[🇧🇩] UN investigation into enforced disappearances /deaths of students/citizens at the hands of security agencies

[Lulldapull]

This is very sad on whats going on in Bangladesh. We Pakistanis are the last people to say anything or get a comment in but if innocents were murdered for expressing their opinion, then it is unacceptable.

Keep in mind folks, Mr Assad in Syria asked Iran and Russia to leave, so both complied.......leaving him to his fate.

Lets hope Bangladesh don't become a jahil wahabbi hell hole like a CIA turned Syria might become soon.

 

[Sharma Ji]

This is very sad on whats going on in Bangladesh. We Pakistanis are the last people to say anything or get a comment in but if innocents were murdered for expressing their opinion, then it is unacceptable.

Keep in mind folks, Mr Assad in Syria asked Iran and Russia to leave, so both complied.......leaving him to his fate.

Lets hope Bangladesh don't become a jahil wahabbi hell hole like a CIA turned Syria might become soon.

Sandwitched between Myammar and Modi's India, they also becoming kattar.. a new species of wahabbi is emerging.

 

[Bilal9]

Sandwitched between Myammar and Modi's India, they also becoming kattar.. a new species of wahabbi is emerging.

I don't think Islamists (leave alone Wahhabis) get even 10% of the vote there.

Bangladeshis don't like extremists. Wearing Hijab or Topi does not mean they're all kattar. Only has fear of Allah.

People in Bangladesh don't wear their religion on their sleeves like in other Muslim countries, enforcing Islam at the expense of other religions.

Look at my Avatar, this is how most everyone feels.

Not like Indian situation. People won't get beat up for eating pig. Or for not converting to Islam.

More like Malaysia/Indonesia in that regard. Live - and let live tolerance for all religions.

 

[Lulldapull]

Sandwitched between Myammar and Modi's India, they also becoming kattar.. a new species of wahabbi is emerging.

Anytime there is muzlim fundus or jihadists or anyother type of religious harami, you can be sure that movement is covertly US/ Israel backed.

Everytime the head choppers, the talibunnies or da Al-Qaeda or Daesh or ISIS.......or the 'muzlim jihadist' attacks in western cities.......all these basturds are on the take.

Unfortunately sunni muzlim like Sawdi Judean or Al-Turkiyan or Al-Baqistani are promoting this western propaganda under the gun, or else they will get balkanized in short order.

Iran gets bad press for exposing this bullshiit.

 

[Sharma Ji]

Anytime there is muzlim fundus or jihadists or anyother type of religious harami, you can be sure that movement is covertly US/ Israel backed.

Everytime the head choppers, the talibunnies or da Al-Qaeda or Daesh or ISIS.......or the 'muzlim jihadist' attacks in western cities.......all these basturds are on the take.

Unfortunately sunni muzlim like Sawdi Judean or Al-Turkiyan or Al-Baqistani are promoting this western propaganda under the gun, or else they will get balkanized in short order.

Iran gets bad press for exposing this bullshiit.

What might the US gain from toppling Hasina in BD ?

They gone anti India and pro China..

 

[Lulldapull]

What might the US gain from toppling Hasina in BD ?

They gone anti India and pro China..

Dis da mystery Sharma........nobody can answer dis.......

who financed dis color revolution......

You tell me bhai.

There used to be 'old school' guy here and his thesis was that the west wants Christy X-Tian country ova there to angle in toward China's soft tribal guppu peepal underbelly.

Angling in via Afghanistan is hard now cuz Iran is controlling the talibunnies with food n fuel, and we in Pakistan will not act against China!

 

[Saif]

Horrific details of July massacre strengthen the cause of justice

UN report provides proof of Hasina’s own role in killing protesters

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Horrific details of July massacre strengthen the cause of justice
UN report provides proof of Hasina’s own role in killing protesters

We welcome the long-awaited release of the fact-finding report of the United Nations Human Rights Office about the crimes and abuses committed by the Awami League government during the July-August uprising. And as expected, it provides conclusive proof of the systematic brutalities inflicted upon protesters as well as Sheikh Hasina's role in orchestrating them. This should put to rest any lingering attempts—domestic or international—to distort, downplay, or whitewash the atrocities the regime carried out in a desperate bid to retain power. The facts are now indisputable, so the path to justice should be clearer than ever before.

In its 114-page report, the UN, based on testimonies from senior security officials, confirms that Hasina herself ordered security forces to kill protesters. On July 19, she explicitly instructed them to "arrest the ringleaders of the protests, the troublemakers, kill them and hide their bodies." Her trusted lieutenant, then-home minister Asaduzzaman Khan, reinforced this directive in meetings with top security officials, ordering the Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) to use lethal force. These instructions and consequent measures paved the path for the killing of as many as 1,400 people—including many children—in what the UN describes as "crimes against humanity." Other findings of the report are equally chilling.

In its 114-page report, the UN, based on testimonies from senior security officials, confirms that Hasina herself ordered security forces to kill protesters. On July 19, she explicitly instructed them to "arrest the ringleaders of the protests, the troublemakers, kill them and hide their bodies." Her trusted lieutenant, then-home minister Asaduzzaman Khan, reinforced this directive in meetings with top security officials, ordering the Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) to use lethal force.

