Bangladesh Leader Resigns, Flees Country Amid Protests

Published on August 5, 2024

Bangladesh’s Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina Wazed resigned and fled the country on Monday, Aug. 5, according to the country’s top military officer. Gen. Waker-uz-Zaman, the Chief of Bangladesh’s Army Staff and the country’s top military official, announced Hasina’s resignation in a televised press conference on Monday. Hasina, 76, was the longest-serving female head of government and was elected for a fourth consecutive term in a January vote that her main opponents boycotted. Thousands of opposition members were jailed in the lead-up to the polls, and the U.S. government denounced the result as not credible, though the Bangladesh government defended it....

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