Special Correspondent
The number of human rights violations rose to 4,440 in the last 6 months from January to June this year as there are more than 23 human rights violation incidents every day on an average in Bangladesh.
After monitoring the overall situation, the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has recently come up with such an alarming observation on human rights violation across the country.
According to the officials of the state human rights organisation, though incidents of human rights violations in the country are not new, recently it is increasing at alarming rates. People are becoming the victims of killings. Innocent children are also not being spared from such brutal incidents.
People are missing or disappeared. Many people are suddenly being fall to the prey of enforced disappearance from the house, office and roads suddenly. Events happening around the clock. Many people are being victimized by extrajudicial killings in the hands of the law enforcement agencies. Tortures are taking place in the case of women d and children.
National Human Rights Commission, which observes the overall human rights situation in the country regularly on the basis of the news reports published in the media, prepare a monthly statistics on human right violation in the country.
According to the data of ‘Human Rights Violence Statistics 2017’, there were more than four thousand human rights violations in the 6 months from January to June. This includes 855 killings. 52 people have been missing or disappeared. 83 people were killed in extra judicially in gun battle. Children are also not being spared. A total of 129 children have been killed while 123 children were tortured during the period.
Besides, a total of 127 students faced inhuman punishment in their respective educational institutions. As violence against women increased, 306 rape cases occurred in the first 6 months of the year. More than 299 women have been victims of sexual violence, family violence, acid attacks, and others. At the same time, 193 people were abducted while 93 workers were also killed in various inhuman incidents, said the NHRC.
The monitoring report of NHRC also alleged that human rights violations were carried out by the police who are in charge of protecting the law and order in the country. A total of 127 complaints of human rights violations in different parts of the country were lodged against police. Terming the road accidents a human rights violation, the NHRC in its observation said that a total of 1,853 passengers and pedestrians have died in road accidents in the last 6 months.
NHRC monthly statistics show that the highest number of human rights violations occurred in April – 857 and in January, 361 human rights violations took place, the lowest. However, there are over 7 hundred human rights violations on an average per month during this six-month period.
In the latest development, former Bangladesh ambassador to Qatar and Vietnam Maroof Zaman remains missing since Monday (4 December) night after he left his Dhanmondi home in his private car to pick up his daughter from Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in Dhaka. The 61-year-old’s youngest daughter Samiha Zaman was scheduled to land at the airport at 7:30pm, said Rifat Zaman, the ex-diplomat’s brother.
The family of the ambassador, in a press release, said police, however, recovered his car from Khilkhet in the evening. It also mentioned that around 7:45 the ambassador contacted with his family over phone to tell that some people would come to take his computer and instructed them to cooperate. Shortly after that, three tall, well-dressed men came to the house around 8:05pm, took his laptop, home phone’s CPU, his camera and smart phone and searched his room thoroughly, it said.
Earlier on November 26, a Dhaka University unit leader of Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal Mujahidur Rahman disappeared after leaving his Sher-e-Bangla Nagar home in the capital. He is a master’s student of Political Science and senior joint secretary of Salimullah Muslim Hall unit of the pro-BNP student body. His wife Kamrunnahar Lucky filed a GD with Sher-e-Bangla police on November 29.
With Maroof and Mujahidur, 14 people including the NSU teacher, a journalist and a number of businessmen, went missing, in recent months. Four of them returned while there is no trace of others.
- The piece first appeared on http://weeklyholiday.net
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