Monday marked the end of Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s 15-year reign as the military declared it would establish a transitional administration and she fled weeks of violent protests.
Since early July, Hasina has attempted to put an end to anti-government demonstrations across the country; however, she left following a violent day of unrest on Sunday that claimed almost a hundred lives.
Bangladesh’s army chief, Waker-Uz-Zaman, announced on Monday that Hasina had resigned and that the military would establish an interim government in a broadcast to the country on state television.
It’s time to put an end to the violence because the nation has suffered greatly, the economy has been hurt, and many people have died,” Waker stated Before hundreds of people broke through the gates of Hasina’s official residence on Monday morning, jubilant crowds had waved flags and some had even danced on top of a tank in the streets.
Channel 24 in Bangladesh aired footage of revelling crowds running into the compound and waving to the camera.
Some others destroyed statues of the nation’s independence hero, Sheikh Mujibur Rahma, who is Hasina’s father. A military spokesman told AFP that Waker-Uz-Zaman, the head of Bangladesh’s army, would address the country on Monday afternoon, without providing any additional information.
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