Desk Report
Publish: 09 Aug 2021, 10:15 pm
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The UN Human Rights Council
wants to know the whereabouts and fate of 34 people who went missing in
Bangladesh at different times. The Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary
Disappearances of the UN Human Rights Council recently sent a letter to the
Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Bangladesh in this regard.
On the basis of that letter,
the Ministry of Foreign Affairs sent a letter to the Special Branch of the
Police, SB, on June 14. Attaching a list of 34 people, four specific questions
have been asked, including the location and fate of the missing persons.
After sending the letter to
the Dhaka Metropolitan Police Commissioner, members of the law enforcement
force working at the field level are preparing a report on the enlisted
persons.
According to sources, the
letter was sent to the Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) Commissioner through the
Special Branch-SB (SCO-Security Clearance) of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
DMP Commissioner Mohammad
Shafiqul Islam told the media, "I don't know anything about this."
However, a Foreign Ministry
official confirmed the matter to the media, saying a letter had arrived from
the UN Human Rights Council working group about 34 people. We have sent these
to the concerned branch of law enforcement. We will send the report to the
United Nations.
Meanwhile, Bangladeshi
human rights activists see the UN Human Rights Council’s a letter as a major
step forward.
The working group of the UN
Human Rights Council had earlier asked the Bangladesh government about the
whereabouts and fate of several missing persons. But the Bangladesh government
did not respond to the letters sent by the UN working group. In addition, the
UN Human Rights Council has repeatedly expressed concern over the disappearance
in Bangladesh. Even the working group of the Human Rights Council wanted to
come to Bangladesh to work on the disappearance, but the Bangladesh government
did not respond. On the contrary, the government has always denied the
incidents of disappearance in the name of law enforcement.
Human rights activists say
that since the working group of the UN Human Rights Council has sent a long list
and law enforcement is working on it, at least the real truth should come out.
But it should be noted that the reply to the letter is not just 'Eyewash'.
The letter sent to the
Dhaka Police Commissioner containing a list of 34 persons asked the enlisted
persons to answer four questions by verifying the CDMS (Crime Data Management
System) with PC/PR (information on previous criminal activities).
The questions posed by the
UN Human Rights Council's working group are whether the allegations of
disappearance are true. If not, what is the real event? What measures has the
government taken to remedy these issues? Has there been an independent and
impartial investigation into these incidents? What steps has the government
taken to find out the whereabouts and fate of the missing persons? And details
of what remedies have been taken for missing persons and their families.
The working group of the UN
Human Rights Council has sent a detailed report on the identities of the 34
missing persons and the details of their disappearances.
The people on the list are:
Mohammad Chowdhury Alam, Sajedul Islam, Mohammad Abdul Quader Bhuiyan, Md.
Kauser Hossain, Mohammad Fakhrul Islam, Al Amin, Sohail Rana, Mohammad Hossain
Chanchal, Parvez Hossain, Md. Mahfuzur Rahman, Zahirul Islam, Nizam Uddin, Mir
Ahmad bin Kashem, Mahbub Hasan Sujan, Kazi Farhad, Samrat Mollah, Tapan Das
alias Tapu, KM Shamim Akter, Khaled Hasan Sohel, Abdullah Azmi, SM Moazzem
Hossain, Md. Hasinur Rahman, Raju Islam, Ismail Hossain, Md. They Mia, Mohammad
Nur Hossain, Mohan Mia, Iftekhar Ahmed Dinar, Md. Elias Ali, Ansar Ali,
Keithilpam Navchandra, Selim Reza Pintu and Zahidul Karim.
It is learned that in the
separate report sent to the 34 members of the working group, most of the
missing persons were mentioned as leaders or activists of the opposition
political parties. Also among the 34 were a former Rapid Action Battalion
officer, a leader of the ruling party and a man who went missing due to
previous hostilities. The list also includes the names of two children of Golam
Azam and Mir Kashem Ali, accused of crimes against humanity. They have been
accused of being picked up by law enforcement.
Indian separatist on the
list
One person has been
identified as a citizen of Bangladesh and India in the working group list of
the UN Human Rights Council. A report released by the Working Group on Keithcom
Nabchandra alias Shilheiba states that he was the leader of the United
Liberation Front (UNLF) in the eastern Indian state of Manipur. He lived in
house No. 50, Road No. 2, Mohammadpur Housing Society, Dhaka. On February 11,
2015, at around 10 am, a team of Indian Intelligence Investigators and
Bangladesh Police in white dresses picked him up for questioning. He would be
released in three days, but his whereabouts are unknown. A complaint was lodged
with the Manipur Director General of Police on February 20 of the same year,
the report said.
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