Sheikh Hasina’s family home razed by protesters in Bangladesh

Protesters successful Bangladesh went connected a rampage and ripped isolated the humanities residence of the country’s founding begetter Sheikh Mujibur Rahman up of a governmental code by his girl and ousted person Sheikh Hasina.

Thousands marched successful superior Dhaka connected Wednesday nighttime successful a rally called a “bulldozer procession” to bring down the location of Rahman, Ms Hasina’s precocious begetter and Bangladesh’s independency person who declared the country’s independency from Pakistan successful 1971.

The procession was sparked by Ms Hasina’s planned code to her Awami League party’s supporters from India, wherever she has been surviving successful exile since she was forced to fly pursuing a student-led protestation against her 15-year rule.

Protesters began gathering adjacent the location astatine 8pm, immoderate equipped with sticks, hammers, shovels, and different tools, earlier storming into the building.

The building’s precocious level was acceptable connected occurrence by 9.30pm and by midnight astatine slightest 1 crane and 1 excavator arrived astatine the spot. Parts of the gathering were razed to the ground.

Dramatic visuals showed young men and women entering the gathering arsenic respective chanted “Hang, hang, bent – Sheikh Hasina indispensable beryllium hanged!” and “Delhi oregon Dhaka? Dhaka, Dhaka!”

A question of attacks overnight targeted respective houses and businesses belonging to Ms Hasina's Awami League supporters successful the capital.

Ms Hasina’s code done a Facebook livestream planned astatine 9pm went done successful which she condemned the radical for “erasing history” and asked her supporters to basal up to the interim government.

“They bash not person the powerfulness to destruct the country’s independency with bulldozers. They whitethorn destruct a building, but they won’t beryllium capable to erase the history,” Ms Hasina said.

She called connected the radical of Bangladesh to basal against the interim government, accusing them of seizing powerfulness successful an “unconstitutional” manner.

Dhaka-based International Crimes Tribunal has already banned work oregon airing of her speeches successful the country.

Hasnat Abdullah, a pupil leader, had warned media outlets against work of Ms Hasina's code and announced connected Facebook that "tonight Bangladesh volition beryllium freed from the pilgrimage tract of fascism".

The 77-year-old Hasina, who led the state for 20 years, has been accused of suppressing dissent and utilizing her powers to crackdown connected her critics.

She fled to India connected 5 August connected a chopper aft a student-led uprising stormed into her residence pursuing the wide protests that began against nationalist assemblage occupation quotas but quickly escalated into the deadliest violence the federation had seen successful implicit 4 decades.

The Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus-led government, which included pupil leaders, took implicit and astir 1,500 radical died during Ms Hasina’s crackdown connected protesters. As galore arsenic 3,500 whitethorn person been forcibly abducted, according to reports.

The interim authorities is present seeking Ms Hasina’s extradition from India to look proceedings for what it says are “crimes against humanity” during the anti-government protests.