Almost 100 people died on Sunday as police cracked down on tens of thousands of protesters who took to the streets.
Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has resigned and fled the country after weeks of student-led protests against government nepotism, corruption and repression. The demonstrations have been met with lethal police force, resulting in over 300 deaths. Hasina, the daughter of Bangladesh’s first president, had led the country since 2009.
For more, we go to London. We’re joined by Taqbir Huda, Amnesty International’s South Asia researcher, who’s been following all of this very closely.Taqbir, thank so much for joining us. Explain what has happened in Bangladesh, leading to the final ouster of the prime minister — she has fled to India — and the deaths of hundreds of mainly Bangladeshi students.
And this just goes to show, if they had only sat with the students when they were peacefully protesting, all of this bloodshed could have been avoided, and this wouldn’t have been the turnout. But they didn’t, and so the students remained resilient and, you know, put the final nail in the coffin.And they are still protesting in the streets right now.
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