The previous palace of Bangladesh’s ex-leader Sheikh Hasina might be transformed right into a museum to commemorate the revolution that led to her elimination, in keeping with the nation’s present caretaker authorities chief, Muhammad Yunus.
Yunus, a Nobel Peace Prize winner, made this announcement throughout his tour of the Ganabhaban palace, which was the prime minister’s official residence. “The museum ought to protect recollections of her misrule and the folks’s anger once they eliminated her from energy,” Yunus stated.
Sheikh Hasina, who dominated for 15 years, was ousted on August 5 following a student-led rebellion. She fled to India through helicopter. Her tenure was marked by human rights abuses, together with mass detention and extrajudicial killings. A Bangladeshi courtroom has issued an arrest warrant for her.
Previous to Hasina’s downfall, over 700 people have been killed, many in a brutal police crackdown. As she fled, hundreds stormed her former residence, which the federal government described as a “image of repression.”
The palace, now broken and marked with graffiti towards her regime, will function a reproduction of the “Home of Mirrors” Aynaghar detention middle, which was infamous underneath her rule. “The Aynaghar ought to remind guests of the torture endured by secret prisoners,” Yunus added.
The rebellion additionally led to vital unrest, together with the looting of a museum on the house of Hasina’s father, Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, who was Bangladesh’s first president.
Building of the museum is anticipated to begin by December, in keeping with Apurba Jahangir, a press official in Yunus’s workplace. “The museum building hasn’t begun but, however it can begin quickly,” Apurba instructed AFP.
Sheikh Hasina, 77, has not been seen in public since fleeing to India, along with her final recognized location being a navy airbase close to New Delhi.
