16 December, 2011 Friday
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1350 unidentified bodies buried in 2011
Figures were 1204, 296 in two preceding years
. Mamunur RashidAt least 1,350 unidentifiedbodies were recovered from the desolate and marshy land in different parts ofthe country, mostly from the outskirts of the capital, in last 10 months.
Many of the deceased were victimsof 'silent' killing, human rights organization sources have said.
Anjuman-Mofidul Islam the onlyprivate organization in the country involved with the burial of unidentifiedbodies, said they have buried 1,103 bodies in last 10 months in capital city alone.
At least 1,204 bodies were buriedas unidentified by Anjuman-Mofidul Islam in the year 2010 while 296 in 2009respectively. Anjuman has buried a total 3,437 bodies during the last 10 years.
Anjuman-Mofidul Islam inChatagong also buried 239 unidentified bodies.
Police recovered 15 unidentifiedbodies from Ashulia Turag, Keraniganj and bypass areas in last 4 days.
The miscreants dump the bodieslate in the night or at dawn for fear of their own lives. But most of thebodies recovered remain unidentified police said.
Police and Rapid Action battalion(RAB) sources said most of the killings happened by their rivals.
Abdul Halim, Assistant Directorof Anjuman-Mofidul Islam told thisreporter that on some occasions they could identify the body after the burial.
Dhaka Medical College Hospitaland Sir Solimullah Medical College Hospital have carried out autopsies of 600and 400 bodies respectively during the period.
Police said they failed to traceout the identity of the bodies as those were pre-planned killing.
Commander Haji Mohammad soyel,director of RAB media wing, told The New Nation yesterday that police recovered many unidentified bodiesand of them at least 80 per cent were victims of road accident, 10 percentpre-planned killing and 10 percent were fluting people.
RAB has identified at least 500murder cases those were pre-planned. No one knows for sure how these peopledied and who were the assassins. The victims could be both innocent people andmiscreants. Similarly one can only guess the identity of the assassins.
But the families of the victimsdo generally lodge complaints with the local police stations. Rightsorganisations and the Human Rights Commission have already expressed graveconcern over the rise in the incidents of sudden disappearance and kidnappingof people under mysterious circumstances.
The dumping of bodies in desolateplaces and the incidents of sudden disappearance of people, mainly from Dhakacity, could be very much linked.
Five days after recovering threebodies from Dhaleswari river in Munshiganj, police have recovered three moreunidentified bodies from the same area yesterday, Munshiganj Police Stationsub-inspector Mizanur Rahman said.
The trio had been shot dead andtheir bodies, tied in cement sacks, were dumped into the river, he said.
The bodies appeared one afteranother within a short duration near a pontoon, the police official said.
There were bore signs of wounds,initially thought to have been caused by bullets, on their heads, he said.
The decomposed bodies were sentto a morgue for autopsy, he added.
Ismail Hossain, a formerpresident of Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal's ward-50 unit in Dhaka, went 'missing'on November 28. His body was recovered along with two others, from Dhalehswaririver near Munshiganj on December 8.
Chhatra Dal, BNP's student wing,alleged that the law enforcers picked up the organisation's three leaders,including Ismail, from the capital's Hatirpool area. Two of them are stillmissing, the organisation claimed.
Various human rights bodies,including the National Human Rights Commission, have expressed their anxiety atthe increased frequency of such occurrences.
In most of the cases, the victimsare picked-up by people introducing themselves as law enforcers, particularlyas RAB personnel. However, the law enforcers have denied the accusations.
Desh-Bondhu,
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