13 former, 9 serving army officers face arrest warrant over enforced disappearance

The prosecution of the International Crimes Tribunals on Wednesday filed charges of crimes against humanity against 28 people including 25 former senior officers of the Directorate General of Forces Intelligence and the Rapid Action Battalion, for their alleged roles in enforced disappearances and torture in custody under their command. The chief prosecutor, Md Tajul Islam, filed the charges with the International Crimes Tribunal-1. Deposed prime minister Sheikh Hasina, her former home minister Asaduzzaman Khan, and former defence adviser Major General (retired) Tarique Ahmed Siddique were also named among the 28 accused in two cases linked to the ‘Aynaghar’, secret detention centres inside the DGFI headquarters in Dhaka Cantonment and the RAB-1 office in Uttara. The prosecution said that 22 of...