August 3, 2024: One demand now, ‘Hasina’s resignation’
This news article from The Daily Star (Bangladesh) commemorates the events of August 3, 2024, a pivotal day in Bangladesh's mass uprising against Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's government. On that date, tens of thousands of protesters gathered at Dhaka's Central Shaheed Minar, where movement organizer Nahid Islam rejected Hasina's offer for dialogue and declared a single unified demand: the resignation of Hasina and her entire cabinet. The protest had originated in July 2024 as a movement against the government job quota system before escalating into a broader anti-government uprising. The article covers key events of that day, including the army chief's directive to troops to protect citizens, ongoing violence that killed at least two people and injured 55 others across seven districts, and the Awami League's defiant response — with party secretary Obaidul Quader blaming the unrest on a "third party" seeking to destabilize Bangladesh. The piece is published two years after the events, framed as a retrospective look at a critical turning point in what is referred to as the July Uprising.
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The Daily Star. "August 3, 2024: One demand now, ‘Hasina’s resignation’." The Daily Star, 2026. July Archive. https://julyarchive.org/sources/august-3-2024-one-demand-now-hasina-s-resignation-ed1c83af.
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