Bangladesh Protesters Demolish Buildings Linked to Ousted Leader Sheikh Hasina

Hundreds of protesters in Bangladesh attacked and destroyed buildings connected to ousted former leader Sheikh Hasina on Thursday. The violence erupted just hours after students, using excavators, began demolishing a museum dedicated to her father, Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, the country’s first president.

The museum and Rahman’s former home were set on fire during the student-led revolution last year, which led to the end of Hasina’s 15 years of autocratic rule. Late on Wednesday, six months after Hasina fled to India in a helicopter on August 5, protesters with hammers and metal rods began tearing down the walls of the building in Dhaka. The unrest marks a continuing chapter in the country’s political turmoil.