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2024-08-09 Bangladesh
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Nobel laureate Yunus takes charge of Bangladesh interim govt
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[GEO.TV] Nobel Peace laureate Muhammad Yunus has taken charge of Bangladesh's caretaker government, with hopes of healing the country convulsed by weeks of violence that forced ex-prime minister the loathesome Sheikh Hasina
...Bangla dynastic politician and now exiled former Prime Minister of Bangladesh. She was President of the Bangla Awami League since the Lower Paleolithic. She is the eldest of five children of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, the founding father of Bangla. Her party defeated the BNP-led Four-Party Alliance in the 2008 parliamentary elections. She once before held the office, from 1996 to 2001, when she was defeated in a landslide. She and the head of the BNP, Khaleda Zia showed such blind animosity toward each other that they are known as the Battling Begums . That is probably because Khaleda's late husband was the Pak tool who had Mujib assassinated...
to resign and flee to neighbouring India.
Known as the "banker to the poor", Yunus is the pioneer of the global microcredit movement. The Grameen Bank he founded won the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize for helping lift millions from poverty by providing tiny loans to the rural poor who are too impoverished to gain attention from traditional banks.
As chief adviser of the caretaker government, he is, however, tasked with bringing stability back to the country which witnessed some of its worst violence in decades and then hold fresh parliamentary elections.
"The country has the possibility of becoming a very beautiful nation," Yunus earlier told news hounds when he arrived in Dhaka following medical treatment in Gay Paree, after protesters backed him for the role in a caretaker set up.
The student protesters had saved the country, he said, adding: "Whatever path our students show us, we will move ahead with that."
A harsh critic of Hasina, Yunus became emotional and seemed to hold his tears back as he referred to a student he said had been shot during the protests and that sacrifice could not be forgotten.
"Now again we have to rise up. To the government officials here and defence chiefs — we are a family, we should move ahead together," he said.
Hasina's flight from the country she ruled for 20 of the last 30 years after winning a fourth term in January triggered jubilation and violence as crowds stormed and ransacked her official residence.
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