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With this, 76-year-old Hasina, who resigned from the premiership and fled to India on August 5 following a mass uprising, now faces 11 cases, including eight for murder, one for abduction, and two for committing crimes against humanity and genocide, in Bangladesh. read more
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Former Bangladesh prime minister Sheikh Hasina. File Image- AFP.
A legal petition was filed to a Bangladeshi court on Sunday, seeking to register a case against former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and 33 others. The application accuses them of perpetrating a “mass killing” through indiscriminate firing at a 2013 rally in Dhaka, organised by Hefazat-e-Islam.
According to the report of Dhaka Tribune newspaper, Babul Sardar Chakhari, chairman of the Bangladesh People’s Party (BPP), applied to the court of Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Zaki-Al-Farabi,
The application accused them of the ”mass murder” during the rally at Shapla Chattar in Motijheel on May 5, 2013.
The court recorded the plaintiff’s statement and said it would pass an order on the issue later.
On Saturday, a murder case was filed against Bangladesh’s former prime minister Sheikh Hasina over the death of a college student during the quota reform protests in the country, the latest in the string of cases filed against her after her ouster.
The case was filed against Hasina, former education minister Mohibul Hassan Chowdhoury Nowfel, and 32 others, including several Awami League leaders, in Chandgaon, bdnews24.com portal reported. An additional 40 to 50 unidentified people have also been made accused in the case, it said.
Over 230 people were killed in Bangladesh in the incidents of violence that erupted across the country following the fall of the Hasina government, taking the death toll to 560 since the anti-quota protests first started in mid-July.
Bangladesh’s International Crimes Tribunal on Wednesday started an investigation against the former premier and nine others on charges of genocide and crimes against humanity that took place from July 15 to August 5 during students’ mass movement against her government.
A complaint was filed on Wednesday with the investigation agency of Bangladesh’s International Crimes Tribunal against Hasina, Awami League general secretary and former road transport and bridges minister Quader, former home minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal, and several other prominent figures within the party.
A team of UN experts will visit Bangladesh next week to investigate the killings of the protesters ahead of and in the aftermath of Sheikh Hasina’s resignation as the prime minister last week, it was announced on Thursday.
An interim government was formed after the fall of the Hasina-led regime, and 84-year-old Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus has been appointed as its Chief Adviser.
With inputs from agencies.
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