Rights organisation Maayer Daak on Sunday demanded arrest and trial of accused leaders of the ousted Awami League and officers of different law enforcement and security agencies involved in enforced disappearances and extrajudicial killings.
Mayer Daak, a platform of the families of victims of enforced disappearance, organised a rally in front of the Supreme Court gate in the capital to press home the demands.
Addressing the rally, Sanjida Islam Tulee, coordinator of Mayer Daak, expressed dissatisfaction over a very few arrest in past eight months. 聽聽
Tulee said that all fascist AL leaders and AL fascist forces involved in the killings, including army, the Directorate General of Forces Intelligence, Rapid Action Battalion and police must be brought under justice.
Additionally, she demanded that the government should reveal how the victims were tortured in Aynaghars.聽聽聽 聽聽聽The Commission for Inquiry on Enforced Disappearances was formed by the interim government headed by Professor Muhammad Yunus after it had taken office on August 8, 2024 following the ouster of Sheikh Hasina-led Awami League regime on August 5 amid a student-led mass uprising.
On November 5, the Commission for Inquiry on Enforced Disappearances said that it had received complaints regarding enforced disappearance of over 1,600 victims, the incidents of which occurred during the immediate past rule of the now ousted Awami League.
The complaints came from the enforced disappearance victims and their families from September 15 to October 31.
The commission also found detention centres in eight locations in the compounds of law enforcement and security agency offices, including the joint interrogation cells, popularly known as Aynaghar, on the premises of the Directorate General of Forces Intelligence headquarters, in Dhaka city and its surrounding areas.
Nearly 200 victims of enforced disappearance incidents that took place between January 6, 2009 and August 5, 2024 remain still untraced.