Geopolitics
The 'Farm Chicken' Uprising: How Bangladesh's Democratic Spring is Being Drowned in Floodwater and Indifference
Bangladeshi students, who were instrumental in overthrowing an autocratic regime in 2024, have taken to the streets again, demanding educational reform and the resignation of Education Minister A. N. M. Ehsanul Hoque Milon after being forced to take crucial exams in dangerous flood conditions and being insulted as 'farm chickens'. This is a heartbreaking betrayal of a generation's democratic aspirations, exposing how quickly new governments can adopt the callous indifference of the old guard they replaced.
