Muhammad Yunus was summoned by student leaders for two protests.
Dhaka:
Bangladesh has been witnessing a “student-led revolution” after the ouster of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and the South Asian nation's new interim leader, Muhammad Yunus.
“This is a revolution, a student-led revolution,” the Nobel laureate said in a group interview on Sunday.
“There is no doubt about this because work in everything or the government will collapse.”
Yunus, 84, left Europe for Bangladesh on the fifth anniversary of the protests, after student leaders mentioned him in two protests that Hasina broke up and asked him to guide democratic reforms.
He said: I respect you, and I admire you. He said: “You are an incomparable Fez.”
Then Yunus said to them: “Because you ordered me to do this, I am writing down your request.”
Several key allies of Hasina, whose tenure ended with her abrupt resignation and flight to India within a week, later resigned.
Among them were the former chief justice and governor of the central bank.
They will receive a final warning from the students to drop the charges against them, but Younes said their expulsion was done legally.
“They wanted a new court,” he said of the students. “They were there and I asked the chief justice to resign and pressured him to resign.”
“I'm sure they will find a legal way to justify everything, because legally… all the steps are sequential,” he said.
– “Oh monstro se foi” –
Hasina, 76, fled from a helicopter as protesters flooded the streets of Dhaka, marking a milestone in her long government.
His government has been accused of widespread human rights abuses, including the extrajudicial killing of thousands of his political opponents.
“Finally, at this moment, the monster disappeared,” Yunus said.
However, despite the wave of popular support for him, Mr. Yunus warned that his interim government would face difficult decisions.
“The moment you start making decisions, some people are going to enjoy your decisions, and some people are not going to enjoy your decisions,” he said. “That’s obviously the way it works.”
Younes made the comments during an informal press conference on Sunday evening, at a government property used as a temporary government headquarters.
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Yunus won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2006 for his pioneering work in microfinance, which is credited with helping thousands of Bangladeshis escape extreme poverty.
He assumed the position of “senior advisor” to the interim administration – all civilian colleagues, except the stationed brigadier general.
He said last week he wanted elections to be held “within a few months.”
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