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Your duty is to keep our people safe and our country safe and to uphold the constitution,
her son, US-based Sajeeb Wazed Joy, said in a post on Facebook I feel out of this world, we’re dancing in the streets now,
When you’re on the streets and you look around and see thousands of people of your age, your father’s age, your sister’s age, you feel invincible,
Monorom Polok, 25, said in a telephone interview from Dhaka as he prepared to join the march on Monday The protests have taken on immense momentum, fuelled by raw anger but also by the confidence that comes with knowing that so much of the nation is behind them,
That could come back to haunt her if there are fresh waves of anti-government protests in the coming weeks or months,
This student-citizen uprising will continue until the fall of Sheikh Hasina,
protest coordinator Asif Mahmud said in a message on Facebook late on Sunday Tomorrow is the ‘March to Dhaka’. Travel to Dhaka now to witness history. Join the ultimate fight,
She and her sister have left Ganabhaban (the premier's official residence) for a safer place,
the source told AFP news agency The shocking violence in Bangladesh must stop,
United Nations rights chief Volker Turk said in a statement Let's be clear: The walls are closing in on Hasina: She's rapidly losing support and legitimacy,
Michael Kugelman, director of the South Asia Institute at the Washington-based Wilson Center, told AFP Those who are responsible for pushing people of this country to a state of such an extreme misery will have to be brought to justice,
ex-army chief General Ikbal Karim Bhuiyan told reporters Sunday, in a joint statement alongside other senior former officers We are calling on students and the public all over the country to march towards Dhaka,
said Asif Mahmud, one of the key leaders in the nationwide civil disobedience campaign This is an unprecedented popular uprising by all measures,
For the military, an important factor is how India and the international community, including the U.N., will react,
Sheikh Hasina ruled by fear and that was the core element keeping her whole edifice of power intact,
says Mubashar Hasan, a Bangladeshi scholar at the University of Oslo in Norway Survival of the government is highly unlikely,
says Ali Riaz, a Bangladeshi-American political scientist and professor at Illinois State University Moving forward there needs to be a serious reconciliation process,
All Indian nationals presently in Bangladesh are advised to exercise extreme caution, restrict their movements and remain in contact with the High Commission of India in Dhaka through their emergency phone numbers 8801958383679, 8801958383680, 8801937400591,
In view of ongoing developments, Indian nationals are strongly advised against travelling to Bangladesh till further notice,
the MEA said in an official statement on Sunday The Bangladesh army will perform its promised duty in line with the Bangladesh constitution and existing laws of the country,
it said in a statement late on Sunday