Leave it to a Bangladeshi kung fu fighter to show us the proper relationship between government and the governed:

… it was an image that deeply upset the Bangladeshi rank and file. Its publication was seen as a humiliation, every bit as great as if that flying sandaled foot had been aimed at the behind of the army chief himself… the protester doing the kicking is difficult to identify. But they are looking for him. Both the editor who published the image, and the photographer who took it, have been visited and questioned by the army. [Link]

When the caretaker government appointed in January fumbled flood response and tried to exile two former prime ministers, people started protesting. The government then declared a curfew and clamped down on the press. This was the result.

In unprecedented scenes, soldiers in uniform were seen being chased out of the Dhaka university campus by students. In two days, the myth of the army’s omnipotence was all but laid to rest…

In response, the government… slapped a curfew on Dhaka and other cities, closed down all major public universities and colleges, and ordered all resident students to leave their dormitories…

… [The crisis] may have just started. The first student demonstrations against the country’s last military dictator, General Hussain Muhammad Ershad, took place in… 1983. It took another seven years… before Gen Ershad was finally brought down.[Link]