Momentum for reform has been stymied by a hostile bureaucracy and political fragmentation, as disillusionment grows on the streets
But it is his right eye – sightless, unmoving and faintly crimson – that tells the real story of those bloody, chaotic days.
Now he will never again see from his eye.
Habibur – who also goes by Habib – still keeps the blood-soaked shirt he wore that day folded in a drawer he rarely opens, a painful, hidden memory of the moment student protests erupted into a national revolt that ultimately ousted a dictator.
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