People’s power stirs revolution in overthrowing the dictatorial and ruthless regimes.
It happened in Cuba when Fidel Castro led an angry mob that entered the palace of President Batista and overthrew his regime in 1959. It recently happened in Sri Lanka when the prime minister fled the country and then in Afghanistan with the collapse of the American forces and the fleeing of its puppet president, Ashraf Ghani.
And now, in Bangladesh, the people’s power, more precisely, the students’ power.
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has resigned and fled Bangladesh after anti-government protests in which hundreds of people have been killed.
Huge crowds, mostly of protesting students, stormed Hasina’s official residence in Dhaka on Monday. They liberated Bangladesh from the autocratic rule under Sheikh Hasina, the daughter of B’desh founder Sheikh Mujibur Rahman.
Hasina has ruled for 20 of the last 30 years as leader of the political movement inherited from her father, who was assassinated in a 1975 coup.
The student protests began in July with calls to abolish civil service job quotas but spiralled into demands for Hasina to quit.
More than that, Hasina’s time in power was rife with accusations of forced disappearances, extra-judicial killings, and the crushing of opposition figures and her critics. Her government has really damaged…independent institutions, including the judiciary and the National Human Rights Commission, and corrupted the police.
Over the years, the anger against Hasina became louder and louder, consolidating the people’s power and causing her to flee the country, perhaps to London, the mecca of runaway despotic leaders seeking shelter and protection from the British government.
-Promod Puri
Promod Puri.com 