[🇧🇩] The fate of big guns/beneficiaries of Awami League after the student revolution

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Hasan Mahmud held at Dhaka airport

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Former foreign minister Hasan Mahmud has been detained today at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport (HSIA).

According to the officials of Dhaka airport, the civil aviation authority also detained the general secretary of Bangladesh Chattra League's Dhaka University unit Tanbir Hasan Shaikat and Dhaka North unit president Riaz Mahmud.

Earlier, former state minister for ICT ministry Zunaid Ahmed Palak was held at the airport.

The detainees have been handed over to the Bangladesh Army, according to the officials.
Sources said Palak's family has left the country.

Besides, the family members of two former ministers -- education minister Mohibul Hasan Chowdhury and Local Government, Rural Development and Cooperatives minister Md Tazul Islam left the country through the airport.

Former finance minister Abul Hassan Mahmood Ali, sports minister Nazmul Hassan Papon and Mayor of Dhaka South City Corporation Sheikh Fazle Noor Taposh also left the country through HSIA since Sunday, sources said.

Besides, former MP of Munshiganj-3 Mrinal Kanti Das and supreme court judge Md Badruzzaman also left the country.​

 

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ICT begins probe against Bangladesh's ousted PM Hasina, others in genocide case

The investigation agency of the International Crimes Tribunal on Thursday started a probe into mass killing allegations against the deposed prime minister and Awami League president...

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ICT begins probe against Bangladesh's ousted PM Hasina, others in genocide case
Staff Correspondent 15 August, 2024, 14:37

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The investigation agency of the International Crimes Tribunal on Thursday started a probe into mass killing allegations against the deposed prime minister and Awami League president Sheikh Hasina and nine other of her aides.

The ICT received another complaint against Hasina on Thursday, while two other cases were filed against the ousted prime minister, her aides, and the police, bringing the number of complaints with the ICT to two and the number of cases to seven.

The ICT began its probe a day after its investigation agency recorded its first complaint on Wednesday.

Bulbul Ahmed, the father of 14-year-old student Arif Ahmed Siam, filed the complaint with the ICT for the killing of his school-going son in a shooting near the Savar Dairy Firm High School on August 5, when Sheikh Hasina resigned and fled the country in the face of a student-led mass uprising.

The investigation agency’s deputy director, Md Ataur Rahman, who was named investigation officer, told reporters that they had started an investigation into the allegations under Sections 3(2) and 4(1)/4(2) of the International Crimes Tribunal Act 1973 by collecting evidence from different newspapers published between July 23 and August 5.

Hasina and the nine accused would be put on trial if investigators could prove the charges, which prescribe the death penalty as the highest sentence.

Nine other accused in the mass killing case included former road and transport minister and AL general secretary Obaidul Quader, former home minister Asaduzzaman Khan, former state ministers Zunaid Ahmed Palak and Mohammad Ali Arafat, former Inspector General of Police Abdullah Al Mamun, former Detective Branch chief Harun-or-Rashid, former Dhaka Metropolitan Police commissioner Habibur Rahman with some officers of the DMP, former Rapid Action Battalion’s director general with several officers of the battalion, unidentified leaders and activists of the Awami League, Juba League, and Chhatra League, and the Awami League as an organisation and its associated bodies.

The second ICT complaint was filed against Sheikh Hasina and the same accused, Sanaullah, the father of Mohammad Mehedi, who was killed on July 20 behind the Dutch Bangla Bank’s market at Hirajheel on Chattogram Road in Narayanganj during the movement.

Besides, sixteen people, including former prime minister Sheikh Hasina, were sued for killing madrassah student Zubayed Hossain Emon in a shooting from Rapid Action Battalion’s armoured helicopter in a case filed at Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate on Thursday.

The deceased Emon, 12, was a 4th-grade student at Darunnazat Islamia Madrassah in Mohammadpur.

Magistrate Ahmed Rajesh Chowdhury directed the Mohammadpur police station to register the case as the First Information Report in a case filed by the victim’s uncle Abdullah Abu Saeed Bhuiyan.

According to the case statement, RAB members fired indiscriminately at protesting students on July 19, leaving Emon injured in his head.

He was declared dead upon arrival at Ibn Sina Hospital in the Dhanmondi area.

The other accused in the case included former road transport and bridges minister Obaidul Quader, former home minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal, former law minister Anisul Haque, and others.

Unidentified members of RAB’s patrol team in a helicopter and their commanding officers have also been accused in the case.

In another incident, a case was filed against 11 people, including Sheikh Hasina and Awami League general secretary Obaidul Quader, on charges of killing CNG-run auto-rickshaw driver Shahabuddin, 35, in the capital’s Sher-e-Bangla Nagar.

