Bangladesh people missing Former Bangladesh PM Sheikh Hasina has been accused of being involved in the disappearances of people in Bangladesh. An inquiry commission formed by the interim government in Bangladesh has said that it has found evidence that ousted Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and top military and police officials of her regime are behind the disappearances of people in Bangladesh.

More than 3,500 people have been forcibly disappeared

A five-member commission probing incidents of enforced disappearances in Bangladesh submitted an interim report titled "Revealing the Truth" to the chief adviser to caretaker Prime Minister Muhammad Yunus. The commission estimated that there had been more than 3,500 incidents of enforced disappearances across the country.

Claims of involvement of many officers also

Sheikh Hasina's defence adviser Major General (retired) Tariq Ahmed Siddiqui, former National Telecommunications Monitoring Centre director general and dismissed Major General Ziaul Ahsanand, senior police officers Monirul Islam and Mohammad Harun-Or-Rashid and several other senior officials were found involved in those incidents, the report said.

Meanwhile, former military and police officers are also absconding; they are believed to have fled abroad after the fall of Hasina's Awami League government.

Former Supreme Court judge revealed

Commission chairman and retired Supreme Court judge Mainul Islam Chowdhury told Yunus Sarkar that during the investigation they found a "systematic design" that ignored incidents of enforced disappearances.

Chowdhury said the individuals carrying out enforced disappearances were unaware of the victims. The police’s Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) carried out the capture, torture, and detention of the victims, the report said.

The commission made this proposal

The commission proposed abolishing or substantially amending the Anti-Terrorism Act 2009 as well as abolishing the RAB.

Commission member Sajjad Hussain said they had registered 1,676 complaints of enforced disappearances and had investigated 758 of them so far. Of these, 200 people never returned while most of those who returned were shown arrested in the records.

The commission announced that they had found eight secret detention centres in Dhaka and its outskirts.