Since the ouster of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, religious parties in Bangladesh have active in national politics.VOA’s Sarah Zaman reports from the capital, Dhaka, on their impact.
With its leaders in jail or fleeing from justice, the party that led Bangladesh to independence and ruled for 15 consecutive years faces an existential crisis after a student uprising toppled the autocratic prime minister in August, analysts say.
Students became a powerful political force in Bangladesh during the summer uprising that led to Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s ouster. Although the political future of the student movement is unclear many are still active.
In Bangladesh, an independent panel formed after Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s ouster in August is investigating enforced disappearances that occurred during her 15-year rule in office. Many people find hope in the five-member committee, but others are frustrated by the panel’s pace.
After an uprising in July and August ended Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s 15-year rule, Bangladesh is busy reforming institutions.VOA’s Sarah Zaman reports from Dhaka,the deep social scars left by Hasina’s brutal crackdown on the mass protests.
A new Bangladesh inquiry commission said Thursday it had found an infamous “secret” detention center at the military intelligence headquarters that people released from its 22 cells had chillingly talked about.
Bangladesh fire authorities said Wednesday they were abandoning a search for missing people after a blaze set by looters gutted a tire factory near Dhaka, although scores were unaccounted for and believed by their families to have been trapped inside.
Scores of people were feared missing after looters attacked a tire factory owned by a former minister in the deposed Awami League government and set the building ablaze, according to authorities and family members at the scene.
Muhammad Yunus has long advocated for peace through prosperity.Now, the 84-year-old Nobel laureate has to restore stability to Bangladesh in the face of a flailing economy with angry youth battling unemployment and citizens crushed by the burden of inflation.
In 1981, Hasina returned to Bangladesh from exile in India shortly after being elected president of the Awami League. At the time, the country was ruled by President Ziaur Rahman, a military general who a few years earlier had founded the BNP.