A Bangladeshi aboriginal women’s rights campaigner who was abducted five years ago in April 2019 was found dead earlier this month, along with the people of hundreds of others who had “vanished” under Sheikh Hasina‘s rule, according to Reuters news organization.
Chakma claimed that the earth inside did not know where he was or if he was even alive when his prisoners awakened him on August 7 in the dark, slender body where he was being held and thrown into a vehicles. He claimed that he was being handcuffed and blindfolded.
” I thought they will shoot me”, he said. Alternatively, he was freed, in wood landscapes near Chittagong region in southern Bangladesh, around 250 kilometres from Dhaka.
The 45-year-old was tortured and beaten for months by his prisoners, who questioned him about his antagonism to then-Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, he said.
They persistently questioned why I had criticized the Awami League state on social media, claiming that AL is the state and the condition is the government. Therefore no one really reject the deeds of AL or Sheikh Hasina”, Chakma said, as per the Guardian.
He was being held, handcuffed, and blindfolded while his prisoners woke him up in the dim, little cell where he was being held and thrown into a vehicle.
” I thought they will shoot me”, he said. Alternatively, he was freed, in wood landscapes near Chittagong region in southern Bangladesh, around 250 kilometres from Dhaka.
Chakma controlled his grief as he shared his suffering:” It was difficult to breathe. First, they told me that they would transfer me quickly, but as months and years passed, I gave up hope of getting out. Each moment felt like 100 times it”.
According to the Guardian, the activist was subjected to mental and physical torture while he was imprisoned in conditions that felt like” a grave” in his claim.
Chakma claims that he had lost all hope of ever seeing his home or finding happiness again.
My family pretended to be useless and carried out all spiritual rituals for a death in my absence, Chakma tells the Guardian. My returning is” as magical for them as it is surprising to me.” It really feels like a ascension”.
I occasionally get irritated by” this future.” I suffer from nightmares and intellectual failures, and I’m usually terrified by sound. I ca n’t sleep, everything seems so scary to me”, he adds.
Chakma is among hundreds of people killed or detained during Hasina’s government, which faced criticism for its increasing dictatorship. He was one of three political prisoners who were released following the scholar protests that led to the election of an interim government led by investor and Nobel prize Muhammad Yunus.
The time authorities said this year the committee will “investigate enforced kidnappings that occurred” since January 1, 2010 “allegedly involving members of the police” and hands of the military, intelligence and defense.
Asia Deputy Director for Human Rights Watch Meenakshi Ganguly said,” As a first step, the security forces does release all those that are disappeared, or if they were killed in prison, provide solutions to the people”, as per Reuters news agency.
