21/12/2025
The past few daysâ incidents have shaken us deeply.
The pain, the fear, and the unanswered questions they leave behind cannot be ignored.
Osman Hadiâs unfortunate death should not be treated an isolated tragedy; it reflects a larger pattern.
Attacks on The Daily Star and Prothom Alo.
Violence and intimidation against Chhayanaut and Udichi.
The killing and lynching of a garment worker, Dipu Chandra Das.
A seven-year-old child burned to death in her own home following a political attack on her father.
A female political leader died after repeatedly seeking help for a month - unheard, unprotected.
These are not isolated incidents. They expose a deeper crisis of safety, justice, and accountability.
This is heartbreaking and unacceptable.
This cannot be the country we normalise.
Today, we mourn.
For the lives lost, for the voices silenced, and for the failures that enabled them.
We also protest.
Against fear, against indifference, against impunity.
Silence is not neutrality. Silence is surrender.
We owe it to our children, to minority communities, to women, to workers and to the very idea of Bangladesh - to speak, to demand better, and to refuse to move on as if nothing has happened.
We stand together in grief and in resistance.
We demand safety, justice, and accountability.
We refuse to accept violence as normal, hate as politics, or silence as peace.
This is our collective voice: mourning, protesting, and insisting on a Bangladesh that protects its people and upholds its values.
