The vandalized residence of former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, in Dacca, on February 6, 2025. Mahmud Hossaine Opu/AP the Bangladesian police announced, Monday, February 10, having arrested more than 1,300 people during a vast operation called ” Hunting for demons ”targeting gangs suspected by the government to be linked to the former deputy minister Sheikh Hasina. Jahangir Alam Chowdhury, head of the interior ministry of the provisional government set up after the flight of Ms. Hasina after weeks of demonstrations, promised to continue this operation “until the demons are uprooted”. According to the police spokesman, Insamul Haque Sagar, since the start of this repression campaign on Saturday, “1,308 people have been arrested across the country”. These arrests follow a series of disorders. In early February, six months after the ex-leader’s flight, demonstrators destroyed several buildings linked to her family, after learning that Mrs. Hasina, 77, was to address her supporters on Facebook from neighboring India , where she found refuge. It is prosecuted by the Bangladian justice for crimes against humanity and is the subject of several international arrest warrants. Among the buildings destroyed, the house transformed into his father’s museum, the first president of the country, Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, in the capital, Dacca. Civil rights activists have condemned these ramps. Anti-Hasina demonstrators and members of its party, the Awami League, also clashed. Messages on social networks The government awarded the responsibility of this violence to the former Minister, who led the country with an iron fist of 2009 to its exile and which multiplies messages on social networks, galvanizing his supporters. The Nobel Peace Prize, Muhammad Yunus, head of the interim government, called for calm on Friday. Shortly after, members of the movement “students against discrimination”, at the origin of the summer 2024 demonstrations, were attacked in Dacca. Members of this collective, some of which are part of the interim government, have demanded measures against the perpetrators of these attacks. The government claimed to have launched its operation after gangs “linked to the old autocratic regime attacked a group of students, some of whom were seriously injured”. Faced with concerns, the government has been reassuring, Mr. Yunus’s press officer, Shafiqul Alam, saying that a “command center” oversees order. The memorable world test your general culture with the editorial staff of the “world” Test your general culture with the writing of the “world” to discover but the lawyer of the Supreme Court, Snehadri Chakravarti, criticized these operations, believing that “innocent” could Being stopped without solving the main problems. “I don’t think this campaign will significantly improve the deterrent public order,” he said. “For me, it’s eye powder. »Read also | Article reserved for our Sheikh Hasina subscribers, a bulky host for India read later the world with AFP reuse this content
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