Sangram Online: Human rights organization Law and Arbitration Center (ASK) has revealed that 611 people were victims of rape during the 15-year rule of Awami League. However, BNP claimed on a Facebook page that 700 people have gone missing.
According to Rights Information, 677 people have gone missing, according to a 2023 report by the Asian Human Rights Commission, 623 people have gone missing in the last 13 years.
Meanwhile, a list of 158 persons who have gone missing at various times has been provided to the Director General of DGFI recently by ‘Mayer Dak’, an organization of missing persons.
Complaints of disappearances are not only in Bangladesh, this problem is also in different countries of the world. According to Amnesty International, in the 1970s and 1980s in Latin American countries, only illegal arms dealers and dissidents went missing. But now ethnic groups, drug traffickers and human traffickers are also victims of disappearances. And in developing countries like Bangladesh, it is alleged that cases of disappearances are constantly happening under the auspices of the state to suppress political opinion.
Human rights organization Law and Arbitration Center (ASK) said that 611 people have gone missing in the country in the last 15 years (2009-2023). Among them, 78 bodies have been recovered. After the abduction, 62 people were released. 73 people have been arrested. 383 people are still missing. 97 people went missing in 2016.
According to statistics, 3 people in 2009, 47 people in 2010, 59 people in 2011, 56 people in 2012, 72 people in 2013, 88 people in 2014, 55 people in 2015, 97 people in 2016, 60 people in 2017, 34 people in 2018 John, 13 people went missing in 2019, 6 people in 2020, 7 people in 2021, 5 people in 2022 and 9 people in 2023. The senior coordinator of the organization, Abu Ahmed Faizul Kabir (Farid), said, ‘From 2009 to 2023, we have received information about the disappearance of 611 people through the media and our own search.
Some people have returned after disappearing, some are shown to be arrested. Many bodies have been recovered. 383 of them are still missing. Missing means they have not returned or we do not have information about them even if they do return.’
Human rights organization Odhikar reports that 677 people went missing from 2009 to 2023 under the Awami League-led government. Among them, the highest number of 98 people went missing in 2018, the year of the 12th National Assembly elections.
In addition, three in 2009, 19 in 2010, 32 in 2011, 26 in 2012, 54 in 2013, 39 in 2014, 67 in 2015, 90 in 2016, 88 in 2017, 34 in 2019, 31 in 2021, 23 in 2021, In 2022, 21 and 52 people went missing in 2023.
According to a 2023 report by the Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC), an international human rights organization based in Hong Kong, 623 people have gone missing in the last 13 years.
The organization says that 84 of them have been recovered. 383 were shown to have returned alive or were subsequently arrested. No information is known about the other three. 153 people are still missing.
Apart from this, on August 18, the victims’ organization ‘Mayer Dak’ submitted a list of 158 missing persons to the Director General of the Directorate General of Defense Intelligence (DGFI).