Enforced Disappearance Was a State Strategy to Sustain Fascism: Chief Prosecutor

During his opening remarks on Wednesday in a case involving crimes against humanity at the Task Force for Interrogation (TFI) cell, he argued that the previous government systematically disabled opposing voices to fulfill its radical political ambitions. On the same day, Barrister Mir Ahmad Bin Quasem Arman testified against 17 individuals, including ousted Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.

Describing the brutality of these acts, the Chief Prosecutor noted that enforced disappearances were more than just missing persons cases; they were a method of turning thousands of dissenters into "living corpses." Victims were kept in dark, windowless cells for months without trial to instill fear and uncertainty within society. Tajul Islam emphasized that this strategy forced victims to exist in a state between life and death, leaving families in a perpetual "prison of injustice." He concluded that such political tactics were designed to break public resistance and prolong autocratic rule.