{"id":66537,"date":"2024-09-03T08:05:07","date_gmt":"2024-09-02T23:05:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/article\/2024\/sep\/03\/a-myopic-policy-indias-backing-of-ousted-bangladesh-leader-sheikh-hasina-leaves-it-in-a-bind"},"modified":"2024-09-03T08:05:07","modified_gmt":"2024-09-02T23:05:07","slug":"a-myopic-policy-indias-backing-of-ousted-bangladesh-leader-sheikh-hasina-leaves-it-in-a-bind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=66537","title":{"rendered":"\u2018A myopic policy\u2019: India\u2019s backing of ousted Bangladesh leader Sheikh Hasina leaves it in a bind"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi was seen as former PM\u2019s greatest ally. Now it must reckon with a new government that wants accountability for her regime\u2019s actions<\/p>\n<p>It was earlier this month, as protests swept Bangladesh and bodies lay on the streets, that prime minister Sheikh Hasina hastily boarded a helicopter. She was unaccompanied by any political aides and did not tell any of her senior ministers <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/article\/2024\/aug\/05\/bangladesh-pm-has-resigned-and-left-country-media-reports-say-sheikh-hasina\">she was <\/a>leaving. In a matter of hours, she touched down in neighbouring India, where she has been ever since.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/article\/2024\/aug\/05\/bangladesh-protests-quota-reform-movement-students-dhaka-march\">protests that led to Hasina\u2019s downfall <\/a>had quickly escalated from student demonstrations on campuses to a nationwide mass revolution, with hundreds of thousands calling for her removal and the return of democracy. Hasina\u2019s government responded with an onslaught of violence and bullets, leaving hundreds dead and thousands injured.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/article\/2024\/sep\/03\/a-myopic-policy-indias-backing-of-ousted-bangladesh-leader-sheikh-hasina-leaves-it-in-a-bind\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi was seen as former PM\u2019s greatest ally. Now it must reckon with a new government that wants accountability for her regime\u2019s actionsIt was earlier this month, as protests swept Bangladesh and bodies lay on the streets, that prime minister Sheik&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":649,"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":[327,62,2816,61],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66537","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bangladesh","category-india","category-sheikh-hasina","category-south-and-central-asia"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66537","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\/649"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=66537"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66537\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66548,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66537\/revisions\/66548"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=66537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=66537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=66537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}