Families demand go back of victims of forced disappearances

Bangladesh
Families demand go back of victims of forced disappearances
Family members and relatives of the victims of forced disappearances over Fri demanded of the federal government to bring their loved kinds back to them.

They said they remain waiting for the return of themselves.

Speaking at a human-chain formed in front of the Jatiya Press Golf club in the administrative centre on Friday morning hours, they urged the authorities worried to determine their loved kinds and go back them back.

BNP leader Iliyas Ali's child Abrar Iliyas was one of the individuals at the human-chain.

He said that his daddy was found on April 17, 2012. Four leaders of the BNP possessed disappeared in only two weeks around that point from Sylhet.

Abrar said a activity was waged in Sylhet in the past, protesting the engineering of Tipaimukh Dam found in India.

He alleged that his father had become among the victims of enforced disappearance for leading that motion.

"We are still waiting for my father as we've seen many people return from the jail after remaining missing for quite some time," Abrar said.

Trader Ismail Hossain's wife Nasrin Jahan, child Anisha Islam, and child Enam were also present at the human-chain. Ismail was "forcibly disappeared" on June 19, 2019, they stated.

"I wait for my father's return each day. We wish our father back again," said Anisha, a Category IX student.

Nagorik Oikya's convenor Mahmudur Rahman Manna said: "It is the responsibility of the government to discover the disappeared people because they are in-fee of our protection. But that is not happening."

Noted photographer and journalist Shahidul Alam alleged that the federal government is in charge for all the recent incidents of disappearances.

Former vice-president of Dhaka University Central Students Union (DUCSU) Nurul Huque Nur urged the authorities to disclose the whereabouts of disappeared individuals immediately.
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