The fall of Sheikh Hasina
A student protest over job quotas ends a fifteen-year premiership in five weeks.
- When
- Known to
- ± 12 hours
- Era
- Contemporary, Holocene
- Where
- Dhaka, Bangladesh · 23.8103° N, 90.4125° E
Protests against civil service quotas began in July 2024, were met with lethal force, and grew into a national uprising in which around a thousand people were killed. On 5 August Sheikh Hasina fled Bangladesh by helicopter after fifteen years in power. Muhammad Yunus, the Nobel laureate economist she had prosecuted, was installed to lead an interim government.