Sheikh Hasina: Bangladesh democracy icon-turned-iron lady • FRANCE 24 English

The daughter of a revolutionary who led Bangladesh to Independence in 1975 Shake Casa’s father then prime minister shik muur Raman and other family members were murdered in a coup after 6 years in Exile she took the Reigns of her father’s awami leak party for the next decade she spent long stretches under

House arrest Hina joined forces with khia’s BNP party to help a military dictator husin Muhammad AA in 1990 following a dispute soon after their rivalry has dominated Bangladeshi politics after a first term as prime minister in 1996 Hasen a won re-election in a landslide vote in 2008 and has been

In power ever since she’s been praised for leading Bangladesh through an economic boom one of the world’s poorest countries when it gained independence from Pakistan in 1971 it has since grown an average of more than 6% per year since 2009 in her latest campaign has seen a promised greater wealth for the

Country if the Bangladeshi people vote for us and we are able to form the government again we will make the whole country developed and prosperous but H’s government’s Crackdown on dissent has caused concern at home and abroad her time and power has seen the mass arrest of her political opponents and human rights

Sanctions against her Security Forces even before her opponents resolved to boycott the country’s latest election analysts say the ition of so many senior opposition figures left no viable Democratic alternative to her rule

Sheikh Hasina, who won a fifth term as prime minister after polls on Sunday, once helped rescue Bangladesh from military rule, but her time in power has seen the mass arrest of her political opponents and human rights sanctions against her security forces.
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23 comments

  4. I am a Bangladeshi, and since the creation of Bangladesh, there has been various kinds of political instability or violence here. I have never heard a message of peace in Bangladesh’s politics. Only in 2023, 45 people were killed here in the grip of political violence, and many were murdered. I am 30 years old, and what I have understood so far is that I think Bangladesh’s politics has been controlled by external mafia from the beginning,

  8. Why don't people advocating for democracy in a democratic election just say clearly that they yearn for Islamism back in Bangladesh…..descendants of converts claiming Arab heritage in Bangladesh is the biggest joke of the millennium. The whole reason for your existence as an independent nation is because West Pakistanis (Pashtuns, Punjabis and Baloch) never considered you equal or as legitimate muslims and Mujib ur Rehman fought for the Bengali language and identity to be preserved in face of Urdu imposition and West Pakistan's racist attitude that dark skinned Bengalis could never equal fair-skinned Punjabis and descendants of Arabs to rule the Pakistani state.

  13. Sheikh Hasina is savior of Bangladesh. As a prime minister she always want a developed Bangladesh. Sheikh Hasina is a blessing for our country.

  18. We people of Bangladesh have lost our freedom now because. The current government is illegitimate.

  20. She is nothing but a lady dictator. She is trying to make a one party country by using different constitutional Institute and law enforcement Agency. It is terrible to say how a opposition or who has other Opinion has been treated. Who are opposition or like something else are like a Slave they can not stay in house beacuse of fear of Police and other law enforcement Agency. We thought every people has independence of our country but no only who Support The government they has right to do everything and others has not, its really unfair.It should not be in an independence democratic Country.
    In this election Though i think it was just a selection process to became Prime Minister again as who were candidates of this election, everybody were from either her party or from their alliance and they confirmed parliamentary seat consideration with each other many of their Allie even has used government partys symbol which is really unfair.And i think she has ignored most of the people’s opinion through this selection.

  21. We are in the grip of a dictatorial government, many journalists and organizations around the world raise concerns but no one takes action.

  23. The youth of Bangladesh now believe that a good govt. will never come. So to live a good life, leave the country.

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