Activists, journalists and families of enforced disappearance victims said on Thursday that the Bangladesh government should cooperate fully with the United Nations in its fair and transparent investigation into the massacre of people, including children, during the July-August mass uprising.
They said this at a discussion titled 鈥楿N Investigation Report and Crimes Against Humanity Trial Process: International Context鈥� held at the National Press Club in the capital.
The meeting was organised by the Maayer Daak, a platform of the families of the enforced disappearance.
Referring to the UN report on crimes against humanity during the July-August uprising, Netra News editor Tasnim Khalil said that the Bangladesh government should provide necessary cooperation to the UN for the investigation.
鈥楾here is a serious shortage of capacity, as we have no specialist in forensic architecture,鈥� he said.
Victim families said that enforced disappearance was one of the biggest crimes against humanity.
Referring to chief adviser Muhammad Yunus鈥檚 visit to secret detention cells on Wednesday, they questioned, 鈥楢ynaghar was unveiled but our family members were not found.鈥�
They demanded immediate release of their loved ones and bringing the perpetrators, who were behind these disappearances, to book through proper investigation.
Researcher and activist Rezaur Rahman Lenin and Maayer Dal coordinator Sanjida Islam Tulee also spoke at the programme.
On Wednesday, chief adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus, advisers Asif Mahmud Sajib Bhuiyan, Mahfuj Alam, Asif Nazrul along with journalists visited three spots of Aynaghar, the notorious secret prison during the era of fallen Sheikh Hasina鈥檚 government, in Dhaka.
The same day, the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights in a report revealed that the ousted prime minister and the Awami League president, Sheikh Hasina, herself ordered security forces to kill protesters and hide their bodies to quell the student-led protests in July 2024.
