More than 10,000
firearms issued to leaders of the ousted Awami League (AL), a party whose
activities are banned, have become illegal after they failed to surrender the
weapons to the interim government.
These missing
arms, originally issued to former prime minister Sheikh Hasina, her relatives,
and three terms’ worth of ministers, advisers, MPs, and local leaders remain
unaccounted for following the July mass uprising 2024.
Most of these
individuals fled. Government agencies have laun...