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The banning of Bangladesh’s largest Islamist party while the nation is on the boil amid student-led protests about government job quotas that have morphed into something much larger has put the ruling Awami League on a razor’s edge.
Bangladesh’s recently ousted leader, Sheikh Hasina, has sought refuge in India, her closest foreign ally. Reports indicate that her efforts to win asylum in the UK, Canada, and the US failed, meaning she will likely stay in India for the foreseeable future.
Sheikh Hasina ruled Bangladesh with an iron fist for over 15 years. But on August 5 she was forced to resign and flee the country as hundreds of thousands of people marched on the capital Dhaka and stormed her residence.
“Inni, we are independent!” my 26-year-old cousin chanted from Shahbagh, a neighborhood in Bangladesh’s capital Dhaka, as millions joined a major protest march on Monday to the country’s Parliament House.
Bangladesh is still shaking from violent student protests in recent weeks that resulted in over 170 deaths, a crackdown that has drawn unflattering global attention to the unprecedented brutality of police forces against civilians and an alleged government-enforced internet blackout that lasted for over five days.