Internet shutdown

July 18, 2024, Thursday-

At 6 pm, today every restaurant, home and shopping mall has made wifi free in these places due to mobile network shutdown. Hearing that today the teachers of Dhaka University rescued two students from the police station and brought them out. Many rickshaw-pullers are also offering free or low-cost transportation to students. However, when it rains lightly in Bangladesh, these rickshaw-pulling uncles double the fare. Today those uncles are standing next to the students with no rent or nominal rent only. Poor people are giving food to students. They are feeding them by making syrup from their home. Uncles who sell street food like Singara, Samucha, Fuchka etc. are giving these to the students for free. They may not be able to come to the movement thinking about their workplace, work, family. But their mind is behind this movement. So they stand by the students. Helping them. This is Bangladesh, this is the people of Bangladesh. Which was buried under the dust of corruption and oppression. Which this demon Hasina wanted to erase.

Thousands of missing or dead people news, videos, photos all over in Facebook. Boys of classes 8, 9 and 11 also died. They took away so many small lives. Not only that, I heard that a little boy was shot and killed while returning home after praying from the mosque. 

Oh, can you give the account in the afterlife? Now many may say that the police are doing their job, it is their duty, they have been ordered from above, blah.. blah.. blah.. some more. But the fact that they did these things, went crazy for destroying the country, ended how many lives in an instant, emptied the chest of hundreds of mothers, what will they do when the account is settled? Will they be able to account for their sins after death when their sins and virtues are calculated? On that day, the angels will say to them, "The command of Allah... There is nothing to be done. we can't do anything." What will they do on that day? No matter what religion one belongs to or what religion one believes in, death must be accounted for in all religions.

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At 8 pm, while scrolling through Facebook, a video came in front of me. Record the voice on video. I listened to the video carefully. I was stunned. The video is the journey of someone who joined today's movement. His words were like this, the police are trying to burn the bodies of those who died in the movement. 

They are killing people and also burning the bodies of those people? So the family who lost their own how to get their own people back! When they can't find their loved ones, they will search desperately, hoping to see their loved ones for the last time, What will they do when they can't find it? How can they burn this hope? this desire? If one of their relatives was burned like this, could they bear it? Could they accept it?

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9:30 PM, Net condition is very bad. So slow that it takes 5 minutes to enter Facebook. I've heard that more or less everyone is running a VPN these days. It is for NET but they do this because some people going to students' homes and picking them up. No terrorist is doing this, the pride of our country, working for the safety of the people of the country, the force that punishes the criminal i.e. the so-clad police of our country is doing this. 

While trying to install the VPN, I saw that it was not being installed. I turned wifi off and on, but no internet. I went and asked my sister.

"Do you have internet?"

"No. Why? don't you?"

"No, then."

"Did they turn off the wifi network also! Let me ask aunty."

My sister goes to aunts house. Their house is in front of our house. The main door of our house and the main door of their house are facing each other. I also went with her. Aunt is watching TV. 

"Aunty, do you have net?"

"I think so."

"We don't have a net."

"Wait. Riyad, Is there a net?"

Aunt asked my cousin. Riyad brother shouted from his room, "No."

"Say no."

"Wi-Fi is also turned off...."

"What do you say?"

Aunty's question sister said, "Yes aunty, I was hearing that UNESCO telling Hasina to resign if she can't fix everything in 72 hours."

I was surprised and said, "Really? I haven't seen it!"

"It seems true. Because the way this news of Bangladesh has spread all over the world, if UNESCO does not do anything then everyone will blame them. "

"It is normal. They want peace in the world, work on human rights. They should definitely take some action in the current situation of Bangladesh. Only the people of Bangladesh understand what is happening in Bangladesh at present. We can't sleep at night with fear and worry. Everyone has to live with the risk of life every moment. "

aunt heard us and said in a worried tone, "Look, now that the net has been closed, how can people know the news of the country? Now they will do more torture and oppression. Earlier, something was known to take security measures. Now? Who knows what to do now? Journalists are also spreading lies more than the truth. Allah... Allah.... save us. "

My sister and I left. What really happens now? All network systems are closed. What will happen now? What will we do? How much will this Hasina oppress us?