Blindfolded, handcuffed and bundled out of his secret prison for the first time in eight years, Bangladeshi barrister Ahmad Bin Quasem held his breath and listened for the sound of a cocked pistol.
Instead he was tossed from a car and into a muddy ditch on Dhaka's outskirts -- alive, at liberty and with no knowledge of the national upheaval that had prompted his abrupt release.
Instead he was tossed from a car and into a muddy ditch on Dhaka's outskirts -- alive, at liberty and with no knowledge of the national upheaval that had prompted his abrupt release.
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00:00I
00:24embraced my mother. I thought I'll never see these faces again. I gave up hope. I gave
00:34up my hope to see them, but they didn't. They knew I'll come back.
00:54I was a very young girl. I was very young. I didn't know what to do. I was very young.
01:06I had no idea what to do. I was very young. I didn't know what to do. I was very young.
01:24I was very young. I didn't know what to do. I was very young. I didn't know what to
01:54The interrogation late at night, many nights I couldn't sleep because of the sound of screams,
02:02grown-up men screaming like little children, it's can't be expressed in words how traumatizing
02:08that experience was.
02:10I was never beaten to be honest about it, I was never physically beaten, but the trauma
02:17of going to the sound of people being tortured, late at night, entire night, I could hear
02:22people cry that, kill me, please kill me.
02:34This entire thing was made possible by a few teenagers, this revolution, the forefront
02:43was teenagers and they called the Zen Z, the students were doing things that no one had
02:50done before, police had disappeared in the street, you see students controlling the traffic,
02:56you see students doing the work which the governors have to do, when you see things
03:00like that, I find hope.