The United Nations says that the Sheikh Hasina campaign may be a crime against humanity

The United Nations said that the former Prime Minister of Bangladesh, Sheikh Hasina and its government, tried to adhere to power using deadly systematic violence against the demonstrators who could reach “crimes against humanity.”

The United Nations human rights investigators accused the sincere government With a brutal response to the mass opposition last year, they said that up to 1,400 people were killed, most of them by the security forces.

The United Nations team said that “an official policy of the attack and the suppression of anti -government demonstrators” was directed by political leaders and senior security officials.

Hasina, who was in his post for 15 years, fled from a helicopter to India shortly before the crowd stormed her residence last August.

The turmoil began as protests led by students against the classes of civil service jobs and escalated into a movement worldwide to topple Hasina and her party in the Awami League in the wake of a fatal police campaign. Thousands were wounded in the worst violence in Bangladesh since the war of independence in 1971.

The results of the United Nations investigators showed that the then government, including Sheikh Hasina, was “familiar with very serious crimes.”

“Among our main results, there are reasonable reasons for the belief that the officials of the former government, security and intelligence services, along with the violent elements associated with the former party, have committed serious and systematic violations of human rights,” said Mr. Turk.

UN investigators have documented fire in a group of some demonstrators, deliberate distortion of others, arbitrary arrests and torture.

Children were also targeted – the report is estimated at 13 % of 1,400 people who were killed between 1 July and August 15 of the children.

“The brutal response was a calculated strategy and coordinated by the previous government to adhere to power in the face of the mass opposition,” said Mr. Turk.

He said that the evidence collected by his office drew a “disturbing picture of the violence of the outbreak and the targeted killing.”

“There are reasonable reasons for the belief that hundreds of killings outside the scope of the judiciary, extensive arbitrary arrests and torture were implemented by the knowledge and coordination of the political leadership and senior security officials as part of a strategy to suppress the protests.”

The report requested the leader of the Acting Bangladesh, Mohamed Yunus, who said that he and his temporary government remained.He is committed to converting Bangladesh into a country that all its people can live in security and dignity“.

The total number of deaths made by the United Nations team is much higher than 834 that its government estimates recently.

The United Nations team, which collected the report, included human rights investigators, a forensic doctor and an arms expert. Their results are mainly based on more than 230 interviews with survivors, witnesses and others. They were given access to medical cases files, photos, videos and other materials.

“The senior former officials participating directly in dealing with protests and other internal sources described how the former Prime Minister and senior officials took out a series of major operations, as the security and intelligence forces called the demonstrators killing or arbitrarily killed. The report said.

I have intentionally found patterns of security forces killing or distorting the demonstrators, including incidents in which people were injured in a point.

While the report attributes most of the violence to the government security forces, it raises concerns about the attacks on those who are considered supporters of the previous government, and against some religious and ethnic groups.

The United Nations Office for Human Rights said it should also be investigated.