Concerning how previous prime minister Sheikh Hasina treated her critics, disturbing details have emerged from a key underground prison in Bangladesh.
Hundreds of people have officially been taken by security forces since Hasina’s regime’s inauguration in 2009, usually for sporadic state presentations.
While some are said to have been killed and their bodies discarded, according to The New York Times, others have been detained in a covert military detention facility known as the” Aynaghor,” literally translated as” House of Mirrors.”
Who were the individuals
Hasina, who fled to New Delhi after aggressive student protests, was once seen as a representative of democracy before being replaced by state power to overthrow any hazards to her position.
From activists to tribal leaders, everyone who questioned the Awami League was on Hasina’s sensor.
Despite years of government crackdowns and harassment while holding rallies and protests, some who went missing are still unknown for and have left their people without any closing.
” What we want is an truth — what happened”? said Tasnim Shipraa, whose brother Belal Hossain vanished in 2013. ” It’s almost like he never existed in this world”, NYT reported quoting Shipraa.
They yearn for the return of their children and boys, like the other three captives who have reappeared. If that is n’t possible, they seek justice to help heal their own wounds and those of their nation.
‘ What is my offense?, they ‘ d say, ill-intentioned politicians’
After being driven blindfolded for some hours by Michael Chakma, a cultural rights advocate, was released in a forest in August, he claimed it was his first time seeing light in five years, and that he was trying to determine whether this light was real or not.
When he inquired,” What is my crime?,” to his oppressors. What have I done? What am I criminal of”?, Chamka, who had been advocating for self-governance for Bangladesh’s Aboriginal hill areas, received a email that he had “ill-intentioned elections in relation to the Awami League state”.
Abdullahil Amaan Azmi, a recognized former army general, was taken away, apparently according to his father’s position as a top Islamist head.
Recalling his confinement, Azmi said,” I did not see God’s clouds, the moon, the foliage, the sky, the trees”.
He spent eight years in prison, during which he estimated he was blindfolded and handcuffed around 41, 000 times, and was released from defense prison in August.