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Members of the Chhatra Dal, the affiliate student wing of the BNP, also gathered at the Central Shaheed Minar. Nearly a thousand leaders and activists of the organisation chanted slogans demanding trials for the ousted Hasina administration while waving the national and party flags. read more
 "Khaleda Zia's party stages sit-in, calls for arrest & trial of ex-PM Sheikh Hasina")
People participate in a protest march against Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and her government to demand justice for the victims killed in the recent countrywide deadly clashes, in Dhaka, Bangladesh, Saturday, Aug. 3, 2024.- Image- AP
Former Bangladesh premier Khaleda Zia’s party on Thursday staged sit-in protest across the country, demanding the arrest and trial of ousted former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina who resigned on August 5 and left following massive protests against her government.
Activists and workers of the Dhaka Metropolitan unit of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) gathered at the Baitul Mukarram National Mosque’s South Gate, in front of Hasina’s Awami League party’s offices, and at the Central Shaheed Minar to press for their demands.
In an interview on Thursday, De-facto foreign minister, Mohammad Touhid Hossain said that Bangladesh is considering whether to request India to extradite the former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina as legal cases including murder charges continue to mount against her.
Hossain also said that while he did not want to speculate, Hasina is now facing “numerous cases.” Should the country’s home and law ministries decide, Bangladesh may need to request her “return to Bangladesh,” he said.
An interim government headed by Nobel Laureate Muhammad Yunus was sworn in on August 8 along with 16 advisers to lead the government. Over 230 people died in Bangladesh in the incidents of violence that erupted across the country following the fall of the Hasina government on August 5, taking the death toll to 560 during the three weeks of violence.
The interim government has already initiated an investigation against Hasina and nine others on charges of genocide and crimes against humanity that took place from July 15 to August 5 during the students’ mass movement against her government.
Activists and workers of the Dhaka Metropolitan unit of the BNP and its affiliate organisations are holding sit-in programmes at the Baitul Mukarram National Mosque’s South Gate, in front of the Awami League offices, and at the Central Shaheed Minar to demand that ‘autocrat’ Hasina and her ‘accomplices’ be brought to justice for the loss of lives in the recent violence.
Several hundred BNP activists also gathered in front of the BNP’s central offices in Naya Paltan. BNP Dhaka City South Convenor Rafiqul Islam Majnu led the protests at Baitul Mukarram on Thursday.
“We have announced a programme for today. The BNP and its affiliate organisations are taking part in the programme in Dhaka and across the country. We have one demand – the arrest and trial of fascist autocrat Sheikh Hasina and her accomplices. They have conducted a brutal genocide in Bangladesh.” Over a hundred activists and leaders of the Savar Jubo Dal were in front of the destroyed Awami League offices on Bangabandhu Avenue. They chanted slogans calling for Hasina to be brought to justice.
The Dhaka Metropolitan Unit of the BNP and the Jubo Dal – the youth wing of the BNP also held marches in Malibagh, Mouchak, Shahjahanpur, and Kaptan Bazar. The protest by the BNP came on the 49th anniversary of the assassination of the country’s founder and deposed prime minister Hasina’s father Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman.
Several students and general people this morning were seen near Mujibur Rahman’s residence in Dhanmondi-32 attacking and obstructing people apparently going there to pay their respects.
According to reports, a United Nations team will travel to Bangladesh to investigate “atrocities” committed during the unrest that toppled premier Sheikh Hasina last week, the country’s interim government said Thursday.
Earlier today, Bangladesh’s International Crimes Tribunal said it launched an investigation against former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and nine others for alleged genocide and crimes against humanity committed between July 15 and August 5 during the student-led mass movement against her government.
Meanwhile, a Dhaka court on Thursday directed the police to submit the probe report by September 15 in the case against Sheikh Hasina and six others regarding the death of grocery shop owner Abu Saeed, who was killed in police firing during the quota protests in Mohammadpur on July 19.
After Hasina’s resignation, a caretaker government led by Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus was formed with a commitment to implement administrative and political reforms and ensure accountability for those involved in the violence.
With inputs from agencies.
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