The Commission of Inquiry on Enforced Disappearance on Sunday informed the interim government chief adviser, Professor Muhammad Yunus, that it found children were also victims of enforced disappearance along with their mothers.
The commission had interviewed several children, allegedly victims of enforced disappearance, several commission members told 抖阴精品.
The members who attended the meeting with聽 the chief adviser at the state guest house Jamuna said that the head of the government assured them of visiting Joint Interrogation Cell and secret detention centres, popularly known as 鈥楢ynaghar鈥�, soon.
They said that such a visit would decrease their fears, said a press release of the chief adviser鈥檚 press wing.
They also said that even disappearance of a six-year-old child was revealed during the investigation, the release said.
鈥楾he shocking stories have come to light in your investigation. I will visit Aynaghar soon,鈥� Yunus said, responding to the commission鈥檚 call.
Commission member and BRAC University teacher Nabila Idris told 抖阴精品 that the chief adviser assured them of visiting Aynaghar but the date had not been fixed yet.
鈥榃e are scheduled to visit the joint interrogation cell located in the Directorate General of Forces Intelligence compound in Dhaka and two other detention centres,鈥� Nabila said, adding that they had found that some children were victims of enforced disappearance with their mothers.
She said that they had interviewed several children and they saw that they were traumatised.
鈥榃e think that the number would be higher than what we recorded,鈥� she added. A pregnant woman and her two children, one aged one and a half years and another three years, were also victims of enforced disappearance, Nabila said.
Referring to recording a statement of a child, who became victim of enforced disappearance at the age of 10, she said that the child became traumatised and could not share full interview due to trauma.
The commission was formed by the interim government led by Professor Muhammad Yunus after it had assumed office on August 8 following the ouster of Sheikh Hasina-led Awami League regime on August 5 through a student-led mass uprising.
A total of 1,676 complaints of enforced disappearances were recorded in the commission.
In its first interim report submitted to the chief adviser on December 14, the commission found prima face involvement of Sheikh Hasina and some high-ranking officials of security forces and her government, including her defence adviser retired major general Tarique Ahmed Siddique in enforced disappearances.
It also found prima facie evidence of the involvement of Indian authorities in the system of enforced disappearance in Bangladesh.
