2024 in Review: Bangladesh’s political earthquake
The Take
Al Jazeera
4.7 • 748 Ratings
🗓️ 26 December 2024
⏱️ 17 minutes
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Summary
As the year wraps up, we're looking back at ten of the episodes that defined 2024 at The Take. This originally aired on August 6. None of the dates, titles, or other references have been changed.
Bangladesh’s Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has resigned and fled to India. This happens after a month of student-led protests calling for her resignation. Nearly 300 have died as a result of clashes between protesters and security forces. What will this mean for Bangladesh?
In this episode:
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Zulkarnain Saer Khan (@ZulkarnainSaer), Investigative Journalist
Episode credits:
This episode was produced by Khaled Soltan and Chloe K. Li, with Duha Mosaad, Veronique Eshaya, Spencer Cline, Phillip Lanos, Mohannad al-Melhem, Hisham Abu Salah, and our host Kevin Hirten, in for Malika Bilal.
Our sound designer is Alex Roldan. Joe Plourde mixed this update. Our lead of audience development and engagement is Aya Elmileik. Munera Al Dosari and Adam Abou-Gad are our engagement producers.
Alexandra Locke is The Take’s executive producer. Ney Alvarez is Al Jazeera's head of audio.
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| 0:00.0 | Al Jazeera Podcasts. |
| 0:07.0 | Hi, Malika here. |
| 0:13.5 | As 2024 draws to a close, we're looking back at stories that defined our year. |
| 0:19.2 | Among them were the student protests in Bangladesh. |
| 0:22.9 | It started out with young people rallying against government job quotas for descendants of the country's |
| 0:28.3 | freedom fighters, and it quickly turned into a movement about much more. |
| 0:33.1 | The episode we're sharing today is about the political earthquake that resulted from those protests, |
| 0:38.5 | Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's resignation and dramatic escape. |
| 0:42.9 | Bangladesh is still grappling with the aftermath. |
| 0:46.3 | This episode aired August 6, 2024. |
| 0:49.7 | All dates and references are from that time. |
| 0:52.6 | Here's the show. Today, a political earthquake in the streets of Bangladesh. |
| 1:09.6 | After weeks of deadly protests and crackdowns, |
| 1:13.0 | Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has resigned and fled the country. |
| 1:19.2 | I'm Kevin Horton, and this is the take. |
| 1:35.0 | You're the Prime Minister has resigned from her post. |
| 1:40.9 | This was Army Chief General Walker Uzaman on Monday in an address for the nation. |
| 1:46.0 | We will form an interim government for now to run the country. |
| 1:55.8 | Bangladesh now faces a very uncertain future, but how did we get here? People are saying it is our second independence since we got independent from Pakistan in 1971. They're saying that |
| 2:02.6 | 5th of August would become our second independence day in the history of Bangladesh. |
| 2:10.9 | I'm Zulkana and Sair Khan. I'm an investigative journalist and researcher. I'm a |
| 2:16.4 | contract with Al Jaze zero's investigative unit. |
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