Hasina’s departure seems to have averted a major violence crisis in Dhaka; more deadly protests were expected on Monday.
Bangladesh’s Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has recently tendered her resignation and has gone into hiding as protests turn lethal.
Ms. Hasina was sacked on Monday after weeks of civil unrest accompanied by violence, and one can say that the violent escalation has been avoided. The attention now shifts to as to which party will govern the South Asian country.
General Waker-Uz-Zaman, in a nationwide address, said that a civilian technocrat government will be formed now to run Bangladesh and urged people to avoid any unrest.
Hasina, the Prime Minister who has been in power for nearly 20 years, got into a military helicopter on Monday, an assistant said to Al Jazeera, when mass people, in violation of a lockdown to combat the coronavirus, stormed the palace in Dhaka.
She later resigned when 300 people lost their lives in weeks of protest, which the authorities wanted quelled. A night of deadly violence that occurred on Sunday eliminated nearly 100 people, and a curfew was imposed.
Soldiers were out on the streets on Monday. But demonstrators did not give up and demanded the organization of a march to Dhaka as the population in the capital increased.
Masses then rushed to occupy the prime minister’s palace and did not allow the Awami League’s leader, Sheikh Hasina, to speak. By early afternoon, this event was being greeted on the streets more joyfully since people received the news about the premier’s eviction.
Wary
On 27 February, Al Jazeera’s Tanvir Chowdhury, who was speaking from Shahbagh Square, which became the hub for students’ protests starting from last month, stated that he does not remember something like this happening in Dhaka.
