Bangladesh's fugitive ex-leader Sheikh Hasina warned Wednesday that holding elections without her party -- the first since her overthrow -- was "sowing the seeds" of further division in her country.
In written responses to AFP, her first interview since being ousted, Hasina also condemned her crimes against humanity trial as a "jurisprudential joke", adding she believed a guilty verdict was "preordained".
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