UN Condemns Violence and Urges Restraint in Bangladesh
Sajid Sami Chowdhury Chittagong, November 1, 2023 — “On the 28th of October, it changed into the state that opposition protesters allegedly centered the residences of the leader justice and other judges.
Approximately 30 Journalists were assaulted with the aid of protesters and masked individuals on motorcycles, believed to be supporters of the ruling party”, in keeping with an announcement from a human rights organization, released on Tuesday night.
Expressing problem about current violent incidents going on across Bangladesh in the lead-up to the election, the United Nations organization has known all political actors to unequivocally condemn such violence. They additionally advised these actors to chorus from making statements or taking moves that would incite further violence.
The declaration cited that at least 11 people lost their lives in reference to the protests in diverse elements of the United States of America on Tuesday. The casualties were law enforcement officials, six opposition party activists, and two onlookers. Regarding the police’s movements at some point in clashes with protesters on the 28th of October, the UN employer mentioned that police allegedly used pressure, including rods, batons, rubber bullets, and sound grenades against the protesters.
Furthermore, they conducted raids on the houses of competition activists nationwide, ensuing in the indiscriminate arrest and detention of hundreds, including the activists’ own family members.
The Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) urged the police to make sure that pressure is most used while really necessary and, in that case, in strict accordance with the ideas of legality, precaution, and proportionality.
The UN human rights frame also stated the arrest of the BNP Secretary General, Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir, and appealed to the government to exercise restraint in coping with political tensions. On the 30th of October, Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir, the chief of BNP, was arrested and charged under the Explosive Substances Act in connection with an alleged arson assault at the chief justice’s house. He stays in detention, and several different senior opposition leaders are pronounced to have gone into hiding out of worry of arrest.
The authorities strongly underwrote exercising the verge restraint throughout this important period to relieve political tensions and ensure the safety of human rights for all Bangladeshis, both earlier, at some stage in, and after the elections.