Armed Forces not institutionally involved in incidents of enforced disappearance

The Commission of Enquiry on Enforced Disappearances president retired High Court Division judge Justice Moyeenul Islam Chowdhury on Thursday said that Armed Forces Division, including Bangladesh Army and Bangladesh Navy, were not involved in enforce disappearance as institutions but some officers were involved in the incidents.

‘Armed Forces were not involved in the enforced disappearance as institutions but some officers of the forces were involved in the incidents of enforced disappearance,’ said the commission chair Moyeenul responding to a question at a press conference held at the commission office in the capital.

He explained that many officers of Bangladesh Army and Bangladesh Navy worked at the Director General of Forces Intelligence, National Security Intelligence and Rapid Action Battalion and some of them were involved in the incidents of enforced disappearance.

The commission member and human rights activist Nur Khan Liton said that Bangladesh Army knew about the incidents of enforced disappearance but that was not involved in the incident institutionally.

Justice Moyeenul said that they had found prove and documents of 253 incidents of enforced disappearance after scrutinising 1850 allegations.

‘We have already summitted the second interim report to the chief adviser,’ he added.

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New Age | Armed Forces not institutionally involved in incidents of enforced disappearance