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Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s 15-year rule ended today as she fled weeks of deadly protests and the military announced it would form an interim government.
Hasina had sought since early July to quell nationwide protests against her government but she fled after a brutal day of unrest on Sunday in which nearly 100 people were killed.
Bangladesh’s army chief General Waker-Uz-Zaman said in a broadcast to the nation on state television today, that Hasina had resigned and the military would form an interim government.
The career infantryman said he would talk to the president to form a caretaker government in the South Asian nation of some 170 million people.
Waker said he had held talks with the main opposition parties and civil society members but not Hasina’s Awami League.
Hasina, 76, fled the country by helicopter, a source close to the leader told AFP shortly after protesters had stormed her palace in Dhaka.
The source said she left first by motorcade but was then flown out, without giving her destination.
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