Shahbuddin’s father, Abul Kalam, filed the case in the court of Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Begum Farah Diba Chanda.

The court ordered the officer-in-charge of Sher-e-Bangla Nagar police station to register the case, and the plaintiff’s lawyer, Liton Mia, confirmed.

According to the case statement, Shahabuddin was shot in the head while he was going to get food for his family members at the West Agargaon crossing in front of the Sher-e-Bangla Nagar police station on August 5.

Local people rushed him to the National Institute of Neurosciences and Hospital, where doctors declared him dead.

Earlier on Wednesday, two cases were filed against Sheikh Hasina on charges of killing.​

 

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Students for bringing back Hasina, putting on trial

Students under the platform of Student Movement Against Discrimination on Thursday observed the ‘Resistance Week’ programme for the third consecutive day demanding trial of...

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Students for bringing back Hasina, putting on trial
DU correspondent 16 August, 2024, 00:15

The Student Movement Against Discrimination holds a rally to observe ‘resistance week’, demanding trial of deposed prime minister and Awami League president Sheikh Hasina and her aides for the killings of students and people, at Shahbagh in the capital on Thursday. | New Age photo.

Students under the platform of Student Movement Against Discrimination on Thursday observed the ‘Resistance Week’ programme for the third consecutive day demanding trial of deposed prime minister Sheikh Hasina.

As part of the programme, students held a sit-in at the capital’s Shahbagh crossing to press home their four-point demand, including trial of ousted former prime minister Sheikh Hasina and others involved in killing of innocent people, including students, during the quota reform student movement.

The movement forced Hasina to resign as prime minister and flee to India where she has now taken shelter.

The students started gathering at Shahbagh from 11:00am as part of the preannounced programme.

They chanted slogans vowing to prevent a counter-revolution and performed songs, poetry, and plays at the programme,

The slogans included ‘We want execution, we want Hasina’s execution,’ ‘We won’t let our brothers’ blood go in vain,’ ‘There will be no place for terrorists in this Bangladesh’ and others.

One of the key coordinators of the movement Sarjis Alam told the media that students heard from various sources that on the occasion of August 15, the Awami League, Chhatra League, Jubo

League, and others who were accomplices of the autocratic regime, were trying to stage a counter-revolution.

‘Warning them, we want to say that even if they make the least attempt to stage a counter-revolution after the student-led mass uprising against the fascist government and its fall on August 5, the fascists will no longer have any existence,’ he said.

In response to a question about whether the platform would demand a ban on Awami politics, he said that since the start of the quota reform movement, they had always done what the people of this country sought.

‘If the people of this country believe that the Awami League no longer has the right to engage in politics, we will raise that demand on behalf of the people,’ he answered.

The platform coordinator of Manarat International University HM Moin said, ‘We want to ensure that the new generation can live in peace.’

During the sit-in programme, a group named the Anti-Discrimination Cultural Alliance was also seen holding a cultural rally in front of flower shops at Shahbagh.

The platform on Tuesday launched the weeklong ‘Resistance Week’ programme to press home four-point demand, including the formation of a special tribunal to ensure a speedy trial of murders committed by Hasina and her government using fascist structures, and trial of those who participated in the AL and its grand alliance partners’ planned killing, robbery, looting, and attacks on religious minorities.

Besides, the demands also included removal and immediate trial of those officials in the administration and judiciary who had legitimised attacks, lawsuits, and killings

during the student movement and repeatedly attempted to establish fascism, and equal opportunities for those who had been subjected to discrimination in the administration and judiciary.​

 

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Hasina, 100 others sued for Bogura teacher killing

A fresh case was filed against ousted prime minister and Awami League president Sheikh Hasina and AL general secretary Obaidul Quader in Bogura on Thursday for the...

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Hasina, 100 others sued for Bogura teacher killing
Staff Correspondent 17 August, 2024, 00:18

Sheikh Hasina

A fresh case was filed against ousted prime minister and Awami League president Sheikh Hasina and AL general secretary Obaidul Quader in Bogura on Thursday for the murder of a teacher on August 4.

With this, five murder cases and an abduction case have been filed against Hasina and her aides with different police stations, including the one in Bogura.

In addition to that, two complaints were filed with the International Crimes Tribunal over mass killings.

In the case filed with the Bogura Sadar Police Station, 99 local AL leaders and activists were also accused of the killing of Selim Hossain, a 35-year-old teacher, alongside Hasina and Quader.

Besides, 350 unnamed people were also accused in the case.

Bogura Sadar police station officer-in-charge Saihan Waliullah confirmed the filing of the case by the victim’s father, Sikandar Hossain.

