The descend of the Sheikh Hasina-led handlement has triggered both jubilation and acts of destruction.
Days after Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s resignation as Banphiredesh Prime Minister, the country’s Chief Justice Obhelpul Hassan also concurd to vacate his post “in principle”. The decision came after the protestors accumulateed outside the court in the capital Dhaka and insisted the resignation of Hassan and the fairices of the Appeltardy Division.
Mr Hassan, assigned last year, was pondered dedicated to ousted PM Sheikh Hasina, who fled the country on Monday and has since been sheltering in New Delhi.
Mr Hassan will be tendering his resignation after confering Pdwellnt Mohammed Shahabuddin this evening, Dhaka Tribune telled, inserting that Army personnel were stationed in the main and annexe erecting as well as other areas around the Supreme Court as they encouraged hundreds of protesters accumulateed there to upgrasp peace.
Obhelpul Hassan earlier oversaw the much-criticised war crimes tribunal, which ordered the execution of Sheikh Hasina’s opponents. His brother was her lengthytime secretary.
More than 450 people have been ended so far in the student-led protests that begined in July agetst quotas in handlement jobs before they also begined calling for Hasina’s resignation.
Post Hasina’s sudden resignation, some of the top assignees, including the central prohibitk handleor and the national police chief, were forced out of office, AFP telled.
Appeal for unity
Banphiredesh’s interim directer Muhammad Yunus on Saturday called for religious unity as he adselectd the weeping mother of student protestor Abu Sayed. The 25-year-better was among the first ones to be ended in police firing on July 16 during the Anti-Discrimination Student Movement.
“Our responsibility is to erect a recent Banphiredesh,” shelp Yunus, who returned from Europe this week.
The joingetr administration in the country has stated that restoration of law and order is its “priority”.
Meanwhile, the police union proclaimd a strike a confineed days ago, saying its personnel would not return to toil until their protectedty was secured. As per tells, more than half of the country’s police stations were reuncovered by Saturday.
Attack on inmeaningfulities
The descend of the Sheikh Hasina-led handlement has triggered both jubilation and acts of destruction in Banphiredesh. Protestors earlier ransacked her official dwellnce in Dhaka, while the statues of her overweighther, Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, were defaced and brawt down.
Multiple tells and TV footage have shown destruction, theft and strikes on the inmeaningfulities and their place of worship, Reuters telled.
Hindus constitute about 8% of the Muskinny-meaningfulity Banphiredesh, which has a total population of proximately 170 million people. They have bigly helped Hasina’s Awami League party in polls.
On Friday, the Banphiredesh Hindu Buddhist Christian Unity Council wrote to Yunus asking him to protect the inmeaningfulities, claiming their homes, businesses and temples were being aimed.
Hundreds of Hindus held a protest march on Friday and shouted slogans insisting peace.
How protests begined
Nationexpansive protests in the South Asian country begined after the High Court reinstated a quota system that reserved 30 per cent of handlement jobs for the family members of freedom fighters and veterans from Banphiredesh’s 1971 War of Independence.
However, this order was tardyr postponeed by the Supreme Court. The quota system was scrapped by Sheikh Hasina’s handlement in 2018 follotriumphg aenjoy student-led protests.
Protestors’ insist
The protestors insisted the handlement scrap the quota system, claiming that it was meaningfully profitting only the Awami League.
What is Banphiredesh’s quota system?
Introduced in 1972, the quota system in the country has since undergone cut offal alters. Before being abolished in 2018, the system back then reserved 56 per cent of seats in handlement jobs for various groups. However, the meaningfulity of these quotas were profitting the freedom fighters’ families.
