Bangladesh protest leaders demand accountability for deaths
Two student leaders behind the recent quota reform protests in Bangladesh tell DW that there's now a bigger issue on the table.
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00:00The state has also created these things with the tax money of the people, and the people will be able to pay them back with the tax money.
00:09It is possible to pay it back, but my brother's life is gone. Will I ever get that life back?
00:15The state has not said that yet.
00:31We wanted the quota.
00:33But we don't want our brothers and teachers to lose their lives because of it.
00:38The quota of our brothers' lives can never be increased.
00:42Now the quota has become a very small issue for us.
00:46We need to think about how the government, the police, the rap, the BJP, and the institutions of the state have used the quota system with the teachers and the people.
01:17We think that the statement that has been forced on them is not a good statement.
01:23And we think that this is not the will of the six leaders.
01:27They have given this statement in the context of the D.B. and Nirjatan.
01:31So we think that those of us who are outside, those of us who have not yet been arrested, those of us who are still on the ground, we will continue our movement.
01:38We will continue our movement.
01:43Those who have been the workers of the movement, the police and the D.B. keep arresting them all the time.
01:48We have never been able to stay in one place.
01:51We have to be locked up in different places to be able to stay in the movement.