“IN DR YUNUS WE TRUST”
“In Dr Yunus, we trust,” Asif Mahmud, a key leader of the Students Against Discrimination (SAD) group, wrote on Facebook.
The military on Tuesday reshuffled several top generals, demoting some seen as close to Hasina, and sacking Ziaul Ahsan, a commander of the feared and US-sanctioned Rapid Action Battalion paramilitary force.
Ex-prime minister and BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia, 78, was also released from years of house arrest, a presidential statement and her party said.
Streets in the capital were largely peaceful on Tuesday – with traffic resuming, shops opening and international flights resuming at Dhaka’s airport – but government offices were mainly closed a day after chaotic violence in which at least 122 people were killed.
Millions of Bangladeshis flooded the streets of Dhaka to celebrate after Waker’s announcement on Monday – and jubilant crowds also stormed and looted Hasina’s official residence.
“We have been freed from a dictatorship”, said Sazid Ahnaf, 21, comparing the events to the independence war that split the nation from Pakistan more than five decades ago.
