DHAKA — Nobel Peace laureate Muhammad Yunus returned location to strife-torn Bangladesh connected Thursday, to lead a caller interim government aft weeks of tumultuous student protests forced Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina to resign and fly to neighboring India.
The South Asian nation’s only Nobel laureate and a harsh professional of Hasina, Yunus, 84, arrived successful Dhaka pursuing aesculapian curen successful Paris, aft protesters backed him for nan domiciled successful a authorities tasked pinch holding elections for a caller leader.
“The state has nan anticipation of becoming a very beautiful nation,” nan economist told reporters astatine nan airport, wherever he was greeted by elder subject officers and student leaders.
The student protesters had saved nan state and that state had to beryllium protected, he said, adding: “Whatever way our students show us, we will move up pinch that.”
“We had ended those possibilities, now again we person to emergence up. To nan authorities officials present and defense chiefs — we are a family, we should move up together.”
Yunus was group to beryllium sworn successful arsenic main of a squad of advisers connected Thursday nighttime section time, astatine nan charismatic residence of President Mohammed Shahabuddin.
Hasina’s Awami League statement does not fig successful nan interim authorities aft she resigned connected Monday, pursuing weeks of unit that killed astir 300 group and injured thousands.
In a Facebook post, her boy Sajeeb Wazed Joy said nan statement had not fixed up, however, and was fresh to clasp talks pinch opponents and nan interim government.
“I had said my family will nary longer beryllium progressive successful authorities but nan measurement our statement leaders and workers are being attacked, we cannot springiness up,” he said connected Wednesday.
Yunus, known arsenic nan “banker to nan poor,” received nan 2006 Nobel Peace Prize for founding a slope that pioneered nan conflict connected poorness done mini loans to needy borrowers.
Hasina’s melodramatic exit from nan state she ruled for 20 of nan past 30 years, winning a 4th consecutive word successful January, group disconnected jubilation and unit arsenic crowds stormed and ransacked her charismatic residence unopposed.
She is sheltering astatine an aerial guidelines adjacent New Delhi, nan Indian capital, a improvement that Yunus said raised anger astatine India among immoderate Bangladeshis.
The student-led activity that ousted Hasina grew retired of protests against quotas successful authorities jobs that spiraled successful July, provoking a convulsive crackdown that drew world criticism, though nan authorities denied utilizing excessive force.
The protests were fueled besides by harsh economical conditions and governmental repression successful nan country, calved aft a warfare of liberation from Pakistan successful 1971.
The main guidance Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) boycotted 2 nationalist elections aft nan apprehension of its leaders, while nan Covid-19 pandemic damaged nan $450 cardinal system aft years of beardown growth, starring to precocious inflation, unemployment and shrinking reserves.
It pushed nan Hasina authorities to seek a $4.7 cardinal loan from nan International Monetary Fund.
Hasina’s archrival and BNP leader Khaleda Zia, 78, called for calm and an extremity to unit successful a video reside from her infirmary furniture to hundreds of supporters astatine a rally connected Wednesday aft her release from location arrest.
“No destruction, revenge aliases vengeance,” she said arsenic nan BNP demanded elections successful 3 months.
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