The former Bangladesh government is not behind possible “crimes against humanity,” UN says | Crimes against the news of humanity

Former Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina The government was behind possible “crimes against humanity” as it seeks to stay with power last year, UN says.

Before Hasina was overthrown in a major revolution, led by students last August, her government was leading a systematic repression against protesters, including “hundreds of out -of -court murders,” the UN office of human rights in Wednesday said.

The issuance of findings from his investigation into Bangladesh's events between July 1 and August 15 last year said the UN Rights Service said there was “reasonable grounds to believe that crimes against humanity of murder, torture, deprivation and implementation of other inhuman actions are performed “.

These suspected crimes committed by the government, along with violent elements of it Awami League Party And the Bangladesh security and intelligence services were part of a “widespread and systematic attack against protesters and other civilians … in support of the former government (the offer) to ensure its continuation of power,” the report said.

77 -year -old Hasina who escaped to exile to adjacent IndiaHe has already refused an arrest warrant in order to be brought before a trial of Bangladesh for crimes against humanity.

Up to 1400 killed in 45 days

The UN team found that Bangladesh's security forces have supported the Hasina government through the inexperienced unrest, which began as protests against the civil service Quotas And then escalates in calls for her to withdraw.

The rights service said the Hasina government is trying to systematically suppress protests with increasingly vibrant means. He estimated that “up to 1400 people may have been killed” during those 45 days while thousands were injured.

The bigger part of the killed “were shot by Bangladesh's security forces,” said the rights service, adding that 12 to 13 percent of the killed were minors.

The general projection of deaths in the UN report is far higher than the most rating from the Provisional Bangladesh Government of 834.

“The brutal response has been calculated and a well -coordinated strategy by the former government to hold power to the mass opposition,” said UN Volker Turk Rights Chief.

“There are reasonable reasons to believe in hundreds of out -of -court killings, extensive arrest arrests and detainees and torture have been committed with the knowledge, coordination and management of political leadership and senior security officials as part of the protest suppression strategy.”

The UN office launches its mission to establish facts at the request of Bangladesh's temporary leader Mohammed Yunus, sending a team involving human rights investigators, a forensic doctor and a weapons expert in the country.

The Wednesday report is based primarily on more than 230 confidential in -depth interviews conducted in Bangladesh, including online, with victims, witnesses, protests, leaders, rights defenders and more, as well as exams of files in medical cases, photos, videos and more Documents.

“Accountability and justice are essential for national healing and for the future of Bangladesh,” Turk said, emphasizing that “the best way for Bangladesh is to face the horrifying mistakes” during the period in question.

What was needed, he said, was “a comprehensive process of telling the truth, healing and accountability and to eliminate the inheritance of serious human rights violations and to ensure that they can never be repeated again.”

Dozens died in detention: a right group

Meanwhile, the leading Bangladesh Rights Group Odchikar said in a report on Wednesday, at least a dozen people died in custody of last year's revolution, including torture and firearms.

“The temporary government should not let these crimes remain unpunished,” Odhikar ASM Nasiruddin Elan told the AFP news agency. “Those involved in out -of -court killings must be tried.”

Odhikar described in detail how security forces, during the 15-year Hasina rule, participated in widespread killings to strengthen her power-and accused the same agencies of continuing to commit human rights violations after she escaped.

Ever since she left, Bangladeshi's security forces have made extensive arrests against supporters of the Aumi League party and loyalists of what they call the “fascist” former power.

Odhikar details 12 deaths, which took place between August 9 and December 31, 2024.

Three of them were in the arrest of the police and the rest were under the control of other security units, including the armed forces and many spots of paramilitary fast -paced battalion (RAB).

At least seven casualties were killed after torture, and four had firearms, according to Dhikar. Another person was beaten and later pushed out of a bridge by the police, he added.

Bangladesh's security forces are “investigating all cases,” Sami-Ud-Daula Chowdhri, director of the Armed Forces Public Relations, told AFP.

Police spokesman Inamul Hack Sagar said the employees were ordered to “refrain from activities outside their jurisdiction.”

“Even friends of the fascist regime are entitled to justice,” Elan said to Dhikar. “Out -of -court killings should be prevented at all costs.”