STAR REPORT

Chief Adviser Prof Muhammad Yunus said that when he took charge, the country was “completely devastated,” like “another Gaza”, where not buildings, but entire institutions, policies, and international relations were destroyed.

“The damage she [deposed prime minister Sheikh Hasina] had done was monumental,” Yunus said in an interview with The Guardian published yesterday.

Hasina has been in India after the ouster of her government amid a student-led mass uprising on August 5 last year.

Yunus’ government has initiated prosecutions against senior police officers accused of extrajudicial killings, shut down secret detention centres, and established human rights commissions. Hasina is facing

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