Bangladesh's Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has resigned and fled to India after weeks of deadly protests in the country. Demonstrators are calling for an end to the “mafia state” they say Hasina created.
DHAKA, Bangladesh — Bangladesh’s parliament has been dissolved, the president’s office said Tuesday, paving the way for an interim government that student protest leaders said should be led by Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus.
” “There are underlying geopolitical concerns that future Bangladesh doesn’t become more beholden to Beijing,” he said. The crisis could also have implications for neighboring India, which is seen as having long supported Hasina and where she fled on Monday. Yunus told Indian news channel Times Now that people in Bangladesh were “angry at India because you are supporting the person who destroyed our lives.
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