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Enforced Disappearances in Sri Lanka: In pursuit of an elusive justice for over a decade

JAFFNA/ MULLAITIVU/ COLOMBO: There is a sameness to the manner in which families affected by enforced disappearances in northern Sri Lanka narrate their stories: names, dates, documents. The homogeneity arises not just from the similarity of their experiences but also from the countless times they've had to tell their stories over the past decade -- to journalists, human rights activists, …

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Ousted PM Sheikh Hasina involved in enforced disappearance: Bangladesh commission

ABP News

Dhaka, Dec 15 : An inquiry commission set up by the interim government in Bangladesh said in a provisional report that it has found ex-premier Sheikh Hasina’s involvement in alleged incidents of enforced disappearance. “The commission has found evidence of former prime minister Sheikh Hasina’s involvement as the instructor in the incidents of enforced disappearance,” the press wing of the …

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Bangladesh commission says Sheikh Hasina involved in enforced disappearances

Hindustan Times

New Delhi: An inquiry commission in Bangladesh said on Saturday that former premier Sheikh Hasina and some officials of security forces and her government were involved in enforced disappearances. Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina checks her watch as she waits for the official opening time to cast her vote in Dhaka, Bangladesh, Jan. 7 The Commission of Inquiry on Enforced …

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Hasina involved in forced disappearances, says Bangladesh inquiry commission

The Hindu

In a new turn of events, the Commission of Inquiry on Enforced Disappearance set up by the interim government of Bangladesh filed a report on Saturday stating that it found the “involvement of Ex-PM Sheikh Hasina” in enforced disappearances of individuals during her tenure. On the inquiry, a statement from the Chief Adviser’s Office said, “The commission chairman said they …

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1 week, 2 days ago

Report names former Bangladeshi Prime Minister Hasina in disappearances, recommends RAB shutdown

India Today

In a significant development, the Commission of Inquiry on Enforced Disappearance has presented its interim findings, implicating former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and several senior officials in incidents of enforced disappearances. The report names several individuals allegedly involved, including: Former Defence Adviser: Major General Tarique Ahmed Siddique Former Director General of NTMC: Sacked Major General Ziaul Ahsan Senior Police Officers: …

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2 weeks, 1 day ago

Pakistan: Balochistan residents stage protest over enforced disappearances of their men

Op India

Residents of Parom, a town in the Panjgur district of Balochistan, staged a sit-in outside a local Frontier Corps camp, calling for the immediate release of their missing family members. During the operation, four young men Khalil Siddique, Abdul Shakoor Saleh, Arshad Rafiq, and Waseem, son of Muhammad Hashim were reportedly taken into custody and have since disappeared, with no …

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1 month, 1 week ago

Inside the mystery of Ireland's Vanishing Triangle as police arrest man on suspicion of Jo Jo Dullard who disappeared in 1995

Daily Mail

Police have arrested an unnamed man on suspicion of one of the murders A baffling case dubbed 'Ireland's Vanishing Triangle' which saw eight women vanish without a trace has gained a shocking new development nearly three decades later. In a major update on the case, police have now arrested an unnamed man on suspicion of Jo Jo's murder - with …

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2 months ago

Art as a Mirror of Discomfort and Disappearance: Shibu Chand's Exhibition Explores the Scars of a Pandemic

The Hindu

Artist Shibu Chand's exhibition, Text/Context, explores themes of discomfort and disappearances through a series of paintings and scrolls. The exhibition features 14 artworks created by the artist within a span of three years, with recurring themes of discomfort and loss. The paintings depict an incident where bisons leave their natural habitat and the disappearance of mountains and hills, symbolizing the …

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3 months ago

Case of Mexico's 43 missing students persists among tens of thousands of disappearances

The Independent

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. The students were attacked by security forces linked to …

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3 months, 1 week ago

Hasina’s gone, but fate of Bangladesh’s forcibly disappeared uncertain

Al Jazeera

Only three of more than 150 persons who went missing during Sheikh Hasina’s 15-year rule have been reunited with their families. “I was whispering to myself: ‘They’re going to kill me, they’re going to kill me,'” he said, dreading a staged “crossfire” execution – a method he had long opposed during his activism for Chakma rights. “I was targeted for …

