Hello and welcome to NewsHour from the BBC World Service.
We're coming to you live from London.
I'm James Menendez.
And we're going to begin today in Bangladesh and the results of a BBC investigation into the violence that rocked the country this time last year.
Several weeks of protests,
counter-protests and police repression that ended with the ousting of the country's long-standing Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and the breakup of the power structures in the shape of her Awami League party that sustained her.
Well,
our investigation has found that Sheikh Kassina personally authorised the use of lethal force against the protesters.
In a leaked audio recording, which the BBC has verified,
she's heard telling her security forces to shoot demonstrators wherever they were found.
In all, about 1,400 people were killed and 12,000 injured in a matter of weeks.
Riddhijad reports.
This is where the bullet struck.
It hit right here.
When the protest started, he joined in for the country.
A bereaved father holds up the share of his son Miraj Hussain, who he lost last year on August 5th.
It was a day that the Prime Minister of Bangladesh, Sheikh Kassina, had resigned.
It should have been a day that Miraj celebrated, as his brother Pavel explains.
August 5th was a joyous day for everyone.
But hearing that my brother had died, It's impossible to explain how difficult it was for us.