Student protest leaders in Bangladesh want Nobel Peace Prize laureate Muhammad Yunus to lead an interim government after longtime Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina resigned and fled the country.
The students seem unlikely to accept a military-led government.
“We have given our blood, we have witnessed and we must fulfill our promise to build a new Bangladesh. No government other than that proposed by the students will be accepted. As we have said, no military government or a military-backed government or a fascist government will be accepted,” said Nahid Islam, 26, a sociology student who spearheaded the protest movement against government job quotas.
He was accused of corruption
Yunus, 84, received the Nobel Peace Prize in 2006 after pioneering microcredit. Known as the “poor man’s banker”faced corruption charges in Bangladesh and was tried during Hasina’s rule, but argued that the charges against him were politically motivated.
As reported by Reuters, a representative of Yunus stated that he accepted the students’ request to become an adviser to the provisional government. The Nobel laureate will return to Bangladesh immediately after a minor medical procedure in Paris.
Salute to the brave Students of Bangladesh. They’ve ended the 15 years long dictatorial rule of Hasina Wajid. The Indian Proxy is no longer in Dhaka!!!
✊🏻✊🏻 pic.twitter.com/NcYEjesQjS— Muhammad Saad 🇵🇸 (@hafizsaadriaz) August 5, 2024
Over 109 dead yesterday
At least 109 people were killed in violent clashes that rocked Bangladesh on Monday, a day marked by the prime minister’s flight abroad, police and doctors said, revising an earlier toll.
It’s about her bloodiest day since early July, when protests against public service recruitment quotas began, with the total death toll reaching 409, according to an AFP tally based on police, official and hospital sources.
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