Protesters want return of missing kin, end to crime of enforced disappearance
Staff Correspondent | Published: 00:08, May 29,2021 | Updated: 04:46, May 29,2021
Family members of the victims of enforced disappearance stage a demonstration, demanding measures to find out the people, in front of the National Press Club in Dhaka on Friday. Sony Ramany
Victim families of enforced disappearance call the government to either find their relatives alive or locate their remains alleging that the country’s security and law enforcement agencies were behind the abductions of their family members mostly belonging to the opposition political parties and represented the voices of dissent.
Mothers, sisters, children, spouses and their sympathisers holding photos, banners and placards or portraits of their missing relatives, in a rally in front of the National Press Club, also vowed that they would be waiting for justice and to bring
I clarified my position to our party secretary general.
He, however, declined to elaborate on the content of the letter.
Speaking at the discussion programme on April 17 last, Mirza Abbas said he thought neither the government nor the Awami League had a role in the disappearance ofIlias Ali. But who did it? I want to know this from this government.
He also called upon Mirza Fakhrul to find out the BNP leaders who had engaged in an altercation with Ilias Ali the night before he went missing.
As his remarks sparked various speculations and discontent within the party, Fakhrul sent a letter to Abbas on April 22 seeking an explanation as per the directive of BNP acting chairman Tarique Rahman.
Ilias Ali: BNP seeks explanation from Abbas over remark Staff Correspondent Staff Correspondent
The BNP has sought an explanation from the party s standing committee member Mirza Abbas over his statement on the disappearance of the party leader M Ilias Ali.
Party sources said the party s Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir, on behalf of the party s acting chairman Tarique Rahman, sent the letter to him yesterday afternoon.
The letter reads that Ilias Ali remained missing for the last nine years and centering his disappearance a public opinion was formed inside and outside the country.
The letter read, Your [statement] questioned the public opinion. In such a situation, the party s leaders and activists expect an explanation from you.
Explain statement on Ilias Ali disappearance: BNP to Mirza Abbas
Mirza Abbas. File photo
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The BNP has sought explanation from the party s standing committee member Mirza Abbas over his statement on the abduction of party leader M Ilias Ali.
Party sources said its Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir, on behalf of the party s acting chairman Tarique Rahman, sent the relevant letter this afternoon.
The letter reads that Ilias Ali has been missing for the last nine years and public opinion was formed inside and outside the country against the abduction. Your statement questioned the public opinion. In such a situation, the party s leaders and activists expect explanations from you…what do you want to say, the letter sent to Abbas reads.