Opinion | Sheikh Hasina Returns: Unafraid, Unbowed And Unbroken

Sheikh Hasina is not afraid, has never been afraid, and does not intend to start now. She is going home.

When Sheikh Hasina picked up the phone from her exile home in Delhi and told Reuters that she and her senior Awami League colleagues plan to return to Bangladesh this December, her words were as direct as they have always been. “They may arrest me on my return, they may even kill me," she said. “Still, I have to go. If death comes, I want it to come on my own soil, where my parents are buried and where their blood was shed."

I have had the privilege of working alongside Sheikh Hasina for many years, and I can tell you that sentence did not surprise a single person who has followed her life closely. It is the same sentence, said in different words, that she has been living by for half a century.

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To understand why, you have to go back to a single night in August 1975. Sheikh Hasina was twenty seven years old when a group of army officers stormed her family’s home in Dhaka and killed her father, Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, the founding leader of Bangladesh. Her mother was killed. Her brothers were killed. Nearly her entire family was gone before morning.........

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