The head of Bangladesh’s caretaker the government, Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus, declared Monday that the former prime minister Sheikh Hasina’s palace will be turned into a museum to honor the revolution that overthrew her.
During his tour of the damaged Ganabhaban palace, Yunush stated that the museum should preserve memories of Sheikh Hasina’s purported misrule and the people’s ire when they ousted her from office.
After Sheikh Hasina was forced to flee to India by helicopter on August 5 due to a student-led insurrection, the 84-year-old pioneer of microfinance was named the nation’s “chief advisor.”
Sheikh Hasina presided over massive violations of human rights during her 15-year reign, including the extrajudicial executions and mass detentions of political opponents. A Bangladeshi court issued an arrest order this month for her.
More than 700 individuals were slain in a ruthless police crackdown prior to Hasina’s demise. Her former home was attacked by thousands as she escaped, and the government called it a “symbol of repression.”
Graffiti denouncing Hasina’s overthrown rule is all over the palace walls, which were destroyed and plundered in the violence that followed her escape.
A copy of Hasina’s regime’s notorious “House of Mirrors” Aynaghar detention facility, so called because inmates were only allowed to see themselves, will be on display at the museum.
“The Aynaghar should remind visitors of the torture endured by secret prisoners,” Yunus stated.
At least two days of unrest followed Hasina’s fall, during which time a museum at the residence of her father, Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, the first president of Bangladesh, was ransacked.
Yunus’s office publicity official, Apurba Jahangir, said building would start by December.
“The museum construction hasn’t begun yet, but it will start soon,” Apurba stated to AFP.
Since leaving Bangladesh, Sheikh Hasina has not been spotted in public. Officially, the 77-year-old was last seen at a military airbase close to New Delhi, the capital of India.
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Source: HT
