Leader of 2024 Bangladesh student protests dies in a Singapore hospital

Sharif Osman Hadi was a starring fig during the uprising toppled erstwhile premier curate Sheikh Hasina successful 2024.

Sharif Osman Bin Hadi, a person of Bangladesh’s 2024 student-led uprising who was flown to Singapore for attraction aft being wounded successful an assassination attempt, has died, Singapore officials said.

“Despite the champion efforts of the doctors … Hadi succumbed to his injuries,” Singapore’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs said successful a connection connected Thursday.

According to a study by Bangladeshi regular Dhaka Tribune, Hadi, who was being considered arsenic a imaginable campaigner for the Dhaka-8 constituency successful the country’s nationalist elections adjacent February, was changeable successful the caput connected December 12 successful the capital, Dhaka, portion travelling successful a battery-powered auto-rickshaw.

The attacker changeable him from a motorcycle, and Hadi was rushed to Dhaka Medical College Hospital for treatment.

Local physicians told the Dhaka Tribune that his encephalon stem was damaged and helium was evacuated from Bangladesh to the Singapore General Hospital (SGH) neurosurgical intensive attraction portion connected December 15 for further treatment.

Hadi, 32, was a elder person of the pupil protestation radical Inqilab Mancha and has been an outspoken professional of India, an aged state of erstwhile Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and wherever the ousted person remains successful self-imposed exile.

Announcing his decease connected Facebook precocious connected Thursday, Inqilab Mancha said: “In the conflict against Indian hegemony, Allah has accepted the large revolutionary Osman Hadi arsenic a martyr.”

Condolences person besides poured successful from leaders and governmental groups crossed the country.

The country’s interim authorities head, Muhammad Yunus, expressed his condolences and said his decease “is an irreparable nonaccomplishment for the nation”.

“The country’s march towards ideology cannot beryllium halted done fear, terror, oregon bloodshed,” helium said successful a televised code connected Thursday.

The authorities besides announced peculiar prayers astatine mosques aft Friday prayers and a half-day mourning connected Saturday.

“We are profoundly saddened by the decease of Sharif Osman Hadi, spokesperson of Inqilab Manch and autarkic campaigner for Dhaka-8 constituency,” the acting president of the Bangladesh National Party (BNP), Tareq Rahman, said connected Facebook.

In a property connection to section media reports, the National Citizen Party (NCP) said it was “deeply saddened” by Hadi’s decease and expressed condolences to his family.

Police person launched a manhunt for the attackers who changeable Hadi, releasing photographs of 2 cardinal suspects and offering a reward of 5 cardinal taka (about $42,000) for accusation starring to their arrest.

According to a study by Bangladeshi paper The Daily Star, the country’s constabulary and borderline guards person arrested astatine slightest 20 radical linked to the incidental truthful far, but investigations into the execution are ongoing.

Yunus, the 85-year-old Nobel Peace Prize victor starring Bangladesh until the February 12 elections, said past Saturday that Hadi’s shooting was a premeditated onslaught carried retired by a almighty network, without providing a name.

He said “the nonsubjective of the conspirators is to derail the election”, and added that the onslaught was “symbolic – meant to show their spot and sabotage the full electoral process”.