Protesters demolish Sheikh Bari in Khulna

In protest against Sheikh Hasina’s online speech announcement, while she remains in India following her downfall in the mass uprising, protesters demolished Sheikh Bari in Khulna.

At around 9:00 pm on Wednesday, the protesters began vandalizing the house while chanting slogans against Sheikh Hasina and the Awami League.

Earlier, the Anti-Discrimination Student Movement announced a counter-program in response to the declaration of Sheikh Hasina’s online speech addressing the student community.

They called for a “Bulldozer Procession” to demolish Sheikh Bari, which had long been a center of power in Khulna and the southern region.

At the time of writing this report, the destruction of the house was still ongoing.

On August 4 last year, the day before Sheikh Hasina’s government collapsed on August 5, students had already launched an attack on Sheikh Bari in Khulna.

That day, waves of enraged students repeatedly vandalized the house and later set it on fire.

Since the afternoon of February 5, multiple coordinators of the Anti-Discrimination Student Movement in Khulna posted on their Facebook timelines, calling for the destruction of Sheikh Bari.

The two-story house, surrounded by red walls, is located on Sher-e-Bangla Road in the metropolitan area.

It has no official name or signboard, but everyone refers to it as "Sheikh Bari."

This house belongs to five cousins of the ousted Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.