As part of its diversified activities, Human Right Support Society, based on data collected from twelve prominent national dailies and fact-finding reports prepared by country-wide representatives, has published annual Human Rights Situation Analysis bulletin’16. The record shows that like 2015 the human rights violations continued. It appears that extra-judicial killing, domestic violence, abduction, arbitrary arrest, election violence and vote rigging have increased significantly; the number of incidences of rape, gang-rape, and child-rape has also increased.  According to the sources of HRSS, in 2016, at least 244 people were extra-judicially killed; a total of 34 people have been forcefully disappeared by the members of law enforcement agencies. Moreover, the HRSS report finds that in 2016, a total of 739 females have been raped. Of them, 491 were identified as an adult and alarmingly 248 were children under the age of 16. A total of 309 women were killed in the family feud, 66 females were injured and almost 34 committed suicide due to domestic violence. It has also been reported that a total of 397 were abducted in different areas of the country, among them approximately 248 were male, 70 females, 79 children, and 73 were killed after the abduction. Unexpectedly at least 101 people were killed in political violence and around 104 people were killed through lynching. HRSS also carefully tracked the reported election violence. A significant number of people were killed and seriously injured during the election. It is observed that the key reasons behind the growing election violence are the rising intolerance among the defeated candidates, clashes between supporters of the rival candidates, illegal capturing of the vote centers, and forceful interruption in voting during the election hours.

HRSS noticed that in 2016, about 202 violent incidences were committed aginst the children, 100 lost their life and 194 were critically injured. As a result of violent attacks, a total of 723 unarmed civilians were victimized, of them, 647 were killed, 673 seriously injured, and roughly 114 were hit a bullet. As regards incidences of attack on a minority, the HRSS documented that at least 11 men were killed, around 19 houses and 45 temples were attacked, and 63 minority members were injured. HRSS also estimated a total of 81 incidences of attack on minority throughout the country.   

Experts viewed that, due to Government’s submissive foreign policy with India, the number of unexpected incidences significantly increased in the border area. Bangladeshi citizens have been the victims of suspected killings, subjected to torture, and other forms of inhumane and degrading treatments. A total of nearly 75 incidents have been reported resulting 28 loss of life of Bangladeshi citizens, 28 injured, and nearly 35 arrested by the Indian Border Security Force (BSF).