[Foofoobar12345]

Both sides of the political spectrum are authoritarian. Each dominant party will do whatever in their power to hold onto it.

That said, law and order is needed to sustain the population. The pop density of BD is incredible - imagine half the population of US crammed into the state of New York. Systems and processes were what BD out of being considered a “basket case “ as Henry Kissinger (?) once famously called it. A lot of it were built by NGOs and private parties.

Now you have these students who are protesting something valid. But they are also not mature enough to realize that if they start burning away the optical fibers and data centers, they’re destroying the systems they are using to self-organize.

And what happens once they topple the govt? Who runs their nuclear reactor and power stations? Who runs their comms?

Let’s not throw away the baby with the bathwater and try and find a more reasonable way.

[anigbrowl]

You can equally argue the government is not mature enough to recognize the validity of their protest and is violently oppressing them, leading to predictable further violence. If the government are so well-informed and wise in the ways of the world, why are they engaged on such a self-destructive course?

[t_mahmood]

Seeing the pictures of so called burnt "data center", I would say it was definitely not the students. But hey, it's their (government 's) game, and they can twist it around as they like.

And people were never afraid of the students, nor the students were destroying infrastructure.

People were helping the students. [0]

Targeting unarmed people with shotguns, is in no way justifiable, no matter how you want to sugarcoat it. Simply put you can plate and serve shit in a very classy manner, but at the end it will still remain shit.

[0]. https://www.dhakatribune.com/bangladesh/dhaka/352655/when-ja...