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Sheikh Hasina on TIME’s list of 100 most influential people

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Update: 2018-04-20 02:13:00
Sheikh Hasina on TIME’s list of 100 most influential people Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina (File photo)

DHAKA: Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina was included in the US-based Time Magazine's list of the world's 100 most influential people of the year 2018. 

The reputed international magazine put Sheikh Hasina on its annual high-status list of 100 most powerful people.

The Bangladesh premier was given the recognition for her brave humanitarian role under difficult circumstances in sheltering more than one million forcibly displaced Rohingyas who fled violence in their homeland in Myanmar.

The list also includes US President Donald Trump, Chinese President Xi Jinping and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, published on Thursday (April 19).

Time Magazine also published an article on the Bangladesh prime minister acknowledging her unparalleled humanitarian role for the Rohingya people.

“Bearing the legacy of her father, who led Bangladesh's Liberation War, Hasina has never been afraid of a fight,” Meenakshi Ganguly, the South Asia director for Human Rights Watch, writes in the article.

Referring to the huge influx of Rohingyas that began last August to escape atrocities by the Myanmar army, Ganguly noted that as an impoverished country, Bangladesh had not welcomed massive influxes, but Sheikh Hasina accepted the humanitarian challenge and did not turn back the traumatized victims of ethnic cleansing.

Ganguly in the article also recalled Hasina's strong position against military regimes in 1990s and in 2008 to restore democracy in Bangladesh that also brought her the landslide victory in the following national election.

Earlier in 2016, business magazine Fortune ranked Sheikh Hasina the 10th among the world's 50 leaders who were transforming the world and inspiring others to do the same. 

In 2015, business magazine Forbes also included her in a list of 100 most powerful women in the world.

BDST: 1212 HRS, APR 20, 2018
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