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Bangladeshi safety forces have launched an operation to get better 1000’s of weapons, together with these seized throughout lethal unrest that led to the ouster of autocratic chief Sheikh Hasina, police mentioned Wednesday.
Weeks of student-led demonstrations become mass protests, and Hasina fled by helicopter to neighbouring India on August 5 after 15 years in energy.
Police had tried to suppress the protests with gunfire, however demonstrators responded by storming and looting police stations and confiscating weapons.
Nobel Peace Prize winner Muhammad Yunus now leads an interim authorities following Hasina’s ouster.
Greater than 3,700 weapons of varied sorts had been recovered throughout an amnesty at hand over weapons that ended on Tuesday.
Nonetheless, greater than 2,000 weapons, together with rifles, have disappeared, together with 1000’s of rounds of ammunition and a whole lot of tear gasoline canisters and stun grenades.
“Weapons that haven’t been handed over to police stations inside the stipulated timeframe… stolen weapons will probably be thought of unlawful,” mentioned senior police official Enamul Haque Sagor.
The disarmament operation includes the military and police, in addition to different safety drive models, together with the paramilitary Fast Motion Battalion (RAB) and Ansar forces.
Two former senior law enforcement officials have additionally been detained in reference to the violent crackdown on protests and have been remanded in custody, Dhaka Deputy Police Commissioner Obaidur Rahman mentioned.
Each males face homicide fees, though no formal fees have but been filed.
Amongst them is former police chief Chowdhury Abdullah Al Mamun, who resigned a day after Hasina fled and was taken into custody, the Dhaka Metropolitan Police mentioned in a press release late Tuesday.
Police mentioned he had “expressed his willingness to give up — as a result of a case in opposition to him — whereas in military custody.”
He was remanded in custody for eight days on Wednesday, Rahman mentioned.
One other senior officer, AKM Shahidul Haque, who had served as police chief between 2014 and 2018, was arrested on Tuesday and remanded in police custody for seven days, Rahman mentioned.
Greater than 600 folks had been killed within the weeks earlier than Hasina’s ouster, in response to a preliminary report by a United Nations human rights workforce, which mentioned the quantity was “doubtless an underestimate.”
Most of the lifeless had been hit by police fireplace.
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