The daughter of a revolutionary who led Bangladesh to independence, she presided over breakneck economic growth.
- Sheikh Hasina once helped rescue Bangladesh from military rule but her long rule came to a sudden end on Aug 5 as
She promised last year to turn all of Bangladesh into a “prosperous and developed country” but around 18 million young Bangladeshis are out of work, according to government figures.Ms Hasina was 27 and travelling abroad when renegade military officers murdered her father, prime minister Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, and her mother and three brothers in a 1975 coup.
The charges were dropped and they contested an election the following year that Ms Hasina won in a landslide. She had been in power ever since. Bangladesh, one of the world’s poorest countries when it gained independence from Pakistan in 1971, has grown an average of more than six percent each year since 2009.
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