Bangladesh: huge rebellion overthrows Sheikh Hasina and makes her flee from the country
Featured image: demonstrators take over the Sheikh Hasina, until today Prime Minister of the country. Source: Getty Images.
Yesterday was the deadliest day of the protests which began last month in Bangladesh. The government imposed a curfew in which it was stated that the repressive forces would ‘shoot on sight’. Moreover the access to Internet was cut. After those measures became known thousands of people took the streets and assaulted a police station which was protected by police officers and thugs of the ruling party, Awami League (AL). All of them shoot with live ammunition against the protesters. The outcome of it was almost 100 people killed, among them more than a dozen of police officers. Those were added to the more than 200 people killed during the July protests, of which most were student activists brutally murdered by the repressive forces and the AL armed gangs.
After that situation the government was soon overwhelmed and lost control. Sheikh Hasina herself, prime minister resigned and fled along with some family members by helicopter, to India. Bangladeshi people stormed shortly after the palace and former residence of the prime minister.
The protesters have continued pointing out the Hasina regime collaborators and then they stormed and torched a museum which was the old residence of the father of Sheikh Hasina, Sheikh Mujibur Rahman. They have also taken down statues erected to honor him in several places. Moreover, today more police stations have been attacked due to the infamous role of the repressive forces during the July protests. Today the death-toll is more than 20 dead people at the protests, even though the number could be increasing.
On last month of July a new mass protest movement erupted in Bangladesh against the AL government lead by Sheikh Hasina, this time against the established quotas for public jobs. Those type of mass protests were usual at the Southeastern Asian country, as at the middle and end of the last year there was already a huge movement, including the garment proletarians, which were driving the government into severe problems. On 2022 there were huge protest movements against Hasina government. Here you can check what we have been publishing on the situation in Bangladesh. Before those people’s uprisings, the Bangladeshi ruling classes lead by imperialism, have unleashed a huge repression against those who raised their voice. Recently we have reported on how the Bangladeshi government sent the repressive forces to seek, detain and torture the student organizers of the protests against the quota system last month.
The Bangladeshi people has not stopped despite this brutal repressive. As we see the brutal repression is making the prairie burn with uncontrollable flames. Now the Bangladeshi ruling classes are recomposing themselves erecting a military temporary government which so far is trying to contain the demonstrators by stating they will carry out an investigation on the crimes committed by the Hasina’s repressive forces, as if they would be not part of them. At the same time numerous imperialists are speaking on this regard attempting to calm down the situation and take advantage from it: Josep Borrell, foreign affairs representative from the imperialists alliance of the European Union, representatives from British imperialism, as well as senators of Yankee imperialism and others, are demanding a ‘peaceful’ and ‘democratic’ transition, trying to prevent the protest to reach levels that could harm the numerous interests of the imperialists in the country and the region. Additionally the old Indian State has imposed a curfew and strong border checkpoints to prevent that this fire extend to its own territory.