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3 months, 3 weeks ago

Bangladesh’s government led by Yunus signs UN convention involving enforced disappearance

Associated Press

DHAKA, Bangladesh — Bangladesh’s interim government on Thursday signed the instrument of accession to an international convention of the United Nations aiming at preventing enforced disappearances as a state party, authorities said. Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus, who took over this month as head of the government after former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina stepped down and fled the country to India …

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4 months, 1 week ago

Sacked Bangladesh Army general arrested on murder charge

Hindustan Times

Dhaka: A two-star general of the Bangladesh Army, who was sacked a day after the fall of the Sheikh Hasina government and has been linked to several enforced disappearances, was arrested by Bangladesh Police on a murder charge. Major General Ziaul Ahsan, former Director General of National Telecommunication Monitoring Centre, is being produced before the Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Court in …

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7 months, 2 weeks ago

Mexican peninsula where Australian surfers went missing known for disappearances, record number of murders

ABC

In short: Three bodies have been discovered after three men went missing near the Punta San Jose surf spot in the Mexican state of Baja California earlier this week. Three bodies have been discovered after three men went missing near the Punta San Jose surf spot in the Mexican state of Baja California earlier this week. While tourist disappearances were …

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10 months ago

Paul McCartney's missing bass and other mysterious musical instrument disappearances

BBC

Paul McCartney's missing bass and other mysterious musical instrument disappearances Getty Images Sir Paul McCartney was reunited with his stolen bass guitar this week after it was missing for 51 years From a 17th-Century Italian violin stolen from Japan to Drake's lost Blackberry in Mexico, here are musical lost and found mysteries that rival Sir Paul McCartney's. Getty Images Eric …

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11 months ago

Resolving the Baloch issue is in Pakistan’s political and economic interest

Al Jazeera

Treating what is going in the province of Balochistan as a security matter only is the wrong approach. When asked about the Baloch people who had been protesting in the Pakistani capital, demanding government action on enforced disappearances and extrajudicial killings, Kakar became visibly angry. For decades, the civilian and military rulers of Pakistan have presented the Baloch issue as …

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11 months, 2 weeks ago

‘Kill and dump policy’: Baloch protest man’s custodial murder in Pakistan

Al Jazeera

Nearly 400 ethnic Baloch, half of them women and children, camp in Islamabad weeks after ‘extrajudicial’ killing of a young man. Najma is among nearly 400 members of the ethnic Baloch community camping outside the National Press Club in Islamabad for weeks now to protest against the extrajudicial killings and enforced disappearances rampant in Pakistan’s Balochistan province. “We had always …

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1 year ago

Pakistan: Several Baloch protesters still in custody despite govt claims as country fumes over crackdown

India TV News

After Islamabad police violently cracked down on Baloch protesters during a rally against enforced disappearances and extra-judicial killings in their province, several remained in custody despite the federal government claiming to release 90 per cent of the demonstrators - including all women and children. Then they said the 19-20 women they had were released and now they’re shoving 50+ women …

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1 year ago

Three friends all vanished from Smith Falls, a small, closeknit Canada town in Ontario. Residents want answers about the missing: Lawrence Bertrim, Robbie Thomson and Steve Tate

The Independent

The latest headlines from our reporters across the US sent straight to your inbox each weekday Your briefing on the latest headlines from across the US Your briefing on the latest headlines from across the US SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. ‘We just have rumours’ In the absence of …

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1 year, 2 months ago

Senior Thai national park official, 3 others, acquitted in 9-year-old case of missing activist

Associated Press

BANGKOK — A court in Thailand on Thursday acquitted four national park employees, including a senior official, of the kidnapping and murder of an Indigenous rights activist who disappeared under suspicious circumstances more than nine years ago. The activist, Porlajee Rakchongcharoen, was last seen in the custody of Kaeng Krachan National Park officials in western Thailand’s Phetchaburi province on April …

