Bangladesh’s political landscape has been shaken after an international crimes tribunal sentenced exiled former Prime Minister and Awami League leader Sheikh Hasina and former Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal to death. The verdict, delivered in absentia, follows months of unrest, including the destruction of Hasina’s family homes in Dhaka. In this context, a 2010 video of former Prime Minister Khaleda Zia’s tearful reaction to her eviction from her late husband Ziaur Rahman’s residence has resurfaced online. Zia had accused Hasina’s government of forcibly removing her and humiliating her despite her status as a former head of government and widow of a former president. Her emotional remarks, in which she said she left justice to God and the people, are being widely shared as symbolic of political vengeance and the long-standing rivalry between the two leaders that has defined Bangladesh’s politics for decades.