The former government of Bangladesh was behind the systematic attacks and murders of the protesters as it had tried to capture power last year, the United Nations on Wednesday warned that abuses could give the amount of “crime against humanity”.
The United Nations said that Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina was topped in a student -led revolution last August,
The United Nations Rights Office (OHCHR) stated that “it is the right basis to believe that the murder has committed crimes against the interval of humanity, torture, imprisonment and other inhuman acts”.
The alleged crime committed by the government of Hasina’s Awami League party and Bangladeshi security and intelligence services, “had part of” a comprehensive and systematic attack against protesters and other citizens “, OHCHR said in violence.
77 -year -old Hasina, who escaped exile in neighboring India, has already postponed an arrest warrant to face a trial in Bangladesh for crimes against humanity.
When asked about Hasina’s personal guilty, United Nations Rights Head Volcar Turk told reporters that his office “found the right basis to believe that the top thoughts of the previous government were actually aware, and in fact .. And were involved in very serious violations “.
Killed by 1,400
Bangladesh interim leader Mohammad Yunus, who asked the United Nations Rights Office to start his fact-Khoj Mission, welcomed the report, stating that he wanted to convert Bangladesh into a country in which his All people can live in security and dignity “.
The United Nations investigation investigated incidents in Bangladesh from 1 to 15 August last year, which rely on hundreds of interviews with victims, witnesses and others, and on photos, videos and other documents.
The team determined that the security forces had supported Hasina’s government during unrest, which began as a protest against the Civil Service Job Kota and then increased into a comprehensive call to stand under it.
Ohchr estimated that “1,400 people would have been killed in a period of 45-day,” most of them “shot by Bangladesh’s security forces”.
The children increased by 12 to 13 percent of the people killed, said.
The given overall death toll is more than the most recent estimate killed by the interim government of 834 people in Bangladesh.
‘Mass violence’
The Ottoman said, “The cruel response was a calculation and well -coordinated strategy to come to power by the former government to come to power.”
He pointed to “hundreds of extraordinary murders, broad arbitrary arrests and preventive and torture and sick treatment”, “” a disturbed picture of state violence and targeted murders “reduced the” large -scale state violence and targeted killings “.
The rights office also indicated extensive gender-based violence and misuse and murder of children.
On the other hand, the report highlighted the “lynchings and other serious counter -violence” against police and Awami League officials or supporters.
Bangladeshi Rights Group Oddar said that a dozen people had died after Hasina’s exit.
When asked about these cases, the Ottoman stated that his office had investigated the situation only by mid -August.
He praised the cooperation of the interim government and expressed his commitment to reforms, but “warned of key challenges and deficiencies in the current legal system”.
Rory Mungoven, head of the Asia-Pacific section of OHCHR, said that the office was designed to cooperate with the judiciary of Bangladesh to help ensure justice, but only when the process meets the international fair test standards only .
He said that Bangladesh has allowed death penalty.
The Ottoman stated that the country “needed a comprehensive process of truth, treatment and accountability, and to resume the legacy of severe human rights violations and to ensure that they can never be again” .
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