Children killed by parents on rise
Staff Reporter :
The number of children killed by their parents increased, about 57.5 per cent, in 2016, compared with the previous year, according to a report of Bangladesh Shishu Adhikar Forum (BSAF).
A total of 64 children were killed by their parents in 2016, 40 in 2015, 14 in 2014 and less than 10 in 2013 and 2012.
BSAF disclosed it at a programme titled “State of Child Rights in Bangladesh 2016 held in the Sagar-Runi Auditorium of Dhaka Reporters’ Unity on Tuesday.”
National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) Chairman Kazi Reazul Haque was present at the programme as the chief guest, while BSAF Director Abdul Shahid Mahmud, among others, spoke at the programme.
NHRC Chairman Kazi Reazul Haque blamed social unrest behind the minor killings and said the numbers of children killed by parents has increased alarmingly.
“One kind of social unrest persists in our society. Children are being killed for mere doubt only,” he said adding “The state have to come forward to eliminate this social unrest.”
BSAF Director Abdul Shahid Mahmud said that in 2016 a total of 3,589 children were victims of violence out of which 1,441 were victims of unnatural deaths, and 686 were victims of sexual harassment. “An alarming increase of child killing by parents has shocked the society, as it marks departure of loves and affection from human minds,” he said.
In 2016, a total of 446 children were raped, 263 victims of corporal punishments, 252 killed in road accidents, 183 abducted, 149 committed suicide, 133 went missing out of whom 47 children’s body were recovered after death, 106 victims of torture, 68 gang-raped, 60 sexually harassed, 17 killed for ransom, 14 children helps tortured, four victims of acid attacks and another four killed in political violence, the report shows.
The number of children killed by their parents increased, about 57.5 per cent, in 2016, compared with the previous year, according to a report of Bangladesh Shishu Adhikar Forum (BSAF).
A total of 64 children were killed by their parents in 2016, 40 in 2015, 14 in 2014 and less than 10 in 2013 and 2012.
BSAF disclosed it at a programme titled “State of Child Rights in Bangladesh 2016 held in the Sagar-Runi Auditorium of Dhaka Reporters’ Unity on Tuesday.”
National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) Chairman Kazi Reazul Haque was present at the programme as the chief guest, while BSAF Director Abdul Shahid Mahmud, among others, spoke at the programme.
NHRC Chairman Kazi Reazul Haque blamed social unrest behind the minor killings and said the numbers of children killed by parents has increased alarmingly.
“One kind of social unrest persists in our society. Children are being killed for mere doubt only,” he said adding “The state have to come forward to eliminate this social unrest.”
BSAF Director Abdul Shahid Mahmud said that in 2016 a total of 3,589 children were victims of violence out of which 1,441 were victims of unnatural deaths, and 686 were victims of sexual harassment. “An alarming increase of child killing by parents has shocked the society, as it marks departure of loves and affection from human minds,” he said.
In 2016, a total of 446 children were raped, 263 victims of corporal punishments, 252 killed in road accidents, 183 abducted, 149 committed suicide, 133 went missing out of whom 47 children’s body were recovered after death, 106 victims of torture, 68 gang-raped, 60 sexually harassed, 17 killed for ransom, 14 children helps tortured, four victims of acid attacks and another four killed in political violence, the report shows.
