The fall of the Hasina regime is welcomed in the US which accused it of friendship with China and seeking to evade IMF control with Chinese loans
from thefreeonline on 8th Aug, 2024 info from RT/ IMF/ Agencies

Nobel Peace Prize-winning economist Muhammad Yunus, known as the “banker to the poor,” will head an interim government in Bangladesh following weeks of deadly demonstrations that forced Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina to resign and flee to India.

Bangladeshi Nobel Peace Prize-winning economist Muhammad Yunus REHMAN ASAD/AFP – shared with thanks
Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus has been appointed after a Bloodbath failed to stop mass protests and the prime minister resigned and fled the country
Yumus is a pro-US economist allied to the IMF which has given Bangladesh the latest ‘strings attached’ loan of $5.5billion, paid out in ‘tranches’ with new conditions on each one, typically granting US corporations access and control over the economy.

The ‘student revolution’ came suspiciously at a time when the US had turned radically against the Hasina led government due to the spread of joint projects with China, a plan for joint military maneuvers and a request for a Soft Loan of $5billion from China which would have undermined the IMF profits and control program.
Muhammad Yunus. Inspiration for the Grameen Foundation and founding member of Grameen Bank which grew to provide collateral-free loans to 7.5 million clients in more than 82,072 villages in Bangladesh and 97% of whom are women.
President of Bangladesh Mohammed Shahabuddin appointed Yunus, 84, on Tuesday – a day after the country’s government was overthrown amid violent protests against discriminatory job quotas. Sheikh Hasina, who resigned as prime minister on Monday, and fled to neighboring India.

Yunus, the founder of microfinance lender Grameen Bank, announced on Wednesday that he had agreed to lead the temporary government, answering the call of student protesters.
“When I was contacted on behalf of the students, I didn’t agree at first. I told them I have a lot of work to finish. But the students repeatedly requested me,” the Daily Star quoted Yunus as saying. “If the students can sacrifice so much, if the people of the country can sacrifice so much, then I also have some responsibility. Then I told the students that I can take the responsibility,” he added.
In reality he seems to have accepted the offer on condition of the shelving’ of the $2m embezzlement and dozens of other charges for which he was out on bail. By ‘coincidence’ next day all the charges seem suspended for now. Yunus and Hasina have been sworn enemies for a generation‘.
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