Sheikh Hasina, a long standing member of the tyranny club of Trump, Netanyahu and Modi, has been playing the game for some time. But arrogance has its drawbacks.

These students are no pushovers. The carrot-and-stick method this authoritarian regime has used will not work on them.

The televised murder of Abu Sayeed, an unarmed student of Begum Rokeya University, is an indictment of a rogue government that has long lost its right to rule. His outstretched arms as he had faced the police will become the Tiananmen Square moment in Bangladesh’s history.

A person can be put away in prison on a completely baseless case. The accused will be jailed for several months, taking them out of circulation. This is how the DSA has been weaponised.

Remarkably, while it was one of the most richly documented popular struggles of modern times, very few compilations exist which provide an overview of the epic struggle.