Mayer Daak

Bangladesh Awami League came to power after winning the national election of December 2008 against the backdrop of a turmoil political condition after two consecutive regimes of BNP (2001–2006) and military-backed civil government (2007–2008) who were largely criticized for promoting extrajudicial killing with a view to reducing crime.

Prior to the election, Awami League promised to put an end to the spate of extrajudicial killing by government agencies and custodial deaths.

In 2010, due to the former Prime Minister and BNP chief Begum Khaleda Zia’s eviction from her house, BNP started taking streets while on the other hand, their ally Jamaat-e-Islami supporters started demanding the release of their leaders who were involved in war-crime during Liberation War of Bangladesh.

The first victim to be recorded was a Dhaka City Corporation councilor Mohammad Chowdhury Alam who was also a member of BNP’s central committee.

[10] They observed International Day of the Victims of Enforced Disappearance on August 29, 2017 by organizing a discussion at the National Press Club of Bangladesh.

"[14] In response to that, Bangladesh's major opposition group Bangladesh Nationalist Party's General Secretary Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir said: "The remarks about enforced disappearance that the prime minister made is her admission to the fact that they [the government] are involved in the incidents of enforced disappearance.

"[15] Bangladesh's Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal said the allegation that the government is pursuing a policy of enforced disappearance is totally baseless.

"[16] United Nations human rights experts have called on Bangladesh to act now to halt an increasing number of enforced disappearances in the country, in February 2017.