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Sheik Hasina, the prime minister of Bangladesh, resigned on Monday and fled the country after a month of huge anti-government protests.
Hasina, 76, has been in power since 2009, making her the longest-serving prime minister in the history of Bangladesh and the longest-serving female prime minister in the world. Shefled just minutes before the protesters pushed their way into her residence, laying over in India on her way to exile in London.protesters gleefully looting her residence and eating everything left in her kitchen.
The quota system grew larger and more complicated as the ranks of the aging “freedom fighters” dwindled. Quotas were added for certain ethnic groups, for example, and for people who lived in the most impoverished regions of Bangladesh. The children and grandchildren of freedom fighters also received preferential treatment, even though there was no logical foundation for it.
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