Need to document Hasina regime crimes: Yunus

DHAKA: Bangladesh chief adviser Muhammad Yunus Sunday pressured the significance of documenting all atrocities dedicated throughout the regime of ousted PM Sheikh Hasina, together with the crackdown on scholar motion individuals, police brutality towards protesters following the decision towards Islamist chief Delwar Hossain Sayeedi, and all extrajudicial killings over time.
“There is a need for proper documentation of all atrocities committed against the peopleWithout such documentation, it is difficult to uncover the truth and ensure justice,” Yunus mentioned when Gwyn Lewis, the UN resident co-ordinator in Bangladesh, and Huma Khan, senior human rights adviser at Lewis’s workplace, known as on him. Lewis knowledgeable Yunus that the UN excessive commissioner for human rights, Volker Turk, will temporary member states about its findings on March 5 throughout the fifty fifth session of the Human Rights Council. UN secretary-general Antonio Guterres will go to Bangladesh from March 13 to 16.
Lewis additionally mentioned the UN is prepared to present technical assist and assist the folks of Bangladesh construct their capability on this regard. “This is part of the process of healing and establishing truth,” Yunus’s press wing quoted Lewis as saying.
Lewis hoped that the upcoming go to of Guterres will deliver the Rohingya disaster again to world consideration amid dwindling help provides. “We are very concerned about the funding situation,” she mentioned, including that each month, $15 million is required simply to guarantee meals provides for the Rohingya folks, together with different primary wants.