‘Worse than demise’: Victims describe the nightmare of Bangladesh’s secret prisons throughout former regime

[ad_1] When the guards barged into his cell one night as he was saying his nightly prayers, Mir Ahmad Bin Quasem Arman was satisfied it was over.

"I believed I used to be being taken for execution," the lawyer mentioned. "I mentioned a final prayer in my thoughts for my passing to be fast."

It had been eight lengthy years since Quasem was kidnapped from his Dhaka, Bangladesh, dwelling by paramilitary forces and brought to a windowless cell in a secret jail, the place he was saved in the dead of night, blindfolded and handcuffed for twenty-four hours a day, for months on finish.

However that night in August of final 12 months, he was immediately shuffled from his cell right into a van and pushed to an empty area, the place his captors pushed him right into a ditch.

The gunshot he was anticipating by no means got here. Quasem heard the van drive away as a substitute.

"On the time I did not know that there had been a change of regime, that the fascist [Hasina] had gone," Quasem, 40, instructed CBC Information in an interview at his workplace in Bangladesh's capital Dhaka.

<img loading="lazy" alt="A bearded man in a blue shirt and black framed glasses sits near a window." srcset="https://i.cbc.ca/1.7510638.1744731259!/fileImage/httpImage/image.JPG_gen/derivatives/original_1180/mir-ahmad-bin-quasem-arman.JPG?im=Resize%3D300 300w,https://i.cbc.ca/1.7510638.1744731259!/fileImage/httpImage/image.JPG_gen/derivatives/original_1180/mir-ahmad-bin-quasem-arman.JPG?im=Resize%3D460 460w,https://i.cbc.ca/1.7510638.1744731259!/fileImage/httpImage/image.JPG_gen/derivatives/original_1180/mir-ahmad-bin-quasem-arman.JPG?im=Resize%3D620 620w,https://i.cbc.ca/1.7510638.1744731259!/fileImage/httpImage/image.JPG_gen/derivatives/original_1180/mir-ahmad-bin-quasem-arman.JPG?im=Resize%3D780 780w,https://i.cbc.ca/1.7510638.1744731259!/fileImage/httpImage/image.JPG_gen/derivatives/original_1180/mir-ahmad-bin-quasem-arman.JPG?im=Resize%3D1180 1180w" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 300px,(max-width: 460px) 460px,(max-width: 620px) 620px,(max-width: 780px) 780px,(max-width: 1180px) 1180px" src="https://i.cbc.ca/1.7510638.1744731259!/fileImage/httpImage/image.JPG_gen/derivatives/original_1180/mir-ahmad-bin-quasem-arman.JPG?im=" style="aspect-ratio:1.779788838612368" data-cy="image-img"/> Quasem is one among Bangladesh's 'disappeared' — victims of a program that focused Hasina's political opponents, with tons of vanishing and not using a hint after being taken by safety forces. (Salimah Shivji/CBC) His abrupt launch got here days after Sheikh Hasina, the prime minister who had dominated Bangladesh with an iron fist for 15 years, fled the nation aboard a helicopter, after protesters stormed her official residence following a number of weeks of bloody protests in opposition to her regime.

Because the South Asian nation — now run by interim chief Muhammad Yunus, who's promised steep reforms — tries to rebuild a sturdy democracy following the student-led rebellion that ousted Hasina, tales like Quasem's have shocked the nation, with a clearer image rising of the earlier regime's remedy of dissenters.

'Home of Mirrors' Quasem is one among Bangladesh's "disappeared" — victims of a program that focused Hasina's political opponents, with tons of vanishing and not using a hint after being taken by safety forces.

Many ended up in what was code-named the "Home of Mirrors," a secret navy detention centre within the capital Dhaka, solely one among tons of of suspected underground jails throughout the nation.

Different abductees have been killed and their our bodies thrown in rivers, loaded down with cement luggage to cease them from resurfacing, in line with a Bangladeshi fee of inquiry.

In its preliminary report launched in December, the fee, which was arrange by Bangladesh's interim authorities quickly after Hasina was chased from energy, concluded that the previous prime minister and her senior officers orchestrated a highly-organized program of enforced disappearances that was "systematically designed" to stay beneath the radar.

