City Desk :
Bangladesh was finally freed from Sheikh Hasina’s autocracy in the face of massive people’s resistance and supreme sacrifice on August 5 as she fled to India bowing down to an unprecedented student-people uprising, ending her almost 16 years authoritarian rule.
The downfall of Sheikh Hasina was in a culmination of hundreds of people’s deaths and thousands of injuries in barbaric attacks spearheaded by her loyal personnel of law enforcers and armed cadres of Awami League and its associate bodies like Jubo League and Chhatra League, reports BSS.
August 5 emerged as a victory day for Bangladesh people along with a tragedy as the day also witnessed a savage police attacks resulting in killing of hundreds people even after the fall of AL government.
Sheikh Hasina resigned and fled the country amid the uprising, in an apparent backtracking from her arrogance to be showed during her entire autocratic rule saying with boastfulness that “Sheikh Hasina has not fled, she does not flee” as the identical word was also uttered by her in a meeting with businessmen on July 22, 2024.
But just 12 days later, her resignation and flee came in the face of the massive public wrath as hundreds of thousands of people marched towards Dhaka from different parts of the country defying a unbending curfew ignoring continued rain in the morning.
Millions of people from all walks of life took to the streets across the country with wild celebrations as soon as the Army Chief General Waker-Uz-Zaman confirmed Sheikh Hasina’s resignation that incredibly crumbled the myths of Hasina’s absolute hold on authority and Awami League’s fabled political fortress.
