Sheikh Hasina, the prime minister of Bangladesh, was staying at the Ritz in Northern Virginia — the low-key part of a tour that included the funeral of Queen Elizabeth II in London and an address to the U.N. General Assembly in New York, where she appealed to “the conscience of the world community” to “build peace.
We sat in a lovely room with her translator and chief of staff, plus a giant portrait of her father, Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, the first president of Bangladesh and former prime minister who was assassinated along with 17 other members of her family in 1975. It is his legacy she is upholding as the nation’s prime minister for two terms, totaling 18 years so far.and she is a complex leader. At the U.N.
“America … is a vast country. Lots of land, lots of space, opportunities to do work,” she said, sweeping her arm north to south, and asked why should the United States “be worried about these migrants?” Bangladesh ranks number eight in world for population with more than 171 million people. “But we are small,” she reminded me. Her chief of staff, who has obviously addressed this before, jumped in: “We are the size of Wisconsin.”
Bangladesh has faced international scrutiny for the conditions of the Rohingya refugees there, as well as ongoing accusations of censorship and an aggressive police force as Hasina’s administration cracks down on domestic terrorism.India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi in 2015 to congratulate Hasina for her tough, zero-tolerance approach to terrorists,
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