Muhammad Asadullah

The multiple amendments and expansion of the Anti-Terrorism Act, 2009 created scope for mass arbitrary arrests and detention of suspects, which often led to extrajudicial killings and enforced disappearances.

In July 2024, a student-led movement demanding quota reform evolved into the mass uprising against authoritarianism, bringing an end to over fifteen years of increasingly centralised and coercive rule.

Suffering is acknowledged rhetorically, yet accountability is consistently deferred in the name of stability, order, or political transition.

The Truth and Reconciliation Commission must be inclusive, holistic and sustainable.

Bangladesh has a history of unaddressed violence.

Bangladesh witnessed abominable atrocities and mass killings perpetrated by Sheikh Hasina’s fascist regime.