Yunus breaks down recalling student martyrs

Chief Adviser Dr Muhammad Yunus became emotional and was visibly moved to tears while discussing the casualties during the student-led revolution at a meeting with the leaders of the Anti-Discrimination Student Movement marking one month of the interim government’s tenure.

This meeting took place at the chief adviser’s official office, Shapla, from 11am to 1:30pm on Sunday.

Several advisers, including Nahid Islam and Asif Mahmud, prominent organizers of the movement, were present at the meeting.

Addressing the students, Dr Muhammad Yunus said: “I look at you and reflect on the immense dream you have brought before all of us—before the nation, and before yourselves. Let us first remember those who have been martyred, who are no longer with us. As I look at you, I think—you too could have been among the martyrs.

While describing his experience visiting the injured at the hospital, he was overcome with emotions and began to cry.

He said: “When I went to see them, it was heartbreaking. A boy, a girl—how have they been so grievously injured?

The interim government, led by Chief Adviser Prof Muhammad Yunus, marks the completion of the one-month period on Sunday with a number of decisions taken so far on the reforms front while more needs to be done on restoring law and order restoring full public confidence.

Nobel Peace Prize winner Prof Yunus, who took the oath of office on August 8, has already held a series of meetings with the political parties and other stakeholders to finalize a roadmap for required reforms and to hold a “free, fair and participatory” election once they can complete their “mandate” to carry out “vital reforms.”

On August 5, former prime minister and Awami League President Sheikh Hasina left the country amid a mass uprising centred on the anti-quota movement, which later evolved into a one-point demand for the ouster of the country’s longest-serving head of government.