Bangladesh has ousted an autocrat. Now for the hard part

Asexits GO , it was dramatic. On August 5th Sheikh Hasina, the prime minister of Bangladesh, fled the country she has ruled with an increasingly harsh grip since 2009. She was driven out by a vast display of people power on the streets of Dhaka, the capital, and will be replaced by a caretaker government, backed by the army and led by , a Nobel peace laureate. Like him, many Bangladeshis are calling it a “second liberation”, half a century after independence.