Dhaka, Feb. 13 -- A report of the UN fact-finding mission presented a detailed account of how the ousted prime minister lost her control over the helm of the country's affairs and eventually fled the country.

According to the report, released on Wednesday, extrajudicial killings to suppress the "March on Dhaka" (5 August) Public announcements by the protest leaders and information obtained by intelligence agencies gave Bangladesh's political leadership the knowledge that the protest movement was planning a major protest march towards the centre of Dhaka on 5 August.

"On the morning of August 4, the then Prime Minister chaired a meeting of the National Security Council in which, inter alia, the chiefs of the Army, Air Force, Navy, BGB, D...