Each month, ACLED’s Asia Pacific Team collects information on the dates, actors, locations, fatalities, and types of all reported political violence and protest events in the region. Details below on significant developments in February 2025 in Bangladesh, India, Indonesia, Myanmar, the Philippines, and Thailand. Bangladesh: Hasina’s speech prompts demolitions ofContinue Reading
A recent fact-finding report by the United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) on human rights violations in Bangladesh during the July-August student-led uprising laid bare former leader Sheikh Hasina’s direct and commanding role in serious human rights violations. The OHCHR report explicitly attributes responsibility forContinue Reading
There were also clashes between anti-Hasina protesters and members of her Awami League party. Members of the Students Against Discrimination protest group were attacked in the Dhaka district of Gazipur on Friday. The group, whose members are now in the government cabinet, is credited with sparking the uprising against Hasina.Continue Reading
Magazine Six months ago, Asia’s Iron Lady, Sheikh Hasina, fell dramatically from power. What happened? Victory march by protesters after the resignation of Sheikh Hasina, Aug. 5, 2024. Credit: Wikimedia Commons/ Rayhan9d One minute it looked like she was in full command of the fast-growing country over which she wieldedContinue Reading
Tulip Siddiq, a British-Bangladeshi member of the British Parliament for the Labor Party and formerly a senior anti-corruption minister in Keir Starmer’s government, recently resigned from her ministerial position amid intense scrutiny and public pressure. The niece of Bangladesh’s former authoritarian Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, Siddiq faced widespread media scrutinyContinue Reading
