Reports

Substantiating events has proven difficult in Bangladesh's current socio-political environment, where fear of recrimination prevents victims and their families from speaking out, and disinformation campaigns from government, press and political movements have sought to obscure what happened from public scrutiny.

Nevertheless, several initiatives have sought to provide documentary resources.

A few days after the events an anonymous report was circulated over email, presumably by activists close to Jamaat e Islami. It tries to put a narrative together of what happened,

By 10th June, the Dhaka-based Bangladeshi rights group Odhikar publicised its own fact-finding report.

This substantive account features hospital patient data as well as interviews with participants, witnesses, officials and bereaved families. It puts the provisional death toll at 61, a number which has been fiercely contested by the authorities and allied groups, even its national competitor organisation Ain o Salish Kendra.

In July the UK-based Desh Rights published a briefing document on its website.

In August, Human Rights Watch published a report which bundled the massacre in with several other events. The roles, capabilities and politics of the Human Rights Industry, international and local, are important to critically appraise in this case.