Bangladais transport a demonstrator injured by police during a rally in opposition to the government of Sheikh Hasina, on August 5, 2024, in Dacca, Bangladesh. Rajib Dhar / AP The United Nations (UN) accused the fallen regime in Bangladesh on Wednesday, February 12, of being responsible for crimes against humanity at the time of the repression of the protest movement in the summer of 2024. Based on the “testimonies of senior officials and other evidence”, a report from the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (HCDH) reports “an official policy aimed at attacking and repressing Violently the antigan -government demonstrators and sympathizers, which raises concerns about crimes against humanity requiring an in -depth urgent investigation ”. Citing “various credible sources”, the report estimates that “up to 1,400 people may have been killed between July 1 and August 15”, and that “thousands of others were injured,” said a statement. The report specifies that the vast majority of people killed were shot dead by the security forces, and that 12 % to 13 % were children. The HCDC also accuses serious human rights violations The former government of Sheikh Hasina, the Bangladais security and intelligence services, as well as “violent elements” associated with the Awami League, Ms. Hasina’s party. He specifies that the police reported 44 killed. Charged by the Bangladian justice of crimes against humanity, Ms. Hasina is the subject of several international arrest warrants. At the head of the country since 2009, the former Prime Minister had fled his palace and found refuge in India on August 5, after several weeks of riots repressed in the blood. Read also | Article reserved for our subscribers in Bangladesh, in the secret prisons of former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina read later “calculated and coordinated strategy of the former government” The HCDH claims to have “reasonable reasons for believing that crimes against the Humanity of murder, torture, imprisonment and other inhuman acts were committed within the framework of a generalized and systematic attack against demonstrators and other civilians considered to be likely to join protests or to support them. ” “The brutal response was a calculated and well coordinated strategy of the former government to cling to power in the face of mass opposition,” said High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Türk, in the press release. “There are reasonable reasons for believing that hundreds of extrajudicial executions, arbitrary arbitrary arbitrary detentions, and torture were perpetrated to the SU, with the coordination and under the direction of political leaders and senior officials of the Security, as part of a strategy aimed at suppressing demonstrations, ”he continues. In addition, one of the main human rights organizations in Bangladesh, Odhikar, announced on Wednesday that a dozen people had died in detention since the summer, notably following torture or ball injuries. “The persons involved in extrajudicial executions must be brought to justice,” asked Odhikar director, ASM Nasir Uddin Elan, to the France-Presse agency. Read also | Article reserved for our subscribers Muhammad Yunus: “If we do not offer opportunities to young people, they will make another revolution” read later the organization detailed the way in which the security forces committed, during the fifteen years Ms. Hasina’s reign, murders in large numbers to strengthen her power and have continued to engage in serious human rights violations since the fall of the regime. Three of the dead people were in the hands of the police and the others were under the control of other security units, including the armed forces and the feared rapid action battalion (or rab, for rapid action battalion, in English) paramilitary . At least seven victims died after having torture, and four were shot, says Odhikar. Another person was beaten before being pushed by a bridge by the police, he added. A Nobel Peace Prize at the head of the country the mobilization against the power of Ms. Hasina had started in July 2024 after a court decision authorizing the return of public job quotas: this measure had been seen as a possibility for the chef of the government to entrust government positions to people to its balance. Read also | Article reserved for our subscribers in Bangladesh, after a hundred days in power, the task of the provisional government remains colossal later read a provisional government led by the Nobel Peace Prize, Muhammad Yunus, took the reins of the country until elections general, announced for the end of the year or the beginning of 2026. At the request of Mr. Yunus, the High Commission for Human Rights had sent a team in September to Bangladesh, composed of specialized investigators on human rights, a medical examiner and an armament expert, in order to investigate the repression of demonstrations. The memorable world test your general culture with the writing of the “world” Test your general culture with the writing of “world” discover “empowerment and justice are essential to national healing and the future of Bangladesh”, according to Volker Türk , in order to ensure that serious human rights violations “can never happen again”. The world with AFP reuse this content
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