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Hasina Wazed, Sheik

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Hasina Wazed, Sheik (1947– )

Bangladeshi political leader, prime minister and defence minister from 1996. She led the centrist Awami League (AL) back to power in 1996 after an interval of 21 years.

The daughter of the country's first president, Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, who was assassinated in 1975, Hasina escaped death when her father and other family members were murdered. She returned from exile abroad in 1981 and assumed the leadership of the AL a year later. She led campaigns that ousted the military dictatorship of General Ershad in 1990 and the Bangladesh National Party (BNP) government of Begum Khaleda Zia in 1996. New investigations into the killings of August 1975 raised concerns about Hasina's political motives, prompting the BNP to boycott parliament.



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