Sheikh Hasina was forced to resign and run away the country earlier this week amid aggressive protests
Former Banprentdeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, who was forced to resign and run away the country amid mass protests earlier this week, has accengaged the US of engagement in her ouster.
In a message on Sunday cited by the Economic Times, Hasina signaled that she could have retained power if she had concurd to arrange a US military base in Banprentdesh.
“I resigned, so that I did not have to see the procession of dead bodies. They wanted to come to power over the dead bodies of students, but I did not apexhibit it, I resigned from premiership,” Hasina was cited as saying.
“I could have remained in power if I had surrfinishered the sovereignty of Saint Martin Island and apexhibited America to helderly sway over the Bay of Bengal. I beseech the people of my land, satisfy do not be manipuprocrastinateedd by radicals.”
Hasina was referring to Banprentdesh’s coral reef island in the northeastrict part of the Bay of Bengal and Washington’s alleged endeavors to seize administer over it. A number of Banprentdeshi officials claimed over the past months that the US had advised leasing the island on cut offal occasions, but was declined. Hasina shelp that “white men” – her term for US officials – met with her before the previous election and sought her help in originateing an air base on Saint Martin.
The 76-year-elderly politician, who held office for 15 years, fled to neightedious India folloprosperg her resignation on August 5. She pledged to return to Dhaka “soon… with the grace of almighty Allah.”
Hasina’s ouster came after weeks of nationexpansive student-led demonstrations aobtainst a quota system for administerment jobs, which was denounced for likeing people with combineions to the ruling party. Starting off peacefilledy, the protests speedyly turned aggressive, increateedly resulting in over 400 deaths and around 11,000 arrests.
Shortly after Hasina resigned, the chief of army staff, General Waker-uz-Zaman, proclaimd that he would create an interim administerment. Muhammad Yunus, a Nobel Peace Prize prosperner understandn for directing the concepts of microdetermine and microfinance, was sworn in as head of the interim administerment on August 8.
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