A key figure in South Asia, who dominated the political landscape of her country for half a century, ousted Bangladesh prime minister Sheikh Hasina had her dramatic downfall sealed on Monday when she was sentenced to be hanged till death for “crimes against humanity".

In a cruel twist of fate, Sheikh Hasina now stands convicted of what her family once fought while she watches the verdict unfold from exile in neighbouring India.

Once lauded globally for engineering Bangladesh’s rapid economic ascent, the 78-year-old Hasina has seen it all. She survived the 1975 military coup, in which her father, mother, three brothers, and several other family members were assassinated, only because she was abroad.

Hasina was subsequently granted asylum in India under then prime minister Indira Gandhi b

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