DHAKA: On Monday, August 5, Bangladesh’s Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina announced her resignation and left the nation following a crackdown on protests that started as anti-job quota demonstrations and turned into a movement calling for her removal. The crackdown claimed hundreds of lives.
Jubilant and cheering crowds marched into the presidential residence’s lavish grounds and stole TVs and furniture without any opposition. A man supported a chair with a gilt-edged red velvet on his head. An armful of vases was held by another. In other parts of Dhaka, demonstrators scaled a statue of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, the father of Hasina, and started hacking away at the head with an axe.
After her father was assassinated in a coup in 1975, Hasina led the political movement she inherited and ruled for 20 of the last 30 years before going into exile. This marked the end of her second 15-year term in power. According to her son Sajeeb Wazed Joy, Hasina departed the nation for her personal safety at her family’s request, he told the BBC World Service.
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