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Bangladesh's finance pioneer Muhammad Yunus is escorted by French police personnel as he arrives at Roissy-Charles de Gaulle Airport, north of Paris on Aug. 7, enroute to Bangladesh, where he is set to lead a caretaker government after mass protests ousted premier Sheikh Hasina. to lead a caretaker government after a student-led uprising ended the 15-year rule of Sheikh Hasina.
But the military on the weekend turned on Hasina, and she was forced to flee to neighboring India as millions of Bangladeshis celebrated her exit. Yunus had traveled abroad this year while on bail after being sentenced to six months in jail on a charge condemned as politically motivated, and which a Dhaka court on Aug. 7 acquitted him of.
"I expect that a national government will be formed with everyone's consent in a beautiful way," Moynul Islam Pintu told AFP. Hasina, who was accused of rigging the January elections and widespread human rights abuses, deployed security forces to quash the protests. Ex-prime minister and BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia, 78, was also released from years of house arrest, while some political prisoners were freed.
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