{"id":6577,"date":"2024-08-10T04:26:57","date_gmt":"2024-08-10T04:26:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/?p=6577"},"modified":"2024-08-10T04:26:58","modified_gmt":"2024-08-10T04:26:58","slug":"will-yunus-led-interim-government-bring-bangladesh-out-of-its-dark-era","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/?p=6577","title":{"rendered":"Will Yunus-led interim government bring Bangladesh out of its \u2018dark era\u2019?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

As a new government headed by the country\u2019s only Nobel laureate takes charge, many wonder how it will undo years of ex-PM Sheikh Hasina\u2019s \u2018autocratic rule\u2019.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Protesters storm the official residence of ousted Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina in Dhaka on August 5, 2024 [EPA]<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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Maliha Namlah says she had been holding her breath since Monday when\u00a0student-led protests<\/a>\u00a0in Bangladesh forced longtime Prime Minister\u00a0Sheikh Hasina<\/a>\u00a0to resign and flee the country after weeks of deadly unrest in which more than 300 people were killed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Namlah, 19, was one of the coordinators of the student movement at Jahangirnagar University on the outskirts of the capital, Dhaka. As soon as Hasina\u2019s government fell, her only worry was whether it would be replaced with another military rule in a country that has seen several coups since its independence from Pakistan in 1971.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But the current army chief, General Waker-uz-Zaman, has been hailed for taking charge of a country in turmoil and announcing the formation of an interim government as soon as Hasina fled.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe didn\u2019t fight and shed blood for a military government. We wanted a civilian government that will bring genuine reforms,\u201d Namlah told Al Jazeera on Friday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAnd we are relieved to see that that happened quickly.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Three days after Hasina quit, Muhammad Yunus<\/a>, the South Asian country\u2019s only Nobel laureate, was sworn in<\/a> on Thursday night as the \u201cchief adviser\u201d of a caretaker government tasked to bring peace and democracy, both of which Hasina\u2019s critics said were undermined during her 15 years of \u201cautocratic\u201d rule<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The chief adviser of the caretaker government holds the rank of the prime minister while members of the advisory council are granted the status of ministers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n