Archive · 5 Aug 2026
Sheikh Hasina Vows Return to Bangladesh Amid Democracy Struggle
Sheikh Hasina was the leader of Bangladesh, a country in South Asia.
Protests happened in 2024, and she left the country.
Recently she spoke to reporters through a video call.
She told them she will go back to Bangladesh someday, even if something bad happens to her.
She became very sad when she talked about her father, Sheikh Mujibur Rahman.
He was the father of the nation, and he was killed during a military coup in 1975.
She also honored three million people who died as martyrs in the country's war of liberation.
She asked other countries to support the people of Bangladesh in their fight for democracy.
Democracy is a way of running a country where the people choose their leaders.
She believes the protests that made her leave were not just students asking for change, but a planned attempt to remove her from power.
Former Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina said in a virtual address that she will return to Bangladesh no matter what fate awaits her.
She broke down emotionally while paying tribute to her father, Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, who was assassinated during a military coup on 15 August 1975.
Hasina said she was 'forced away' from her country but 'never separated' from her people.
She called the July-August 2024 unrest that led to her ouster an 'organised campaign' aimed at regime change, not a 'peaceful student movement'.
She asked the international community to support her nation's 'struggle' for democracy.
- Who
- Sheikh Hasina, former Prime Minister of Bangladesh, speaking via video link in an address hosted by the Foreign Correspondents' Club (FCC) of South Asia.
- What
- Hasina vowed to return to Bangladesh, paid emotional tribute to her assassinated father Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, and described the unrest that ousted her as an organised regime-change campaign.
- When
- The virtual address was given on a Wednesday; the unrest she discussed occurred in July-August 2024.
- Where
- Bangladesh, the country she says she will return to; the address itself was delivered virtually.
- Why
- She said she was 'forced away' from her country but never separated from her people, and she urged the international community to back Bangladesh's 'struggle' for democracy.
Student movement framing
Hasina's framing
Nature of the July-August 2024 unrest
Student movement framing
The unrest was a peaceful student movement seeking democratic change.
Hasina's framing
Hasina says it was an organised campaign aimed at regime change, not a peaceful student movement.
- Speaker
- Sheikh Hasina, former Prime Minister of Bangladesh
- Event
- Virtual address to media representatives
- Host
- Foreign Correspondents' Club (FCC) of South Asia
- Core pledge
- She will return to Bangladesh
- Father
- Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, assassinated 15 August 1975
- Referenced unrest
- July-August 2024 protests that led to her ouster
- Her characterisation
- Organised campaign aimed at regime change, not a peaceful student movement
- Call to international community
- Back Bangladesh's struggle for democracy