Human rights abuses inflicted on Bangladesh Hindus: UN
Thursday, 13 February 2025 () A UN report details human rights abuses that occurred during Bangladesh's 2024 anti-discrimination protests, affecting Hindu, Ahmadiyya Muslim, and indigenous communities. It estimates 1,400 deaths and significant destruction of homes, businesses, and places of worship. Hundreds of extrajudicial killings, arbitrary arrests, and torture were reported. Former PM Sheikh Hasina and security forces are implicated.
Bangladesh's former government was behind methodical attacks and killings of protesters as it tried to hold onto power last year, according to the UN's Human Rights High Commissioner Volker Turk. "There are reasonable grounds to believe that officials of the former government," he says, "committed...
Thursday, 13 February 2025 ()