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Pupil-led protests toppled the Bangladesh authorities seven months in the past. Now, protests persist, inflation has doubled, crime is on the rise and the hope for actual change is dwindling. The nation's Worldwide Court docket Tribunal issued arrest warrants for alleged crimes in opposition to humanity through the violent protests final summer season, and for Hasina's alleged function within the system of enforced disappearances whereas she was in workplace.

The United Nations human rights workplace has additionally accused Hasina and her safety and intelligence equipment of "critical and systematic" rights violations through the three-week protest motion that led to her ouster.

UN human rights chief Volker Türk estimated greater than 1,400 demonstrators have been killed, with the bulk shot by police or different safety forces.

Turk mentioned that an preliminary investigation discovered the violations may quantity to crimes in opposition to humanity, as they have been "carried out with the information, co-ordination, and path of the previous political management and senior safety officers" who have been aiming to suppress the protests and keep in energy.

<img loading="lazy" alt="Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina reviews an honour guard. " srcset="https://i.cbc.ca/1.7285480.1722872275!/fileImage/httpImage/image.JPG_gen/derivatives/original_1180/bangladesh-protests-sheikh-hasina.JPG?im=Resize%3D300 300w,https://i.cbc.ca/1.7285480.1722872275!/fileImage/httpImage/image.JPG_gen/derivatives/original_1180/bangladesh-protests-sheikh-hasina.JPG?im=Resize%3D460 460w,https://i.cbc.ca/1.7285480.1722872275!/fileImage/httpImage/image.JPG_gen/derivatives/original_1180/bangladesh-protests-sheikh-hasina.JPG?im=Resize%3D620 620w,https://i.cbc.ca/1.7285480.1722872275!/fileImage/httpImage/image.JPG_gen/derivatives/original_1180/bangladesh-protests-sheikh-hasina.JPG?im=Resize%3D780 780w,https://i.cbc.ca/1.7285480.1722872275!/fileImage/httpImage/image.JPG_gen/derivatives/original_1180/bangladesh-protests-sheikh-hasina.JPG?im=Resize%3D1180 1180w" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 300px,(max-width: 460px) 460px,(max-width: 620px) 620px,(max-width: 780px) 780px,(max-width: 1180px) 1180px" src="https://i.cbc.ca/1.7285480.1722872275!/fileImage/httpImage/image.JPG_gen/derivatives/original_1180/bangladesh-protests-sheikh-hasina.JPG?im=" style="aspect-ratio:1.4993646759847523" data-cy="image-img"/> Then-prime minister Sheikh Hasina is seen reviewing an honour guard on the Authorities Home throughout her go to to Thailand, in Bangkok on April 26, 2024, 4 months earlier than she was ousted from workplace. (Athit Perawongmetha/Reuters) Hasina, who's in exile in neighbouring India, denies the costs in opposition to her, calling them politically motivated.

In a latest speech on social media to her Awami League occasion's followers, the ousted prime minister accused Yunus of enjoying with fireplace and of destroying Bangladesh in his "starvation for energy."

It got here shortly after a courtroom in Bangladesh issued yet one more arrest warrant for Hasina, this time for allegedly abusing her energy to acquire land illegally.

'Worse than demise' Quasem, grabbed by safety forces at 32 years outdated, was saved in close to whole darkness and will hear others in cells beside him crying and screaming as they have been being tortured.

"What I used to be subjected to felt worse than demise," mentioned Quasem, who's battling post-traumatic stress and trauma-induced melancholy after his ordeal.

He had repeated nervous breakdowns whereas he was held captive, misplaced dozens of kilos and developed epilepsy, in addition to cataracts in each eyes from malnutrition. His wrists typically grew to become uncooked and contaminated from the steel handcuffs that he was compelled to put on rubbing in opposition to his pores and skin.

However the worst ache for Quasem throughout his eight years of darkness was emotional — worrying in regards to the toll on his household, notably his two daughters who have been three and 4 years outdated when he was taken.