According to the case statement, AL leaders and activists attacked the protesters and hacked Selim to death with sharp weapons in Bogura’s Satmatha area on August 4 as he joined the protests of the Student Movement Against Discrimination.

Two former AL lawmakers led the attack, the case statement said.

On August 14 and August 15, two cases were filed over mass killings against Hasina with the investigation agency of the ICT, accusing her, her cabinet members, Awami League leaders, and top police officers of mass killings and crimes against humanity during the student-led mass uprising between July 15 and August 5.

On August 15, two murder cases were filed against Hasina and others over the killing of a 12-year-old madrassah student and a CNG-run auto-rickshaw driver in court. The court transferred the cases to Mohammadpur and Sher-e-Bangla Nagar police stations for investigation.

On August 14, Hasina and her aides were sued in a case filed with the CMM court in Dhaka over the killing of an 18-year-old student of Dhaka Model Degree College in the capital’s Kafrul area. The court asked Kafrul police station to take the case into cognizance and investigate.

On the same day, Supreme Court lawyer Sohel Rana filed an abduction case against Hasina and four others on charges of abducting and holding him hostage for six months in 2015. Uttara Police are investigating the case.

On August 13, Hasina, along with six others, were sued on charges of killing grocery shop owner Abu Sayed in the capital’s Mohammadpur on July 19. The case is under investigation by Mohammadpur police.​

 

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Awami League facing consequences of their own actions: Sarjis Alam

Sarjis Alam, one of the coordinators of the Anti-Discrimination Student Movement, said on Friday that the Awami League is now facing the consequences of their past actions while they were in power and will continue to do so in the future. He made these comments on Friday while speaking to journalis

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Awami League facing consequences of their own actions: Sarjis Alam
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Sarjis Alam, one of the coordinators of the Anti-Discrimination Student Movement, said on Friday that the Awami League is now facing the consequences of their past actions while they were in power and will continue to do so in the future. He made these comments on Friday while speaking to journalists at the Amar Ekushey Hall of Dhaka University.

Sarjis recalled the events of 2013 when Hefazat-e-Islam held a rally in Motijheel, stating that during that time, the Awami League misused power by forcing numerous Islamic scholars to perform humiliating acts under police pressure. "We still have the pictorial evidence and videos of that incident," he said. "The Awami League is now suffering the repercussions of what they did and will continue to suffer in the future."

Regarding the observance of August 15 as a day of mourning, Sarjis noted, "When the incident happened on August 15, 1975, sweets were distributed across Bangladesh. Why? Because if you look at the events from 1972 to 1975, there was an extreme level of autocracy and fascism. August 15 was the result of a broader revolution of that time."

Sarjis also commented that no one has the right to prevent anyone from paying their respects or laying flowers at Dhanmondi 32, UNB reports.

He concluded by urging students to return to their classes, saying, "We thank our fellow students for their contributions during the national crisis. But now, they must return to their studies. At the end of the day, if we want to move the country forward, we need an educated young generation."​

 

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Hasina, Shamim Osman sued for murder in Narayanganj

A murder case was filed against former prime minister Sheikh Hasina, former home minister Asaduzzaman Khan and 46 other local AL leaders and activists in Narayanganj last night

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Hasina, Shamim Osman sued for murder in Narayanganj

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A murder case was filed against former prime minister Sheikh Hasina, former home minister Asaduzzaman Khan and 46 other local AL leaders and activists in Narayanganj last night.

Former MP AKM Shamim Osman, his brother former MP AKM Selim Osman, Shamim's son Imtinan Osman Ayon, nephew Azmery Osman, brother-in-law BCB's director Tanvir Ahmed Titu, Narayanganj City Corporation's mayor Salina Hayat Ivy's younger brother Ahammad Ali Reza Uzzal were also accused in the case.

Abul Bashar Anik, brother of Abul Hasan Sajan, 20, who was shot dead at Chashara on August 5, filed the case with Narayanganj Sadar Model Police Station, Abdus Sattar, officer-in-charge of the police station told our local correspondent at 11:45pm.

A 100-150 unnamed people were also made accused in the case. No one has been arrested so far, OC added.

Just a few hours before the announcement of the resignation of Sheikh Hasina as prime minister on August 5, Sajan was shot at Chashara in Narayanganj city during a clash between protesters and Awami League men.

Sajan succumbed to his injuries at Dhaka Medical College Hospital while undergoing treatment there the next morning.

Sajan, son of Jakir Hossain, was a sales representative of a private company. He was living with his family at Kushiara village in Narayanganj's Bandar upazila.​