Bangladesh, June 17 -- We have been witnessing civil resistance movements taking place all over the world for the past year. Venezuela, Spain, Sri Lanka, Maldives, Algeria, Tunisia, Yemen and Thailand have been in the headlines. Now Sudan is featuring in the forefront of this evolving paradigm. World attention has been drawn once again to pro-democracy civil resistance demonstrators being subjected to military force in Sudan. Law enforcement authorities opened fire on demonstrators on June 03 in Khartoum killing nearly 60 demonstrators and serious injuring more than 100 persons.
It would be useful at this point to recall how the pro-democracy movement has evolved in this country - almost ten times the size of Bangladesh with about 19 per c...