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In Bangladesh, families of missing persons demand justice • FRANCE 24 English

  • January 8, 2024



In Bangladesh, families of missing persons demand justice • FRANCE 24 English

In the streets of Bangladeshi Capital Dhaka 60 families have gathered they are demonstrating to draw the media’s attention and to hold the government accountable for enforced disappearance over the past 15 years Ana Islam insha is 17 years old she has not seen her father since June 2019

What did my father do wrong why has he disappeared from this supposedly Free Nation I want to find him and know if he’s alive or dead I want answers to my questions according to Human Rights Watch around 600 people have disappeared since the aami league government led by

Prime minister shik Hina came to power in 2009 why has my son disappeared what has he really done why we won’t stop here an association named May which means mother’s call in Bengali has been established to help these families if we don’t get public support we must

Continue to fight we have to find local and international support sanj Islam Tuli is the head of the association her brother shahidul disappeared in 2013 along with seven other activists from the main opposition party the Bangladesh national party he was abducted from this house now Tully meets the families who

Are searching for their loved ones my brother and others they were only the activists for the opposition party it’s not a crime so nothing should happen such with them we never think that they’re not alive we don’t want to think that we want each and every individual

Who are still in the secret detention sales like ay agor and uh who were uh secretly detained by the law enforcement and state agencies should immediately return back to the families many of the dis disappeared individuals have been released some have been brought before the court after months of undisclosed

Detention and others are said to have been victims of extrajudicial executions jarar accuses the authorities of killing his brother in 2011 he was kidnapped and when we went to the police station they didn’t take our case they told us they didn’t know where he was or where he’d

Gone I wasn’t a part of any political group but they arrested me anyway my brother was killed because he belonged to the Bangladesh nationalist party all these families say they have received threats since the loved ones disappeared rights organizations accused the Bangladeshi government of forcefully disappearing anyone raising their voice

Against prime minister shik Hina who has ruled the country with an iron fist for 15 years the rapid action Battalion a counterterrorism force created in 2004 is alleged to be behind these disappearances 2 years ago the US Treasury Department sanctioned six of its officers for the purported involvement in kidnappings and extrajudicial

Executions in Northern Daka H rman presently confined to his home has agreed to testify here are all the awards I have received after 30 years in the Army including 3 years as the head of a RAB unit hu Rahman shared messages on Facebook criticizing the government’s policies and then he disappeared in 2018

He says he was tortured during his detention in a state prison after being beaten I could no longer walk properly I was taken to a cell which was a small room and I lay on the floor during my detention I was interrogated every day and asked the same series of

Questions I asked them why they were beating me they didn’t have an answer I was there for a very long time time once I didn’t have any food for 11 days most of the missing are said to be held in a secret Detention Center in the

Center of Dhaka photos of which we have been able to recover Muhammad arfat a member of the ruling party aami League deny State involvement in the kidnappings according to him most of them left their homes willingly some cases filed against in the in the in the police stations or in

The court and then you disappeared yourself just to you know get away with this uh legal action and then police started saying oh he’s disappeared but government always wanted to say that we have no reason to get any of these people to disappear from the scene for our political benefit okay these people

Do not create any trouble for us politically okay so why the government would want to do it what would be the motive Human Rights Watch has suggested that the Bangladeshi authorities should accept the United Nations proposal to assist an independent Commission of inquiry into enforced disappearances committed by the country’s Security Forces

Bangladesh’s Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has just been re-elected for a fifth term in a vote boycotted by the opposition. Since she came to power in 2009, at least 600 people have disappeared, including opposition activists, businessmen and members of the student wing of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party, according to Human Rights Watch. Families are demanding information about those they believe were abducted by security forces. The Bangladeshi government denies the allegations of forced disappearances and extrajudicial executions. FRANCE 24’s team reports.
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22 comments

  2. On 1972 Bangladesh new born at that time 1st Hero been disappeared by Indian RAW! since that day to now by the help of Indian RAW every patriotic person being killed by extra judicial massacre, prison,raped or disappeared, some disappeared victim discovered in India where's they were missing from Their own Bangladesh 😢

  5. The Awami League government has made the whole world a donkey by organizing elections under its own supervision, which is clear evidence in Sheikh Hasina and her bureaucratic statements before the elections and in her sarcastic speech after the elections on behalf of European Union countries and American democracy. The people of Bangladesh still hope that the international community will do something for the sake of democracy and prove to the world that their needs are not over

  7. Bangladesh elections were held without opposition, yet Awami League stole votes. The people of Bangladesh want the fall of this mafia Sheikh Hasina.

  14. I am a Bangladeshi citizen. And I say this election was not fair and acceptable. This election the government elected by dividing its own people into two groups. It can be called a trick game. This election did not take place😢

  15. I am a Bangladeshi citizen. And I say this election was not fair and acceptable. This election the government elected by dividing its own people into two groups. It can be called a cheating game. Not only that, this Sheikh Hasina government tortures, disappears, murders. 😭

  16. The people of Bangladesh do not want to see Sheikh Hasina in power. One-sided election of the Awami League government. This government has shown all its power in the election. The people of Bangladesh boycotted the election and this election is not acceptable to the people of Bangladesh.

  20. This government is illegal, this election is illegal, no one has voted in this election, there is no such thing as freedom of Bangladesh, people's right to vote has been taken away.

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