{"id":66072,"date":"2024-08-07T00:38:43","date_gmt":"2024-08-06T15:38:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/article\/2024\/aug\/06\/sheikh-hasina-profile-ousted-bangladesh-prime-minister"},"modified":"2024-08-07T00:38:43","modified_gmt":"2024-08-06T15:38:43","slug":"sheikh-hasina-child-of-the-revolution-who-eroded-bangladeshs-democracy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=66072","title":{"rendered":"Sheikh Hasina: child of the revolution who eroded Bangladesh\u2019s democracy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/article\/2024\/aug\/06\/bangladesh-student-protesters-to-meet-with-army-chief-after-pm-resigns\">sudden downfall<\/a> of the world\u2019s longest-serving female leader has ended one of South Asia\u2019s most enduring political dynasties. But will Hasina\u2019s legacy be huge development gains or rights abuses and alleged killings?<\/p>\n<p>The world\u2019s longest-serving female leader was, according to her son, \u201cin good spirits, but disheartened and disappointed in the lack of gratitude of the people of Bangladesh\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>After weeks of protests, more than 300 deaths and increased international criticism of her government\u2019s slide into autocracy, the long rule of Sheikh Hasina ended on Monday as she fled the country she had led for a combined total of more than 20 years.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/article\/2024\/aug\/06\/sheikh-hasina-profile-ousted-bangladesh-prime-minister\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The sudden downfall of the world\u2019s longest-serving female leader has ended one of South Asia\u2019s most enduring political dynasties. But will Hasina\u2019s legacy be huge development gains or rights abuses and alleged killings?The world\u2019s longest-serving femal&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4366,"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":[327,59,53,62,1203,1353,80,85,2816,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66072","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bangladesh","category-global-development","category-human-rights","category-india","category-inequality","category-inequality-and-development","category-protest","category-rohingya","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\/66072","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\/4366"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=66072"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66072\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66073,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66072\/revisions\/66073"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=66072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=66072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=66072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}