Still raging at exiled former Bangladeshi dictator Sheikh Hasina, an angry mob in Dhaka on Wednesday set fire to her childhood home, an abode that had been converted to a history museum in honor of her late father and the country’s first president, Sheikh Mujibur Rahman. Then, after the flames had died down, the mob brought an excavator and knocked down the remains of the house.
Missing from the BBC’s reporting on the incident is whether any of the protestors pissed on the charred rubble, though that would probably be safe bet. In a Facebook livestream after her home was destroyed, Hasina condemned the attack and demanded “justice,” vowing “they can demolish a building, but they can’t erase history.” Rahman, who was executed by a military junta just a few years after leading Bangladesh’s war of independence against Pakistan, is still seen as a national hero, though obviously that image has taken a hit after 20 years of misrule by his daughter, who fled to India last August amid massive civil unrest. The interim government led by Muhammad Yunus has been trying to get her extradited and presumably killed by an angry mob before she could face trial.