Midnight Massacre in Dhaka by Security Forces of Bangladesh [WARNING GRAPHIC VIOLENCE]

Midnight Massacre in Dhaka by Security Forces of Bangladesh [WARNING GRAPHIC VIOLENCE]

Executive Summery :

On 6 May 2013 at 2.40 in the morning, the government in Bangladesh has cracked down on protests leaving a huge number of unarmed religious people dead and thousands others injured. More than 10,000 forces drawn from police, the elite Rapid Action Battalion and paramilitary Border Guard Bangladesh jointly launched a drive in the darkness of midnight on 6 May to clear demonstrators from a major thoroughfare in Dhaka.Electricity was cut and media access was restricted from the scene during the joint operation. In Narayanganj and Chittagong, 20 demonstrators were shot dead by police on 6 May. 16 demonstrators were killed on the previous day by police in several attacks carried out to disperse the Dhaka Siege program.

 Bangladesh is now passing a great crisis in her political arena. Democracy and good governance have been severely questioned over the current regime. Human rights have been infringed to an unprecedented extent. The Bangladesh government headed by Awami League has been exposing its deadly autocratic attitude and unethical stand both in national as well as international arenas since it has acceded to power in 2009. It has always shown ultra-rated hostility towards people‟s demands and their democratic demos and protests.Most recently, Hefajat-e-Islam, a non-political religious outfit set out to ensure punishment of the anti-religious bloggers for their blasphemous campaigns, staged its scheduled “Dhaka Siege & Sit-in” program on last 5th May 2013 urging the government to meet its 13-point demand announced earlier. Since the break of dawn on that day, a sum total of about 3 to 4 million Hefajat men, as a whole, blocked the entrances to Dhaka city and they took, as per the governmental consent, to the streets round the “Shapla Square” at Motijheel in Dhaka at around 3:00 pm. But as soon as Hefajat-e-Islam began its gathering and sit-in therein, armed cops and RAB personnel started to shoot at the participants indiscriminately. Soon, the hub of Dhaka city turned into a battlefield and Hefajat men were turning into "corpses" one after another.  

Hundreds of thousands of Hefazat activists gathered at Shapla Chattar of Motijhil, Dhaka.They declared to continue their sit-in indefinitely. However, on 6th May at 3:00 am at midnight, the locale was blacked out by switching streetlights off, Two TV channels on stream (namely, Diganta TV and Islamic TV) were cut off and made go off the air as they dare to air true news about governmental injustice, and all the journos were forcibly made leave the locale by the government official dudes and pro-party thugs. Then, all on a sudden, an integrated band of cops, BGB and RAB personnel began to open fire wantonly at the sit-in participants to take over the reins of the locale whereby over Hundreds people died, thousands of people got injured and shot and about 2 thousand more went traceless.

 To see the video please click on: Video footage obtained by Al Jazeera appears to contradict official death toll from May 6 violence in Dhaka.

 To see the Documentary Video please click on: Dateline 5th and 6th May 2013 | Midnight Massacre in Dhaka by Security Forces of Bangladesh

Dhaka-based human rights organization Odhikar's report

Human Rights Report 2013 - Dhaka-based human rights organization Odhikar

 

Human rights group Odhikars' secretary Adilur Rahman Khan (centre) being taken away by the police in Dhaka on August 11, 2013.

 

 Odhikar had been critical of the Bangladeshi security forces' actions during protests by the opposition group Hefazat-e-Islam on 5 and 6 May 2013.

The arrest of a prominent Bangladeshi human rights defender over the weekend is a clear violation of the right to freedom of expression, Amnesty International said.

 

WARNING! The following images certainly contain material of a graphically violent and explecitly bloody and cruel in nature. VIEWER DISCRETION IS REQUESTED. 

 

 

One among thousands killed by Bangladesh police and paramilitary forces. Police targeting faces and govt thugs stabbing with sharp object or slaughtering in order to confirm death afterwards.

Another dead of black 5th May, an unarmed civilian who had to die only because he protested against the government

Government party BCL thugs are dancing over a dead body of a Hefajot activist whom they had just killed by beating indiscriminately by sticks and shackles.

one dead and another lucky survivor, no one know whether he remained alive though finally.

fire service people are washing and cleaning up all the blood before its morning

just another dead

end of this short life. 

nothing to say

killer watching victim

One among thousands, hunted by proud Bangladesh police and paramilitary force BGB (Border Guard Bangladesh)

slaughtered by Awami people 

police is looking for anyone to hunt down

Last moments, falling down after being hit by police bullets 

departing the world 

Hefajot students and poor supporters are trying desperately to save their friend. They don't have even any auto-mobile to take the shot ones to any hospital or medical centre. 

just another victim

they died and remained there on the footstep until police came and took their corpses to unknown places.

lying in the pool of his own blood, this picture is actually very strange. Look at the advertisement picture behind this protester wearing Islamic dress. This is Bangladesh where Islam is wounded and vulgar obscenity is prevailing now. 

together in life and death 

All quiet in the Dhaka front

Proud killer, complete hunting one down. Another one in the back shooting his prey. It was the last moment for that Panjabai wearing protester behind the truck.