Culture Society, Identity and Belonging
Protesters in Bangladesh set fire to the family home of deposed prime minister Sheikh Hasina while she was addressing the country via Facebook live stream from exile in India.
Hasina was ousted in student-led protests last year. The house, demolished with an excavator, has been turned into a museum and originally belonged to Hasina’s late father – the country’s founding president and widely viewed as an independence hero.
But 77-year-old Hasina – the longest serving Bangladeshi prime minister – came to be seen as an autocrat whose government clamped down on dissent and killed hundreds.
In recent months, demonstrators have continued to take to the streets demanding Hasina be prosecuted.
The interim government currently in power is trying to get her extradited from India and pledged to hold elections later this year
