Hasina, 76, resigned as PM and left Bangladesh amid mass protests towards her govt over a controversial quota system that reserved 30% of govt jobs for the households of veterans who fought in Bangladesh’s struggle of independence towards Pakistan in 1971.She had been governing the strategically positioned South Asian nation since 2009.
Pics with PM’s menagerie
Hundreds of protesters defied a army curfew and stormed her official residence ‘Ganabhaban’ in Dhaka. Video footage confirmed jubilant crowds vandalising and ransacking the premises, taking away even fish, rooster and greens. Bangladesh’s Channel 24 broadcast photos of crowds operating into Hasina’s compound, grinning and waving to the digital camera, looting furnishings and books, or enjoyable on beds. One protester proudly proclaimed to the media that he had taken a purple lipstick. “I’ll maintain it as a memento of our battle… to recollect we broke free from a dictator. She used to put on this lipstick,” he mentioned. One other man carrying a planter mentioned, “That is freedom.” Demonstrators additionally posed for photos with the PM’s menagerie, together with chickens, geese and rabbits.
Hammers on Mujibur statue
Footage on social media confirmed protesters climbing a statue of Hasina’s father in Ganabhaban and smashing it with hammers. The Bangabandhu memorial museum — devoted to Mujibur Rahman who was assassinated alongside together with his spouse and their three sons whereas serving as prez in 1975 — was additionally vandalised. Hasina and her sister had survived the purge as they have been overseas. Hasina then spent six years in exile in India. The house of Wajed Miah, Hasina’s husband, was not spared.
Crowd enters parliament
The Awami League workplace within the capital was additionally set on fireplace. Dwelling minister Asaduzzaman Khan’s home was ransacked. A Prothom Alo reporter mentioned screams could possibly be heard when a number of folks entered the chief justice’s residence. The group additionally entered the parliament constructing. Folks have been seen taking issues from contained in the parliament constructing. Numerous protesters broke by way of the principle gate of the police headquarters and ransacked the constructing.
An unruly mob vandalised the Indira Gandhi Cultural Centre within the metropolis’s Dhanmondi space. 4 Hindu temples suffered “minor” damages throughout the nation, eyewitnesses mentioned.
66 killed on Monday, toll 366
At the very least 66 folks have been killed Monday, police mentioned, saying gangs had launched revenge assaults on Hasina’s allies. Many have been shot. The newest violence took the entire variety of folks killed since protests started to no less than 366, based on an AFP tally primarily based on police, govt officers and docs at hospitals.
The violence was not restricted to Dhaka. Within the japanese metropolis of Sylhet, places of work of the deputy commissioner and superintendent of police have been set on fireplace, whereas the houses of a number of councillors have been attacked, BBC reported. At the very least eight folks have been burned to dying and 84 others suffered accidents after arsonists torched a resort owned by Awami League basic secretary of Jashore district.
