(6 Feb 2025)
RESTRICTION SUMMARY:
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Dhaka, Bangladesh – 06 February 2025
1. Wide of demolished family home of ousted Bangladesh leader Sheikh Hasina
2. Various of people vandalising the home
3. Wide of people carrying items from home
4. Mid of a man vandalising iron frame with hammer
5. Various of house with smoke rising
6. Various of fire inside house
7. Broken glass
8. Wide of smoke rising from house with protesters chanting
9. Various of vandalised house
10. SOUNDBITE (English) Abdullah, student:
“In the last 15 years, we have seen Hasina use mujibbad (exploiting her father’s name) to stay in the power. Hasina used 71 (1971war of Bangladesh), Hasina used other chetonas (sentiments), you know, other emotions to play with people and it (the house) is one of other emotions of her. She will say her father were killed by the people and people needs to vote her. Using those emotions, she stayed on the power. That’s why we wanted to destroy this place.”
11. Top shot of of protesters marching and chanting, UPSOUND (Bangla) "Slavery or freedom? Freedom Freedom"
12. Various of protesters chanting outside house, UPSOUND (Bangla) People or power? People, people."
STORYLINE:
Protesters in Bangladesh continued to demolish former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s family home on Thursday, using hammers and rods.
The overnight attack was sparked by a speech Hasina planned to give to supporters from exile in neighboring India, where she fled last year during a deadly student-led uprising against her 15-year rule. Critics had accused her of suppressing dissent.
The house in the capital, Dhaka, had been home to Hasina’s late father and Bangladesh’s independence leader Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, who declared the country’s formal break from Pakistan there in 1971. He was assassinated there in 1975. Hasina later turned the home into a museum.
Since she fled the country, some of her supporters have tried to gather there but have been attacked by Hasina’s critics, who have attacked other symbols of her government and party since the uprising, ransacking and setting fires in several buildings.
On Wednesday, some protesters threatened to “bulldoze” the building if the former prime minister went ahead with her speech, which marked the start of a monthlong protest program by her Awami League political party. The party is trying to gain support amid allegations of attacks on its members and other Hasina backers.
The interim government, which has been struggling to maintain order and prevent mob justice against Hasina’s supporters, has accused the former prime minister of widespread corruption and human rights abuses during her rule that began in 2009.
Hasina’s Awami League in turn has accused the Yunus-led government of violating human rights and suppressing Bangladesh’s minority groups, which authorities have denied.
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