Historical incidents separated from legal cases, with roles, impact, and sources.
GOVERNMENT CRACKDOWN · 2013
A record of the May 5-6, 2013 rally and operation around Motijheel's Shapla Chattar, competing casualty accounts, and later ICT proceedings.
POLITICAL VIOLENCE · 2009
The February 25-26, 2009 armed mutiny at the former Bangladesh Rifles headquarters in Pilkhana, Dhaka, the deaths of 74 people, subsequent criminal trials, human-rights reporting, and reinvestigation proceedings.
PUBLIC PROTEST · 2018
Student-led protests from July 29 into August 2018 demanding safer roads, accountable transport systems, and justice after fatal road crashes.
FINANCIAL SCANDAL · 2010
A financial-accountability record concerning alleged irregular loans at state-owned Sonali Bank, ACC proceedings, and a 2024 sentence in one case.
FINANCIAL SCANDAL · 2009
A financial-sector accountability record concerning loan irregularities at state-owned BASIC Bank, Bangladesh Bank inspections, and ACC proceedings.
FINANCIAL SCANDAL · 2002
An accountability record concerning Destiny Group's MLM and investment structure, money-laundering proceedings, and court-reported sentences.
FINANCIAL SCANDAL · 2009
An accountability record concerning loan irregularities across multiple non-bank financial institutions, money-laundering proceedings, asset recovery, and court-reported sentences.
FINANCIAL SCANDAL · 2020
A consumer-accountability record separating Evaly advance payments, non-delivery reports, cheque-fraud cases, arrest, and bail status.
ELECTION INCIDENT · 1996
An election incident record concerning the opposition boycott, election-related violence, and the subsequent caretaker-government transition.
ELECTION INCIDENT · 2001
An election incident record concerning reports of attacks, discrimination, and property violence against Hindu minorities after the October 2001 general election.
ELECTION INCIDENT · 2007
An election incident record concerning pre-election violence, postponement of the January 22, 2007 poll, emergency rule, and caretaker-government change.
ELECTION INCIDENT · 2014
An election incident record concerning the opposition boycott, political violence, killings, and reported government and opposition abuses around the January 5, 2014 election.
ELECTION INCIDENT · 2018
An election incident record concerning reported opposition pressure, intimidation, voter suppression, and vote-rigging allegations around the 2018 national election.
ELECTION INCIDENT · 2024
An election incident record concerning the opposition boycott, participation concerns, violence, and reported irregularities around the 2024 national election.
KILLING · 2004
A grenade attack on an Awami League rally that caused mass deaths and injuries; investigation, trial, and political-responsibility questions must be read as separate statuses.
HUMAN RIGHTS ABUSE · 2024
OHCHR, BSS, and international media have reported on the 2024 student-led protests, violent repression, deaths and injuries, government fall, and subsequent ICT proceedings.