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‘Shoot directly’: Hasina’s order and deadly aftermath

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  • Update Time : 10:31 am, Tuesday, 21 October 2025
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On the morning of July 27, 2024, Sheikh Hasina stood silently at the podium at the National Institute of Traumatology and Orthopedic Rehabilitation (NITOR), also known as Pongu hospital, in Dhaka.  

For nearly 14 seconds of the eight-minute emotional speech, the deposed prime minister said nothing. Bitter pain etched onto her face, as if weighed down by the enormity of the bloodshed since July 16, the day police killed Abu Sayed in Rangpur using lethal weapons. Five more lives were lost that day in violence in Dhaka and Chattogram.

By the time Hasina stood at the NITOR podium, at least 162 people had been killed over the last two weeks, many of them gunned down with military-grade lethal weapons by state forces, according to The Daily Star’s findings.

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‘Shoot directly’: Hasina’s order and deadly aftermath

Update Time : 10:31 am, Tuesday, 21 October 2025

On the morning of July 27, 2024, Sheikh Hasina stood silently at the podium at the National Institute of Traumatology and Orthopedic Rehabilitation (NITOR), also known as Pongu hospital, in Dhaka.  

For nearly 14 seconds of the eight-minute emotional speech, the deposed prime minister said nothing. Bitter pain etched onto her face, as if weighed down by the enormity of the bloodshed since July 16, the day police killed Abu Sayed in Rangpur using lethal weapons. Five more lives were lost that day in violence in Dhaka and Chattogram.

By the time Hasina stood at the NITOR podium, at least 162 people had been killed over the last two weeks, many of them gunned down with military-grade lethal weapons by state forces, according to The Daily Star’s findings.