Bangladesh Installs Interim Government After Authoritarian Toppled

Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina had ruled the South Asian country with a vice-like grip for 15 years, and as recently as this spring, she seemed poised to continue in that way. After January elections that the opposition boycotted and that the U.S. State Department assessed were neither free nor fair, she claimed a fourth straight term as prime minister.

But over the last month, Hasina proved yet another case study of how political power can be lost gradually, then suddenly. Weeks of student-led protests swelled into a popular uprising that succeeded in ousting Hasina last Monday, causing the 76-year-old ruler to flee to neighboring India just hours before the demonstrators took over her residence.

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