One thing is certain. The killers of Osman Hadi, the student leader who died in Singapore after being shot in Dhaka last week, are celebrating today. Things could not have worked out better for them.
His killing accomplished three inter-related goals.
The first was the removal from the scene of a charismatic, uncompromising, and incorruptible voice of Bangladesh’s Monsoon Revolution, the July Uprising of 2024, from the political firmament.
Whether one was a fan of Osman Hadi or not, one could not question his integrity or his commitment or his willingness to speak truth to power, including to his erstwhile comrades.
At the forefront
While so many of the July revolutionaries had become compromised or corrupted in one way or another, and are on the fast track to nowhere but political oblivion, he stood out as the kind of young leader that could have been at the forefront of building a new Bangladesh.
For those who would rather see Bangladesh burn to ashes rather than see it rise up under any rule but their own, he was a mortal threat.
He was exactly the kind of leader that could provide a threat to the old order, and that is why he had to be eliminated.
The second goal of his killing was to show that the...
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