Salman Saeed\/CNN<\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n \u201c(The killings) kept happening, and everyone was silent,\u201d said Farah Porshia, a 23-year-old protester who works at a tech company in Dhaka. \u201cWe needed to stand up for ourselves, and for democracy.\u201d <\/p>\n
Hasina fled to India by helicopter last week as tens of thousands of protesters marched on her home. By Thursday, the Bangladeshi economist and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Muhammad Yunus had returned to Dhaka to form a temporary government, ahead of elections which the constitution states should be held within 90 days. <\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m surprised by the amount of power we hold,\u201d Porshia said. \u201cBecause for years, all of us have been feeling so powerless.\u201d <\/p>\n
As the chaos of the last month is replaced by an uneasy calm, many families are now seeking accountability for the deaths of their loved ones. <\/p>\n
Identical twins Mugdho and Snigdho were inseparable since birth \u2013 eating, sleeping and studying together, sharing clothes as well as secrets. <\/p>\n
\u201cHe was not only my brother, he was my best friend, he is one of the parts of my body,\u201d Snigdho said. \u201cWe used to do everything together.\u201d <\/p>\n
Math graduate Mugdho was studying for an MBA, and Snigdho had graduated with a law degree. The twins were planning to move to Italy this fall \u2013 to further their studies and explore Europe on motorbikes. To save money for their travels, they were doing social media marketing for the online freelancer hub Fiver. <\/p>\n
Now, Snigdho and the twins\u2019 older brother Dipto \u2013 Mir Mahmudur Rahman \u2013 are facing a future without Mugdho. <\/p>\n
They kept hold of the university ID card Mugdho wore on a lanyard around his neck when he died \u2013 his spattered blood left to dry as a symbol of that dark day. <\/p>\n
Now, they are trying to find solace from the impact Mugdho made on the protest movement. <\/p>\n
\u201cBecause of him, people got the strength to do the protest,\u201d Snigdho said. \u201cHe always used to say that \u2018I will make my parents proud someday.\u2019 That moment has come.\u201d <\/p>\n
Mugdho died two days after another pivotal moment in the protests \u2013 the death of 25-year-old Abu Sayed on July 16, captured on video which was widely circulated. <\/p>\n
Amnesty International analyzed the videos and accused police officers of deliberately firing at Sayed with 12-gauge shotguns in a \u201cseemingly intentional, unprovoked attack,\u201d and condemned the authorities for using \u201cunlawful force.\u201d <\/p>\n
The shocking deaths of Sayed and Mugdho catapulted the unrest from being a largely student-led protest into the mainstream. <\/p>\n
\u201cEverybody was on the streets, people of every race, every religion, every ethnicity, of all ages, professionals, students, infants were on the roads,\u201d Porshia said. <\/p>\n
Among the hundreds of people who have reportedly died during the clashes over the past few weeks, UNICEF says at least 32 were children. <\/p>\n
In a tiny shack made of corrugated metal and mud in the heart of Dhaka, the parents of 13-year-old victim Mubarak are still trying to process what happened to their son. <\/p>\n
His mother Fareeda Begum rocks back and forth, weeping as she watches Mubarak\u2019s TikTok videos on her phone \u2013 now all that she has left of him. <\/p>\n
The youngest of four and the only one who still lived at home, Mubarak often helped his parents with their cows so they could sell milk to survive. <\/p>\n
\u201cHe was a smiling, happy boy. If you gave him work, he would never say no, he would do it with a smile,\u201d his father Mohammad Ramzan Ali said, adding that he could also be \u201ca little mischievous.\u201d <\/p>\n
Mubarak was outside playing with his friends on July 19 when the curious teenager wandered a short distance from their home in central Dhaka to see the protests. <\/p>\n
The parents only found out that he\u2019d been shot when they got a call from the hospital. <\/p>\n
Holding his wife Fareeda in his arms as her tears rolled down her face, Ali said, \u201cMy son has been martyred for this movement.\u201d <\/p>\n
\u201cI did not understand this quota protest before, we are uneducated,\u201d he said. \u201cBut later what I understood is that this protest isn\u2019t just for students, it\u2019s for all of Bangladesh.\u201d <\/p>\n<\/p>\n
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