This article appeared in the August 05, 2024 edition of the Monitor Daily.

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When despair turns to hope

Monitor correspondent Sara Miller Llana got a text from Bangladeshi journalist Sina Hasan overnight. It contained a picture of people thronging the streets of Dhaka today after weeks of violent protest against an increasingly authoritarian government drove the unexpected resignation of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.

Sina was in the picture – and so was his 4-year-old daughter.

Sara worked with Sina last year in Bangladesh while reporting our series, The Climate Generation. She met his daughter, too.

“He had told me when writing our recent story that it was very dangerous to go to these protests. And then he sends that picture.

“‘So, it’s safe?’ I texted back. And he answered that people felt free, that they were just crying,” she says.

Such transitional moments are fraught, filled with uncertainty. But for today, our correspondent saw hope fill the streets, and took his little daughter’s hand so she could share in it.

We’ll have a story from Sina later this week.


This article appeared in the August 05, 2024 edition of the Monitor Daily.

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