UN finds evidence of Hasina's human rights violation in July uprising: Prothom Alo
Ousted Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and her top brass grossly violated human rights to subdue the July uprising, reports Prothom Alo citing a UN fact finding mission.
A student-led protest against government job reservations in early July 2024 spread across the country through the month and eventually toppled the government, ending 15 years of absolute rule by Awami League. Faced with a people's uprising, Hasina fled to India on August 5 and has remained there since them.
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The UN enquiry has found evidence that top officials of the autocratic regime of Awami League were complicit with the law enforcement agencies in using excessive force against protesters, reported the Bengali daily.
The enquiry report, set to be launched this afternoon in Geneva, covering human rights violations between July 1 and August 15, 2024, reportedly says that Awami League, together with its associate bodies, and law enforcement agencies like the police, border guards, Rab and Special Branch resorted to extrajudicial killings, indiscriminate firing, mass arrests, torture, enforced confinement and denial of treatment of the protesters.
The UN team from the office of its human rights commissioner visited several cities—Chattogram, Rajshahi, Rangpur, Bogura, Khulna, Sylhet and Gazipur—that witnessed strong protests. The team conducted over 230 interviews while developing the report. According reports, the UN team also spoke to 36 current and former officials of law enforcement and intelligence agencies.
The UN human rights chief Volker Türk was in Bangladesh in end October.
The Prothom Alo states that the UN finds that the political leadership and law enforcer are culpable in gross human rights violations arising out of their concerted use of excessive force. The report names several intelligence agencies and elite crime busting units as complicit in these human rights violations. These include the Directorate General of Forces Intelligence (DGFI), National Security Intelligence (NSI), National Telecommunication Monitoring Cell (NTMC), Detective Bureau (DB) of the police, Special Branch (SB) of the police and the Counterterrorism and Tran-national Crime (CTTC) Unit.
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