Rights activists and families of victims of enforced disappearances on Friday said that the government must ensure justice for victims of enforced disappearances and extra-judicial killings.
They made the demand at a discussion titled 鈥楨nforced Disappearance-Murder Procedural Crisis and Solutions鈥� organised by Mayer Daak, a platform for the families of the disappearance victims, at the National Museum in Dhaka.
Supreme Court lawyer Jyotirmoy Barua said that it was the legal right of the families of victims to get justice for what happened to their family members.
鈥楾he families had been demanding justice for a long time. The judicial process of these incidents may take more time,鈥� he said.
He suggested forming a separate tribunal for trials of incidents of enforced disappearances.
At the event, professor Muhammad Mahbubur Rahman said that there would be no point in having a judicial system if these incidents continued to happen.
Families of victims were also present at the event demanding return of their family members.
Earlier, chief justice Syed Refaat Ahmed on Thursday forwarded a list of 64 victims of enforced disappearances to the newly established five-member commission, directing it to take necessary actions.
This action came two weeks after the submission of a memorandum to the CJ on August 28 by Md Belal Hossain, chief coordinator for the victims of enforced disappearances.
The commission on Thursday issued a public notice inviting victims, families, relatives, or witnesses of enforced disappearances to submit complaints either in person, via email, or through the hotline.
The complaints can be filed between 10:00am and 4:00pm on working days from September 15 to September 30.
