New Delhi, Aug. 6 -- Sajeeb Wazed Joy, the son of former Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, spoke virtually on 5 August. He addressed the Foreign Correspondents' Club in New Delhi. He spoke from Maryland in the United States.

First, Wazed questioned discrepancies in reported death tolls from the July-August 2024 unrest in Bangladesh. He compared UN figures with Bangladeshi government numbers. The UN cited around 1,400 deaths, he said. The government's figure stood at roughly 800, he claimed.

He asked where the additional 600 names came from. His party had written to the UN repeatedly, he said. However, no names had been provided so far, he claimed.

Wazed also argued the UN's count of the unrest was incomplete. He said it only cov...