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<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\nAccording to data from the humanitarian organisation Anjuman Mufidul Islam, 570 unclaimed bodies were buried in 2024. In 2025, that number rose to 643, an increase of 73 within a year. The rise is not merely numerical; it reflects a deepening collapse of law, order, and accountability.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Bodies Without Names, Crimes Without Consequences<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Last year alone, 440 bodies were recovered from rivers in Narayanganj, one of the country\u2019s most crime-prone districts. Of them, 141 remain unidentified. Investigators acknowledge that rivers have increasingly become dumping grounds for criminals\u2014kill, discard the body, and disappear into the system\u2019s silence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Police officials cite familiar obstacles: decomposed bodies yield no fingerprints, homeless victims often lack national identity cards, and families report missing persons too late. But critics argue that these explanations no longer suffice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n How Yunus regime is coercing all to back \u2018Yes\u2019 vote in unconstitutional referendum<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n RAB member killed in Sitakunda armed attack amid state-sponsored mobocracy<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cIs this merely investigative difficulty,\u201d asked one human rights observer, \u201cor the total collapse of the state\u2019s responsibility toward its citizens?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n A Nation In Numbers\u2014And In Freefall<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Between September 2024 and December 2025, police records show 4,732 murder cases in just 16 months. On average, 2,500 cases of unnatural death are registered every month nationwide. These figures point not to isolated criminality, but to systemic breakdown.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Crime analysts link the surge to the political instability triggered by the July 2024 riots, which led to the overthrow of an elected government. The sources of those riots\u2014foreign funding, Islamist extremist networks, and backing from sections of the military\u2014are no longer matters of speculation, analysts say. Their consequences are now being measured in bodies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n An Unelected Authority, An Absent State<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Since that upheaval, Bangladesh has been governed by an unelected authority operating under Muhammad Yunus. Critics accuse the current administration of being not only illegitimate but also functionally absent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThere are no rules left, no principles,\u201d said a senior journalist in Dhaka. \u201cEveryone does as they please\u2014and no one is held accountable.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n From July to October, the months surrounding the seizure of power, the number of unclaimed bodies spiked\u201470 in July, 72 in October\u2014a period marked by violence, fear, and institutional paralysis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Betraying Democracy: Yunus-Jamaat clique\u2019s shameful push for rigged referendum<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n Yunus\u2019 referendum is an ominous sign for Bangladesh, warns Masuda Bhatti<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n GCDG report highlights chaos and regime\u2019s involvement after Hadi murder<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n Yet the interim authority speaks instead of reforms, economic plans, and election delays. On the issue of hundreds of unidentified dead, there has been no comprehensive investigation, no policy response, no public reckoning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Silence At Home And Abroad<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Equally striking is the silence beyond Bangladesh\u2019s borders. International bodies that frequently invoke human rights\u2014the United Nations, the European Union, and prominent global media outlets\u2014have issued no urgent statements, launched no inquiries, and held no high-profile briefings on the growing trail of unclaimed deaths.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Inside the country, civil society groups and rights organisations that once mobilised quickly over injustices have remained conspicuously quiet. No major press conferences. No coordinated reports. No sustained campaigns.<\/p>\n\n\n\n HRW alarmed over violence against women, girls, and minorities in Bangladesh<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n