Up to 1,400 individuals may have been killed in Bangladesh over the course of six weeks last summer, according to the UN human rights company, in a crackdown on student-led demonstrations against the now-deposed former prime minister.
Security and intelligence services” carefully engaged” in right violations that may amount to crimes against humanity and warrant further investigation, according to a new document from the Geneva-based business.
Citing “various reliable resources”, the right company says as many as 1, 400 individuals may have been killed in the demonstrations between July 1 and August 15, and hundreds more were injured,” the vast majority of whom were shot by Bangladesh’s security troops”.
In order to halt the demonstrations, UN human rights main Volker Turk cited evidence that “extrajudicial killings, broad arbitrary detention and detentions, and abuse” were carried out with the knowledge and cooperation of the political management and senior security officials.
The time leader of the nation, Muhammad Yunus, invited the UN fact-finding team to Bangladesh to examine the uprising that eventually led to the famine that ultimately led to the eviction of longtime prime minister Sheikh Hasina from India.
What started as peaceful protests by individuals angry with a quota system for federal jobs unanticipatedly turned into a big revolt against Hasina and her ruling Awami League party.
