Video: What Remains Of Indira Gandhi Centre, Torched Amid Dhaka Violence
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Inaugurated in March 2010, the Indira Gandhi Cultural Centre promoted bilateral cultural ties between India and Bangladesh by organising seminars and workshops.
Amid chaos in Bangladesh - where violent protests over a jobs quota has seen over 400 people deaths and the enforced resignation of Sheikh Hasina as Prime Minister - a sobering video has emerged of destruction wrought on the Indira Gandhi Cultural Centre in Dhaka's Dhanmondi area. #WATCH | Bangladesh: Aftermath of looting and arson at Indira Gandhi Cultural Centre, Dhaka. Violent unrest erupted in the national capital yesterday, 5th August.(Video Source: Reuters) pic.twitter.com/yObqaEbMtp
On Monday as violence raged across the Bangladeshi capital - shocking videos shared online showed vehicles set ablaze and homes of ruling Awami League leaders vandalised - a mob descended on and set fire to the cultural centre and Bangabandhu Bhaban, which is a museum dedicated to Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, Mrs Hasina's father and the country's tallest leader, who was assassinated in 1975.
The video, sourced from Reuters and shared online by ANI, shows the building's charred exterior of and the contrast between the scorch marks and verdant green of the lawns paint a stark image. On the front, where once the sign read Indira Gandhi Cultural Centre, now only the letters 'G', 'N', 'A' remain, with broken windows and twisted metal rods from an awning staring mournfully.
