Johannesburg,South Africa

The Prime Minister of Bangladesh,Sheikh Hasina has resigned and fled the country as tens of thousands of protesters marched to the capital city Dhaka.

Hasina's government has killed more than 280 people starting from last month as the mass protests engulfed the country and over the past weekend on Sunday alone 95 people lost their lives including 14 police officers in the capital city.

Last month,students across that country launched a peaceful protests whereby were demanding an end to quotas for civil service jobs.

The students embarked on that route because were not pleased with government decision to reserve civil service jobs for the descendants of veterans of the 1971 Bangladesh liberation war.

During these ongoing protests the students revealed that Bangladesh have been experiencing job shortages for university graduates for years and seeing these new quotas as a new strategy to widening the problem of inequality.

Following her resignation and fleeing her country of origin using a military aircraft former Prime Minister Hasina has emerged in neighboring country India on Monday and she is hiding there in a safe house.

Who is Sheikh Hasina?

Sheikh Hasina Wazed is a daughter of the founding father and first president of Bangladesh,Sheikh Mujibur Rahman.She was born on 28 September 1947 in Tungipara,East Bengal,Dominion of Pakistan.

She rose to power in 1996 as she became the tenth prime minister of Bangladesh.She governed that impoverished South Asia country from 1996 to 2001 and she made a comeback from 2009 to August 2024.

In total,she ruled Bangladesh more than 20 years and she was the longest serving prime minister in the history of that country.

Under the leadership of Hasina,Bangladesh has experienced many problems such as high rate of inequality,unemployment,suppression of freedom of speech and press,extrajudicial killings and forced disappearances of political opponents or critics.