Bangladesh: Sheikh Hasina seeks ‘justice’, calls for probe into violence during anti-government stir
Acts of sabotage and violence in the name of protests led to the loss of many innocent lives, the ex-prime minister said in her first remarks since she fled.
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Former Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, who is currently in India after fleeing her country, on Wednesday demanded an “investigation to identify and bring to justice those responsible for these heinous killings and acts of sabotage” during last month’s anti-government protests.
In her first statement since she fled the country, Hasina said that “acts of sabotage, arson, and violence in the name of movements” had resulted in many innocent citizens losing their lives since July. Her son and former advisor Sajeeb Wazed shared the statement in a post on X.
“Students, teachers, police officers – including pregnant women – journalists, cultural activists, workers, leaders, activists of the Awami League [and its affiliated organisations], pedestrians, and others who were working in various establishments have fallen victim to terrorist aggression and lost their lives,” she said.
On August 5, Hasina resigned and fled Bangladesh after the student-led protests against a controversial quota scheme for government jobs, which started in July, evolved into a broader agitation against her Awami League government.
Three days later, Nobel laureate economist Muhammad Yunus took over as the head of an interim government.
On Wednesday, Hasina recalled the family members she lost when her father and former President Sheikh Mujibur Rahman was assassinated on August 15, 1975.
Rahman’s sons and their wives, his brother’s...
