Fugitive former prime minister Sheikh Hasina orchestrated a “systemic attack” to try to crush the uprising against her government, Bangladeshi prosecutors said at the opening of her trial on Sunday. Up to 1,400 people were killed between July and August 2024 when Hasina’s government launched its crackdown, according to the United Nations. Hasina, 77, fled by helicopter to her ally India as the student-led uprising ended her 15-year rule, and she has defied an extradition order to return to Dhaka.
