Bangladesh: Sheikh Hasina says Deepu Das was falsely accused, justice will be served as long as she is alive
Bangladesh: Sheikh Hasina also appealed to Dipu Das's family to remain patient and said that as long as she is alive, she will work to ensure justice is served.
Massive protests are being held in several cities, including Delhi, to protest attacks on Hindus in Bangladesh. Protesters also demonstrated outside the Bangladesh High Commission in Delhi. The development comes as fundamentalists in Bangladesh killed and burned alive a Hindu youth, Dipu Das. Now, Bangladesh's ousted Prime Minister, Sheikh Hasina, has issued an audio statement on this issue and strongly condemned the incident.
Sheikh Hasina says Dipu Das was falsely accused
Sheikh Hasina on Tuesday said Dipu Das was falsely accused and no one could provide proof that he had insulted the Prophet. Not only this, the manner in which he was murdered, Sheikh Hasina asked where did these barbaric people come from. “Are these the same people whom she fed, and educated? She also appealed to Dipu Das's family to remain patient and said that as long as she is alive, she will work to ensure justice is served.
Protests taking place in India against atrocities on Hindus in Bangladesh
Protests are taking place from Bangladesh to India and from Delhi to Kathmandu against the atrocities being committed against Hindus in Bangladesh. In Delhi, protesters were stopped before they could reach the Bangladesh High Commission in Delhi. However, protesters say this is just a glimpse; if the Yunus government does not punish Dipu Das's killers, a larger movement will emerge.
Another leader in Bangladesh shot at during porotest
In another development, unidentified gunmen earlier this week shot in the head Motaleb Shikder, a second leader of Bangladesh’s violent student-led 2024 uprising. The attack took place in southwestern Khulna city, days after the killing of prominent youth leader Sharif Osman Hadi.
"The Khulna Division head of NCP (National Citizen Party) and central coordinator of the party’s workers front, Motaleb Shikder, was shot," NCP’s joint principal coordinator Mahmuda Mitu said in a Facebook post.
Mitu, a doctor, said Shikder was rushed to Khulna Medical College Hospital in a critical condition. The Kaler Kantha newspaper, quoting hospital sources, said Shikder was shot on the left side of his head, and he was bleeding profusely when he was brought to the facility, where the doctors started emergency treatment.
The attack came days after Hadi, a prominent leader of the student-led protests last year that led to the ouster of the prime minister Sheikh Hasina-led Awami League government, was shot in the head on December 12 by masked gunmen at an election campaign in central Dhaka’s Bijoynagar area.
The 32-year-old Inqilab Mancha spokesperson died while undergoing treatment in Singapore on Thursday. Hadi was a candidate for the scheduled February 12 general elections. The interim government of Muhammad Yunus staged a nationwide mourning for Hadi’s death on Saturday and said no stone would be left unturned to track down his killers as violence erupted in Dhaka and other major cities afresh over the attack and subsequent death.
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