Sheikh Hasina allowed Bangladesh’s deadly repression, a leak that offers audio

Last year, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina was allowed to be deadly on protests led by students in Bangladesh last year, according to audio, one of her phone calls checked by BBC Eye.

In the audio, which was traced on the Internet in March, Hasina states that she has allowed her force force forcefully forcefully forceful force “against the participants of the action and” wherever they find (them), they will shoot. “

Prosecutors in Bangladesh plan to use the record as important evidence against Hasin, who is tried in the correspondence in a special tribunal for crimes against humanity.

According to investigators, up to 1400 people were killed for excitement last summer. Hasina, who escaped India and her party is dismissed by all charges against her.

The press -secretary of his league party Avi denied any “illegal intent” of “disproportionate reaction” in the tape.

Hasin’s talk leak with an unspecified high -ranking government official is the most important proof that she gave direct permission to shoot anti -government protesters, tens of thousands of whom came out on the street last summer.

The protests began against job quotas in the public service for relatives of those who fought in the war for the independence of 1971 and grew into a mass movement that had displaced Hasina, who had been in power for 15 years. This is the worst violence that Bangladesh has seen since the 1971 war.

Some of the bloodiest scenes took place on August 5, on this day, Hasina fled helicopter before the crowds invaded the residence into the document.

The BBC World Service investigation has created previously unrelatable details of the police massacre in the capital – including a much more dead.

Hasina was in her residence in Daco, known as the Hinobhaban, throughout the call, which took place on July 18, the BBC source reported, knowing about leaks of audio.

It was a crucial moment at the demonstration. Security Service representatives responded to the public’s indignation at the assassination of the protesters shot on the video and shared in social media. In the following days after the call rifle, the military level was deployed and used throughout the documents, according to the BBC police documents.

The record considered by the BBC is one of the numerous calls involving Sheikh Hasin, which were made by the National Telecommunications Monitoring Center (NTMC), the Bangladesh Government, which is responsible for monitoring communication.

The audio call was leaked in early March this year – it is unclear. Many clips have appeared since the protests, many of them are unproven.

The leak on July 18 was recorded in accordance with the Bangladesh police department with the famous sound of Sheikh Hasin.

The BBC conducted its own independent check, sharing an Earshot Expert, which did not find evidence that the speech was edited or manipulated, and stated that it was unlikely to be synthetically generated.

Earshot said the record leak was probably made in the room when the phone call lost to the dynamics, from the presence of distinctive telephone frequencies and background sounds. Earshot has determined the electrical network (ENF) frequency throughout the record, the frequency that is often present in audio recordings due to the intervention between the recording device and the equipment that works on the power grid, the indicator that audio is not manipulated.

Earshot also analyzed Sheikh Hasin’s speech – rhythm, intonation and breathing – and determined a consistent noise level without revealing any evidence of synthetic artifacts in audio.

“Records are crucial for establishing its role, they are clear and were correctly checking authentication and supported by other evidence,” said the BBC British International Human Rights Lawyer Tobi Kadman. He advises the International Criminal Bangladesh Tribunal (ICT), court cases against Hasin and others.

The Awami League press press said, “We cannot confirm whether the record that refers to the BBC is really.”

Along with Sheikh Hasin, former government and police officials were involved in the killing of protesters. A total of 203 persons were charged with ICT, 73 are in custody.

The BBC Eye analyzed and checked hundreds of videos, images and documents that detail about police attacks on demonstrators for 36 days.

The investigation showed that in one incident on August 5, at least 52 people were killed by police in the Etar Bar, which made him one of the most terrible cases of police violence in Bangladesh. Initial messages at the time offered 30 dead in Etarbara that day.

The BBC investigation has revealed new details about how the massacre began and ended.

Collection of eyewitnesses, CCTVs and images of drones, BBC Eye found that the police opened the fire without analyzing the rally immediately after the army officers who had separated the police from the protesters.

For more than 30 minutes, the police fired with the escape of the rally participants when they tried to escape the alleys and on the highway before the police searched for asylum in a nearby army camp. At least six police officers were also killed when protesters avenged a few hours later, setting fire to the police station.

BBC Police Press School told BBC that 60 police officers had been arrested for a role in violence in July and August last year.

“The incidents were regretted that some police officers used excessive use,” the press secretary said. “Bangladesh police have launched careful and impartial investigations.”

Sheikh The Jasina trial began last month. She was accused of committing crimes against humanity, including the issuance of orders that led to massacres and focused violence against civilians, as well as incitement, conspiracy and inability to prevent massacres.

Until now, India has not fulfilled Bangladesh’s request for its extradition. It is unlikely that Hasina will return to the country for trial, said Mr. Cadman.

The Avi League claims that its leaders are not responsible for the forces used against the protesters.

“The Avi League strongly denies and denies that some of his senior leaders, including the Prime Minister herself, are personal responsibility for the use of the death force against the crowd,” the party’s press secretary said.

“The decisions made by high -ranking government officials were proportional to, conscientiously, adopted and intended to minimize the loss of life.”

The party rejected the findings of the United Nations investigators, which stated that they had found reasonable grounds to believe that Hasina’s actions and its government could mean crimes against humanity.

The BBC appealed to the Bangladesh Army for comments but did not receive an answer.

Since the fall of Hasas Bangladesh, he has led the Provisional Government headed by Nobel Prize winner Muhammad Yunus.

His government is preparing for national elections. It is unclear whether the League will be challenged by the vote.