BIHR and JusticeMakers Bangladesh gravely concern over the recent killing of Transgender in the Capital Dhaka.

Bangladesh Institute of Human Rights (BIHR) and JusticeMakers are gravely concern over the killing of transgender at Dhaka in Bangladesh.

 

BIHR and JusticeMakers Bangladesh urge the concern authority of Bangladesh to arrest all the culprits who were involved with the said brutal murder of transgender and bring the culprits before the book after quick and impartial investigation.  

 

According to the news published online version of New Age on 30 September 2022 that a member of the transgender community was stabbed to death in Dhaka’s Paribagh area early Friday.  Nila,( 24), was stabbed by two youths on the footbridge at Paribagh at around 1:30am, police said.

 

She was rushed to Dhaka Medical College Hospital where doctors declared Nila dead, Sathi, another Hijra, said reporters at DMCH. Nur Mohammad, officer-in-charge of Shahbagh police station, said that a case was filed over the incident against two unidentified youths, but the motive of the killing is still unknown and they are investigating it.

 

Police said that Nila was stabbed at her throat. None was arrested yet over the murder. The body was sent to the hospital morgue for post-mortem examinations.

 

BIHR and JusticeMakers Bangladesh’s Secretary General, a prominent lawyer and LGBT rights campaigner Advocate Shahanur Islam aggrieved with the murder and asks the police authority to find out the Nila’s Killer immediately.

 

Advocate Shahnur Islam believes that the incident of said murder is not an isolated incident in Bangladesh; rather violation and discrimination against LGBT people including transgenders are widespread all around the country.  

 

Advocate Shahanur also thinks that though the government of Bangladesh has recognized transgender as third gender and has took some initiative to socially rehabilitated, but those are not sufficient.

 

Furthermore, Advocate Shahanur thinks that from home to society and society to state, in everywhere, the LGBT community people including transgender's are facing discrimination and others form of human rights violation. Most of those incidents of violations are remained behind due to social unacceptability and intolerance.

 

Finally, Advocated Shahanur Islam demands to repeal the discriminatory section 377 of Bangladesh Penal Code.