The victims of enforced disappearance faced four probable consequences, the Commission of Inquiry on Enforced Disappearances on Thursday (June 19) said.
The commission chief former justice Moyeenul Islam Chowdhury said this at a media conference, organised at the commission’s office in the capital’s Gulshan area today.
Moyeenul Islam Chowdhury said an analysis of the complaints submitted at the commission reveals that the victims of enforced disappearance faced four probable consequences. Those are: they were killed; presented before the media as militants and shown arrested in any new criminal case; orchestrated their arrest in neighbouring India by the law enforcement agencies by sending them there; and, in some cases, the lucky victims were released.
The Commission of Inquiry on Enforced Disappearances submitted its second report to the chief adviser on 4 June.
The commission chief said in the second report they highlighted that the past authoritarian government used enforced disappearance as a tool for systematic suppression of the opposition political forces and dissenters. A number of vital pieces of evidence were destroyed as many criminals and their well wishers were in the important posts even after the 5 August political changeover.
