The United Nations human rights office on Wednesday estimated that up to 1,400 people may have been killed in Bangladesh over three weeks last summer in a crackdown on student-led protests against the now-ousted former prime minister.

Bangladesh's former government systematically committed "serious human rights violations" against student-led protesters, with up to 1,400 people killed and thousands of others injured, the U.N. Human

Former Bangladesh prime minister Sheikh Hasina and her government tried to cling on to power using systematic, deadly violence against protesters that could amount to "crimes against humanity", the UN has said.