By Global Issues SYDNEY, Dec 16 (IPS) – This piece is not about the crisis or the chaos that the country is now facing after successfully toppling the autocratic regime of Sheikh Hasina. Rather, it is about the crisis of confidence and social capital or trust — interlinked, nonetheless. Read the full story, “Bangladesh in […]
By Saif Hasnat and Mujib Mashal Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and top officials are implicated in a centralized program that abducted dissidents and held them in secret prisons, an official commission’s preliminary report said. Source: The New York Times Category: Prisons and Prisoners, Missing Persons, Bangladesh Awami League, Yunus, Muhammad, Bangladesh, Sheikh Hasina
An inquiry commission set up by the interim government in Bangladesh said in a provisional report that it has found ex-premier Sheikh Hasina’s involvement in alleged incidents of enforced disappearance. The Commission for Inquiry on Enforced Disappearance estimated that the number of enforced disappearances would be over 3,500. “The commission has found evidence of former […]