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1 year, 3 months ago

A grandmother seeks justice for Native Americans after thousands of unsolved deaths and disappearances

Associated Press

— Yolanda Fraser is back near a ragged chain-link fence, blinking through tears as she tidies up flowers and ribbons and a pinwheel twirls in the breeze at a makeshift roadside memorial in a small Montana town. Fraser’s grief is a common tale among Native Americans whose loved ones went missing, and she’s turned her fight for justice into a …

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1 year, 3 months ago

A grandmother seeks justice for Native Americans after thousands of unsolved deaths, disappearances

The Independent

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1 year, 3 months ago

Disappearances ‘speak to dangers’ of environmental activism in Philippines

Al Jazeera

Some 15 activists and community organisers have gone missing since Ferdinand Marcos Jr took power, including two who were abducted last week. The disappearances of Tamano and Castro “speak to the dangers” faced by environmental advocates, said Rachel Cox, campaign lead for Global Witness. “If you challenge the status quo, you can be undermined and attacked, seemingly with impunity.” Land …

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1 year, 3 months ago

US-Mexico border is world’s deadliest land route for migrants: IOM

Al Jazeera

UN agency records at least 686 deaths, disappearances in 2022 during record-breaking year for fatalities in Americas. The United States-Mexico border is the world’s deadliest land route for migrants, the International Organization for Migration says, with at least 686 deaths and disappearances recorded there last year. The Biden administration also has opened so-called “safe mobility” centres in Latin America to …

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1 year, 3 months ago

Thousands protest over Bangladesh's 'enforced disappearances'

The Hindu

Thousands of Bangladeshi protesters marched on August 30 demanding information on hundreds of people they say security forces have abducted during Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's nearly 15 years in power. Opposition supporters of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party and its allies joined families of those missing to mark the International Day of the Victims of Enforced Disappearances, many with black gags …

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Enforced Disappearances in Sri Lanka: In pursuit of an elusive justice for over a decade

Ousted PM Sheikh Hasina involved in enforced disappearance: Bangladesh commission

Bangladesh commission says Sheikh Hasina involved in enforced disappearances

Hasina involved in forced disappearances, says Bangladesh inquiry commission

Report names former Bangladeshi Prime Minister Hasina in disappearances, recommends RAB shutdown

Pakistan: Balochistan residents stage protest over enforced disappearances of their men

Inside the mystery of Ireland's Vanishing Triangle as police arrest man on suspicion of Jo Jo Dullard who disappeared in 1995

Art as a Mirror of Discomfort and Disappearance: Shibu Chand's Exhibition Explores the Scars of a Pandemic

Case of Mexico's 43 missing students persists among tens of thousands of disappearances

Hasina’s gone, but fate of Bangladesh’s forcibly disappeared uncertain

Bangladesh’s government led by Yunus signs UN convention involving enforced disappearance

Sacked Bangladesh Army general arrested on murder charge

Mexican peninsula where Australian surfers went missing known for disappearances, record number of murders

Paul McCartney's missing bass and other mysterious musical instrument disappearances

Resolving the Baloch issue is in Pakistan’s political and economic interest

‘Kill and dump policy’: Baloch protest man’s custodial murder in Pakistan

Pakistan: Several Baloch protesters still in custody despite govt claims as country fumes over crackdown

Three friends all vanished from Smith Falls, a small, closeknit Canada town in Ontario. Residents want answers about the missing: Lawrence Bertrim, Robbie Thomson and Steve Tate

Senior Thai national park official, 3 others, acquitted in 9-year-old case of missing activist

A grandmother seeks justice for Native Americans after thousands of unsolved deaths and disappearances

A grandmother seeks justice for Native Americans after thousands of unsolved deaths, disappearances

Disappearances ‘speak to dangers’ of environmental activism in Philippines

US-Mexico border is world’s deadliest land route for migrants: IOM

Thousands protest over Bangladesh's 'enforced disappearances'