2013 Bangladesh riots

2013 Bangladesh violence
Location	Bangladesh
Date	28 February 2013 –
Deaths	109
Non-fatal injuries	800+

2013 Bangladesh violence refers to the political instability, increase in crime and widespread attacks of minorities and opposition activists.

On 28 February 2013, Thursday, the ICT, found Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami leader Delwar Hossain Sayeedi guilty of 8 out of 20 charges leveled against him including murder, rape and torture during the 1971 war of independence

On Sunday and Monday, 3 and 4 March, Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami enforced a 48-hour hartal. Protests led by Jamaate Islami activists and Sayeedi supporters were carried out during these strikes.Bangladesh Nationalist Party supported the strike and called for another daylong strike on 5 March. Police shot dead 31 protestors during the initial clashes. According to Human Rights Watch, members of the Border Guards Bangladesh, and the Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) shot live ammunition and rubber bullets into unarmed crowds, which included children, conducted sweeping arrests and used other forms of excessive force during and after protests. One eyewitness recalling the death of his 17-year-old family member described how he was shot after walking back from afternoon prayers:

I saw [him] on the ground with blood coming from his head. I tried to drag his body to the side. It was the first time I had seen a dead body so I was in shock. They were still shooting, so I ran down the road. … When the RAB officers stopped shooting they dragged [him] like a carcass and flung him into the car.

During the clashes a total of 80 individuals were shot dead by police. Police says that it did all these killings in "self defense."

Police sued 98,000 people for committing violence and imposed Section 144 in several districts.

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