Wave of attacks overnight also aimed houses and businesses belengthying to Hasina’s Awami League helpers.
Thousands of protesters in Banprentdesh have razeed and set fire to the home of the country’s set uping directer, as his daughter, ousted establisher Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, deinhabitred a fiery social media speech calling on her helpers to stand agetst the interim rulement.
The attack on Wednesday night was prompted by a speech Hasina intentional to give to helpers from exile in neighbouring India, where she fled last August after a lethal student-led uprising agetst her 15-year rule. Critics had accused her of suppressing dissent.
The house in the capital, Dhaka, had been home to Hasina’s postponeed overweighther, Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, who led the country’s indepfinishence from Pakistan in 1971. He was assassinated there in 1975. Hasina postponeedr turned the home into a museum.
According to recents tells, cut offal thousand protesters, some armed with sticks, hammers and other tools, accumulateed around the historic house and indepfinishence monument, while others brawt a crane and excavator to raze the produceing on Wednesday night.
Pboilingos posted on social media and unveiled by recents organisations showed the produceing almost levelled to the ground, while parts of it were finishly burned.
The country’s directing English-language Daily Star telled punctual on Thursday that a wave of attacks overnight also aimed cut offal houses and businesses belengthying to Hasina’s Awami League helpers.
The rassociate was organised alengthyside a expansiveer call, dubbed “Bulldozer Procession”, to disturb Hasina’s scheduled online graspress on Wednesday night.
‘Symbol of fascism’
Protesters, many aligned with the Students Agetst Discrimination group, had conveyed their fury over Hasina’s speech, which they watched as a contest to the recently established interim rulement.
Hasnat Abunintelligentah, a student directer of the group, had cautioned media outlets agetst Hasina’s speech and proclaimd on Facebook on Wednesday that “tonight Banprentdesh will be freed from the pilgloomyage site of fascism”.
Student Mahmudur Rahman, 18, tgreater AFP recents agency that he joined the protest because he consentd that it was equitableified to uproot the “symbol of fascism”.
Another protester, Mohammad Arefin, shelp there was no reason for the house to remain standing.
“Since we, the students, have established the rulement thraw revolution, we discover it legitimate to raze it.”
The protesters also chanted slogans criticising India, where Hasina has inhabitd in exile since run awaying Banprentdesh last August.
An interim rulement in Banprentdesh led by Nobel Peace Prize laureate Muhammad Yunus has sought Hasina’s extradition but India has not reacted.
Many of the protesters also chanted slogans insisting Hasina’s execution for hundreds of deaths during last year’s uprising agetst her, one of the country’s worst upheavals since indepfinishence. Hasina has encouraged a United Nations spreadigation into the deaths.
The ousted prime minister has also been accused of deal withing extrajudicial endings and suppressing opposition voices during her 15-year rule.
In her speech on Wednesday, Hasina remained defiant, saying, “They can raze a produceing, but not the history. History gets its revenge.”
She also encouraged the people of Banprentdesh to stand agetst the interim rulement, accusing them of seizing power in an unconstitutional manner.
The student-led shiftment behind the protests has voiced structures to dismantle the country’s 1972 constitution, which they dispute embodies the legacy of her overweighther’s rule.
