DW - Bangladesh The Revolt of Gen Z (2024)
DW - Bangladesh The Revolt of Gen Z (2024) 
Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina fled the country on 5th August 2024 after spending almost 16 years in office. Hasina had ordered a violent crackdown on student protests, but ultimately the uprising led to the toppling of the authoritarian leader.
When Bangladesh's longest serving prime minister came to power, she awakened hopes with her drive to free millions of people from extreme poverty by liberalizing the economy. But the country's 'Iron Lady' became increasingly autocratic, and created a personality cult based around her long-dead father Sheikh Mujibur, the 'Father of the Nation', and forced political opponents and critical journalists and artists into exile.
The protests began with student demonstrations against a controversial government job quota. Gen Z college students managed to organize broad resistance to the system reserving 30% of civil service posts for the descendants of freedom fighters from the 1971 War of Independence. In the ensuing crackdown, more than 600 people died, many more were injured, and many disappeared.
What will it take to rebuild the nation after the July Revolution? This documentary film follows the leaders of the student movement, members of the interim government and victims of the former regime.
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Sheikh Hasina (née Wazed; born 28 September 1947) is a Bangladeshi politician who served as the tenth prime minister of Bangladesh from June 1996 to July 2001 and again from January 2009 to August 2024. Her second term in office was the longest administration since the independence of the country, which critics characterized with dictatorship, oligarchy and crimes against humanity. She resigned and was exiled to India following the July Revolution in 2024.
Hasina is the daughter of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, Bangladesh's founding president, and is a member of the Tungipara Sheikh political family. She had little presence in politics before her father's assassination in August 1975. Afterwards, she took asylum in India and became involved with the Awami League and was elected as its president, a position which she continues to hold to this day while residing in India. After returning to Bangladesh in 1981, she and her party Awami League became involved with the pro-democracy movement against the military dictator Hussain Muhammad Ershad, culminating in the 1990 Bangladesh mass uprising and the restoration of parliamentary democracy in the 1991 Bangladeshi general election.
Hasina and Awami League narrowly lost the 1991 election to Khaleda Zia's BNP. As leader of the opposition, Hasina accused Zia's Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) of electoral dishonesty and boycotted the Parliament, which was followed by violent demonstrations and political turmoil. Khaleda Zia resigned in favour of a caretaker government, followed by Hasina becoming prime minister after the June 1996 election. The term ended in July 2001, with Hasina being succeeded by Khaleda Zia following her victory.
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