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❦Prothom Alo
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Anti-Discrimination Movement / July Uprising: Prothom Alo Archive
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Bangla news archive for local timeline, casualties, campus events, internet shutdown, arrests, 5 August transition, and aftermath.
Shahbag Movement Archive
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Important Bengali-language news archive for the movement’s language, crowd dynamics, political reaction, and social debate.
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Anti-Discrimination Movement
The 2024 Anti-Discrimination Movement began around the reinstatement of the government job quota system. Students from universities across the country mobilized to demand merit-based recruitment. The movement quickly spread nationwide and, over time, grew into a broader social and political protest.
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Hasina Resignation and Fall of Government
On 5 August 2024, after weeks of mass protests and a planned Long March to Dhaka, Sheikh Hasina resigned and left Bangladesh for India. Protesters entered Ganabhaban, and the military announced steps toward forming an interim arrangement.
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Shahbag Movement
In early 2013, mass gatherings at Shahbag in Dhaka called for stronger accountability for war crimes linked to 1971. Students, bloggers, cultural activists, and citizens transformed the square into a sustained protest space, turning memory politics and justice debates into a central national question.