Bangladesh prime minister is ousted after weeks of deadly protests
Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina resigned and left the country on Monday, the army chief said, a day after nearly 100 people were killed in clashes.
DHAKA, Bangladesh — Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina resigned and left the country Monday, the army chief said, a day after almost 100 people were killed in clashes with the police as student-led protesters demanded she step down.
In an address to the nation, army chief Gen. Waker-Uz-Zaman said that an interim government would be formed and that every death would be investigated.
He implored the public to cooperate and ensure peace.
“We will not achieve anything else through fighting and violence,” he said. “I urge you all to stop all conflicts and destruction.”
The ouster of Hasina, 76, Bangladesh’s longest-serving leader, is a seismic change for the majority-Muslim South Asian nation of 170 million people, where at least 300 people have been killed in recent weeks amid a mass movement against what critics said was her increasingly autocratic rule.
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