Bangladesh protesters Torch Family Home of Out PM Sheikh Hasina | Sheikh Hasina News
The wave of overnight attacks also targeted homes and businesses belonging to Hasina’s Awami League supporters.
Thousands of protesters in Bangladesh set the country’s founding leader’s house on fire and set fire, because his daughter excluded former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, gave a fierce social media speech, which to stand against the interim government Calls supporters.
The attack on Wednesday night was motivated by a speech, Hasina planned to give exile to supporters in neighboring India, where she participated after a deadly student -led rebellion against her 15 -year rule last August. Went. Critics accused him of suppressing dissatisfaction.
The house in the capital Dhaka was the home of Hasina’s late father, Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, who led the independence of the country from Pakistan in 1971. He was murdered in 1975. Hasina later converted the house into a museum.
According to news reports, several thousand protesters, equipped with some sticks, hammers and other equipment, gathered around the historic house and freedom memorial, while others brought a crane and excavator to demolish the building on Wednesday night.
Pictures posted on social media and the building published by news organizations were almost taken to the ground, while parts of it were completely burnt.
The country’s leading English-language Daily Star reported in early Thursday that a wave of overnight attacks also targeted several homes and businesses related to Hasina’s Awami League supporters.
The rally was held with a comprehensive call to disrupt Hasina’s prescribed online address on Wednesday night, called the “bulldozer procession”.
‘Symbol of fascism’
The protesters had aligned with many students against the discrimination group, expressing their anger over Hasina’s speech, which they saw as a challenge for the newly formed interim government.
Hasanat Abdullah, a group student leader, warned media outlets against Hasina’s speech and announced on Facebook on Wednesday that “tonight Bangladesh would be freed from the pilgrimage site of fascism”.
18 -year -old student Mahmudur Rahman told the AFP news agency that he joined the protest as he believed that it was appropriate to uproot “symbols of fascism”.
Another defender Mohammad Arfin said that there was no reason to stand at the house.
“Since we, students have formed the government through revolution, we find it valid to demolish it.”
The protesters shouted slogans criticizing India, where Hasina has been in exile since running away from Bangladesh last August.
An interim government in Bangladesh, led by Nobel Peace Prize Award winner Muhammad Yunus, has demanded extradition of Hasina but India has not responded.
Many of the protesters also raised slogans, demanding hanging for hundreds of deaths of Hasina during last year’s rebellion, which was one of the worst ups of the country since independence. Hasina has urged the United Nations investigation into deaths.
The evicted Prime Minister has also been accused of overseeing extraordinary murders during his 15 -year rule and suppressing opposition voices.
In her speech on Wednesday, Hasina said, “They can demolish a building, but not history. History takes its revenge. ,
He also urged the people of Bangladesh to stand against the interim government, accusing him of seizing power in an unconstitutional manner.
The student -led movement behind the protests has planned to destroy the 1972 constitution of the country, which they argue that it symbolizes the legacy of his father’s rule.
