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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bangladesh_Chhatra_League https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bangladesh_Chhatra_League The ruling party seems to be allied with a stud
by david_shi 2y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bangladesh_Chhatra_League https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bangladesh_Chhatra_League
The ruling party seems to be allied with a student paramilitary to help act as their enforcers.
"Chhatra League distributes dormitory seats at Chittagong University instead of authorities. Only those who join Chhatra League after being enrolled, get the chance to stay in the residential halls."
- decremental 2y ago[dead]
- TheTr1ckt3r 2y ago[dead]
- alephnerd 2y agoSlight quibble - the student paramilitary IS part of Hasina's party (BAP). It's the student wing. In South Asia, all party student wings are basically paramilitaries and gangs.
- david_shi 2y agoIt reminds me a lot of the Red Guards - the greatest disaster could come from the party losing control of these groups.
- Karrot_Kream 2y agoThe original Indian and Pakistani founders had Soviet education and influences. Moreover the Comintern was one of the only fora at the time that was openly in support of decolonization. The similarities aren't coincidental.
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- anukin 2y agoFather of nation of both India and Pakistan were educated in England under English traditions.
- Karrot_Kream 2y agoSorry didn't mean to imply Nehru, Gandhi, or Jinna were educated in the Soviet Union. Just that revolutionaries and early Communist Party leaders who were influential to independence were influenced by or spent time in the Soviet Union.
- alephnerd 2y agoBasically. Similar ideological (as in anti-authoritarian turned authoritarian) background. I have a thesis musting somewhere in Cambridge MA about this parallel.
- TrapLord_Rhodo 2y agoAs a layreader of history, i've noticed the more ideological, the more they are prone to authoritarianism. And it makes sense if you think about it. It's why paternalistic revolutions always devolve into authoritarian nonsense.
- newsclues 2y agoReminds me of the summer of 2020 in America
- AlexeyBelov 2y agoCan you elaborate?
- newsclues 2y agoWhat about it do you not know or understand about the civil unrest that occurred in America? When I googled “2020 summer of love riots” in the first results are the Wikipedia page and an article from the heritage foundation that both probably give you an idea
- AlexeyBelov 2y agoI didn't get the connection to the parent post: how and why it reminded you of 2020.
- Apocryphon 2y ago> In South Asia, all party student wings are basically paramilitaries and gangs. Interesting- that's how it is in Nigeria, another former British colony: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confraternities_in_Nigeria https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confraternities_in_Nigeria Though those sound more like militarized cults, while the South Asian ones are more like student orgs of political parties that have street militias.
- fxytrain 2y agoI don’t think the confraternities in Nigeria are the same. At least they don’t share hostel bed spaces to students and aren’t recognized by school administrations. In most Nigerian schools, you’d actually be expelled if evidence of your membership of any of these secret organizations surface.
- Apocryphon 2y agoYeah, they’re only superficially similar in that they’re both college-based groups capable of force.
- pmarreck 2y ago> The general secretary of Bangladesh Chhatra League Jahangirnagar University unit, Jasimuddin Manik and his followers celebrated the rape of 100th girls including at least 20 students of the university in 1998. Is it poverty that brings out the worst in people? Or something else?
- kelipso 2y agoPlenty of rich people celebrating rapes and children being bombed in Gaza, so I doubt it's poverty.
- pmarreck 2y agoWhat were they up to on October 6? I wonder what could have happened that might have brought out the retributive side. Surely the broad support for terrorism pushed by Qatari money and slow-burning propaganda couldn't have further inflamed them for the umpteenth time in 3000+ years of suffering and trying to avoid abuse... /shrug If it was really a response to Saudi Arabia on the verge of signing a peace agreement with Israel, what would that say about the unfortunate aggressors?