(23 Oct 2024)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
Dhaka, Bangladesh – 23 October 2024
1. Various of army, police and border guard of Bangladesh (BGB) personnel standing guard in front of presidential palace while journalists and others wait outside barbed wire fence
2. Army personnel entering the presidential palace
3. Various of military personnel guarding area
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Dhaka, Bangladesh – 22 October 2024
4. Various of Anti-Discrimination Student Movement students gathered at the Shaheed Minar (National Monument) chanting slogan with banners and posters demanding President Mohammed Shahabuddin’s resignation
5. Students chanting slogan while marching
6. SOUNDBITE (Bangla) Nusrat Tabassum, coordinator of the Anti-Discrimination Student Movement:
“We are determined to continue our sit-in protest until the resignation of the president and until we ensure the trial of all atrocities carried out by the Awami League men. We will continue our fight, won’t we?”
7. Various of protesters marching, chanting slogan and carrying large banner at Dhaka university campus area
8. Protesters blocking road in front of presidential palace ++NIGHT SHOT++
9. Protesters chanting while army personnel stand guard ++NIGHT SHOT++
10. Various of military personnel standing guard in front of presidential palace ++NIGHT SHOTS++
11. Various of protesters chanting ++NIGHT SHOTS ++
12. Various of protesters by fire in road and chanting ++NIGHT SHOTS ++
13. Mid of leaders addressing the crowd ++NIGHT SHOTS ++
14. SOUNDBITE (Bangla) Hasnat Abdullah, coordinator of the Anti-Discrimination Student Movement: ++NIGHT SHOT++
“Within two days, we will pick up a better president after creating a roadmap and consultation with political parties. The army chief is now abroad and upon his return to the country we will oust the president within one week.”
15. Wide of protesters gathered in front of president’s office ++NIGHT SHOTS ++
STORYLINE:
Political tension in Bangladesh was growing anew on Wednesday after a leading student group called for the country’s figurehead president to resign over comments he made that appeared to call into question former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s resignation in August.
The interim government was expected to hold a Cabinet meeting to discuss the issue on Thursday.
The student group, known as the Anti-Discrimination Student Movement, set a two-day deadline for President Mohammed Shahabuddin to step down.
Hundreds of protesters rallied in the capital, Dhaka, on Tuesday while hundreds of others attempted to storm the presidential palace, Bangabhaban.
The new political turmoil began after Shahabuddin told a Bengali-language newspaper earlier this week that he had not seen Hasina’s resignation letter as she fled to India in August amid a student-led uprising.
An interim government led by Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus took power and formed a government after Hasina stepped down on August 5.
Shahabuddin said in his interview with the Manab Zamin daily that he only heard about Hasina’s resignation but had not seen the actual letter, a statement that infuriated the Yunus-led government and student activists, prompting them to call for his resignation.
Hasina fled the country as thousands of protesters moved toward her official residence.
Shahabuddin, in an earlier address to the nation on August 5, said that Hasina tendered her resignation letter to the president and that he received it.
Shahabuddin dissolved parliament before the interim government took power on August. 8.
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