demonstrators target Hasina’s supporters.
Armed protesters in Bangladesh have blocked supporters of the ousted Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina from reaching the former residence of her father in Dhaka.
Armed protesters in Bangladesh have blocked supporters of the ousted Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina from reaching the former residence of her father in Dhaka.
The road in front of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman’s former home, the father of the deposed prime minister Sheikh Hasina, was blocked by demonstrators brandishing sticks and pipes.
Student protesters and activists assaulted supporters of the ousted Prime Minister Sheikh Hasinain Bangladesh on Thursday.
Armed with bamboo sticks, iron rods, and pipes, the demonstrators used force to keep the former prime minister’s supporters from going to her father’s old Dhaka home, assassinated independence leader Sheikh Mujibur Rahman.
Showcasing mementos and other items from a military coup on August 15, 1975, when Rahman and most of his family were assassinated, the house in Dhaka’s Dhanmondi neighborhood has been transformed into a museum. The Bangabandhu Memorial Museum was torched by the protesters hours after Hasina’s ousting earlier this month. The ousting followed weeks of unrest during which more than 300 people lost their lives.