<img loading="lazy" alt="A group of people stand outside holding placards with faces of people on them. " srcset="https://i.cbc.ca/1.7512785.1744898467!/fileImage/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/original_1180/2165785461.jpg?im=Resize%3D300 300w,https://i.cbc.ca/1.7512785.1744898467!/fileImage/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/original_1180/2165785461.jpg?im=Resize%3D460 460w,https://i.cbc.ca/1.7512785.1744898467!/fileImage/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/original_1180/2165785461.jpg?im=Resize%3D620 620w,https://i.cbc.ca/1.7512785.1744898467!/fileImage/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/original_1180/2165785461.jpg?im=Resize%3D780 780w,https://i.cbc.ca/1.7512785.1744898467!/fileImage/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/original_1180/2165785461.jpg?im=Resize%3D1180 1180w" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 300px,(max-width: 460px) 460px,(max-width: 620px) 620px,(max-width: 780px) 780px,(max-width: 1180px) 1180px" src="https://i.cbc.ca/1.7512785.1744898467!/fileImage/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/original_1180/2165785461.jpg?im=" style="aspect-ratio:1.4993646759847523" data-cy="image-img"/> Members of the family of victims of enforced disappearance allegedly dedicated by authorities companies through the rule of the Awami League collect holding banners and portraits of their disappeared relations, In Dhaka on Aug. 11, 2024. (Luis Tato/AFP/Getty Photographs) He was haunted by one vivid reminiscence as he was being dragged right into a van by paramilitary officers carrying plainclothes. Quasem heard his four-year-old daughter working after him, carrying his footwear and telling him he should not depart dwelling with out them.

"It felt like I used to be [being] buried alive. Not understanding whether or not my household knew whether or not I used to be alive or useless," Quasem mentioned, calling the detention centres "meticulously designed to lengthen struggling".

The profitable lawyer was taken whereas he was in the course of a high-profile trial as a part of the authorized group defending his father, a distinguished chief in Jamaat-e-Islami, Bangladesh's Islamist opposition occasion.

His father was convicted and executed for alleged conflict crimes a month after Quasem was forcibly disappeared.

Quasem, seemingly focused for his household connections fairly than the rest, is now again together with his household, attempting to readjust to a life that was devastated. With eight years stolen from him, he is missed seeing his daughters develop into youngsters.

"We're father and daughter. But it surely's as if we're strangers," he mentioned, attempting to explain the lingering trauma.

"I've to get to know my youngsters yet again."

'The ache is so contemporary' The fee inspecting the system of enforced disappearances beneath Hasina's rule acquired greater than 1,600 reviews of individuals being forcibly disappeared, and greater than 700 accounts have been verified. However officers consider the precise variety of victims may very well be two or thrice increased.

For tons of of households, the agony is in not understanding what occurred to their family members.

<img loading="lazy" alt="A woman with long dark hair wearing a pink top sits in front of a gold painting. " srcset="https://i.cbc.ca/1.7510675.1744732136!/fileImage/httpImage/image.JPG_gen/derivatives/original_1180/mashrufa-islam.JPG?im=Resize%3D300 300w,https://i.cbc.ca/1.7510675.1744732136!/fileImage/httpImage/image.JPG_gen/derivatives/original_1180/mashrufa-islam.JPG?im=Resize%3D460 460w,https://i.cbc.ca/1.7510675.1744732136!/fileImage/httpImage/image.JPG_gen/derivatives/original_1180/mashrufa-islam.JPG?im=Resize%3D620 620w,https://i.cbc.ca/1.7510675.1744732136!/fileImage/httpImage/image.JPG_gen/derivatives/original_1180/mashrufa-islam.JPG?im=Resize%3D780 780w,https://i.cbc.ca/1.7510675.1744732136!/fileImage/httpImage/image.JPG_gen/derivatives/original_1180/mashrufa-islam.JPG?im=Resize%3D1180 1180w" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 300px,(max-width: 460px) 460px,(max-width: 620px) 620px,(max-width: 780px) 780px,(max-width: 1180px) 1180px" src="https://i.cbc.ca/1.7510675.1744732136!/fileImage/httpImage/image.JPG_gen/derivatives/original_1180/mashrufa-islam.JPG?im=" style="aspect-ratio:1.779788838612368" data-cy="image-img"/> Mashrufa Islam, whose father Saiful Islam Heru, a former unbiased MP, disappeared in November 2013, two months earlier than a common election in Bangladesh by which Hasina received by a landslide. (Salimah Shivji/CBC) "It has been 12 years and the ache is so contemporary," mentioned Mashrufa Islam, breaking down in tears throughout an interview at her Dhaka dwelling as she described what occurred to her abbu, which means father in Bengali.

