The as soon as luxurious palace of Bangladesh’s autocratic ex-leader Sheikh Hasina will turn into a museum to honour the revolution that ousted her, the chief of the caretaker authorities stated Monday.
“The museum ought to protect reminiscences of her misrule and the individuals’s anger after they eliminated her from energy,” Nobel Peace Prize winner Muhammad Yunus stated as he toured the battered Ganabhaban palace, the previous official residence of the prime minister.
The 84-year-old microfinance pioneer was appointed the nation’s “chief advisor” after the student-led rebellion that compelled Sheikh Hasina to flee by helicopter to India on August 5.
Sheikh Hasina’s 15-year rule noticed widespread human rights abuses, together with the mass detention and extrajudicial killings of her political opponents, and a Bangladeshi court docket this month issued an arrest warrant for her arrest.
Greater than 700 individuals have been killed, many in a brutal police crackdown, earlier than Sheikh Hasina’s fall.
As she fled, hundreds rushed into her former residence, which the federal government stated was a “image of repression”.
The partitions of the palace, looted and broken within the chaos after Sheikh Hasina escaped, are daubed with graffiti condemning her fallen regime.
The museum will embody a reproduction of the infamous “Home of Mirrors” Aynaghar detention centre operated by Sheikh Hasina’s regime — given its identify as a result of its detainees have been by no means imagined to see every other particular person moreover themselves.
“The Aynaghar ought to remind guests of the torture endured by secret prisoners,” Muhammad Yunus stated.
Sheikh Hasina’s overthrow resulted in not less than two days of chaos, which included the looting of a museum on the house of her father, Bangladesh’s first president Sheikh Mujibur Rahman.
Apurba Jahangir, a press official within the workplace of Muhammad Yunus, stated development would begin by December.
“The museum development hasn’t begun but, however it should begin quickly,” Apurba informed AFP.
Sheikh Hasina has not been seen in public since fleeing Bangladesh.
The 77-year-old’s final official whereabouts was a army airbase close to India’s capital New Delhi.
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