{"id":66044,"date":"2024-08-06T00:23:11","date_gmt":"2024-08-05T15:23:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/article\/2024\/aug\/05\/why-bangladesh-prime-minister-sheikh-hasina-resigned"},"modified":"2024-08-06T00:23:11","modified_gmt":"2024-08-05T15:23:11","slug":"why-has-bangladeshs-prime-minister-sheikh-hasina-resigned-and-fled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=66044","title":{"rendered":"Why has Bangladesh\u2019s prime minister Sheikh Hasina resigned and fled?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The 76-year-old has suddenly left the country after weeks of student-led protests that were met with violence<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/article\/2024\/aug\/05\/bangladesh-pm-has-resigned-and-left-country-media-reports-say-sheikh-hasina\">Bangladesh PM has resigned and left country, army chief confirms<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>After 15 years in power, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/article\/2024\/aug\/05\/bangladesh-pm-has-resigned-and-left-country-media-reports-say-sheikh-hasina\">Bangladesh\u2019s prime minister has suddenly resigned<\/a> and fled the country. Sheikh Hasina\u2019s departure came after weeks of student-led protests were met with deadly force, and has been greeted with jubilation on the streets of the capital, Dhaka.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/article\/2024\/aug\/05\/why-bangladesh-prime-minister-sheikh-hasina-resigned\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 76-year-old has suddenly left the country after weeks of student-led protests that were met with violenceBangladesh PM has resigned and left country, army chief confirmsAfter 15 years in power, Bangladesh\u2019s prime minister has suddenly resigned and &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":942,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[327,2816,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66044","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bangladesh","category-sheikh-hasina","category-south-and-central-asia","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66044","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/942"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=66044"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66044\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66045,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66044\/revisions\/66045"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=66044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=66044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=66044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}