Saiful Islam Heru, a former unbiased MP, disappeared in November 2013, two months earlier than a common election in Bangladesh by which Hasina received by a landslide.

The elections weren't truthful and free, in line with human rights teams and varied world leaders, who criticized the widespread crackdown on opposition politicians earlier than the vote.

Heru was driving again to Dhaka together with his brother and one among Islam's cousins once they have been stopped by paramilitary officers, mentioned Islam, 39.

Her household tried to get solutions, repeatedly visiting officers with the Bangladesh police's elite anti-terrorism unit to ask what had occurred to Heru, till Islam mentioned she herself acquired a veiled menace.

"[A senior officer] instructed me: 'You would additionally go lacking,'" Islam mentioned.

<img loading="lazy" alt="A close up of a woman's hands holding a smartphone showing a photo of a man and a woman. " srcset="https://i.cbc.ca/1.7510685.1744732355!/fileImage/httpImage/image.JPG_gen/derivatives/original_1180/mashrufa-islam-father.JPG?im=Resize%3D300 300w,https://i.cbc.ca/1.7510685.1744732355!/fileImage/httpImage/image.JPG_gen/derivatives/original_1180/mashrufa-islam-father.JPG?im=Resize%3D460 460w,https://i.cbc.ca/1.7510685.1744732355!/fileImage/httpImage/image.JPG_gen/derivatives/original_1180/mashrufa-islam-father.JPG?im=Resize%3D620 620w,https://i.cbc.ca/1.7510685.1744732355!/fileImage/httpImage/image.JPG_gen/derivatives/original_1180/mashrufa-islam-father.JPG?im=Resize%3D780 780w,https://i.cbc.ca/1.7510685.1744732355!/fileImage/httpImage/image.JPG_gen/derivatives/original_1180/mashrufa-islam-father.JPG?im=Resize%3D1180 1180w" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 300px,(max-width: 460px) 460px,(max-width: 620px) 620px,(max-width: 780px) 780px,(max-width: 1180px) 1180px" src="https://i.cbc.ca/1.7510685.1744732355!/fileImage/httpImage/image.JPG_gen/derivatives/original_1180/mashrufa-islam-father.JPG?im=" style="aspect-ratio:1.779788838612368" data-cy="image-img"/> Islam reveals a photograph of herself and her father. (Salimah Shivji/CBC) The household instantly stopped talking out about her father, fearing they'd additionally develop into targets.

Almost 12 years later, Islam mentioned she did not have any hope left that her father, who would now be 75, remains to be alive. His is without doubt one of the 330 circumstances the fee of inquiry has tracked the place the victims haven't returned dwelling.

"He did not deserve this. Solely as a result of he was in an opposition occasion from the ruling authorities," mentioned Islam.

"They saved on making individuals disappear," she mentioned, via her tears. "This isn't the best way of a free nation. This isn't the best way of a democracy."

She needs to know precisely what her father went via, regardless that her growing older mom and her older sister choose to not hear the small print.

The whole household is praying they may see justice, together with jail time for these "on the highest degree" who allegedly issued the order to abduct her father.

Which may present some sort of closure, Islam mentioned, even when the truth that her father was forcibly disappeared robbed her household of the dignity of claiming goodbye.

"It is such a painful factor," she mentioned. "Not seeing your father, not giving him a correct funeral."

'Some will nonetheless be untraceable' In February, Bangladesh's caretaker chief, Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus, visited a number of of the key prisons.

"We do not wish to keep on this darkness," Yunus, 84, instructed reporters following the tour.

He credited these on the enforced disappearances fee with doing the laborious work to collect proof and provides credence to the tales from those that survived the detention centres, and from victims' households nonetheless ready for solutions.

