Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina forced to flee

This is one of the places that embodied the old power. The residence of the Prime Minister abandoned to a crowd eager for revenge. Everything that represents authority is destroyed. Each room is visited and then looted without resistance. The police let it happen and give their support to the demonstrators. In Dhaka, the capital, scenes of jubilation at every crossroads. There are thousands of people, one mostly young people, who celebrate the beginning of a new era in the streets.

Until her discreet escape on Monday, August 5, by helicopter, Sheikh Hasina ruled Bangladesh with an iron fist. Prime minister since the late 1990s and then from 2009, she reigned without concession for fifteen years in a country eaten away by corruption and in a fragile economic situation. What will lose it is the reform of the system of quotas reserved for public employment. The street protests and the demonstrations are repressed in blood with a death toll of 300 last month. The head of the army announced the formation of a provisional government. The military has already taken up positions around the sensitive points and in the main arteries of the capital.