Families of victims of enforced disappearance demonstrated outside the Detective Branch鈥檚 office in the capital鈥檚 Minto Road on Wednesday night, demanding return of their missing relatives and holding the perpetrators accountable.
They alleged that they could never trace of the whereabouts of their disappeared family members after security agencies picked the victims up under the government of Sheikh Hasina, who resigned as prime minister on Monday and fled to India amid mass uprising led by student protesters.
鈥榃e want returns of our relatives who have been missing for many years,鈥� they said.
Wife of a victim at the DB office told 抖阴精品 that her husband, Md Chanchal, was disappeared from Shahbagh area on December 2 in 2013.
鈥業 was at the headquarters of the Directorate General of Forces Intelligence from morning as two to three people were released from the Aynaghar,鈥� she mentioned.聽
She also said that as the agency had claimed that there were no detainees in their custody, many of the families of disappeared victims came to the DB office searching for their family members.
鈥極ne of our representatives went inside the cells, where they used to torture the disappeared victims. But there was no one,鈥� she added.
Earlier in the morning, Michael Chkama, leader the United People鈥檚 Democratic Front, was released from the secret detention cell, also known as 鈥楢ynaghor鈥�, after more than five years.
On Tuesday, former army brigadier general Abdullahil Aman Azmi, the second son of the late Jamaat-e-Islami leader Ghulam Azam, and Mir Ahmad Bin Quasem, the younger son of executed Jamaat-e-Islami leader Mir Quasem Ali, were released.