A UN report says Bangladesh’s ex-government and security forces killed up to 1,400 protesters, calling it a systematic crackdown.
The UN says the former Bangladesh government used systematic violence to stay in power, with mass killings, arbitrary arrests, and torture reported.
Before prime minister Sheikh Hasina was toppled in a student-led revolution last August, her government cracked down on protesters and others, including by “hundreds of extrajudicial killings”, the United Nations said. Hasina, 77, who fled into exile in neighbouring India, has already defied an arrest warrant to face trial in Bangladesh for crimes against humanity.Asked about Hasina’s personal culpability, UN rights chief Volker Turk told reporters that his office “found reasonable grounds to believe that indeed the top echelons of the previous government were aware, and in fact were involved in… very serious violations”.
OHCHR estimated that “as many as 1,400 people may have been killed” over the 45-day period, the vast majority of them “shot by Bangladesh’s security forces”.The overall death toll given is far higher than the most recent estimate by Bangladesh’s interim government of 834 people killed.“The brutal response was a calculated and well-coordinated strategy by the former government to hold onto power in the face of mass opposition,” Turk said.
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