Initially peaceful demonstrations turned violent last week with more than 150 dead and thousands injured
Dhaka University student, Nahid Islam, said he was picked up by police last week, tortured and left unconscious by the side of the road.Dhaka University student, Nahid Islam, said he was picked up by police last week, tortured and left unconscious by the side of the road.
“They took me somewhere I couldn’t recognise and then put me in a room where they started to question me and later torture me, first mentally and then physically,” said Islam. The police crackdown led to violence across the country as student protesters fought back against the riot police, often armed with only crude weapons, and university campuses became war zones. Police were accused by witnesses of firing live ammunition at protesters and have been blamed for large numbers of the deaths that took place. Unofficial figures have put the death toll at more than 150, while thousands are estimated to have been injured.
In a meeting that was broadcast on Monday, Hasina claimed to have deployed police and paramilitary forces to “protect” the students and called the violence that took place “the attacks of the militants”. Then, he alleged, the physical abuse began. “They used metal rods and started beating on my joints, on my shoulders and particularly on my left leg. That leg has the most severe injuries. At some point I fell unconscious to the unbearable pain.” He said that when he awoke he found h himself lying by the roadside in the capital, Dhaka.
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