Ahammad Foyez

Nov 19, 2024 | benarnews.org | Ahammad Foyez

Members of Bangladesh’s interim government, student leaders and others vowed at an emotional Dhaka forum to try leaders of the ousted ruling party on charges linked to the killings of over 1,400 people during mass protests in July and August. A group of about 500 people who filled the Bangladesh National Museum auditorium here made the commitment following a panel discussion marking the first 100 days of the interim government led by Nobel Laureate Muhammad Yunus. He came to power on Aug.

Oct 3, 2024 | benarnews.org | Ahammad Foyez

A new Bangladesh inquiry commission said Thursday it had found an infamous “secret” detention center at the military intelligence headquarters that people released from its 22 cells had chillingly talked about. The detention center operated during the administrations of ousted ex-Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, and was run from the Dhaka headquarters of the Directorate General of Forces Intelligence (DGFI), which has no legal power to detain anyone, commission member Sazzad Hossain said.

Oct 1, 2024 | flipboard.com | Ahammad Foyez

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Oct 1, 2024 | benarnews.org | Ahammad Foyez

Violence erupted again in Bangladesh’s restive Chittagong Hill Tracts region on Tuesday after members of an indigenous community lynched a settler for allegedly raping a local student, in the second such killing in under two weeks. Authorities banned public gatherings in the Khagrachhari Sadar sub-district after at least 12 people were injured in clashes between members of the indigenous and settler communities following the lynching.

Sep 23, 2024 | benarnews.org | Ahammad Foyez

Hundreds of people died in the civil unrest that rocked Bangladesh in July and August, but efforts to determine exactly how many are ongoing. One student activist has claimed that the number is more than double the official figure given by the transitional government: 630. “The number of martyrs in the July revolution is 1,423 people. But this number can be more or less.