Throughout Sri Lanka unrest, protesters have been seen sleeping within the former president’s mattress.
New Delhi:
Protesters lounging on a mattress and clicking selfies have been amongst many visuals, being labelled as from contained in the Bangladesh Prime Minister’s official residence, which went viral on-line after Sheikh Hasina resigned and left her nation. Nonetheless, it seems the visuals are two years previous and present a scene from Sri Lanka President’s palace.
In July 2022, indignant protesters took over former Sri Lanka President Gotabaya Rajapaksa’s official residence, a end result of months of protests over the unprecedented financial disaster within the island nation. Like Ms Hasina, Mr Rajapaksa too fled his nation earlier than resigning from the highest put up.
Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina resigned at present in a dramatic growth amid huge protest towards her authorities that claimed greater than 100 lives within the final two days.
The announcement of her resignation got here quickly after lots of of protesters defied an indefinite navy curfew and stormed her official residence – ‘Ganabhaban’ – within the capital Dhaka. She had fled by then.
A number of images and movies on social media confirmed protesters vandalising and looting the constructing. Many have been seen carrying away televisions, chairs and tables from what was some of the protected buildings within the nation.
The day witnessed chaotic scenes after supporters of the ruling Awami League descended on the streets to subdue the anti-government protests who defied curfew to collect for the “Lengthy March to Dhaka”.
Some protesters additionally climbed atop a big statue of independence chief Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, Ms Hasina’s father, and started chiselling away on the head with an axe, the visuals confirmed.
No less than 300 individuals have been killed in additional than a month of protests that ended the 15-year rule of Ms Hasina.
Bangladesh’s military chief Normal Waker-Uz-Zaman stated in a broadcast to the nation on state tv on Monday Hasina had resigned and the navy would type an interim authorities.
She has landed on the Hindon Air Drive base in Uttar Pradesh’s Ghaziabad. She is anticipated to go away for London quickly.