The health affairs sub-committee of the Student Movement against Discrimination at a press conference on Saturday said that they prepared a list of 1,581 people who were martyred in the July revolution.
The press conference was held at the TSC auditorium of Dhaka University, only seven days after the same committee revealed 1,423 deaths in the massacre.
Convener of the National Citizen Committee Muhammad Nasiruddin Patwari at the press conference said that they had listed a total of 1,581 martyrs.
鈥業t鈥檚 not the final list. Finalisation of the list is still ongoing. We will provide the final list after some days. We will publish the martyrs鈥� list according to international rules so that the families of martyrs don鈥檛 get into any trouble,鈥� he said.
Farhad Alam Bhuiyan, a聽 member of the citizen committee, Tariqul Islam, member secretary of the subcommittee and convener Nahida Bushra, among others, were present at the conference.
Forhad Alam Bhuiyan said that As-Sunnah Foundation, Human Rights Support Society, Red July and other organisations assisted in the preparation of the primary list. The local people in different areas also helped them gather authentic information.
Tariqul Islam said that the preliminary list of deaths was forwarded to the committee headed by the deputy commissioners, which would submit the final list to the Ministry of Health after verifying the information.
The health ministry, the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights and different non-governmental organisations, meanwhile, are coming up with different death figures.
On September 24, the directorate general of health services published a list of 708 victims which was updated to 717 deaths on Thursday.
Health adviser to the interim government Nurjahan Begum after visiting central police hospital in the capital鈥檚 Rajarbagh on August 29 said that more than 1,000 people were killed, and over 400 were blinded during the student-led mass uprising.
Earlier, on August 21, non-governmental organisation Human Rights Support Society published a report putting the figure of deaths at 819 based on information collected through interviews with the victims鈥� families and from hospitals, witnesses and national dailies.
According to a primary report of the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights published on August 16, as many as 650 people were killed during the student-led mass uprising between July 16 and August 11.
Of these, nearly 400 deaths were reported from 16 July to 4 August, while around 250 people were reportedly killed following the new wave of protests between 5 and 6 August.
The UN office report also found that the security forces, including police and Border Guard Bangladesh, used unlawful lethal force and deliberately targeted unarmed people.
