Urgent Appeal by Professor Yunus to World Leaders & the U.N.

An Urgent Appeal to World Leaders From Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Professor Muhammad Yunus To Stop the Nationwide Killing Spree of Bangladeshi Students and Other Citizens Now in its Third Day

Due to the communications blackout in Bangladesh, the Protect Yunus Campaign is disseminating the statement below on behalf of the Yunus Centre.

July 21, 2024

Bangladesh has been engulfed in a crisis that only seems to get worse with each passing day. Students, and others protesting alongside them, have been attacked by the nation’s police, the Border Guard Bangladesh, and the Bangladesh Chhatra League, leading to at least 200 estimated deaths and 700 injuries, some of them serious. High school students have been among the victims.

I urgently call on world leaders and the United Nations to do everything within their powers to end the violence against those who are exercising their rights to protest. There must be investigations into the killings that have taken place already.

The Internet and telephone service in Bangladesh has been cut off, so it is unlikely that my fellow citizens will hear this appeal soon or be able to make their own to world leaders. I urge people of goodwill around the world to add their voices to my call for world leaders and the United Nations to end this unnecessary carnage so that we can all get back to the work of building the self-reliant, democratic, and peaceful Bangladesh of our dreams.