Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina resigned on Monday (August 5) and fled the country, multiple sources said, as more people were killed in some of the worst violence since the birth of the South Asian nation more than five decades ago.
With her spectacles and ready smile, Bangladesh's prime minister Sheikh Hasina may give the impression of a harmless grandmother.
Hundreds more were the victims of extra-judicial killings, and 280 died at the hands of the security forces in the last few weeks alone, as popular feeling against her rule reached fever pitch and the government responded with its trademark brutality. Her trump card is likely to be her extensive family links in Britain, most notably her beloved niece, Labour's Treasury minister Tulip Siddiq.
Perhaps most strikingly, video footage from UK meetings of her aunt's ruling party, the Awami League, twice shows Ms Siddiq thank them for helping her get elected as an MP. But there has been far less transparency over these connections in Ms Siddiq's political campaigning. As a child, she met Nelson Mandela and Mother Teresa and, as recently as 2013, she was even photographed alongside her aunt and mother at the Kremlin with Vladimir Putin.
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