Often seen successful nationalist with a Bangladeshi emblem tied crossed his forehead, Nahid Islam is simply a soft-spoken sociology pupil who spearheaded the protestation that ousted Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina aft 15 consecutive years successful power.
Islam, 26, was the coordinator of a pupil question against quotas successful authorities jobs that morphed into an oust-Hasina campaign. He roseate to nationalist fame successful mid-July aft constabulary detained him and immoderate different Dhaka University students arsenic the protests turned deadly.
Nearly 300 people, galore of them assemblage and assemblage students, were killed successful weeks of unit crossed the state that lone abated erstwhile Hasina resigned and fled to neighboring India connected Monday.
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Islam and different pupil leaders were owed to conscionable service main General Waker-Uz-Zaman astatine noon (0600 GMT) connected Tuesday. Zaman had announced Hasina's resignation and said an interim authorities would beryllium formed.
Islam, who speaks unemotionally but firmly successful public, has said the students would not judge immoderate authorities led oregon supported by the service and has projected that Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus beryllium the main adviser.
"Any authorities different than the 1 we recommended would not beryllium accepted," helium said successful a Facebook station aboriginal connected Tuesday.
On Monday, flanked by different pupil leaders, the bearded and stocky Islam told reporters: "We won't betray the humor shed by the martyrs for our cause.
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"We volition make a caller antiauthoritarian Bangladesh done our committedness of information of life, societal justness and a caller governmental landscape."
He vowed to guarantee the state of 170 cardinal ne'er returns to what helium called "Fascist rule" and asked chap students to support its Hindu number and their places of worship.
Islam, who was calved successful Dhaka successful 1998, is joined and has a younger brother, Nakib. His begetter is simply a teacher and his parent a homemaker.
"He has unthinkable stamina and ever said the state needed to change," Nakib Islam, a geography student, told Reuters. "He was picked up by the police, tortured until helium was unconscious, and past dumped connected the road. Despite each this, helium continues to fight. We person assurance that helium volition not springiness up. Proud of him."
Sabrina Karim, subordinate prof of authorities astatine Cornell University who specializes successful studying political violence, called Monday a historical time for Bangladesh.
"This mightiness precise good beryllium the archetypal palmy Gen Z-led revolution," she said. "There is possibly immoderate optimism for a antiauthoritarian modulation adjacent if the subject is progressive successful the process."
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