Families turn to PM

FE Report | Published: August 31, 2014 00:00:00 | Updated: November 30, 2026 06:01:00

Family members of forced disappearance victims sought Saturday Prime Minister's intervention in ensuring justice for them.
They said they have been knocking at the doors of RAB, DB police and police stations to help trace out their near and dear ones. But their efforts have gone in vain.
Their appeal came at a conference on 'Pain of Relatives: Stop disappearance, murder and torture' organised by the Basic Rights Protection Committee at the National Press Club in the capital.
About 20 victim families expressed their feelings of pain while narrating the incidents of disappearances during the first session of the conference.
Most of the participants attended the programme holding up the portraits of their missing relatives.
The victims' family members and the audience attending the programme could not hold back their tears while listening to their painful words.
Daughter of the missing BNP ward councillor Chowdhury Alam said she received only one phone call from the BNP office just on the day when her father disappeared. There was no further enquiry from the party, she said.
Noor Khan Liton slammed the state minister for home affairs for his comment that there was no incident of forced disappearance in the country.
According to the data of Ain O Salish Kendra (ASK), a total of 291 went missing over the last four years and five months (since 2010).