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Exile of Sheikh Hasina Wajed

Bangladesh · Government / Government of Bangladesh. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.

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Chronological records

2007

Sheikh Hasina Wajed18 April 2007

Government / Government of Bangladesh

Bangladeshs military-backed emergency Government exile opposition leader Sheikh Hasina Wajed as it steps up a massive purge of the crisis-wracked countrys political hierarchy

Sheikh Hasina Wajed22 April 2007

Government / Government of Bangladesh

Bangladesh issues an arrest warrant for opposition leader Sheikh Hasina Wajed as a plane arrives to take her arch rival, the countrys last Prime Minister Khaleda Zia, into exile in Saudi Arabia

Sheikh Hasina Wajed26 April 2007

Government / Government of Bangladesh

Bangladeshs emergency Government backtracks on plans to exile two feuding former Prime Minister's but appears to threaten the women with corruption charges if they stay in the country

Sheikh Hasina Wajed7 May 2007

Government / Government of Bangladesh

Former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina Wajed is greeted by tens of thousands of supporters as she returns to Bangladesh after the military-backed Government abandon plans to force her into exile

Names involved

Sheikh Hasina Wajed

Provenance

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