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In the final hours of Sheikh Hasina's time as Prime Minister of Bangladesh, military brass reportedly refused orders to suppress protests that had gripped the country, effectively bringing an end to her 15 years of rule.

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Hasina, the country's longest-serving leader, is the daughter of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman — the man who secured Bangladesh's independence from Pakistan in 1971. He and several members of Hasina's family were assassinated during a coup in 1975.

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She is credited with turning around Bangladesh's economy and lifiting millions of people out of poverty. However, she has long been accused of being an authoritarian by taking measures such as kidnapping and extrajudicial killing of her detractors and political opponents.

Her recent troubles began after protests to scrap quotas for government jobs were met with harsh police crackdowns and killed upwards of 400 people according to local reports — triggering a wider movement that called for her removal and justice for those were killed.

On Monday, as large numbers of protestors ignored a national curfew and stormed Hasina's palace in Dhaka, she resigned and fled the country by military helicopter.

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Prior to that moment, according to two army sources who spoke to Reuters, the country's army chief Gen. Waker-Uz-Zaman held a meeting with his generals and decided that troops would not open fire on civilians to enforce the curfew. This message was then passed onto Hasina, according to another source, signalling to her that she no longer had the army's support.

Though she is the daughter of the country's founder and started off as a pro-democracy icon, Hasina's rule slid into authoritarianism by jailing, kidnapping and killing her opponents. It's no surprise that after so long, Bangladeshis had had enough and demanded her removal from power.

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Bangladesh was a failed state when Hasina took the reins and now it's becoming prosperous. After all she has done for the country, it's disappointing to see the lack of gratitude from its people. After this treatment, Hasina will not seek to return to power.

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