Dhaka, Feb. 18 -- The prolonged single-party rule had steadily politicised Bangladesh's state institutions that permeated the country's entire security sector as well, since authorities preferred recruitment and promotion there to be based on perceived political loyalty instead of professionalism, the UN rights office report said.

"Fifteen years of rule by a single political party coincided with a steadily increasing politicization of state institutions that has permeated the entire security sector," read the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) fact finding report.

The OHCHR said "many police officers were recruited and promoted not on the grounds of professionalism, integrity and merit, but based on ...