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The United Nations will dispatch a fact-finding team next week to investigate atrocities committed during the Student Revolution in July and earlier this month, the interim government said, adding that the mission will focus on probing “widespread human rights abuses." read more
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Protesters try to demolish a large statue of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, father of Bangladesh leader Sheikh Hasina, after she resigned as Prime Minister, in Dhaka, Bangladesh, Monday, Aug. 5, 2024. File Image- AP
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.
The United Nations is sending a UN fact finding team next week to probe atrocities committed during the Student Revolution in July and early this month," the govt said in a statement, adding that the move discussed between UN human rights chief Volker Turk and interim Bangladeshi leader Muhammad Yunus during a phone call late Wednesday.
The top body of Hindus in Bangladesh has said that the community has faced at least 278 attacks since the ouster of Sheikh Hasina. Also, 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, which originated from a students’ movement against a controversial quota system in jobs, according to reports.
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.
A complaint was filed on Wednesday with the investigation agency of Bangladesh’s International Crime Tribunal against deposed prime minister Sheikh Hasina and several others, accusing them of committing genocide and crimes against humanity during the mass movement of the students against her government.
The complaint came on a day when the interim government said that the murders conducted within the period from July 1 to August 5 would be tried by the International Crimes Tribunal.
Hasina’s government was accused of many such abuses during her 15 years in power, including the mass detention and extrajudicial killing of political opponents. She fled by helicopter to India – where she remains – 10 days ago as student-led protests flooded Dhaka’s streets in a dramatic end to her iron-fisted rule.
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.
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