Bangladesh protesters vandalise former leader's statue as military takes control
Hundreds of thousands of protesters in Bangladesh march towards the prime minister's residence in the capital Dhaka to celebrate after Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina fled the country in the wake of more than a month of deadly protests.
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00:00We will win! We will win!
00:02Allah Akbar!
00:04We will win! We will win!
00:06We will win! We will win!
00:23I can't express my feelings in words. I am very happy.
00:27We have a new history. I am very happy.
00:31I can't express my feelings in words.
00:33All I want is that all the people who have died,
00:36all the people who have lost their loved ones,
00:38I want them to be happy.
00:40I want their families to be happy.
00:42I want them to be happy.
00:43I want them to be happy.
00:44I want them to be happy.
00:45We are very happy that our country has been liberated.
00:48We have come from a dictatorship.
00:52This is a wake-up call for Bengal.
00:54What we saw in 1971, we saw in 1924.
00:57This is a time of poverty for us.
01:23Independence! Independence!
01:26The international community, I think, continues to keep a close watch
01:30on what the military is doing,
01:32and perhaps even pressure the military
01:34to pursue the policy of democratization in the country.
01:38I think that's what they will do.
01:39And they would want, of course,
01:41as the citizens and the citizenry in Bangladesh,
01:45for the country to be stable again.
01:49The military is a powerful institution.
01:52And so the military would now seemingly be taking over the country
01:59in the meantime to ensure some form of stability.
02:02But the longer it remains under the hands of the military,
02:06I think the unrest will continue.
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