Govt to form new dept on enforced disappearances, extrajudicial killings

The Ministry of Liberation War Affairs is set to form a new directorate dedicated toward ensuring the rehabilitation, medical treatment and legal protection of families affected by extrajudicial killings and enforced disappearances perpetrated by the Awami League regime.

The ministry announced the formation of the upcoming directorate in a press release on Sunday.

On Sunday, Liberation War Affairs Minister Ahmed Azam Khan convened an inter-ministerial meeting to this end.

State Minister Ishraque Hossain and Secretary Ashraful Alam were present in the meeting, among others.

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In the meeting, Ahmed Azam Khan said the state has recognised the sacrifices of those who took part in the July-August 2024 uprising, and formed a separate “July Mass Uprising Directorate.”

In the same way, the state also wants to recognise the immense sacrifices political activists made through a lengthy movement for restoring democracy in the country.

A number of people were brutally killed, never returned to their families following extrajudicial killings, lost eyesight, were maimed or crippled, and spent years in jail in hundreds of false lawsuits, the minister said.

The new department for these people are aimed at forging a lasting resistance against any future attempt by a potential fascist force to rob masses of their democratic rights and to subject victims to medieval-style barbarity.