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After the bloodshed: Can Bangladesh’s Awami League resurrect itself?

Five months after Sheikh Hasina’s removal, the party is divided. Some leaders won’t apologise but grassroots Awami League activists want a reckoning.

The Students Against Discrimination (SAD) group holds the "March for Unity" rally demanding proclamation of the July Revolution and to mark the student-led uprising five months ago that led to the ouster of longstanding Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and to remember the more than 1,000 killed in the violence at the Central Shaheed Minar, in Dhaka, Bangladesh, December 31, 2024. REUTERS/Mohammad Ponir Hossain
Students who led the movement that culminated in the removal of longstanding Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina five months ago hold a rally at the Central Shaheed Minar, in Dhaka, Bangladesh, December 31, 2024 [Mohammad Ponir Hossain/ Reuters]

Dhaka, Bangladesh — On the afternoon of July 16, 2024, as Abu Sayeed, a student leader at the forefront of protests against then-Prime Minister Sheikh Haisna’s leadership, was shot dead by police in Rangpur – a northern district – a strikingly different scene was unfolding in the capital, Dhaka.

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