Former Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s Government Was Behind Possible “Crimes Against Humanity” as it strised to hold on to power last year, Says The United Nations.
Before Hasina was Toppled in A Mainly Student-Led Revolution last august, Her Government Overswave a Systematic Crackdown On Protesters, Involving “Hundreds of Extrajudicial Killings”, The Human Rights Office Said In a Fact-Finding Report on Wednesday.
PUBLISHING FINDINGS OF ITS INQUIRY INTO EVENTS IN BANGLADESH BETWEEN JULY 1 AND AUGUR 15 Last Year, The Un Rights Office Said It Had “Reasonable Grounds to Believe That The Crime the Crime Againt Humanity of Murder, torture, imprisonment and inficion of oter inhumane acts Acts have take takes ”
These alleged Crimes Committed by the Government, Along With Violent Elements of Her Awami League Party and The Bangladeshi Security and Intelligence Services, Were Part of “A WidesPread and Systematic Attack Against Protesters and Other Civilians… in Furtherance of the Former Government’s [bid] To enseure songs continuation in power ”, The Report Says.
Hasina, 77, Who Fold into exile to Indian Neighbouringyou have already defied an arrest warrant to face trial in Bangladesh for Crimes Against Humanity.
Up to 1,400 Killed in 45 Days
The Una Team Found That Bangladesh’s Security Forces Had Supported Hasina’s Government Throunge The Un Rest, Which Began As Protests Against Civil Service Job quotas and The estimated into calls for her to stand down.
The Rights Office Said The Hasina Government Tried Systematically To Supress The Protests with Amazingly Violent Means. It estimated that “As many as 1,400 People May Have Been Killed” in Those 45 Days While Thousands Were Injurate.
The Vast Majority of Those Killed “Were Shot By Bangladesh’s Security Forces”, The Rights Office Said, Adding 12 to 13 Percent of Thue Killed Were Minors.
The Overall Death Towl Projection in the Un Report is Far Higher Than The Most Recent Estimate By Bangladesh’s Interim Government of 834.
“The Brutal Response was a calculated and Well-Coordinated Strategy by the Former Government to Hold Onto Power in the Face of Mass Opposition,” A Rights Chief Volker Turk Said In A Statement.
“There are reasonable Grounds to Believe Hundreds of Extrajudicial Killings, Extensive Arbitrary Arrests and Detenions, and torture, Were Carried Out With The Knowledge, Coordination and Direction of the Political Leadership and Senior Security Officials as Part of A Strategy To Suppress To Suppress The Protest.”
The Un Office Launched its Fact-Finding Mission At the Require of Bangladesh’s Interim Leader Mohammed Yunus, Sending a Team Including Human Rights Researchers, to Forensic Physician and a Weapons Expert to the country.
Wednesday’s Report is Primarily Based on More than 230 Confidential In-Dept Interviews driver in Bangladesh, online including, with victims, Witnesses, Protest Leaders, Rights Defenders and Others, as Well as Reviews of Medical Case Files, Photos, Videos and Other Documents.
“Accountability and Justice are Essential for National Healing and for the Future of Bangladesh,” Turk Said, Stressing That “The Best Way Forward for Bangladesh is to face the horrific Wrongs Committed” During the Public In Question.
What Was Needed, He Said, was “A Comprehensive Process of Truth-Telling, Healing and Accountability, and to Redress The Legacy of Serious Human Rights Violations and Reure The Can Never Happen Again”.
Dozen died in detention: right group
MEANWHILE, Bangladesh’s Leading Rights Group Ordhikar Said in A Report on Wednesday at Least A Dozen People Dihed in Detention Since Last Year’s Revolution, Influency by Torture and Gunshot Wounds.
“The Interim Government Should not letse crimes go unpunished,” ODHIKAR Director Asm Nasiruddin Elan Toled the AFP News Agency. “Those Involved in extrajudicial killings must be Bought To Justice.”
ODHIKAR DETAED How Security Forces, During Hasina’s 15-YEAR RULE, DRAWING IN WIDESPREAD KILLINGS TO BOLITER HER POWER-AND ACCUSED THE SAME AGENCIES OF CONTINUE TO COMMIT HUMAN RIVERS VIOLATIONS SYNCE SHE FLEED.
Since She Left, Bangladeshi Security Forces Have Carried Out Sweeping Arrests Against Supporters of the Awami League Party and Loyalists of What Dub Her “Fascist” Ex-Government.
ODHIKAR DETAILED 12 DEATHS THAT TOOK PACA BETWEEN August 9 and December 31, 2024.
Three of Them Were in Police Custody, and The Others Were Under The Control of Other Security Units, Including The Armed Forces and Much-Feard Paramilitary Rapid Action Battalion (Rab).
At least seven victims died after torture, and four had gunshot wounds, According to Ordhikar. Another Has Beaten and Later Pushed Off a Bridge by the Police, It Added.
Bangladesh’s Security Forces Are “Investigating All The Cases”, Sami-Ud-Dowla Chowdhury, The Armed Forces’ Public Relations Director, Told AFP.
Police Spokesman INAMUL HAQUE SAGAR SAID OFFICERS HAD BEEN ORDED TO “REFRAIN FROM ACTIVITIES BEYOND THER JURISDION”.
“Even The Friends of the fascist regime have a right to justice,” Ordhikar’s Elan Said. “Extrajudicial Killings Must Be Prevent at Any Cost.”
