Bangladesh plans to turn Sheikh Hasina’s old palace into a revolution museum

“The museum should preserve memories of her misrule and the people’s anger when they removed her from power,” Nobel Peace Prize winner Muhammad Yunus said on Monday as he toured the battered Ganabhaban palace, the former official residence of the prime minister.

Hasina’s 15-year rule saw widespread human rights abuses, including the mass detention and extrajudicial killings of her political opponents, and a Bangladeshi court this month issued an arrest warrant for her arrest.

As she fled, thousands stormed her former residence, which the government said was a “symbol of repression”.