Bangladesh’s former government was behind systematic attacks and killings of protesters as it tried to hold onto power last year, the UN has said, warning the abuses could amount to “crimes against humanity”. Before prime minister Sheikh Hasina was toppled in a student-led revolution last August, her government cracked down on protesters and others, including “hundreds of extrajudicial killings”, the United Nations said on Wednesday. A UN report into the violence said the former government had tried to suppress the protests with increasingly violent means.
