We Bangladeshis have a special strength, which enables us to form mass uprisings and put up resistance.

Either we finally build a people’s republic or we condemn ourselves to repeat this “legacy of blood”.

When Bangladesh bleeds, no one scores any political point, however lofty their political ideologies are.

There is no shame in admitting that in the last few days many of us have cried helplessly, over the senseless deaths of students—teenagers or in their early twenties—the same age or close to the ages of our children.