Dhaka
\nBangladesh\u2019s ousted premier Sheikh Hasina should \u201ckeep quiet\u201d while exiled in India until she is brought home for trial, interim leader Muhammad Yunus told Indian media on Thursday.
\nHasina, 76, fled to India by helicopter one month ago as protesters marched on her palace in a dramatic end to her iron-fisted rule of 15 years.
\nAn interim government led by Nobel laureate Yunus has been under public pressure to demand her extradition and trial over the hundreds of demonstrators killed during the weeks of unrest that ultimately toppled her.
\n\u201cIf India wants to keep her until the time Bangladesh wants her back, the condition would be that she has to keep quiet,\u201d Yunus, 84, told the Press Trust of India news agency.
\n\u201cSitting in India, she is speaking and giving instructions. No one likes it. It\u2019s not good for us or for India.\u201d
\nHasina has remained in India, her former government\u2019s biggest patron and benefactor, since her August 5 overthrow, inflaming tensions between the two South Asian neighbours.
\nShe made a public statement the week after her arrival calling for Bangladeshis to gather in Dhaka to mark the 1975 assassination of her father, independence hero Sheikh Mujibur Rahman.
\nHasina\u2019s comments were seen as a provocative effort to galvanise members of her Awami League party and undermine law and order in the fragile first days after Yunus took office.
\nThe gathering was prevented by a counter-demonstration outside her childhood home in the capital by a mob that beat suspected Awami League supporters with sticks and rods.
\nYunus did not say whether a formal extradition request had been made to India. His government has avoided committing itself to demanding her return.
\n\u2018Killer Hasina\u2019
\nHasina\u2019s government was accused of widespread human rights abuses, including the mass detention and extrajudicial killing of her political opponents.
\nNumerous criminal cases have been lodged against Hasina and senior Awami League figures over the deaths of protesters in a police crackdown on the student-led uprising that ultimately ousted her.
\nThousands attended a demonstration in Dhaka to mark one month since Hasina\u2019s toppling and to remember those killed during the unrest, with some chanting demands for the hanging of the \u201ckiller Hasina\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Dhaka Bangladesh\u2019s ousted premier Sheikh Hasina should \u201ckeep quiet\u201d while exiled in India until she is brought home for trial, interim leader Muhammad Yunus told Indian media on Thursday. Hasina, 76, fled to India by helicopter one month ago as protesters marched on her palace in a dramatic end to her iron-fisted rule of 15 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":429491,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-429466","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world"},"yoast_head":"\n