Jago News Desk :
Three-time Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina is on the list of 2018 TIME magazine world’s most influential people published on Thursday.
U.S president Donald Trump, Japanese Premier Shinzo Abe and North Korean President Kim Jong-un have also been included on the list. The others in the top 100 of the list include Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia Mohammed bin Salman, Indian national cricket team skipper Virat Kohli, Indian actress Deepika Padukone, Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi and South Korean President Moon Jae-in. In the profile of Sheikh Hasina, Meenakshi Ganguly, South Asia director for Human Rights Watch, wrote: “I first met Sheikh Hasina in the 1990s, when she was fiercely campaigning to end military rule in Bangladesh. Our last meeting was in 2008, when she was campaigning against another military regime. The following year she became Prime Minister after a
landslide election victory.” Bearing the legacy of her father, who led Bangladesh’s liberation war, Hasina has never been afraid of a fight. So when several hundred thousand ethnic Rohingya refugees started streaming into Bangladesh last August to escape atrocities by the Myanmar army, she accepted the humanitarian challenge. An impoverished country, Bangladesh had not welcomed massive influxes of refugees in the past, but she could hardly turn back the traumatized victims of ethnic cleansing, she also said.
Three-time Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina is on the list of 2018 TIME magazine world’s most influential people published on Thursday.
U.S president Donald Trump, Japanese Premier Shinzo Abe and North Korean President Kim Jong-un have also been included on the list. The others in the top 100 of the list include Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia Mohammed bin Salman, Indian national cricket team skipper Virat Kohli, Indian actress Deepika Padukone, Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi and South Korean President Moon Jae-in. In the profile of Sheikh Hasina, Meenakshi Ganguly, South Asia director for Human Rights Watch, wrote: “I first met Sheikh Hasina in the 1990s, when she was fiercely campaigning to end military rule in Bangladesh. Our last meeting was in 2008, when she was campaigning against another military regime. The following year she became Prime Minister after a
landslide election victory.” Bearing the legacy of her father, who led Bangladesh’s liberation war, Hasina has never been afraid of a fight. So when several hundred thousand ethnic Rohingya refugees started streaming into Bangladesh last August to escape atrocities by the Myanmar army, she accepted the humanitarian challenge. An impoverished country, Bangladesh had not welcomed massive influxes of refugees in the past, but she could hardly turn back the traumatized victims of ethnic cleansing, she also said.
