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In her first extensive conversation since leaving Dhaka, former Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina said the events that unfolded immediately after her departure from Dhaka, including Muhammad Yunus’s rapid takeover, immunity for last year’s rioters, and the dissolution of a judicial inquiry, make it clear that her ouster was not spontaneous but the result of a planned power shift.

In an exclusive interview with CNN-News18’s Manoj Gupta, Hasina said she initially viewed the unrest as a violent escalation of the quota protests, which by early August had turned into a “state of lawlessness led by a violent mob of radical agitators". But she insists that the real nature of the transition only became visible after she had already left. “It was only after the eve

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