Jahid Oyon Jahid Oyon is a research associate at Najjo Abashon Moncho and studying law at Jahangirnagar University, Bangladesh. How did the Supreme Court start housing planning for Dhaka’s poor? On August 20, 1999, over 5,000 slum dwellers mobilised from various informal settlements in Dhaka and gathered in the Supreme Court premises to protest the “wholesale eviction” that was underway that year. 27 May 2022, 18:00 PM 27 May 2022, 18:00 PM