Chief Adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus has said that
ousted Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina should be extradited if she committed
crimes.
“Why
shouldn't she? If she committed crimes, she should be extradited and brought to
justice," he said, responding to a question, at the New York Times Climate
Forward event here on Wednesday.
Sheikh
Hasina resigned to the President and fled to India on August 5 last in the face
of student-people revolution.
Prof
Yunus is now in New York to attend the UN General Assembly.
Asked
if he has any plans to run for office, responded in the negative, questioning,
"Do I look like someone who would run?"
The chief adviser said he did not have a timeframe for holding the general
elections in Bangladesh. Several commissions that were formed are expected to
provide their reform recommendations in the coming months and after that, the
date for polls will be fixed, he added.
About
mob justice, Prof Yunus said foreign news outlets are publishing coloured news
items, asking foreign reporters to visit Bangladesh and produce reports based
on what they observed.
Speaking
at the event, he said the Paris Agreement, the global accord for limiting the
effects of climate change, would not work as long as the world sticks with the
current economic system.
That system is centered on maximising profits, creating wealth for a tiny group
of people and generating massive waste, he said. "The economic system we
have built is a key to the destruction of this planet. Humans had created a
self-destructive civilisation," he said.
The 2006 Nobel laureate said no matter what changes were made to the agreement,
it would not make a difference until the world's underlying systems were
redesigned.
Developing
countries like Bangladesh should not have to bear the burden of the climate
damage done by rich countries, he said.