New Delhi, Aug. 5 -- Former Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Wednesday broke her silence on her 2024 deposition, alleging that the July-August unrest "was not a peaceful student movement", but an organised campaign that weaponised quota reform protests into a "violent political instrument" aimed at regime change.

Speaking virtually at the first press conference in Delhi since her ouster in August 2024 at a Foreign Correspondents Club of South Asia event in the national capital, Hasina's voice broke repeatedly while remembering her father, family and countrymen who were killed in Bangladesh's war of Liberation and since then.

"For the last two years, I watched my beloved Bangladesh suffer...This is not the Bangladesh we built; ...