Dhaka, Bangladesh:
Bangladesh’s new interim authorities mentioned Sunday it was working to resolve assaults on Hindus and different spiritual minorities reported after the dramatic ouster of autocratic premier Sheikh Hasina.
Hindus are the biggest minority religion in largely Muslim Bangladesh and are thought of a steadfast assist base for Hasina’s social gathering, the Awami League.
After Hasina’s abrupt resignation and flight overseas on Monday introduced an finish to her 15 years of autocratic rule, there have been quite a few stories of assaults in opposition to Hindu households, temples and companies.
“The assaults on spiritual minorities in some locations have been famous with grave concern,” the interim cupboard mentioned in its first official assertion since its Thursday appointment.
The cupboard mentioned it could “instantly sit with the consultant our bodies and different involved teams to seek out methods to resolve such heinous assaults”.
Sunday’s assertion from the self-styled “council of advisors” tasked with steering democratic reforms within the South Asian nation of 170 million folks listed quite a few pressing priorities.
The federal government, led by Nobel peace laureate Muhammad Yunus, ordered “assist” for the households of protesters who have been killed within the weeks of demonstrations culminating in Hasina’s departure.
It directed public funds to pay for these injured within the unrest, which started in July and killed greater than 450 folks.
The council additionally mentioned it could reopen the metro system within the capital Dhaka by the top of the week and shortly appoint a brand new central financial institution governor, changing a Hasina loyalist pressured to resign.
Institutional purge
Earlier within the day a brand new chief justice was sworn in to workplace the day after his predecessor, one other Hasina ally accused of sublimating the Supreme Courtroom to her authorities’s will, stop following protester calls for.
It’s the newest in a string of contemporary appointments to switch an previous guard seen as linked to the earlier regime, ousted by the student-led rebellion.
New high justice Syed Refaat Ahmed studied on the College of Dhaka, Oxford and Tufts College in the US.
Ahmed changed Obaidul Hassan after tons of of protesters gathered exterior the courtroom to demand the latter step-down.
Appointed final 12 months, Hassan earlier oversaw a much-criticised warfare crimes tribunal that ordered the execution of Hasina’s opponents, and his brother was her longtime secretary.
Hasina, 76, fled by helicopter to neighbouring India on Monday as protesters flooded Dhaka’s streets in a dramatic finish to her iron-fisted rule.
Her authorities was accused of widespread human rights abuses, together with the extrajudicial killing of hundreds of her political opponents, throughout her 15-year rule.
Cupboard ministers left blindsided by her sudden fall have gone to floor, whereas a number of different high appointees have been pressured out of workplace, together with the nationwide police chief.
Interim chief Yunus, 84, returned from Europe on Thursday to guide a short lived administration dealing with the monumental problem of ending dysfunction and enacting democratic reforms.
The restoration of regulation and order was the caretaker administration’s “first precedence”, Yunus mentioned.
Yunus gained the Nobel Peace Prize in 2006 for his pioneering work in microfinance, credited with serving to thousands and thousands of Bangladeshis out of grinding poverty.
He took workplace as “chief advisor” to a caretaker administration, comprised of fellow civilians bar one retired brigadier-general, and has mentioned he desires to carry elections “inside a number of months”.
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