INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
The United Nations human rights office on Wednesday estimated that up to 1,400 people may have been killed in Bangladesh over three weeks
last summer in a crackdown on student-led protests against the now-ousted former prime minister.In a new report, the Geneva-based office
uprising.Thousands more were injured in the weeks leading up to and after the protests, and the vast majority of those killed and injured
knowledge and coordination of the political leadership and top security officials as a way to suppress the protests.The UN fact-finding team
uprising and violent crackdown.The team of investigators said the interim government has reportedly made 100 arrests in connection with
attacks on religious and indigenous groups
human rights situation in Bangladesh continues to raise concerns, the U.N
Asia-Pacific region, told reporters
recommendations to the government, such as steps to improve the justice system and setting up a witness protection program
institutions to side with justice, the law, and the people of Bangladesh in holding to account their own peers and others who have broken
frustrated with a quota system for government jobs unexpectedly grew into a major uprising against Hasina and her ruling Awami League
fueled by long standing grievances about economic inequality and a lack of rights, the report said.Source: CNN--Agencies
