بنجلاديش: إدانة قوات الأمن باستخدام العنف المفرط ضد المسلمين

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أكدت منظمة "هيومن رايتس ووتش" أن القوات الأمنية استخدمت العنف المفرط ضد المتظاهرين المسلمين في مطلع العام الجاري؛ مما أدى لوفاة 150 متظاهرًا مسلمًا أثناء تظاهرهم اعتراضًا على محاكمة بعض النشطاء الإسلاميين المتهمين بارتكاب أعمال عنف أثناء حرب الاستقلال عام 1971.

وقد اندلعت المظاهرات المعارضة بربوع "بنجلاديش" فبراير الماضي، وقامت قوات الأمن بقمعها وحل حزب "الجماعة الإسلامية"؛ مما أدى لسقوط القتلى والعديد من الجرحى، وذلك بناء على إجراء لقاءات مع 95 شاهد عيان ومصاب. المصدر: شبكة الألوكة.

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Bangladesh Killed Protesters: HRW

A leading international human rights group has accused Bangladeshi security forces of using excessive power to quell protests against verdicts by a war crimes tribunal this year, killing and executing at least 150.

"The killings have been worryingly high," said Mark Dummett, co-author of the report by the New York-based Human Rights Watch, Agence France Presse (AFP) reported on Thursday, August 1.

"In some cases protesters have been singled out," Dummett added.

The report, titled "Blood On The Streets: The Use of Excessive Force During Bangladesh Protests," accused Bangladeshi security forces of using excessive force during demonstrations earlier this year.

Massive protests have engulfed Bangladesh last February following death sentences against Islamist leaders on alleged war crimes during the 1971 independence war.

A local tribunal has so far convicted six Islamists for war crimes committed during Bangladesh's 1971 war of independence against Pakistan, four of whom have been sentenced to death.

Trying to quell demonstrations, security forces battled with protesters, sparking the deadliest political violence since independence that led to the death of at least 150.

The HRW report was based on 95 interviews, including of injured people and their family members. One of those interviewed was a 12-year-old boy.

"He was aiming at my chest but six small rubber pellets hit my face," the boy said, referring to a security officer.

"The man who fired it was standing about two metres (yards) away from me. I then pretended to be dead and they dumped me with some other bodies."

Bracing for more war crimes verdicts in coming months and elections only five months away, HRW said it feared more deadly protests in Bangladesh.

"Unless the government takes firm action to rein in the security forces, there is going to be a lot more blood on the streets before the year is over," said Brad Adams, Asia director at Human Rights Watch.

Illegal

The report comes as a Bangladeshi court has declared the country’s biggest Islamic party Jamaat-e-Islami "illegal"

"It is hereby declared illegal," said Moazzem Husain, the chief judge of a High Court panel hearing the case amid tight security outside the courthouse here, PTI news agency reported.