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bangladesh news: Former Prime Minister of Bangladesh Sheikh Hasina is being accused of being involved in the disappearance of several people in Bangladesh. An investigative committee formed by the interim government in Bangladesh said it had found evidence that ousted Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and top military and police officials in her regime were behind the disappearances of people in Bangladesh.
More than 3500 people missing
The five-member commission probing the incident of enforced disappearances in Bangladesh has submitted a report titled ‘Revealing the Truth’ to the Chief Advisor to Caretaker Prime Minister Mohammad Yunus. The Commission estimates that more than 3500 cases of missing persons have occurred across the country.
It is being claimed that many officers are also involved in this.
Sheikh Hasina’s defense advisor Major General (retd) Tariq Ahmed Siddiqui, former director general of National Telecommunication Surveillance and retired General Ziaul Ahsanand, senior police officers Monirul Islam and Mohammad Haroon-Ya-Rashid and several other senior officials were involved in the incident. This has come to light in the report. Also on the run are former army and police officers, who are believed to have fled abroad after the fall of Hasina’s Awami League government.
A former Supreme Court judge explained
Commission chairman and retired Supreme Court judge Mainul Islam Chaudhry told the Yunus government that during the investigation, he found a ‘systematic design’ in which cases of enforced disappearances have been ignored.
Chaudhary said that the individuals involved in the enforced disappearances had no knowledge of the victims. The report said the Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) of the police was tasked with arresting, torturing and forcibly detaining the victims.
The commission made a proposal
The Commission has proposed to abolish the RAB as well as repeal the Anti-Terrorism Act, 2009 or comprehensively amend it. Commission member Sajjad Hussain said that 1,676 complaints of enforced disappearances have been filed and so far 758 of them have been investigated. 200 of them never returned. However, the records of most of those who returned showed arrest. The commission announced that it had found eight secret detention centers in and around Dhaka.