Bangladesh’s Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina quit and left the country on Monday, according to news sources. More than 300 people were killed in some of the worst violence the country has seen since it was founded more than 50 years ago.
A source told AFP, “She and her sister have left Ganabhaban, which is the official home of the Prime Minister, for a safer place.”
It was her wish to record a speech. “But she couldn’t find a chance to do that,” the person said.
Waker-Uz-Zaman, the army chief of Bangladesh, told the people of the country that a political shift is happening and that an interim government will be set up. He said that all murders would be looked into and asked people to trust the army.
The head of the Army told people to keep the peace and stressed that working together, not against each other, is the key to keeping the country’s growth.
General Waqar-uz-Zaman asked everyone to stay peaceful and work together to keep the country healthy.
The speech came after the deadly protests, in which more than 300 people were killed in vicious fights. Nearly 100 people were killed.
Close to 100 people were killed on Sunday when protesters asking for Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s resignation fought with security forces and supporters of the ruling party. This has caused a lot of trouble in Bangladesh again.
At least 150 people were killed and thousands were hurt last month when student groups protested against government job quotas that favor certain groups.
These are some facts about the new riots and their history:
Tells Sheikh Hasina To Get Down
The latest protests are being led by the “Students Against Discrimination” group, which was at the front of last month’s job quota protests.
After the Supreme Court got rid of most quotas on July 21, the protests to change the quota system stopped. But protesters came back last week and asked Sheikh Hasina to publicly apologize for the violence. They also wanted internet connections to be fixed, college and university sites to reopen, and people who had been arrested to be freed.
By the weekend, the protests had turned into a call for Sheikh Hasina’s resignation because people were demanding justice for those who were killed last month.
The students’ group called for a national movement of people who won’t work with the government to begin on Sunday. The movement would have only one goal: Sheikh Hasina must step down.
WHY DO PROTESTANTS WANT SHEIKH HASINA TO RESIGNATION?
Haters say Sheikh Hasina’s government is to blame for the fighting at the July riots. Rights groups and people who don’t like Sheikh Hasina have said that her government uses too much force against protesters, which the government rejects.
The MSCI measure of stocks in the rest of the region went down by more than 2%.
At first, Sheikh Hasina, 76, and her government said that students were not involved in the violence during the quota protests. Instead, they blamed the main opposition party, Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP), and the Islamic party, Jamaat-e-Islami, for the fights and fires.
But when fighting broke out again on Sunday, Sheikh Hasina said, “Those who are violent are not students; they are terrorists who want to destabilize the nation.”
Sheikh Hasina offered to talk with the students’ group to try to solve the problem, but they turned her down.
WHAT CAUSED THE PROTESTS AGAINST THE JOB QUOTAS?
In June, protests began on college campuses after the High Court brought back a quota system for government jobs, despite Sheikh Hasina’s government’s choice in 2018 to get rid of it.
After the government filed an appeal, the Supreme Court put the high court order on hold and then threw out the lower court order last month, saying that 93% of jobs should be open to people who have earned them.
Unemployment And A Flagging Economy
Experts also say that the current unrest in Bangladesh is caused by the fact that private sector job growth has stopped. This makes public sector jobs, which come with regular pay raises and other benefits, very appealing.
Many students were angry about the limits because they were dealing with high youth unemployment. Out of a population of 170 million, nearly 32 million young people are not working or in school.
The economy, which used to be one of the fastest growing in the world thanks to the clothing industry, has stopped growing. Inflation is staying around 10% per year, and dollar savings are going down.
In January, Sheikh Hasina Won The Election
Sheikh Hasina kept her job for a fourth straight term in a general election in January that the BNP didn’t go to because they thought her Awami League was trying to make fake polls look real.
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Following the deadly anti-government protests on Oct. 28, the BNP said that 10 million party workers were on the run before the election and that nearly 25,000 had been jailed. There were anti-government protests in Dhaka before the election, and at least 10 people were killed. Hasina said that the BNP was to blame.
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