It states that protesters were shot at point-blank range and killed. It identifies the integrated role of at least seven security forces, including the Army, BGB, and RAB, as well as ruling party activists, who coordinated to arbitrarily harass, arrest, torture, and even execute protesters. The details provided by the report about these developments, and the roles played by both security and intelligence agencies, are shocking. The report also sheds light on the sexual violence committed against women protesters as part of a broader strategy to suppress dissent. It reveals that officers also obstructed medical care for injured protesters, intimidating doctors and pressuring them to falsify medical reports or deny treatment to victims. Forensic pathologists were forced to misclassify causes of death, erasing proof of extrajudicial killings. There were also frequent internet blackouts to disrupt protesters' ability to organise.

Following the unveiling of the report, the UN rights chief has rightly called for additional criminal investigations to determine the full extent of these violations. For now, it is only appropriate that the ongoing trials of former regime figures and officials incorporate these findings as evidence, which the chief prosecutor of the International Crimes Tribunal (ICT) said they would. The UN, however, said it would not share evidence from its investigation with Bangladesh unless the trials meet international standards. There are certain issues that may stand in the way of a UN approval of the justice process, but we hope for the sake of the victims that those will be resolved soon. It is also vital that past crimes by the Awami regime, including enforced disappearances and extrajudicial executions, are tried and those responsible held to account. The UN has made a number of recommendations in its report, which too must be seriously considered and acted on.​

 

[Saif]

Prolonged single-party rule politicised security sector in Bangladesh: UN

The prolonged single-party rule had steadily politicised Bangladesh’s state institutions that permeated the country’s entire security sector as well, since authorities preferred recruitment and promotion there to be based on perceived political loyalty instead of professionalism, the UN rights...

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Prolonged single-party rule politicised security sector in Bangladesh: UN
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Dhaka
Published: 17 Feb 2025, 22: 53

The prolonged single-party rule had steadily politicised Bangladesh’s state institutions that permeated the country’s entire security sector as well, since authorities preferred recruitment and promotion there to be based on perceived political loyalty instead of professionalism, the UN rights office report said.

“Fifteen years of rule by a single political party coincided with a steadily increasing politicisation of state institutions that has permeated the entire security sector,” read the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) fact finding report.

The OHCHR said, “Many police officers were recruited and promoted not on the grounds of professionalism, integrity and merit, but based on their perceived loyalty to, or affiliation with, the Awami League and the ruling Government it backed”.

The UN rights office last week released its report on human rights violation during the July-August, 2024 uprising in Bangladesh from its Geneva office last week where it dedicated a chapter on “politicisation of the security sector”.

The report said according to senior officials, the Directorate of Forces Intelligence (DGFI), National Security Intelligence (NSI) and police’s Special Branch (SB) were vetting each candidate for mid-level and higher positions based on the political party affiliation of the candidate and their relatives.

It noted that the then prime minister personally signed off on any appointments to a position of Deputy Inspector-General or higher and Awami League loyalists were strategically placed to control important units such as the Detective Branch in the metropolitan police forces.

OHCHR said the people concerned its fact finders talked highlighted that the relevance of political party affiliation in police appointments predated the former government and stems from the long-time absence of an independent body to manage police appointments and promotions.

The report said despite Bangladesh Army’s involvement in politics in the past through military coups and attempted coups “the Army is widely regarded as less politicised than other security forces.

But, it said, serving army officers and others with inside knowledge told OHCHR that the military had long been permeated by party politics, especially at the senior level.

The report said based on their perceived political loyalties, senior officers were promoted or placed in key positions in Dhaka and Army Headquarters, while officers seen as disloyal were denied promotion, placed in remote positions or, in some cases, illicitly pressured to leave the army.

“This facilitated abuse by the political party in power of not only the Army, but even more so the paramilitary forces and intelligence agencies, which were commanded by Army officers and which reported directly to the Prime Minister or Home Minister,” it read.

The UN fact finders observed that politicisation had driven a negative symbiotic relationship between the ruling party and the security sector.

“In exchange for suppressing challenges to the ruling party and not intervening in crimes by ruling party members, police and other security sector personnel could expect impunity for their own serious violations and acts of corruption,” the OHCHR reported.

It said criminal accountability for serious violations remained a rare exception to the generalised rule of impunity noting that since 2009, Bangladeshi civil society groups documented 2597 alleged extrajudicial killings and 708 enforced disappearances.

“RAB alone was implicated in over 800 alleged killings and some 220 disappearances. Yet, RAB officers have only been convicted of murder in a single case, in which one of the victims was an influential local Awami League official,” the report read.

According to the same civil society sources, it said, DGFI officials were allegedly involved in more than 170 of the alleged enforced disappearances, but not a single DGFI officer has been prosecuted.

Among others, the United Nations Committee against Torture has expressed concern about the widespread and routine commission of torture by law enforcement officials to obtain confessions or extort bribes.

The OHCHR said Bangladesh in 2013 passed a law called Torture and Custodial Death (Prohibition) Act but since then, at least 103 detainees were reportedly been tortured to death.

It said the government so far only reported 24 cases filed under the Act and in only one case were police officers convicted for torturing a person in their custody to death and “these patterns of impunity have become institutionalized and anchored in law”.​