Bangladesh to seek extradition of ousted leader Hasina from India
Bangladesh has decided to seek the extradition of ousted leader, Sheikh Hasina, from India, according to the South Asian country's International Crimes Tribunal (ICT).
The new interim government in Bangladesh, led by Muhammad Yunus, is making efforts to bring Sheikh Hasina back to the country to face charges over a series of violent clampdowns on student-led demonstrations that escalated into mass anti-government protests before her self-imposed exile to neighboring India.
The chief prosecutor of ICT, Mohammad Tajul Islam, has accused the former leader of ordering the “massacres” of defenseless people, mostly youths, in the vicious crackdown by authorities.
“As the main perpetrator has fled the country, we will start the legal procedure to bring her back,” Tajul Islam told reporters on Sunday.
Hasina fled to India following weeks of deadly clashes in which more than 600 people were killed in the brutal crackdown in the weeks leading up to her escape in a military helicopter on August 5.
Her stay in India since then has soured relations between New Delhi and Dhaka, which is demanding her return to face trial.
The ICT’s chief prosecutor said Hasina is accused of ruling the nation with an iron fist, overseeing the “massacres” that took place.
He noted, “Bangladesh has a criminal extradition treaty with India which was signed in 2013."
“As she has been made the main accused of the massacres in Bangladesh, we will try to legally bring her back to Bangladesh to face trial.”
Hasina has not been seen in public since fleeing to India.
Last week, Yunus, a Nobel Peace Prize winner who took over after the uprising, said Hasina should “keep quiet” as long as she remained in India.
“If India wants to keep her until the time Bangladesh wants her back, the condition would be that she has to keep quiet,” Yunus told the Press Trust of India news agency.
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