Law enforcers involved in enforced disappearances
Staff Reporter :
The inquiry commission formed to investigate incidents of enforced disappearances during the Awami League regime has found eight secret detention centers where detained people were reportedly tortured over the years.
“Eight secret detention centers more horrific than “Aynaghor” have been detected,” Justice Moinul Islam Chowdhury, head of the commission, said at a press conference at Gulshan in the capital on Tuesday.
Meanwhile, around 1,600 complaints of enforced disappearance have so far been filed and 400 complaints are under investigation, he said.
Commission of Inquiry on Enforced Disappearance in its primary investigation has found the involvement of DGFI, RAB, DB, CTTC, CID and police with the enforced disappearances and it is going to interrogate the security personnel concerned from November 7.
“We cannot tell you the exact number of security personnel, whose involvement was found so far, but we have found the involvement of DGFI, RAB, DB, CTTC, CID and general police men.
We are going to interrogate the relevant security personnel from November 7 and we have already issued summons on seven people for the first day of questioning.
“We may summon three personnel the next time, then seven, then five more, and this will continue,” Commission Chairman Justice Moyeenul Islam Chowdhury said at a press briefing at its commission’s auditorium.
Justice Chowdhury said the commission so far received more than 1,600 complaints, of which 400 have already been scrutinised.
Besides, over 200 victims of enforced disappearance have remained untraced, said the chief of the commission.
Earlier on August 27, the government formed a five-member commission to search of individuals who were made disappeared by the law enforcement agencies during the 15-year rule of Awami League.
The commission was formed to investigate cases of enforced disappearances through law enforcement agencies from January 1, 2010, to August 5 of the current year, identify the disappeared persons, and determine under what circumstances they were disappeared.
The government on August 27 had formed the five-member commission to identify and find out the people made disappeared forcibly by the law enforcement agencies from January 6, 2009 to August 5, 2024.