GenZedong

no worries, sorry if i came off as harsh/angry. i'm just frustrated by people who seem to be so quick on throwing "color revolution! color revolution!" tags without understanding the overall situation that led to this to happen in the first place.

but was very confused about how to view the new leadership

iirc, yunus was a wanted man here during hasina's times. so that probably explains why he came back after hasina ran away (ironic and hypocritical, given that she said "she doesn't run away" on press conference when people - back during the revolution - thought she'd run away and ask for asylum in spain when she had a diplomatic mission thing going on in spain)

but i've seen most people agreeing that yunus is a good leader for us right now, especially when 100% hitler (far-right islamist parties like BNP-Jamaat-IAB) are right in the corner. also the only other popular political parties around now that 99% hitler - the BAL has been ousted; and the bangladeshi left continues to be a fucking skeleton. i mean, could you blame them? the west pakistani government and later all the bd governments from daddy mujib to zia to ershad did a good job defangling the then-strong bangladeshi left; and now all the islamists and muslim clerics over here have engraved "communism/socialism = atheist = anti-islam" into peoples' brains. and considering how fucking die-hard people here have gotten with their religion as of late...

but i'm seeing some people trying to revitalize it too though, so who knows. one thing's for sure - the left's not popular here and i think i would've been a bit more happier and intrigued if this revolution was led by leftists, or was a socialist revolution (a la the october revolution) led by maybe all the lefty students in chatro union/moitri along with the guys in the left democratic alliance? oh well.

apparently the students who led this revolution are also making a political party of their own, so that might be another popular opposition for the time being. doubt it's gonna be a very leftist one for sure. but defo not far-right.

i would've said "i think it's weird how it's THIS out of many previous protests that have succeeded in ousting the government", but i guess people care more about being able to get jobs (in a country where there's already enough unemployment as it is) than getting safer streets. coupled with the fact that the people here have been dealing with hasina's bs for a decade.

also the abysmal shit hasina did while the revolution was going on (stuff like crying crocodile tears at the fact that her metro rail station that she "worked so hard on making" {while at the same time embezzling some of the money needed to make the station; to her son who lives in america} being destroyed by the "evil rioters" and how it'd take "a million years" before it'd be back up again {lmfao. 1 year my ass}. or how she called the protestors razakars {traitors} certainly didn't help)