Bangladeshi Protesters Tear Down Statue of Hasina’s Father Amid Political Unrest

Protesters were seen celebrating in Dhaka on Monday (August 5), as they climbed atop a statue of Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's father, state founder Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, and began destroying it with a sledgehammer.

Hasina resigned and fled the country on Monday after hundreds of people were killed in a crackdown on demonstrations that began as protests against job quotas and swelled into a movement demanding her downfall.

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