Bangladesh: Items looted from Sheikh Hasina’s house are being returned

Bangladesh Protesters have returned looted goods from former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina Wajid’s residence. The new interim government continued violent for several months Demonstrations After trying to restore peace.

According to reports, around 500 items have reportedly been returned, including 120 types of furniture, 70 electronic devices and 150 mattresses.

The return of the stolen goods came after student leaders who led the protest launched a campaign for its return and restoration of the prime minister’s official residence.

Violence continued in Bangladesh’s capital Dhaka on Thursday, injuring more than 100 people.

The violence began in late June, when security forces cracked down on protesters demanding an end to controversial job quotas for relatives of veterans who fought in Bangladesh’s 1971 war of independence. .

After a short break, the protest turned into a protest against Hasina Wajid’s government. On August 5, hundreds of protesters stormed the Prime Minister’s residence and demanded his resignation, after which the Prime Minister fled to India by helicopter.

Protesters ransacked and looted his house. They stole clothes, furniture, refrigerators, laptops, guitars and even live and dead goats, chickens and rabbits.

An auto-rickshaw driver stole 100,000 Bangladeshi Taka (659 pounds) from a drawer in a living room, according to a report in the Indian Express newspaper.

The person involved in the protest who ate the duck has paid the price, while the other returned the diamond earring and other jewellery, including the jhumka.

Pigeons and cats have also been returned. A pile of recently returned secret defense and security documents has been kept in a secure room, which is being monitored by the military.

Campaigners for the return of looted goods have set up a counter at the gate of the Prime Minister’s House so that people can deposit the looted goods there.

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Campaigners told the newspaper they were trying to find a woman who was seen carrying a make-up bag from the residence.

Meanwhile, in Dhaka, more than 100 members and supporters of Hasina Wajid’s Awami League party were injured when a mob of student protesters and political activists attacked them with sticks, iron bars and pipes.

Awami League supporters gathered on the anniversary of the assassination of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, the father of Bangladesh’s founder and exiled prime minister, even though the interim government canceled the national holiday on the day.

Earlier, Sheikh Hasina asked her supporters to ‘lay garlands and pray for all the dead’ outside the museum built in her father’s memory.

The protestors are demanding that the death case of those killed during the protest should be prosecuted against Sheikh Hasina. Requests have already been made to the police to register cases against top leaders of his political party and senior police officers.


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2024-08-17 17:22:18

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