{"id":14466,"date":"2024-08-20T17:28:45","date_gmt":"2024-08-20T17:28:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=14466"},"modified":"2024-08-20T17:28:46","modified_gmt":"2024-08-20T17:28:46","slug":"bangladeshs-prime-minister-just-fled-the-country-in-a-helicopter-why","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=14466","title":{"rendered":"Bangladesh\u2019s prime minister just fled the country in a helicopter. Why?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

“Hasina\u2019s exit on an India-bound military helicopter came after crowds broke a curfew and stormed the prime minister\u2019s residence in the capital Dhaka<\/a>, following weeks of bloody protest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The movement that ultimately toppled her started with students frustrated at their lack of job prospects and snowballed to include ordinary Bangladeshis facing increasingly tough economic conditions. But the jubilant scenes in the capital Dhaka come at great cost; around 300 people have been killed since the protests started in June, and the country\u2019s future remains uncertain as a military-backed caretaker government steps in.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After a decade and a half in power, Hasina\u2019s legacy is complicated. On the one hand, her government built modern infrastructure and improved development opportunities, especially for the poor. But she also increasingly cracked down on the press, as well as the opposition, and as time went on, many forms of dissent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Army General Waker-uz-Zaman announced Monday that the military had taken control of the government; parliament is being dissolved, and the government is formulating a plan for fresh elections.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe country is going through a revolutionary period,\u201d Zaman said<\/a> in a national television address. \u201cWe request you to have faith in the army of the country. Please don\u2019t go back to the path of violence and please return to nonviolent and peaceful ways.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Though a people-power movement has won a victory in driving Hasina out, the young democracy is entering a period of major uncertainty; indeed, what happens next for Bangladesh is anyone\u2019s guess.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.vox.com\/world-politics\/365259\/bangladesh-sheikh-hasina-awami-protests-bnp<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“Hasina\u2019s exit on an India-bound military helicopter came after crowds broke a curfew and stormed the prime minister\u2019s residence in the capital Dhaka, following weeks of bloody protest.
\nThe movement that ultimately toppled her started with students frustrated at their lack of job prospects and snowballed to include ordinary Bangladeshis facing increasingly tough economic conditions. But the jubilant scenes in the capital Dhaka come at great cost; around 300 people have been killed since the protests started in June, and the country\u2019s future remains uncertain as a military-backed caretaker government steps in.<\/p>\n

After a decade and a half in power, Hasina\u2019s legacy is complicated. On the one hand, her government built modern infrastructure and improved development opportunities, especially for the poor. But she also increasingly cracked down on the press, as well as the opposition, and as time went on, many forms of dissent.<\/p>\n

Army General Waker-uz-Zaman announced Monday that the military had taken control of the government; parliament is being dissolved, and the government is formulating a plan for fresh elections.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe country is going through a revolutionary period,\u201d Zaman said in a national television address. \u201cWe request you to have faith in the army of the country. Please don\u2019t go back to the path of violence and please return to nonviolent and peaceful ways.\u201d<\/p>\n

Though a people-power movement has won a victory in driving Hasina out, the young democracy is entering a period of major uncertainty; indeed, what happens next for Bangladesh is anyone\u2019s guess.”<\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.vox.com\/world-politics\/365259\/bangladesh-sheikh-hasina-awami-protests-bnp<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[729,2087,431,167,2090,362,1894],"class_list":["post-14466","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-asia","tag-bangladesh","tag-democracy","tag-government","tag-prime-minister","tag-protests","tag-south-asia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14466","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14466"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14466\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14467,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14466\/revisions\/14467"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}