The son of Bangladesh's toppled autocratic leader thanked New Delhi for 'saving her life' and warned of chaos ahead without swift elections.
Sheikh Hasina's son criticised the interim government as 'completely powerless'.The son of Bangladesh’s toppled autocratic leader thanked New Delhi on Sunday for “saving her life”, accused caretaker authorities of allowing “mob rule” and warned of chaos ahead without swift elections.
The military announced her resignation and then agreed to student demands that Nobel Peace Prize winner Muhammad Yunus, 84, lead a caretaker administration, charged with ending disorder and enacting democratic reforms.However, Hasina’s son and former government adviser, US-based Sajeeb Wazed Joy, 53, criticised the interim government as “completely powerless” and composed of “figureheads”.
Members of Hasina’s millions-strong Awami League have gone into hiding since she fled. There have been reprisal attacks against them and party offices have been torched.But Wazed said the party was critical to the political future of the South Asian nation of some 170 million people.“You’re not going to be able to establish democracy in Bangladesh without the Awami League. It will never be accepted by half the people of the country at least.
“Some of the police used excessive force but there were attacks on the police too – police members were killed as well. The violence wasn’t one-sided,” he said.More than 450 people were killed in the unrest leading up to Hasina’s fall — 42 of whom were police officers, according to the national police chief.
New Delhi saw a common threat in groups Hasina viewed as rivals and crushed with brutal force, including the BNP, according to analysts.
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