Nobel Peace laureate Muhammad Yunus returned home to strife-torn Bangladesh on Thursday, to lead a new interim government after weeks of tumultuous student protests forced Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina to resign and flee to neighbouring India.
Speaking to reporters upon his arrival at Dhaka’s airport, Yunus called for law and order, adding that “hatred and unruliness are the enemies of democracy”.
Yunus is set to be sworn in as chief of a team of advisers at the official residence of President Mohammed Shahabuddin.
Hasina’s Awami League party does not figure in the interim government after she resigned on Monday, following weeks of violence that killed about 300 people and injured thousands.
(Reuters)