A series of attacks have targeted properties linked to senior figures of Bangladesh's Awami League, including businesses and murals associated with the party’s legacy, as unrest continues in the country, The Daily Star reported.

Tensions intensified in Dhaka on February 5, 2025, as a group of students stormed the Sheikh Mujibur Rahman Memorial Museum at Dhanmondi-32, long considered a symbolic stronghold of the Mujib family. The violence began unfolding around 8:00 pm, and saw attackers break through the entrance and vandalise the building, chanting slogans against dictatorship and fascism.

However, social media footage showed military personnel arriving at the site and taking up positions in front of the house - likely dispatched by the interim government which couldn’t afford to be seen as still bowing to a violent mobocracy.

According to a report in The Indian Express citing Prothom Alo, the attack followed widespread online calls for vandalism towards Dhanmondi-32 in response to an address by Hasina from abroad. She is currently being in India after fleeing to the country in August 2024. The attackers declared their intent to erase what they termed "Mujibism" from Bangladesh’s political landscape.

The rally was initially planned as a peaceful procession for 9:00 pm but was moved up and turned violent, with marchers arriving from Shahbagh’s National Museum ahead of schedule.

Elsewhere, attacks targeted Awami League leaders' properties. In Cumilla, shops belonging to Ahmed Niaz Pavel, general secretary of Bangladesh's Adarsha Sadar Upazila Awami League, were torched. Pavel, a close ally of former lawmaker AKM Bahauddin Bahar, has remained in hiding since the government's collapse. His residence and dairy farm have also been vandalised. In Sylhet, members of the Student Against Discrimination movement used an excavator to demolish a Mujib mural at the Bangladesh Sylhet Deputy Commissioner’s office.

Protesters accused Hasina’s government of state-led killings and corruption, staging a video exhibition documenting human rights abuses under her rule. A similar attack on a Mujib mural occurred at Begum Rokeya University in Rangpur, where protesters also removed nameplates from dormitories named after Mujib and his wife, Sheikh Fazilatunnesa Mujib. In Khulna, thousands gathered to demolish Sheikh Bari, the family home of Hasina’s cousins, Sheikh Helal Uddin and Sheikh Salauddin Jewel. Protesters, armed with sticks and hammers, used a bulldozer to breach the compound’s gate.

A brief fire was reported on the building’s roof as demonstrators chanted slogans denouncing Mujib-era policies. Meanwhile, Sudha Sadan, the residence of Hasina’s late husband Wajed Miah, was set ablaze in Dhaka’s Dhanmondi district. 

Except for Dhanmondi-32, law enforcement has remained largely absent from the attack sites, with authorities yet to confirm any arrests. The escalating violence highlights deep-seated resentment toward the former ruling party, as opposition groups seek to dismantle symbols of Hasina’s 15-year rule.