first of three reports.

Across Bangladesh's capital, the posters and graffiti are a reminder of the unrest that escalated sharply and violently last July.

By the time Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina had fled into exile in neighboring India, at least

1,400 people had been killed and thousands injured, most of them students who led the protests.

It's we who accelerated the July Revolution, not the political leaders, we the students, with the general people.

22-year-old Maria Rahman was part of the marches.

She remains hopeful and patient.

Change won't come overnight.

But we have now the environment of demophraging practice.

That's fuel the hopes of 25-year-old grad student Abidu Rahman.

I want to see an inclusive Bangladesh where every political party tolerate each other.

He says observant Muslims in this predominantly Islamic country were targeted by Hasina's regime.

It was accused of widespread human rights abuses, torture and forced disappearances against political opponents,

journalists and perceived supporters of the faith-based Jammate Islami party.

I don't trust the police as much as I used to do.

24-year-old grad student, Azeen Sumaya, says things in some respects have gotten worse in recent months.

As a woman, I would say the security of people on the street has been really bad lately.

Frustration echoed away from the university campus as well.

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