Sheikh Hasina accused: Hundreds of students died in Bangladesh

Sheikh Hasina accused: Hundreds of students died in Bangladesh

A special tribunal accepted the indictment against the defined Prime Minister of Bangladesh, Sheikh Hasina, on Thursday. The indictment refers to crimes against humanity in connection with a mass outbreak in which hundreds of students died in the past year.

Details for charges

A three-member body under the chairmanship of judge Golam Mortuza Mozumder raised charges against Hasina, former Interior Minister Asaduzzaman Khan and the former police chief Chowdhury Abdullah al-Mamun for five different accusations. Hasina and Khan are

reaction of the Awami Liga

The transitional government of Bangladesh, which of the Nobel Prize winner Yunus is formally sought to deliver Hasina at India, but so far there has been no answer from India. It is believed that Khan is also in India.

confession of al-mamun

al-Mamun, which was arrested on Thursday and appeared in front of the committee, owed himself guilty and said that he would make a statement in favor of the indictment at a later date. The senior prosecutor Mohammad Tajul Islam announced journalists that Al-Mamun asked the judges for the status of a "customs witness". This wording refers to a person who is guilty of commitment and in return ready to testify against accomplices as a state witness.

evidence and legal proceedings

The indictment presented the tribunal a gelact audio from Hasina and other documents as evidence. An application by Amir Hossain, a lawyer appointed by the State for Hasina and Khan to delete the names from the case, was rejected by the tribunal. The court appointment for the opening speech of the indictment was set on August 3 and for the hearing of witnesses to August 4th.

allegations against the government

In a post on X, the Awami League accused the administration of Yunus to manipulate the judiciary. "People have lost confidence in the judicial system because the Yunus government misused this important state organ as a means of persecution of dissenters," it said. "We judge the indictment against our party leaders and other leaders and consider this step as a further evidence of the ongoing witch hunt against our party and the weapon jurisprudence by the Yunus regime."

The severity of the allegations

Hasina and the Awami League criticized the tribunal and the indictment team in the past for their connections to political parties, in particular the Jamaat-e Islami party. The indictment has raised five serious allegations and claims that Hasina was directly responsible for the commands to all state forces, their Awami League and their allies, who had led to mass murders, injuries, targeted acts of violence against women and children, the cremation of the corpses and the refusal of medical care for the wounded.

international reactions and historical contexts

The transitional government banned the Awami League and changed the relevant laws in such a way that the former government party can be put on trial for its role during the uprising. According to the UN-Menschenrechtsbüro of the student protests against Hasina have come to up to 1400 deaths, just two weeks after her fall on August 5th.

repeated judicial problems for Hasina

At the beginning of this month, Hasina was sentenced to six months in prison after she was guilty of the court proceedings because she allegedly claimed to have a license to kill at least 227 people. This judgment was the first in a procedure against Hasina since she fled to India.

conclusion

The tribunal was set up by Hasina in 2009 to examine and persecute crimes during the War of Independence Bangladesh against Pakistan in 1971. Under Hasina's leadership, politicians from the Jamaat-E-Islami party for their actions were put on trial for their actions during the nine-year war. Under the leadership of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, Hasina's father and the first leader of the country, Bangladesh achieved independence from Pakistan with the support of India.