The first rumblings of the Gen Z movement – so named because its leaders tended to be students born around the turn of the millennium – were heard in Sri Lanka in 2022, when socialist President Gotabaya Rajapaksa and his parasitic family were ousted by massive protests against corruption and authoritarian rule. The quota system was still showing the children and grandchildren of the “freedom fighters” with privileges, decades after the revolution, and protesters accused Hasina of further rigging the decrepit system to reward her political allies. The vast number of Hindus living in India had little interest in this goal, so Jamaat relocated to Pakistan, tried and failed to build a hardline Islamic caliphate there, and went along for the ride when East Pakistan fought a brutal war of liberation to become Bangladesh in 1971.
Author: John Hayward
Published at: 2025-12-29 23:40:53
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