Former Bangladeshi prime minister Sheikh Hasina was formally charged with crimes in opposition to humanity on Sunday for her alleged position within the brutal suppression of final 12 months’s mass rebellion, which finally ended her 15-year rule.
A 3-member panel of judges on the International Crimes Tribunal in Dhaka led by Golam Mortuza Mozumder accepted the fees in opposition to Hasina and two of her senior aides — former dwelling minister Asaduzzaman Khan and former police chief Chowdhury Abdullah Al Mamun.
Chief Prosecutor Tajul Islam, whereas presenting the fees, stated Hasina incited crimes in opposition to humanity by inflammatory rhetoric and by mobilizing the state’s administrative and safety equipment to violently quell the protests.
The prosecution accused the trio of abetment, conspiracy, complicity, facilitation and failing to forestall mass killings through the student-led demonstrations that erupted throughout Bangladesh in mid-2024.
According to Chief Prosecutor Islam, Hasina and her aides “unleashed all state law enforcement agencies and armed members of the then ruling party to crush the uprising.”
He described the crackdown as a “systematic attack aimed at silencing dissent.”
The court docket proceedings have been broadcast reside on state-run Bangladesh Television, marking an unprecedented second within the historical past of Bangladesh’s judiciary.
A United Nations fact-finding mission estimated that roughly 1,400 individuals have been killed within the unrest, which initially started in July 2024 as a protest in opposition to the controversial quota system in public sector recruitment.
The protest quickly unfold nationwide and culminated into mass rebellion, resulting in Hasina’s ouster in early August.
Hasina, 77, fled the nation by navy helicopter on August 5, 2024 and has since remained in exile in India.
Source: www.anews.com.tr