Sheikh Hasina was a historic figure in her country. But now she has fled after protests turned violent. How did it all go wrong? David Bergman reports
Sheikh Hasina was a historic figure in her country. But now she has fled after protests turned violent. How did it all go wrong?joined thousands of her fellow students in Bangladesh and took to the streets. She was furious about the unfairness of a quota system that reserved 30% of jobs for the children of freedom fighters from the 1971 war of independence with Pakistan.
Government jobs are well paid and secure and, students argued, it was a scheme that made no sense so long after the war. But then came a police crackdown, and protests that began peacefully led to 400 people being killed. Furious demonstrators now had a new demand: that the prime minister, Sheikh Hasina, step down.that no one considered that would actually happen. Sheikh Hasina was the longest-serving female prime minister in the world.
Yet suddenly, last week, she did just that, escaping Bangladesh in a helicopter. How was a once popular leader, lauded as the politician who brought democracy back to the country after military rule, ousted by students? And why?The Guardian is editorially independent. And we want to keep our journalism open and accessible to all. But we increasingly need our readers to fund our work.
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