Bangladesh PM Resigns and Flees Country

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina resigned after weeks of civil unrest and mass demonstrations, fleeing the county after her fifteen year governance.

Bangladesh’s prime minister resigned and fled , after weeks of protests against a quota system for government jobs.

The country descended into violence after almost a full month of demonstrations growing into a broader challenge of her 15-year rule of the nation.

Tens of thousands of demonstrators stormed her official residence and the government held buildings, forcing the minster to flee for safety reasons.

The resignation of PM Hasina comes only a day after more than one hundred were killed by authorities from the civil unrest by the rioters.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s departure threatens to create even more global and regional instability especially with Islamic extremism.

**BANGLADESH PM RESIGNS AND FLEES COUNTRY**

Bangladesh holds a long land border with India already dealing with a series of crises, including disarming local and regional terror groups as well as corruption within the government and police authorities.

Bangladesh’s military chief, Gen. Waker-uz-Zaman, confirmed that he would seek the president’s guidance on forming an interim government.

Waker-uz-Zaman promised that the military would thoroughly investigate the deadly crackdown on student protests that increased outrage against the government.

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“Keep faith in the military, we will investigate all the killings and punish the responsible, I have ordered that no army and police will indulge in any kind of firing.” – Bangladesh’s military chief, Gen. Waker-uz-Zaman

Hours after the embattled leader was seen on TV boarding a military helicopter with her sister, the government was shut down.

He met opposition politicians, including the head of the now-banned Jamaat-e-Islami party, and civil society members before making his statement.

The protests initially began peacefully as frustrated students demanded an end to a quota system for government jobs.

The protestors said the quota system corruptly favoured those with connections to the prime minister’s Awami League party.

As a result the demonstrations which only grew in size over the weeks on protests, mushroomed into an unprecedented challenge against Hasina and her leadership.

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Hasina who had governed for 15 years 7was 6-year-old and the longest-serving female head of government in the world.

Hasina was elected for a fourth consecutive term in a January 2024 vote that was boycotted by her main political opponents.

Thousands of opposition party members were jailed in the lead-up to the elections, making Hasina a presumed dictator in the global view of pundits.

The U.S. and the U.K. even denounced the election result as not a credible from her actions, even though Hasina’s government defended the outcome of the polls.

In a bid to retain power, Hasina had cultivated powerful ties with regional nations, including both India and China.

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However under Hasina’s governance relations with United States and the West have become severely strained.

Most democratic nations around the world have expressed concerns over human rights violations in Bangladesh.

Other major concerns are the lack of press freedoms in the predominantly Muslim nation of 170 million people as well as the jailing of political opponents.

Hasina’s political opponents have previously accused her of growing increasingly autocratic and called her a threat to the country’s democracy.

Many of Hasina’s critics say the civil unrest throughout the country is a direct result of that authoritarian rule that she employs.

After fleeing her country, Hasina arrived in a city in India on the border with Bangladesh travelling by army helicopter.

**BANGLADESH LOCKDOWN RESULT OF INTENSIFYING CIVIL UNREST**

According to a military official who spoke on the condition of anonymity as he was not authorized to release any information to the media confirmed Hasina was not clear where she would go next.

As Hasina fled Bangladesh, thousands of rioters stormed her official government residence, taking furniture, stealing artwork, and even taking food from the refrigerators.

Protests have increased around the country even after the Supreme Court ruled that the quota system must be drastically overhauled.

The original job quota system used by Bangladesh set aside up to 30% of government jobs for family members of veterans who fought in Bangladesh’s war of independence against Pakistan.

The students complained that this quota system was unfair in nature, often leading to many who were highly educated remaining unemployed while inexperienced relatives took key government jobs.

The government initially allowed protestors to gather but as riots grew around the country the authorities attempted to quell the demonstrations with force.

The Bangladeshi police and military have confirmed that over three hundred people have been killed dead since the beginning of the riots which started mid-July.

At least 95 people, including at least 14 police officers, died in clashes in the capital on Sunday, according to the country’s leading Bengali-language daily newspaper, Prothom Alo. Hundreds more were injured.

At least 11,000 people have been arrested in recent weeks. The unrest has also resulted in the closure of schools and universities across the country, and authorities at one point imposed a shoot-on-sight curfew.

Authorities also shut off mobile internet on Sunday in an attempt to quell the unrest, and broadband internet was cut briefly Monday morning. It was the second internet blackout in the country since July, but services were restored later Monday.

Over the weekend, protesters called for a “non-cooperation” effort, urging people not to pay taxes or utility bills and not to show up for work on Sunday, a working day in Bangladesh. Offices, banks and factories opened, but commuters in Dhaka and other cities struggled to get to their jobs since much public transport was halted amid fears of violence.

Hasina offered to talk with student leaders on Saturday, but a coordinator refused and demanded her resignation.

Hasina repeated her pledges to investigate the deaths and punish those responsible for the violence. She said she was ready to sit down whenever the protesters want. Earlier, she had said protesters who engaged in “sabotage” and destruction were no longer students but criminals, and that the people should deal with them with an iron hand.