A reporter in Bangladesh gets beaten with metal rods in an attempt to destroy his camera. This picture was taken within the last hour.

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image showing A reporter in Bangladesh gets beaten with metal rods in an attempt to destroy his camera. This picture was taken within the last hour.

edmond_the_sailor on August 5th, 2018 at 11:44 UTC »

Here is the situation summed up in this thread from a Bengali native:

I don't know where to start, this is horrifying situation. Internet is gone in my country They've slowed it down to 1.28 KBPS that is not a typo.

I will make this as short as I can, and I've tried to submit this elsewhere but my reddit posts get removed too (though thats probably because of strict mods and not goverment censorship hopefully.)

It started when a 2 students were killed by Bus who disobeyed traffic laws.

Soon tens of thousands of protestors came out on the street enforcing traffic laws by thesmelves ensuring no one else has to die, all this incredibly peacefully.

The government sent out, what I can only describe as their version of "Hitler Youth" Rape, Murder, Assault by the Hitler Youth have been carried out.

Any posts on Facebook, Youtube, that make light display these crimes against humanity seems to dissapear instantly.

People are having their livestreams taken down, YOUTUBE videos are taken down from popular youtubers.

My freinds in Bangladesh are having their facebook posts removed, some are even being blocked and banned. HOW CAN FACBEOOK bend to GOVERNMENTS like this?

A short video explaining whats happening

Here is an article summarizing the events so far

This reddit live thread is currently being viewed by almost 5000 people right now

A ASKREDDIT THREAD ABOUT WHAT YOU CAN DO TO HELP

edit: I would like to thank the mods for not removing/filtering this post and for keeping the comments civil, thank you!

Davidmerriam on August 5th, 2018 at 12:49 UTC »

Damn, who took THIS picture? Pretty ballsy

Crinklecutsocks on August 5th, 2018 at 13:52 UTC »

What in the literal hell is going on? I googled the protests and all the articles say are "the student protests have turned violent", or that people have been injured..... the articles make it seems as if the students are in the wrong! They are being killed and raped and no one is reporting it.... This is absolutely unbelievable.