The cry has grown in popularity among youthful demonstrators in Bangladesh, who are demanding that their prime leader resign.
Hearing those sentiments on the streets just a month ago would have been inconceivable; Ms Hasina, 76, has dominated the South Asian nation of 170 million with an iron fist since 2009.
However, she is caught in a fatal impasse. An indefinite curfew has been imposed across Bangladesh, and there are fears of further bloodshed as demonstrators – estimated to number in the hundreds of thousands – prepare for a march in the capital Dhaka.
Will the protests, which are among the largest the country has ever seen, remove Sheikh Hasina?
She has remained defiant and condemned the agitators.
Anisul Huq, the law minister, told the news that requests for her resignation are “unjustified” and that the demonstrators were reacting emotionally.
Ms. Hasina offered to sit down and talk to the protest leaders, but they declined. Her intransigence demonstrates that she is unwilling to stand down without a struggle, which raises concerns about the possibility of further carnage.
Sheikh Hasina, daughter of Bangladesh’s founding president, is the world’s longest-serving female head of government.
Her 15 years in power have been fraught with claims of forced disappearances, extra-judicial assassinations, and the crushing of opposition figures and her opponents. She denies the charges, and her administration frequently accuses the main opposition parties of them.
