Key agendas of students' movement
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Democratic forces and most dynamic and potential force of the democratic movement; youth and students sectors in the region have always and still under attack directly or indirectly. The attack on these forces is to repress their strong voices against direct or indirect foreign intervention and ruling elite causing several ills in the country for civil liberties and justices.  

After the Second World War the independence movement and national liberation movement in the Asian region were quite strong. The imperialist forces were quitted one after another from the region. Several countries like China, Korea, Laos, Vietnam, Mongolia had achieved their liberation and other several were on the road of revolution. It was great threat and challenge to both supper powers United States of America and Soviet Union.

The Asian region has been an important arena for the super powers' contention in terms of resources and market which links the oil rich middle east and south east Asia and fertile market south Asia. Thus, both United States of America (USA) and former United States of Soviet Russia (USSR) had intensified their efforts to dominate the politics in the region. USA had felt more secure in the South East Asia while there were already US military bases in Philippines and South Korea and of course Thailand was its puppet.The Vietnamese had to fight long, bitter and costly war against the US and French and still have to pay the cost of that and people have been suffering though they finally won over the imperialist attack and reunified the Vietnam in 1976. It is still important to remember Ho Chi Minh's words "nothing is more precious then freedom and independence". The Arab region never has been unfettered. It is always under attack either directly by the imperialist super power like in gulf in 1991 and attack over Iraq now or through their elite in their support like invasion and occupation of Palestinian land (1948, 67) and Arab territories by Zionist Israel with support of US. Both super powers attempted over south Asian countries to topple their sovereignty. USSR was one step ahead in Afghanistan for coup and setting up the government closely connected with USSR in 1976. Now it is under control of USA.

In all these war, intervention, aggression and coup; the peoples were the most suffers. Hundreds of thousands of them had to scarified their lives in Vietnam, Afghanistan, Arab, millions were forced to be refuges form those countries and hundreds of thousands women and children were forced to involve in prostitution in Philippines, Korea and Thailand. The people had witnesses all these civil inliberties and injustice and had supported and joined with their movement for self determination and self reliance.

In other hand, the undemocratic political system and dictatorship of cruel local ruling elite equally repressed democratic movement of the countries in the region.

Considering with great concern the rampant situation of political repression in many Asian countries the Asian students affirmed their political stand and involvement to people's struggle and involved in the mass movement.

 

 

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