<img loading="lazy" alt="A group of people stand in a concrete room looking at a steel chair." srcset="https://i.cbc.ca/1.7510665.1744731741!/fileImage/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/original_1180/2198433711.jpg?im=Resize%3D300 300w,https://i.cbc.ca/1.7510665.1744731741!/fileImage/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/original_1180/2198433711.jpg?im=Resize%3D460 460w,https://i.cbc.ca/1.7510665.1744731741!/fileImage/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/original_1180/2198433711.jpg?im=Resize%3D620 620w,https://i.cbc.ca/1.7510665.1744731741!/fileImage/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/original_1180/2198433711.jpg?im=Resize%3D780 780w,https://i.cbc.ca/1.7510665.1744731741!/fileImage/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/original_1180/2198433711.jpg?im=Resize%3D1180 1180w" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 300px,(max-width: 460px) 460px,(max-width: 620px) 620px,(max-width: 780px) 780px,(max-width: 1180px) 1180px" src="https://i.cbc.ca/1.7510665.1744731741!/fileImage/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/original_1180/2198433711.jpg?im=" style="aspect-ratio:1.4993646759847523" data-cy="image-img"/> Bangladesh's interim authorities chief adviser Muhammad Yunus, second from left, go to to the 'Home of Mirrors,' a facility allegedly run by the military intelligence in Dhaka, on Feb. 12. (Bangladesh's Chief Adviser Workplace of Interim Authorities/AFP/Getty Photographs) "They've full proof and they'll get justice," mentioned Yunus, who has promised to implement steep reforms. He added that the broader objective is to verify the horrors of secret prisons and extrajudicial killings will not be repeated sooner or later. "That is our dedication."

However the interim authorities is aware of how troublesome the duty forward is perhaps, with the scars of the disappearances working deep in a rustic the place justice is usually delayed, and most of the accused presently in hiding outdoors Bangladesh.

Whereas Yunus has promised that Hasina will stand trial for crimes in opposition to humanity, regardless that India has to this point ignored its neighbour's extradition requests, he has additionally tried to mood expectations over how shortly the households of victims will see high-level safety officers behind the enforced disappearances behind bars themselves.

"Some will get punished, some will nonetheless be beneath the method, some will nonetheless be untraceable," the interim chief instructed Sky Information final month.

<img loading="lazy" alt="Crowds of people carrying green flags with a red circle in the centre stand on top and in front of a white building." srcset="https://i.cbc.ca/1.7510693.1744733107!/fileImage/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/original_1180/2164931664.jpg?im=Resize%3D300 300w,https://i.cbc.ca/1.7510693.1744733107!/fileImage/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/original_1180/2164931664.jpg?im=Resize%3D460 460w,https://i.cbc.ca/1.7510693.1744733107!/fileImage/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/original_1180/2164931664.jpg?im=Resize%3D620 620w,https://i.cbc.ca/1.7510693.1744733107!/fileImage/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/original_1180/2164931664.jpg?im=Resize%3D780 780w,https://i.cbc.ca/1.7510693.1744733107!/fileImage/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/original_1180/2164931664.jpg?im=Resize%3D1180 1180w" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 300px,(max-width: 460px) 460px,(max-width: 620px) 620px,(max-width: 780px) 780px,(max-width: 1180px) 1180px" src="https://i.cbc.ca/1.7510693.1744733107!/fileImage/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/original_1180/2164931664.jpg?im=" style="aspect-ratio:1.4993646759847523" data-cy="image-img"/> Anti-government protestors show Bangladesh's nationwide flag as they storm Hasina's palace in Dhaka on Aug. 5, 2024. (Ok M Asad/AFP/Getty Photographs) An election in Bangladesh is anticipated as early as December 2025, though that date may very well be pushed again a number of months, with the tempo of reforms sluggish.

However Sanjida Islam Tulee and different members of the family of the victims say they're uninterested in the lengthy watch for solutions.

The disappearance of her brother Sajedul Islam Sumon in 2013 prompted Tulee and their mom to create a protest group referred to as Mayer Daak, or "mom's name." The group organized avenue rallies to carry consideration to the plight of Bangladesh's disappeared even whereas Hasina was nonetheless in energy, regardless of stress from the then-government to remain quiet.

