{"id":69316,"date":"2025-02-06T07:03:44","date_gmt":"2025-02-05T22:03:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/feb\/05\/bangladeshi-protesters-destroy-ex-pms-family-home-symbolising-independence"},"modified":"2025-02-06T07:03:44","modified_gmt":"2025-02-05T22:03:44","slug":"bangladeshi-protesters-destroy-ex-pms-family-home-symbolising-independence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=69316","title":{"rendered":"Bangladeshi protesters destroy ex-PM\u2019s family home symbolising independence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Property from which Sheikh Hasina\u2019s father declared break from Pakistan attacked due to link with authoritarianism<\/p>\n<p>Thousands of protesters in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/bangladesh\">Bangladesh<\/a> have taken out their anger at exiled former prime minister Sheikh Hasina by destroying a family home that came to symbolise the country\u2019s independence \u2013 and now, they say, the authoritarianism they believe she stood for.<\/p>\n<p>The attack was sparked by a speech that Hasina gave to supporters from exile in neighbouring India, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/article\/2024\/aug\/05\/bangladesh-pm-has-resigned-and-left-country-media-reports-say-sheikh-hasina\">where she fled last year during a deadly student-led uprising against her 15-year rule.<\/a> Critics had accused her of suppressing dissent.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/feb\/05\/bangladeshi-protesters-destroy-ex-pms-family-home-symbolising-independence\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Property from which Sheikh Hasina\u2019s father declared break from Pakistan attacked due to link with authoritarianismThousands of protesters in Bangladesh have taken out their anger at exiled former prime minister Sheikh Hasina by destroying a family home&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3127,"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-69316","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\/69316","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\/3127"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=69316"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69316\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69317,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69316\/revisions\/69317"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=69316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=69316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=69316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}