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Former Bangladesh gov’t behind possible ‘crimes against humanity’, says UN

Antigovernment protesters display Bangladesh's national flag as they storm Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's residence in Dhaka on August 5, 2024 [File: KM Asad/AFP]

Former Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s government was behind possible “crimes against humanity” as it strived to hold on to power last year, says the United Nations.

Before Hasina was toppled in a mainly student-led revolution last August, her government oversaw a systematic crackdown on protesters, involving “hundreds of extrajudicial killings”, the UN human rights office said in a fact-finding report on Wednesday.

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