{"id":63639,"date":"2025-07-25T04:54:26","date_gmt":"2025-07-25T04:54:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deshmediabd.com\/?p=63639"},"modified":"2025-07-25T04:54:26","modified_gmt":"2025-07-25T04:54:26","slug":"hasina-ordered-firing-on-protesters-in-2024-al-jazeera-investigation-reveals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deshnews24.info\/?p=63639","title":{"rendered":"Hasina ordered firing on protesters in 2024, Al Jazeera investigation reveals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The evidences obtained by Al Jazeera have revealed that ousted prime minister Sheikh Hasina ordered police to use \u2018lethal weapons\u2019 against protesters during the July mass uprising last year.<\/p>\n<p>Sheikh Hasina, \u201cissued an open order\u201d to \u201cuse lethal weapons\u201d on students protesting against her government\u2019s policies last year and shoot \u201cwherever they find them\u201d, her secret phone call recordings, accessed by Al Jazeera, have revealed.<\/p>\n<p>Hasina, who ruled Bangladesh for 15 years, fled to India on August 5 in 2024 after weeks of bloody protests and brutal action by government forces killed nearly 1,400 people and wounded more than 20,000, according to the Bangladesh\u2019s International Criminal Tribunal (ICT).<\/p>\n<p>The Al Jazeera Investigative Unit (I-Unit) had the recordings analysed by audio forensic experts to check for AI manipulation, and the callers were identified by voice matching.<\/p>\n<p>In one call, recorded on July 18 by the National Telecommunications Monitoring Centre (NTMC), Hasina told an ally that she had ordered her security forces to use lethal force, Qatar-based outlet Al Jazeera reports.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bssnews.net\/news-flash\/295513\">\u09ac\u09bf\u09b8\u09cd\u09a4\u09be\u09b0\u09bf\u09a4<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The evidences obtained by Al Jazeera have revealed that ousted prime minister Sheikh Hasina ordered police to use \u2018lethal weapons\u2019 against protesters during the July mass uprising last year. Sheikh Hasina, \u201cissued an open order\u201d to \u201cuse lethal weapons\u201d on students protesting against her government\u2019s policies last year and shoot \u201cwherever they find them\u201d, her [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":63640,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-14"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deshnews24.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63639","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deshnews24.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deshnews24.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deshnews24.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deshnews24.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=63639"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/deshnews24.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63639\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63641,"href":"https:\/\/deshnews24.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63639\/revisions\/63641"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deshnews24.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/63640"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deshnews24.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deshnews24.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deshnews24.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}