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Mysterious Disappearances

HR commission decides to probe

Tuhin Shubhra Adhikary
Against the backdrop of recent cases of secret killings and mysterious disappear-ances, National Human Rights Commission yesterday decided to engage itself in investigating such cases.
At a regular meeting at the commission office in the capital yesterday, the rights organisation decided to send a "fact find-
ing mission" to probe into one or two specific cases of enforced disappearance or secret killing, NHRC Chairman Prof Mizanur Rahman told The Daily Star.
He, however, said the commission was yet to form the probe body.
Replying to a query, Mizanur said the investigation would begin as soon as possible. "The mission [probe body] will try to identify the real perpetrators behind the offences."
He also said secret killings and enforced disappearances had engendered concern among the people.
Kazi Reazul Hoque, a member of the commission, told The Daily Star the commission would give its recommendations as per the report of the probe committee to the authorities con-
cerned to take action against the people involved.
The commission will take into cognisance the cases it is aware of alongside those which willbebrought to them by victims' families. He said.
The commission in the meeting decided to launch a campaign across the country for creating awareness of human rights violation. Members of the rights
organisation will sit two days a week from now on to work on the cases of rights violation placed to them, Reazul added.
Several rights organisations in their recent reports underscored an alarming rise in mysterious disappearances and secret killings in 2011 compared to the previous years, and expressed their deep con-
cern.
According to a report of Ain O Salish Kendra, 51 people disappeared last year, 15 of them were found dead later on.
A report of Odhikar, another rights group, says 22 people disappeared from January to November, 2011 while the number of missing people was 16 in 2010 and two in 2009.