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View all search resultsYunus and USAID Administrator Samantha Power discussed ways in which the US agency "might best support the interim government" on human rights, governance and economic issues, USAID spokesperson Shejal Pulivarti said in a statement.
Indonesians can empathize with their brothers and sisters in Bangladesh from our own experience of forging our path to democracy in the not-too-distant past, and wish them well in recovering from the turbulent past decades toward building their future.
About 300 people, many of them university and college students, were killed in the demonstrations that began in July with students demonstrating against quotas in government jobs before spiraling into violent protests to oust Hasina, who had ruled Bangladesh for 20 of the last 30 years.
The recent developments in Bangladesh, which culminated this week in autocrat Sheikh Hasina’s ouster and fleeing the country, is a cautionary tale and a lesson for regimes in the Asia-Pacific that continue to ignore the intangible values of democracy and human rights.