Court Correspondent :
Former army officer Hasinur Rahman (Bir Pratik) on Wednesday filed an enforced disappearance complaint with the International Crimes Tribunal (ICT) against 11 persons including ousted prime minister Sheikh Hasina and former home minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal.
Emerging from the tribunal yesterday afternoon, the former Lt Colonel Hasinur Rahman told the newsmen that he was detained in ‘Aynaghar’ twice, and was subjected to inhuman and barbaric torture there.
“I have filed this complaint with the prosecution section of the ICT demanding justice, compensation and rehabilitation,” he said. Hasinur Rahman, also a former official of the Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) expressed his hope that the grossly unfair, illegal and inhumane activities carried out by a gang under Sheikh Hasina’s supervision, would come out in the investigation soon.
The former military officer claimed that, “I was instructed to work with Indian intelligence official and as I refused to do so in 2008, I became a victim of forced disappearance. I was dismissed from the service in 2012 as I raised many question on the BDR mutiny,” he added.
He said it was a unique example of enforced disappearance during the service time and at least 10 criminal cases were filed against me as, “I expressed my opinion against enforced disappearance and murder.”
“I had so many successes in curbing militancy and arresting militant and fundamental outfits during my service in RAB, despite that the then government tried to kill me inside the jail by the detained militant outfits,” Hasinur said.