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Victims of Forced Disappearance

Their tears never dry

Staff Correspondent
Unlike death, forced disappearances do not give people a closure. The happenings always keep alive the hope and thus the anguish. The tears of the victims' families never dry.
This was how Anwar Hossain stated what his family had been going through since December last year when his younger brother Mohammad Hossain Chanchai went missing from the capital.
Making an impassioned appeal to Prime Minster Sheikh Hasina, he said, "Let me know whether my brother is dead or alive; if dead we will try to find a consolation."
Chanchal's brother was among the family members of some such victims who yesterday gathered at the launching programme of a petition signed in protest of extra-judicial killings and enforced disappearances in the country.
Youth Movement for Democracy, a rights body, organised the programme at Brae Centre Inn in the capital.
Marufa Islam, elder sister of Sajedul Islam Sumon, a victim, gave an account of
their painful wait, echoed by Chanchal's brother.
Marufa's brother Sajedul, a BNP activist, is among eight youths picked up allegedly by the Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) at different parts of the capital on the night of December 4 last year.
None has returned.
Chanchai was a Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal (JCD) activist who was picked up allegedly by the same force in the same month.
The family members present there said the victims were detained between November and December last year in the lead-up to the January 5 parliamentary elections.
Rehana Parvin, elder sister of Sutrapur JCD president Selim Reza Pintu who remained missing since December 11, made an appeal saying that if one had to sacrifice his life for doing politics, then there should be a law banning politics.
"Whenever we heard of a dead body found somewhere, we've rushed there over the last 10 months," she said, asking, "Won't the government take my brother's responsibility?
Isn't it run by our tax?
"Bring back my old mother's sleep. She often wakes up with a start at the dead of night, shouting that Pintu was knocking on the door, • she added.
Blaming the administration for forced disappearances, eminent journalist Mahfuzullah said the government was having such an administration that if one dissented, he would go missing.
Former caretaker government adviser Akbar Ali Khan, who attended the programme as chief guest, observed that when democracy would be functioning, such crimes would be tried.
Shama Abaed, president of Youth Movement for Democracy, said the organisation would hold such programmes in every corner of the country to raise voice against forced disappearances and extra-judicial killings.