Why Bangladeshi students say protests aren’t over
The Take
Al Jazeera
4.7 • 748 Ratings
🗓️ 31 July 2024
⏱️ 19 minutes
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Summary
As internet connections gradually come back online in Bangladesh after deadly protests sparked a shutdown, we hear what students experienced and why they say the protests are not over.
In this episode:
- Nazifa Zahnat, student protester
- Prapti Taposhi, student protester
- Tasneem, student protester
Episode credits:
This episode was produced by Tamara Khandaker, Amy Walters, and Sonia Bhagat, with Duha Musaad, Veronique Eshaya, Manahil Naveed, and our host Malika Bilal.
Our sound designer is Alex Roldan. Our lead of audience development and engagement is Aya Elmileik. Munera Al Dosari and Adam Abou-Gad are our engagement producers.
Alexandra Locke is The Take’s executive producer. Ney Alvarez is Al Jazeera's head of audio.
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| 0:00.0 | Al Jazeera Podcasts. |
| 0:07.0 | Today, voices from the student protests in Bangladesh. |
| 0:16.0 | This is not about Kota anymore. |
| 0:18.0 | Things would have been about Kota before all the bloodshed happened, |
| 0:22.5 | before our brothers and sisters were dead. |
| 0:25.9 | As internet connections gradually come back online, |
| 0:29.3 | we hear what students experienced and why they say the protests are not over. |
| 0:36.8 | I'm Malika Milal and this is the take. |
| 0:46.6 | I think any Bangladeshi person can recognize the seriousness of this moment, |
| 0:52.4 | and it really feels like people's frustrations have reached a boiling |
| 0:56.8 | point. I'm Tamara Ken Dacker. I'm a producer at The Take based in Toronto. I am Bangladeshi, and I've been |
| 1:07.3 | following the story really closely for the last couple weeks. |
| 1:12.5 | Tamara, it's really good to have you here. |
| 1:17.6 | You know that we talked about these demonstrations on the podcast last week. |
| 1:26.8 | Students have been protesting a quota system that reserved 30% of government jobs for the descendants of people who fought for Bangladesh's independence. The protesters wanted those opportunities for everyone. |
| 1:31.3 | And eventually, the Supreme Court decided to reduce the quotas to 5%. |
| 1:36.3 | And it seemed like that was a resolution, but apparently not. |
| 1:41.3 | What are you hearing talking to people there now? Yeah, you know, as we're learning a lot |
| 1:47.9 | more about what happened in Bangladesh over the last couple weeks, it seems like this is still |
| 1:52.7 | very much ongoing. So six of the protest coordinators were taken into police custody for their |
| 2:00.6 | own safety according to the government. |
| 2:02.6 | And while in custody, they sent a video message to the media announcing the end of this protest |
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