In Bangladesh, the number of detainees during protest promotions provoked by statements by former Prime Minister Sheikh Khasina Vajid about “incitement to violence” increased to 1308 people.
According to the Dhaka Tribune newspaper, a wave of violence covered the country after Hasin’s performance on one of the television channels in India.
According to the police officer Bangladesh, Inamul Hagi Sagar, the detention of 1308 people in different corners of the country, primarily Dacca, took place as part of the operation “Devil Hunting”.
On the eve of Gazipur, 83 people were detained, including the leaders of the Khasin party “Avami Leag” and supporters of the party.
incidents using violence in Bangladesh
In July last year, student unrest began in Bangladesh. The demonstrators opposed the quota system, according to which almost a third (30 percent) of government posts are booking for relatives of war veterans with Pakistan in 1971. Protesters called the discriminational quota system. In their opinion, she is into the hands of the supporters of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, whose party “Avami Lig” led the movement for independence.
Protests ceased after the Supreme Court reduced the rates on quotas. Hundreds of people died and thousands of people were detained as a result of violence, which accompanied the demonstrations.
Against the backdrop of protests, Prime Minister Hasin resigned and flew out of the country, asking for asylum in the UK. Demonstrators at this time organized the assault on her residence.
Nobel Prize laureate Muhammad Yunus was hindered as the head of the Provisional Government on August 8, 2024.
On August 15, 2024, an investigation was launched against 10 high-ranking officials, including former Prime Minister Hasin, on charges of genocide and crimes against humanity during demonstrations in Bangladesh, an arrest warrant was issued.
Operation “Devil hunting”
After the statements of Hasina in India on February 6, large -scale demonstrations were held against Khasina and her party “Avami Leg”.
During the demonstrations, the Hasina House in Khulna was demolished by a bulldozer, where the founder and first president Bangladesh Bangababandhu Sheikh Mujburnrakhman announced the country’s independence from Pakistan.
The defeat of the residence was a reaction to the online speech of a politician who, being exiled in India, turned to its supporters via the Internet and urged them to withstand the Provisional Government.
Bangladesh police on the eighth of the eighth of the Devil Hunting Operation after the protesters against the Hasins were “attack” from the supporters of the former prime minister.