Commission links Hasina to enforced disappearances, recommends disbanding of RAB

The commission of inquiry on enforced disappearances found the prima facie involvement of inclined high minister Sheikh Hasina in incidents of enforced disappearances, its chief retired justice Mainul Islam Chowdhury acknowledged this day (14 December).

Submitting its first intervening time document to Chief Adviser Muhammad Yunus, he also illustrious that some excessive-ranking officers of security forces and her govt, including her defence adviser Most major Total (retd) Tarique Ahmed Siddique.

The 5-member commission, led by Mainul Islam Chowdhury, handed over the document titled “Unfolding The Truth” to the manager adviser at the whine guest dwelling Jamuna in Dhaka, acknowledged a press launch by the CA Press Flit.

The commission advised disbanding the Quick Action Battalion (RAB).

It also found the involvement of inclined director related previous of the National Telecommunication Monitoring Centre, and sacked Most major Total Ziaul Ahsan, senior law enforcement officers Monirul Islam and Md. Harun-Or-Rashid, with numerous incidents of enforced disappearance.

The commission acknowledged that they already recorded a total of 1,676 complaints of enforced disappearances, while 758 complaints enjoy already been scrutinised. It estimates the number of enforced disappearances in the country would unhealthy 3,500.

While submitting the document, the commission chairman acknowledged they had found a ” systematic manufacture” so as that the incidence of enforced disappearances remains undetected.

The commission also found that forces exchanged the victims and operations had been deliberately segmented, he acknowledged.

“Individuals accomplishing enforced disappearance or extrajudicial killing lacked knowledge about victims,” he acknowledged.

The commission chairman acknowledged they would lift any other intervening time document in March and would require no longer decrease than any other one year to total the scrutiny of all allegations they had bought.

The chief adviser thanked the commission for submitting the intervening time document and promised all most likely make stronger in conducting the job.

“That you can furthermore be doing a in actual fact a in point of fact noteworthy job. We’re prepared to give you all forms of make stronger that you just need,” he acknowledged.

The chief adviser acknowledged he would refer to about a of the Aynaghor spots, or secret detention centres and joint interrogation cells detected by the commission to discover a first hand knowledge in regards to the sufferings of the victims.

Payment members Justice Farid Ahmed Shibli, human rights activist Nur Khan, BRAC College trainer Nabila Idris, and human rights activist Sajjad Hossain; Advisory Council members Adilur Rahman Khan and Sharmeen S Murshid; Most major Secretary to chief adviser Md Siraj Uddin Mia and Press Secretary Shafiqul Alam had been relate at the assembly, amongst others.