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The Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) has filed a complaint with the International Crimes Tribunal over the alleged killing of 848 leaders and activists of the party and its affiliated organisations in the student-led July-August mass uprising.
On behalf of BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir, Md Salauddin Khan PPM, who is responsible for coordinating the party's records on enforced disappearances and extrajudicial killings, submitted the complaint at the office of the chief prosecutor of the tribunal this morning (13 February).
The charges have been brought against former prime minister Sheikh Hasina, former home minister Asaduzzaman Khan, former law minister Anisul Huq, former inspector general of Police Chowdhury Abdullah Al-Mamun, former director general of RAB, and other relevant individuals for their alleged involvement in these killings.
After submitting the complaint, Md Salauddin Khan PPM told journalists that a total of 848 people, including 524 BNP activists, lost their lives in the movement and the rest were relatives of the activists
In the petition submitted to the chief prosecutor, BNP alleged that from July 2024 to 5 August 2024, BNP leaders, activists, supporters, anti-discrimination student movement participants, and others were indiscriminately shot, tortured, and brutally killed with sharp weapons as part of a systematic effort to destroy and eliminate BNP as a political party.
BNP also urged the tribunal to register the complaints and conduct an investigation through the International Crimes Tribunal's investigative agency for prosecution. Additionally, copies of the FIRs related to the killings of BNP activists across the country have been submitted to the prosecutor's office.
Earlier, on 9 January, BNP had filed a separate petition with the tribunal's prosecution, accusing law enforcement officials of killing 2,276 of its members in crossfire and forcibly disappearing 153 others across the country. This petition also included allegations against former prime minister Sheikh Hasina and members of law enforcement agencies.
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