To think we should we giving this more attention?

[gendercritter]

(Possibly triggering)

There are currently massive student protests in Bangladesh.

There is a lot of corruption surrounding road traffic out there and recently 2 buses were racing each other and crashed, killing 2 students (up to 7 deaths are being reported but aren't verified I don't think)

Students are protesting en masse and from the sounds of it protestors are being violently attacked by police with girls being taken away and raped. By police. These students are being incredibly brave in keeping going out protesting. In a couple of Facebook groups I'm in, Bangladeshi kids are coming in in droves and begging people in the West to talk about it, share the story on Facebook and generally shame their government into stopping attacking them. They want the corruption cleaned up too.

I am so in awe of their courage. I haven't seen any coverage of what's happening in our media (although I'm very possibly just missing it and it is being reported on). AIBU to think we should be making more of a fuss in support of them?

There's more info on Al Jazeera here

There are various threads on Reddit about it too and how to get involved. I think /r/Bangladesh is the main one but it's all over the news subs. Lots people can do including getting behind amnesty international, it's disgusting what's happening out there at the moment

Ask Reddit is full of links

Thank you, I hadn't seen that. Will go and have a read

I saw a brief post last night raising awareness of this....but literally the second poster said they'd just left Dhaka and all was calm, which I thought odd.
I looked on BBC news, but it wasn't on the front page, was under 'world' instead.
Not sure why it wouldn't be higher up the agenda than that?

I suppose Bangladesh isn't generally on people's radar so the BBC is concentrating on other things.

Thanks for posting and bump

There's a pretty sizeable Bangladeshi-heritage British population. Really surprised this hasn't had more focus.