36 Days in July: Sheikh Hasina’s secret orders revealed I Al Jazeera Investigates
This Al Jazeera investigative documentary examines the final 36 days of Sheikh Hasina's 15-year rule as Bangladesh's Prime Minister, culminating in her flight from the country in 2024. It focuses specifically on her secret orders to security forces during a student-led protest movement that began over a controversial government job quota system reserving positions for descendants of 1971 liberation war veterans. The main topics covered include: exclusive intercepted phone recordings revealing Hasina allegedly directing police to shoot protesters and pressuring officials to falsify autopsy reports; the killing of student Abu Saeed, who became a martyr symbol for the uprising after being shot on camera; and the systematic cover-up attempts by Hasina's government, including attempts to bribe the doctor who performed Saeed's autopsy. The documentary also provides background on Hasina's authoritarian consolidation of power, her use of a feared youth paramilitary wing, and a covert surveillance apparatus run by military intelligence to track and abduct political opponents.
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