As ex-prime minister has fled, relatives of protesters among 1,000 killed in crackdown pin hopes on international courts
She may not have fired the gun but Mahabubar Rahman knows who killed Shoikot, his beloved only son. “Sheikh Hasina is the criminal responsible for his death,” he said. “She is the one who has shattered us.”
Bangladesh’s former prime minister fled the country last month, bringing her 15-year regime, dominated by allegations of tyranny, violence and corruption, to a dramatic end. While Hasina was accused of countless human rights abuses during her tenure, nothing would compare with what took place in the last weeks of July and early August, as she desperately clung to power at the cost of more than 1,000 lives.