Calls for a key role for highly respected Nobel Peace Prize winner Muhammad Yunus offer an opportunity that needs to be seized
Protesters climb a public monument as they celebrate the news of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s resignation, in Dhaka When Sheikh Hasina came to power first, two decades ago, she embodied a new kind of politics for military-dominated coup-prone Bangladesh. She was seen as a secular democrat who would reform the impoverished country’s economy.as crowds stormed her Dhaka presidential palace had not met these goals.
Power has passed in the country of 170 million people back to the army which has been implicated in the repression, but whose commander, Waker-Uz-Zaman, has promised to consult political parties about establishing a civilian government. That will not be easy as the divisions between the president’s Awami League and main opposition Bangladesh Nationalist party now run very deep.
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