Tariquil Islam

Bangladesh witnessed its biggest nationwide mass uprising since gaining independence in 1971, which led to the overthrow of an authoritarian government that had existed for a decade. This study employed the protest paradigm to analyze how the protests were framed by mainstream print media and how media ownership influenced their coverage. Drawing on a quantitative content analysis of five major newspapers from different ownerships, the study explores dominant media frames, tone, and legitimacy of protest coverage. The findings indicate that media ownership significantly affects the credibility and tone of the protest coverage. The protest paradigm was applied more strictly by pro-government media outlets. Independent and anti-government outlets, on the other hand, took a more impartial stance. The study reveals how media ownership shaped the framing of dissent, reinforcing the protest paradigm in ways that aligned with the ruling party’s interests. This study adds to the body of knowledge on South Asian media bias and authoritarian information control.

This study examines how the Arab Spring affects the national integration in Yemen. Despite the Arab Spring’s bringing forth tangible democratic transitions through inclusive democratic elections in Tunisia and Egypt, it created a social and political divide more than the previous time through diminishing the likelihood of national integration in Yemen. Some scholarly debates ascribe Arab Spring to Yemen’s lagging for national integration. However, others are on the opinion that Yemen never could realize a sustainable national integration due to its going through a perennial authoritarian or autocratic rule like some other Gulf Cooperation Council countries, and a long territorial and ideological division, as well as manifold power-seeking sections. The Arab Spring just exacerbated the remaining disintegration. This study holds on to the latter consideration and firstly, discusses the pre-Arab Spring territorial and political schism in Yemen. Then, it examines facts that triggered political fragmentation and instability in Yemen during and in the aftermath of the Arab Spring leaving little hope for the country to step into a successful national integration in near future. The main aim of this paper is to illustrate how a regional or global event impact potential national integration of a country that is heavily divided socially, politically, and ideologically along with corruption and state controlled civil society.

The Rohingya people of Myanmar are considered one of the most persecuted people on earth, whose ancestral home is Rakhine State, Myanmar. The Myanmar government has been persecuting them for years. In 1982, the government revoked their citizenship. Following the beginning of the current Rohingya crisis in 2017, Myanmar's security forces have engaged in crimes against humanity and genocide against them, as other people have documented. As a result, Myanmar is facing a genocide case in the International Court of Justice (ICJ), which has been filed by the Gambia. Later, in 2022, the US officially recognized Myanmar’s persecution of Rohingya as genocide. Now, a large number of Rohingya people who fled Myanmar are living in Bangladesh. Some are living in Myanmar. This study, based on secondary data, aims to examine the present situation of Rohingya people living in Bangladesh and Myanmar. The study shows that, till now, Rohingya people are facing different obstacles. Their lives are less protected. Keywords: Rohingya, Rohingya crisis, Bangladesh, Myanmar, present situation

This research investigates the challenges to Bangladesh’s endeavors for Rohingya repatriation from Bangladesh to Myanmar since 2017 to 2022. Myanmar security forces forced more than one million Rohingya to migrate to Bangladesh since 1978 till the last arrival of them in 2017. The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights marked the persecution on Rohingya ‘a textbook example of ethnic cleansing’(United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, 2017). Rohingya, one of the globe's most oppressed ethnic minorities, has been targeted by Myanmar's harsh ethnic policies for decade after decade. Bangladesh’s long efforts for Rohingya repatriation did not materialize because of Myanmar’s non-cooperation with Bangladesh and geostrategic-economic interest as well as the application of vetoes mainly by Russia and China. This study, firstly, explains the years-long persecution of the Rohingya, that ultimately drove many of them to Bangladesh; secondly, it discusses the power and function of the United Nations Security Council and Bangladesh’s diplomatic efforts for Rohingya repatriation; and finally, it explained how Chinese and Russian ‘vetoes’ inhibited measures for safe Rohingya repatriation from Bangladesh to their homeland.