Guernica 37 Launches Initiative for Justice and Accountability in Bangladesh

VikingRaider · Aug 16, 2023

Guernica 37 Launches Initiative for Justice and Accountability in Bangladesh

Guernica 37 Launches Pro Bono Initiative to Collect and Present Evidence to the ICC Prosecutor in The Hague

For the past twelve months Guernica 37 has been working with elements of civil society in Bangladesh and the diaspora to document serious human rights violations and state involvement in the targeting of the civilian population. This builds upon a previous communication submitted to the ICC Prosecutor in 2014.

Bangladesh became a State Party to the Rome Treaty of the International Criminal Court (ICC) on 23 March 2010. Accordingly, the ICC has jurisdiction to try those alleged to have committed crimes in the territory of Bangladesh or those individuals who are alleged to have committed crimes who are citizens of Bangladesh. In the present case the crimes alleged to have been committed fall within the territorial and personal jurisdiction as those individuals are alleged to have committed the crimes are nationals of the People’s Republic of Bangladesh and the crimes are alleged to have been committed on the territory.

It is submitted that senior members, present and former, of the Awami League Government, including senior ministers and cabinet members, Directorate General of Forces Intelligence (DGFI"), Rapid Action Battalion (“RAB”), National Security Intelligence ("NSI"), National Telecommunications Center ("NTMC"), Police Commissioner(s), Bangladesh Police (BP"), Bangladesh Detective Branch ("DB"), and the Border Guards Bangladesh (“BGB”) were persons in positions to effectively exercise control over or direct the political and police action in Bangladesh.

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