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Aljazeera.net correspondents
DhakaDozens of male and female students from different universities spread out. Dhaka Around the capital university of Bangladesh and in the main streets crowded with vehicles and pedestrians in the city of twenty million people, in a campaign to “decorate” its walls with hundreds of drawings of what they describe as “student revolution art”, intending to remind people of the meanings of their movement “against discrimination” and “injustice” and for the sake of building Bangladesh Again.
The drawings, which are widely spread in various parts of the capital, carry awareness, political and social messages for the general public, reminding them of the movement, which is considered one of the fastest protests to overthrow a political regime, as it only lasted five weeks, but after hundreds of deaths and thousands of injuries, it led to the departure of the Prime Minister. Sheikh Hasina The country on August 5, after a 16-year rule.
The drawings, which show good artistic ability, focus on combining symbolic expression with meaningful words such as “national unity,” fighting tyranny and financial and administrative corruption, and that what happened is a “second birth” of the country, as they describe it, calling for “reform” of Bangladesh, which has a population of 172 million.
One of the drawings says, “The power of the people is stronger than the power of those in power,” while another speaks of freedom from behind prisons. In appreciation of the young generation and students in this movement during what they describe as the bloody month of July, one calligrapher wrote, “For your future we sacrificed our present,” and another wrote, “I want to be able to tell my children that I did not remain silent.”
The young painters did not forget the science. Palestine Which was present next to the country's flag and the revolution's drawings, without any other flags, in more than one corner.
The campaign to paint and write slogans on the walls of the streets of the capital, Dhaka, comes as part of the student movement’s continued activities to confront what the students describe as the remnants of the Awami League party in power.
Hassan Abdullah, one of the coordinators of the student movement at Dhaka University, told Al Jazeera Net that they are trying to overthrow the revolution from inside and outside Bangladesh. “Sheikh Hasina is trying to stage a coup, but students and people in general from all walks of life have taken to the streets to ensure that the men of the former regime are punished for the killing of hundreds of citizens they committed.”
The same spokesman confirmed that students from different cities in Bangladesh are demanding the trial of Sheikh Hasina and her officials, adding, “We will continue to monitor the interim government so that another government like the previous one does not emerge.”
Commenting on this youth phenomenon with a cultural, political and artistic dimension, the Chief Advisor and Prime Minister of Bangladesh called for: Muhammad YounisDuring his virtual participation in the Voices of the South Summit yesterday, Saturday, he invited his friends from other countries to visit Dhaka to witness the phenomenon.
“Dhaka has become the graffiti capital of the world, with young men and even boys as young as 12 or 13 painting the walls of Dhaka, a city with a history of about 400 years, in a new atmosphere in Bangladesh welcoming democracy,” Yunus said.
