2024-08-30 15:03:29
Amir of Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami Dr. Shafiqur Rahman. He made this call in a statement given on the occasion of the International Day for the Prevention of Missing Persons on August 30 (Friday).
Jamaat’s Amir said in the statement, ‘August 30 is the International Day for the Prevention of Missing Persons. According to the information of various national and international human rights organizations and agencies, during the 15-year rule of the fascist Awami government, which was deposed in the popular revolution of the students, more than seven hundred people of various classes and professions, including the leaders and activists of the opposition political parties in Bangladesh, students, teachers, intellectuals, lawyers, journalists, businessmen, etc. has been lost.
Foreigners are also interested in the issue of ‘missing’ or ‘missing’ in Bangladesh. In August 2022, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet visited Bangladesh. The United Nations Human Rights Council’s Working Group on Disappearances periodically hands over a list of missing persons to the Bangladesh government.
After the fall of the Hasina government, the former Brigadier General Abdullahil Aman Azmi, the son of the former emir of Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami, Prof. Ghulam Azam, and the son of the former executive council member of the Jamaat-e-Islami, Mir Kasem Ali, the lawyer of the Supreme Court, Barrister Arman Ahmad Bin Kasem, have been released from missing after 8 years. Jamaat leader Hafez Zakir Hossain, Islamic University students and Islami Chhatrashibir leaders Al Moqaddas and Mohammad Oliullah and BNP leader Ilyas Ali and former commissioner Chowdhury Alam are still missing.
Families of missing and abducted persons are living in great anxiety and fear. Repeated appeals to the Hasina government to return the missing persons to their families have yielded no results.
The interim government constituted a 5-member commission to trace the missing persons. According to the ‘Commission of Inquiry Act, 1956’, the commission has been asked to submit an inquiry report to the government within the next 45 working days.
We hope that the current interim government will quickly trace the missing persons and return them to their families and immediately arrest those involved in the disappearances and take legal action.’