Human rights activists, professionals and leaders at a dialogue on Saturday demanded that all cases of gross human rights violations including torture, enforced disappearances and extrajudicial killings should be brought to book.
They said that the then government did not take any pragmatic move to stop the incidents of human rights violation and as a result such incidents increased over the time.
Human Rights Development Centre organised the national human rights dialogue on democracy, good governance and social justice at Dhaka Reporters Unity in the capital where victims of torture and their family members participated, said a press release.
The activists demanded conducting independent and impartial investigations into all alleged human rights violations, holding those responsible to account, and provide redress to the victims.
They also demanded dissolution of the Rapid Action Battalion and investigations into alleged torture, extrajudicial killings, and enforced disappearances by its members.
Supreme Court Lawyers鈥� Association president lawyer Mahbub Uddin Khokon, Chief of Party from Counterpart International Katie Croake, Dhaka University professor Robayet Ferdous, Amar Bangladesh Party member secretary Mojibur Rahman Manju, LEEDO executive director and human rights activist Farhad Hossain, development activist Aminur Rasul and National Citizen Committee member Ariful Islam Adeeb, among others, spoke at the dialogue.
The dialogue was chaired by Centre for Human Rights Development secretary general Md Mahbul Haque.
