DHAKA, Bangladesh — Bangladesh’s interim chief and Nobel Peace laureate Muhammad Yunus mentioned Sunday that his administration will search the extradition of ousted Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina from India, the place has been in exile since fleeing a mass rebellion in August.
In a televised deal with to the nation on his first 100 days in workplace, Yunus mentioned that the interim authorities will strive these accountable together with Hasina for lots of of deaths throughout the student-led rebellion that ended her 15-year rule. Yunus took the helm on Aug. 8, three days after Hasina fled the nation.
He mentioned that not solely the deaths within the rebellion however all different violations of human rights, together with alleged enforced disappearances whereas Hasina was in energy, could be investigated. Bangladesh has sought assist from the worldwide police group Interpol in issuing a purple discover for the arrest of Hasina and her associates.
“We’ll search the return of the fallen autocrat Sheikh Hasina from India,” Yunus mentioned. “I’ve already mentioned the difficulty with chief prosecutor of the Worldwide Prison Court docket Karim Khan.”
Whereas Hasina and her shut associates are dealing with quite a few legal costs at house, the Yunus-led authorities can also be pushing for the ICC to take up the case.
Looking for Hasina’s extradition may additionally pose a problem for India, which has handled her as a trusted good friend.
Yunus mentioned his authorities’s most necessary activity was to carry a brand new election at hand over energy to an elected authorities, however he didn’t spell out any timeframe. He mentioned his administration would first result in reforms in varied sectors together with within the electoral system.
He promised that when the electoral reforms are accomplished, a roadmap for the brand new election could be unveiled.
Yunus has been speaking to political events together with the Bangladesh Nationalist Celebration headed by former Prime Minister Khaleda Zia, Hasina’s principal rival, which has sought an election in two to 3 months. The get together believes it should kind the subsequent authorities as Hasina’s Awami League get together and its allies face a political debacle following her ouster.
Yunus mentioned the Election Fee might be reconstituted quickly.
“However as we transfer ahead, we have to full a whole lot of work. The practice will attain its ultimate station relying on how shortly we will lay down the railway tracks, and this may occur by way of consensus among the many political events,” he mentioned.
Yunus additionally downplayed as “exaggerated” studies of assaults on minorities, particularly Hindus, a lot of whom complained that hard-line Islamists have gotten more and more influential since Hasina’s ouster.
