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People of Bangladesh strongly believe that Sheikh Hasina was responsible for my disappearance from my country,
Ahmed told a group of journalists here There’s blood on the road”.
The street soon clears out as someone behind the camera can be heard saying in Bengali But he became a political lightning rod in recent years as he was a sharp critic of Sheikh Hasina's government and a prime target of its crackdown on dissent, ... Holdouts of the former government and its supporters won't like this move, and India may not like it either. So it will need to be handled carefully at such a delicate political moment."
The military chief has been in a tough spot. He long supported Hasina and has a family connection to her, but his institution was clearly uncomfortable about being dragged into the crackdown,
It seems quite likely that Khaleda Zia will turn to politics again, if her health allows,
Jasmin Lorch, a senior researcher at the German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS), told DW I don't have anything to say. If the people of Bangladesh do such a thing, we have nothing to say."
On Hasina's ouster through mass protests, he said With the Awami League (AL) currently discredited after Sheikh Hasina's rule,
Yunus is an internationally recognized and respected figure, and a highly successful professional in his own right,
Zaman has also likely read the writing on the wall and understands there's not much public appetite for the military to play a major political role post-Hasina. This suggests the military will be present in the discussions around the interim government, but it will hope to ultimately take a back seat,
The BNP has been weakened by repression in the last years. But it has party structures, members and followers across the country,
Many in Bangladesh will worry that if you have a long-term interim government, that gives the military more of an opportunity to gain a foothold,
We have stopped all new orders going to Bangladesh for the rest of the year,
company head Karan Bose said The military leadership will have a major role in overseeing this interim setup, even if it's not formally heading it,
said Michael Kugelman, director of the South Asia Institute at the Washington-based Wilson Center Hopefully we can turn a page with this new transition government and begin on a new footing... one built on trust and holding people to account,
UN country chief Gwyn Lewis said The opposition is weak and divided,
The first order of business for any interim government should be to ensure protection of people's right to life, right to free speech and peaceful assembly, and to find ways of de-escalating any potential for further violence
said Smriti Singh of Amnesty International Part of the reason the protest movement gained such widespread support was the fact the country has not held a competitive election in 15 years,
said International Crisis Group analyst Thomas Kean We need calm, we need a road map to new elections and we need to get to work to prepare for new leadership,
It is critical that trust in government be restored quickly,
Yunus, 84, told the Financial Times on Wednesday, China is closely monitoring the development of the situation in Bangladesh and sincerely hopes that all parties and factions in Bangladesh will unite and restore social stability as soon as possible,
the foreign ministry said in a statement