In the last 36 hours, the Students Against Oppression (SAO) made a rough tally of the fatalities from the state-sponsored brutalities since the 17th of July against their quota reform movement. This is more than the number of deaths that Prothom Alo, Bangladesh’s newspaper of record, was able to corroborate.
As you can see, 78 per cent of the fatalities are students. SAO, whose members are scattered all over, is confident that the number is more than 1,000 as they haven’t been able to check on all hospitals. And there are unmarked graves at multiple locations with hundreds of bodies.