<img loading="lazy" alt="A woman with dark hair stands in front of large photographs on display." srcset="https://i.cbc.ca/1.7510698.1744733440!/fileImage/httpImage/image.JPG_gen/derivatives/original_1180/sanjida-islam-tulee.JPG?im=Resize%3D300 300w,https://i.cbc.ca/1.7510698.1744733440!/fileImage/httpImage/image.JPG_gen/derivatives/original_1180/sanjida-islam-tulee.JPG?im=Resize%3D460 460w,https://i.cbc.ca/1.7510698.1744733440!/fileImage/httpImage/image.JPG_gen/derivatives/original_1180/sanjida-islam-tulee.JPG?im=Resize%3D620 620w,https://i.cbc.ca/1.7510698.1744733440!/fileImage/httpImage/image.JPG_gen/derivatives/original_1180/sanjida-islam-tulee.JPG?im=Resize%3D780 780w,https://i.cbc.ca/1.7510698.1744733440!/fileImage/httpImage/image.JPG_gen/derivatives/original_1180/sanjida-islam-tulee.JPG?im=Resize%3D1180 1180w" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 300px,(max-width: 460px) 460px,(max-width: 620px) 620px,(max-width: 780px) 780px,(max-width: 1180px) 1180px" src="https://i.cbc.ca/1.7510698.1744733440!/fileImage/httpImage/image.JPG_gen/derivatives/original_1180/sanjida-islam-tulee.JPG?im=" style="aspect-ratio:1.779788838612368" data-cy="image-img"/> Sanjida Islam Tulee is seen on the Mayer Daak workplace in Bangladesh. The disappearance of her brother Sajedul Islam Sumon in 2013 prompted Tulee and their mom to create a protest group referred to as Mayer Daak, or "mom's name." (Salimah Shivji/CBC) Within the days after Hasina fled the nation, hopes have been excessive, mentioned Tulee. She and her mom had a prolonged go to with Yunus, who had simply been named chief adviser to guide the interim authorities.

However weeks handed with nonetheless no phrase on justice for his or her lacking members of the family.

"Individuals maintain speaking in regards to the new Bangladesh, about change. However I do not see any outcomes," Tulee, 41, instructed CBC Information.

<img loading="lazy" alt="A woman in white, holding a photograph of a man with a moustache, sits next to a man with grey hair who is touching her arm while another woman looks on and holds her hands in prayer. " srcset="https://i.cbc.ca/1.7510704.1744733966!/fileImage/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/original_1180/2166062272.jpg?im=Resize%3D300 300w,https://i.cbc.ca/1.7510704.1744733966!/fileImage/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/original_1180/2166062272.jpg?im=Resize%3D460 460w,https://i.cbc.ca/1.7510704.1744733966!/fileImage/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/original_1180/2166062272.jpg?im=Resize%3D620 620w,https://i.cbc.ca/1.7510704.1744733966!/fileImage/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/original_1180/2166062272.jpg?im=Resize%3D780 780w,https://i.cbc.ca/1.7510704.1744733966!/fileImage/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/original_1180/2166062272.jpg?im=Resize%3D1180 1180w" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 300px,(max-width: 460px) 460px,(max-width: 620px) 620px,(max-width: 780px) 780px,(max-width: 1180px) 1180px" src="https://i.cbc.ca/1.7510704.1744733966!/fileImage/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/original_1180/2166062272.jpg?im=" style="aspect-ratio:1.4993646759847523" data-cy="image-img"/> Mayer Daak founder Hazera Khatun, centre, is consoled by Yunus, left, as she holds a portrait of her son who went lacking through the tenure of Hasina, in Dhaka on Aug. 13, 2024. (Indranil Mukherjee/AFP/Getty Photographs) "All I see on my aspect is a lot ache and trauma."

She needs truthful and clear trials and for these in control of the system of enforced disappearances to be punished.

Islam says she would additionally prefer to see the key prisons open to everybody, as a reminder of the horrific chapter in Bangladesh's latest historical past.

"We would like this reality to come back out."

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