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Fact-finding team reports widespread shotgun use, targeted force during Bangladesh student protests
Summary
A fact-finding team said investigators observed widespread shotgun use and gather evidence suggesting coordinated actions by former political leaders and senior security officials during student-led protests in Bangladesh; the team received more than 900 submissions and deployed forensic expertise to hospitals and protest sites.
“You can start to see where certain types of weapons were employed, certain types of ammunition in those weapons, and the impacts that they had on people, on property,” Speaker 1, a staff member on the fact-finding team, said.
The team said it was deployed at the request of Bangladesh’s interim government and visited protest hot spots, including university areas, while collecting testimony and documentary submissions. “Following the student led protests in Bangladesh, it was the interim government itself that requested the deployment of a fact finding mission to Bangladesh. The team visited hot spots, sites of…
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