Dhaka: Bangladesh interim authorities chief Muhammad Yunus’ workplace on Tuesday mentioned the extradition of deposed prime minister Sheikh Hasina from India was Dhaka’s prime precedence. “That is the federal government’s prime precedence,” Chief Adviser Yunus’ press secretary Shafiqul Alam mentioned in a media briefing, including that Dhaka would proceed its efforts to extradite Hasina to carry her trial in particular person.
He mentioned it was as much as the individuals and political events of Bangladesh to resolve if her “fascist” Awami League would be capable to keep on politics however these allegedly concerned in killings, enforced disappearances and different wrongdoings have to be dropped at justice.
The spokesman mentioned the Workplace of the United Nations Excessive Commissioner for Human Rights’ (OHCHR) reality discovering report, launched final week, revealed that Hasina dedicated crimes in opposition to humanity throughout her tenure.
“After the report of the UN and a few experiences of rights teams had been printed, stress has been mounted (on India to return Hasina to Bangladesh),” the state-run Bangladesh Sangbad Sangstha (BSS) quoted him as saying.
Alam mentioned a survey by an Indian media group confirmed that 55 per cent Indians wished her repatriation whereas a sure per cent wish to ship her to a different nation and solely 16-17 per cent wished her keep in India.
Bangladesh’s International Workplace earlier mentioned they despatched a diplomatic word in search of her repatriation and New Delhi acknowledged its receipt with none elaboration Hasina secretly fled the nation for India when her almost 16-year-long Awami League regime was toppled in a student-led mass rebellion on August 5, 2024.
She has been accused of a sequence of prices like fee of crimes in opposition to humanity, mass murders and enforced disappearances by the following interim administration together with a lot of her senior colleagues within the cupboard and social gathering. Most of those leaders and officers are actually in jail to face trial or on the run at dwelling and overseas.
Alam’s feedback got here a day after Hasina accused Yunus of turning Bangladesh right into a “terrorist” hub, exposing it to a state of lawlessness in a digital dialog with a number of the widows and youngsters of policemen killed over the past yr’s unrest. Hasina vowed to return dwelling and “avenge the deaths of our policemen” and added that she too narrowly escaped loss of life when her authorities was toppled by the grace of God “who positively saved me alive to do one thing good”.
The deposed premier earlier on February 5 just about addressed a gathering of now disbanded Chhatra League, her social gathering’s pupil wing, when her ancestral home and residence of Bangladesh’s founding father Sheikh Mujibur Rahman was demolished by a mob with a preannounced declaration because the information of her scheduled assembly broke.
The mob used excavators to stage the 32 Dhanmondi home, which was memorial museum named after the assassinated chief who was killed together with most of his members of the family in a coup by a bunch of comparatively junior navy officers on August 15, 1975.
The mobs additionally launched a close to simultaneous assault on Awami League leaders’ homes and institutions throughout the nation that continued for the following three days. Yunus himself in a media interview earlier requested New Delhi to debar Hasina from talking out, saying her feedback enraged individuals in Bangladesh.
