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Young people brought down Bangladesh’s repressive leader. Will they now be empowered to lead real change?

By Intifar Chowdhury, Lecturer in Government, Flinders University
“Inni, we are independent!” my 26-year-old cousin chanted from Shahbagh, a neighbourhood in Bangladesh’s capital Dhaka, as millions joined a major protest march on Monday to the country’s Parliament House.

Soon after, social media was flooded with news of “a new independence” – a free Bangladesh reborn after the autocratic leader of over 15 years, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina,


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