EARTH · VERIFIED CONFLICT RECORD

Conflict in Bangladesh

NOT LIVE · BANGLADESH RECORD RUNS 5 JAN 2024 21 MAY 2026

This is a verified record, not a live feed. UCDP hand-codes every event from published sources, which takes weeks — the newest event here is from 2026-05-31. For what is happening right now, LEV’s Global Incidents layer carries the machine-coded newswire at about fifteen minutes’ delay.

Between 5 Jan 2024 and 21 May 2026, researchers at Uppsala University hand-coded 123 events of organised violence in Bangladesh from published sources. Their best estimate is 473 people killed — and their own range runs 246–505, which is the honest width of what anyone actually knows.

What the record holds

DEATHS RECORDED · UCDP BEST ESTIMATE473

UCDP range 246–505.

EVENTS123

104 placed precisely enough to map; 19 counted but not pinned, because UCDP could place them no closer than a province.

Who was doing the killing

State-based5 events · 6 killedA government is one of the sides — a civil war or a war between states.
Non-state89 events · 423 killed (UCDP range 199–455)Two armed groups fight each other and neither is a government — militias, cartels, communal violence.
One-sided29 events · 44 killed (UCDP range 41–44)An armed group or government kills civilians who are not fighting back.

The conflicts behind the events

Opponents of Hasina - Supporters of Awami League361
137–393 · 42 ev
Unidentified actors28
UCDP low and high agree · 27 ev
Government of Bangladesh - Civilians26
23–26 · 11 ev
Supporters of Awami League - Supporters of BNP23
UCDP low and high agree · 13 ev
ARSA - Civilians11
UCDP low and high agree · 11 ev
Supporters of BNP - Supporters of Jamaat-e-Islam8
UCDP low and high agree · 4 ev

Where UCDP had not yet established an actor’s identity it records a placeholder rather than a name; those appear here as “unidentified actor”.

The deadliest single event on record

6 AUG 2024 · BANGLADESH211 killed

UCDP range 0–211. UCDP's own estimate spans 0 to 211; 211 is its best estimate, not a certainty.

Opponents of Hasina - Supporters of Awami League · non-state violence — two armed groups fight each other and neither is a government — militias, cartels, communal violence.

Bangladesh, elsewhere on LiveEarthViewer

Source

Uppsala Conflict Data Program, Uppsala University — UCDP GED v26.1 + UCDP Candidate v26_0_1..v26_0_5, released under CC BY 4.0. Coverage ends 31 May 2026. UCDP records Bangladesh under the name “Bangladesh”. Every figure on this page is UCDP’s, aggregated and labelled — none is modelled or estimated by LEV.