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Eye Investigations

Season 4 · Episode 18

The Battle for Bangladesh

0.036mJuly 12, 2025

BBC Eye investigates the popular uprising that led to the downfall of Bangladesh’s Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on August 5 2024, when 36 days of protest ended in bloodshed.

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Episode 1Our Land, Our Life
Episode 2Targeted: Lebanon's Deadliest Attack
Episode 3Child Soldiers: The Untold Story of Iran-Iraq’s Frontline Children
Episode 4Saudi and Trans: Eden's Final Message
Episode 5India's Opioid Kings
Episode 6Liked, Lured, Livestreamed
Episode 7Trouble Makers: Drugged, Framed and Detained
Episode 8Stranded: Exposing the UK’s immigration scammers
Episode 9Inside Darfur: Siege & Massacres
Episode 10Make Me Perfect: Manufacturing Beauty in China
Episode 11Turkey's Hidden War: The Forbidden Zone
Episode 12Rise of the Patriots
Episode 13Blood Parliament
Episode 14The Land That Bleeds
Episode 15Iran: Murder for Hire
Episode 16Informers: Hunting the Enemy Within
Episode 17The Killing Call
Episode 18The Battle for Bangladesh
Episode 19Inside Cape Town’s Gang Wars
Episode 20Madams: Exposing Kenya's Child Sex Trade
Episode 21The Mystery of Musa al-Sadr
Episode 22Meow Meow: Russia’s Mephedrone Teen Crisis
Episode 23Syria’s Stolen Children
Episode 24Kharkiv War Diaries
Episode 25Death in Dubai
Episode 26Rigged: Undercover in a Fake News Network
Episode 27Shadow Healers: South Africa's Psychedelic Journey
Episode 28Blood in the Earth
Episode 29A City Held Hostage: Johannesburg
Episode 30No Justice, Just Kills
Episode 31Money Rituals: Africa’s Deadliest Taboo
Episode 32When Water Burns: The Fight for Georgia
Episode 33White Asylum: America's South African Refugees
Episode 34The Schools that Break Children
Episode 35The Child Cancer Scam
Episode 36Born in Bethlehem