UN Accuses Sheikh Hasina’s Regime of Possible ‘Crimes Against Humanity’ During Bangladesh Students Protests. The UN said Wednesday that the acts might be considered “crimes against humanity” and that the previous government of Bangladesh was responsible for the systematic attacks and killings of demonstrators during its attempt to stay in power last year.
The United Nations alleged that Sheikh Hasina’s government ordered “hundreds of extrajudicial killings” against demonstrators and others prior to her overthrow in a student-led movement last August.
Prior to her overthrow in a student-led revolution last August, the United Nations reported that Sheikh Hasina’s government had carried out “hundreds of extrajudicial killings” and a systematic crackdown on demonstrators and others.
The UN rights office, which released the results of its fact-finding investigation into events that occurred in Bangladesh from July 1 to August 15 of last year, stated that there were reasonable grounds to believe that the crimes against humanity of murder, torture, imprisonment and infliction of other inhumane acts have taken place.
The report released on Wednesday is mostly based on more than 230 private, in-depth interviews with victims, witnesses, protest organizers, rights advocates, and others that were done both online and in Bangladesh. It also includes assessments of medical case files, as well as images, videos, and other documentation.
The committee concluded that throughout the turmoil, which started as demonstrations against civil service job quotas and later grew into broader calls for Hasina’s resignation, security personnel had backed her government.
It was reported that the previous administration used ever more harsh tactics in an attempt to put an end to the uprisings.It estimated that “as many as 1,400 people may have been killed” in that 45-day time period, while thousands were injured.
The rights agency stated that 12 to 13 percent of the dead were youngsters and that the great majority of the victims “were shot by Bangladesh’s security forces.”
The total number of fatalities is significantly greater than the 834 persons who died during the protests, according to the most current estimate from Bangladesh’s interim government.
