A committee tasked with investigating enforced disappearances reported on Tuesday that about 200 Bangladeshis who were taken by security forces during the toppled top Sheikh Hasina’s guideline are also missing.
Hasina, 77, fled by aircraft to neighbouring India in August as a student-led rebellion saw protesters storm streets of the money Dhaka, bringing a spectacular finish to her iron-fisted tenure.
Her administration was accused of carrying out numerous human rights violations, including the unlawful violence and removal of plenty of social opponents and the extrajudicial killing of thousands more.
Five persons had been released from key detention facilities after Hasina’s resignation, according to a commission of inquiry established by the caretaker government now in charge of the nation.
” There is no record of at least 200 persons. Noor Khan, a part of the committee, said,” We have been working on their location.
The commission claimed to have located at least eight secret detention facilities in Dhaka and its environs, some of which had cells as small as three by four feet (90 by 120 centimeters ).
According to the report, the prints on the walls of these cells appeared to indicate that the cells ‘ occupants had recorded how many times they had been detained.
After Hasina’s overthrow, unnamed law enforcement organizations made an effort to remove information from these key detention facilities, according to a commissioner.
Commissioners claimed that the wealthy Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) police system was responsible for the majority of departure instances brought to its interest.
In response to rumors of its guilt for some of the worst rights violations committed during Hasina’s law, the RAB was sanctioned by Washington in 2021 together with seven of its top officials.
Moyeenul Islam Chowdhury, the head of the Commission, claimed that Hasina’s administrative breakdowns had even created a environment of violence.
” They used the law enforcement agency not in the public interest, but for their own agenda and social attention”, he said.
The interim state of Muhammad Yunus, the Nobel Peace Prize winner, established the fee as part of its efforts to implement extensive political changes.
Yunus has recently claimed that his system of public administration was” entirely broken down” and needed a complete reform to stop a possible return to autocracy.
