Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s childhood home was vandalized after her resignation.
Photographer: Fabeha Monir/BloombergChaos in Bangladesh Opens Door to Islamist Extremists
Militants are gaining strength after a tumultuous change in government, creating security concerns across Asia.
Soon after student protesters dramatically took down Bangladesh’s government last month, a group of boys broke into the home of Tureen Afroz, the former chief prosecutor of a tribunal for war crimes committed during the nation’s independence movement in the early 1970s.
They burst into her bedroom, interrogated her about why she wasn’t wearing a hijab — a head covering worn by some Muslim women — and then proceeded to shave off her hair. For days, the youths kept her hostage, stabbing her with pencils and lecturing her about Islam. Afroz worried that they’d rape her young daughter.