Sheikh Hasina Was Responsible For Her Situation: Exiled Bangladeshi Author Taslima Nasreen

Exiled Bangladeshi author and activist Taslima Nasreen pointed out about the ironic twist in violent student uprising in Bangladesh, and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina‘s resignation and escape from the country.

Nasreen claimed that Hasina had thrown her out of Bangladesh in 1999 to “please Islamists” and the “same Islamists” who were part of the student movement forced the latter to leave the country.

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“Hasina in order to please Islamists threw me out of my country in 1999 after I entered Bangladesh to see my mother in her deathbed and never allowed me to enter the country again. The same Islamists have been in the student movement who forced Hasina to leave the country today,” Nasreen wrote a post on X.

Hasina in order to please Islamists threw me out of my country in 1999 after I entered Bangladesh to see my mother in her deathbed and never allowed me to enter the country again. The same Islamists have been in the student movement who forced Hasina to leave the country today.

— taslima nasreen (@taslimanasreen) August 5, 2024

In another post, author accused former prime minister for allowing “Islamists to grow” and for people to indulge in corruption. At the same time, she expressed fears over the potential for army rule in Bangladesh and emphasised for “democracy & secularism.”

“Hasina had to resign and leave the country. She was responsible for her situation. She made Islamists to grow. She allowed her people to involve in corruption. Now Bangladesh must not become like Pakistan. Army must not rule. Political parties should bring democracy & secularism,” she tweeted.

The threats from the fundamentalists over her book Lajja, posed Nasreen to leave Bangladesh and has been living in exile ever since. Though the book was banned in Bangladesh it attained international success.

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Khaleda Zia, the jailed arch-rival of Hasina, was the prime minister at that time of her exile.

Bangladesh has plunged into political turmoil as five time Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina fled the country on Monday amid escalating protests and violence which has claimed nearly 100 lives, culminated in the military seizing control of the government and announcing the formation of an interim administration.