By Md. Zillur Rahaman

The most fascinating and corrupt incident of the fascist Hasina government was to disappear and kill innocent people and the Aynaghor (mirror house) was a secret hide or gardening of disappearing victims. It is known that during the last Awami League -led government, it was reported that the Aynaghor of the Intelligence Force was operated by the Bangladesh Defense Force (DGFI). It was first published on August 7, 2012, a Swedish-based news portal Netra News, "Whiselblower", where intelligence officials of Bangladesh were allegedly detaining and torturing the missing victims of 'Aynaghor'. Netra News also revealed the potential location of the secret prison, where the victims of forcibly disappeared were kept. The detailed report was made based on the on-the-record account of the two persons who were forced to disappear, where they were detained in the secret "mirror house or Aynaghor" in the center of Dhaka.

It is alleged that the 'Aynaghor' was controlled by the Hasina’s military adviser Tariq Ahmed Siddique under the direct direction of Sheikh Hasina and the exempted Major General Ziaul Ahsan was supervised. It is responsible for the maintenance of the DGFI's Counter Terrorism Intelligence Bureau (CTIB) detention center. It was alleged that there are at least 16 rooms in the Dhaka cantonment and 30 prisoners can be hostage altogether. According to a recent report by G News in India, it is as mysterious as listening to the mirror house and this Aynaghor was made during Sheikh Hasina's tenure, people were disappeared there. In fact, it is a windless room of light, where the fan of the high sound was running all the time. The Indian Bangla daily Anandobazar report says that the 'mirror house' is as like 'Gumkhana or hostage spot'. During Hasina's rule, a total of 605 people were kept secretly from 2009 to September 2021.

The current interim government chief adviser Dr. Muhammad Yunus recently (February 12, 2021) visited the much -discussed prison 'mirror house' alongwith representatives of foreign media and some victims. Through this, the image of the fascist Hasina government has spread to the international arena. After the inspection, he told reporters that the fascist Awami League government had established misrule in everywhere. Those who are involved in such heinous crimes will be judged. At the time, he also said that as much as I hear about the brutality of this mirror house, it seems incredible. Is it our world, our society!

However, the current interim government was formed a disappearance commission on August 27 last year to look into the disappearances from January 6, 2009 to August 5, 2024, and the head of the commission was made retired Justice Mainul Islam Chowdhury. The Commission recently submitted an interim report titled 'Unfolding the Truth'. According to the report, 1,676 complaints have been filed in the commission in the disappearance and 758 of these have been scrutinized. The Commission for disappearance has found evidence of the involvement of former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina as an indicator in the various disappearances of the country in the last fifteen years. The Commission has filed complaints against various government agencies including RAB, DGFI, DB, CTTC, CID, police. According to the commission sources, the Commission has scrutinized the allegations of 758, out of which 73 percent of the victims have returned, the remaining 27 percent (at least 204 people) are still missing. The Disappearance Introduction Commission said at their first press conference on October 3 that during the Sheikh Hasina government, there was evidence of forcibly lifting people and disappearing in secret prisoners. The location of the prisoner, known as the 'Mirror house', was once used as a Joint Interrogation Cell (JIC) in the boundary of the DGFI headquarters.

According to the Dhaka -based human rights organization "Adhikar", about 402 people disappeared in the direct or indirect support of the fascist Hasina government from 2009 to 2017. Moreover, from 2014 to July 2019, 344 people were disappeared in Bangladesh. Forty of them were found dead, 66 were found in government custody and 203 were still missing according to the Ain and Salish center, a human right organisation. Those who returned after a long disappearance, they were silent about the disappearance and it was thought that these people were disappeared in the mirror house showing fear.

Among those captured in the mirror house are former North South University professor and educationist Mobasar Hasan, former ambassador Maruf Zaman, businessman Anirudh Kumar Roy. Also after the fascist Hasina government escaped from the mirror house, Bangladeshi barrister and Jamaat -e -Islami leader Mir Ahmed bin Qasim, former military general and Jamaat -e -Islami leader Golam Azam's son Abdullah Aman Azmi, Maikle Chakma, a spokeswoman for the Chittagong Hill Tracts political organisation. The UN and various human rights protector, such as Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International, proposed anxiety and condemnation to the then Bangladesh government for these incidents, including non -judicial disappearances and killings.

According to the Human Rights Watch report of 2024, Fascist Hasina has come to power since her fall from 2009 to 2024 more than 600 disappearances held in Bangladesh. According to the report, very few prisoners were released from the mirror. However, some prisoners were released through a long legal trial process. Many have again been the victim of encounter or alleged gun battle. Many were also handed over to the Indian border guards with the help of the Indian intelligence agency RAW, and they were found in prison in India. The investigation of such incidents in Bangladesh is almost negligible. Many people in the mirror house die day after day torture to endure the persecution and the body is then removed. No information was kept in the written statement of those who were arrested. And those who were confident of Hasina were the responsibility of the mirror house. The prisoners of the mirror house had no arrangements for meeting or communicating with their family members.

During the fascist Hasina government, not only disappeared, the judiciary was turned into a rubberstamp institution. Sheikh Hasina made her personal vengeance and party cadres to implement her personal vengeance and made the judges of the party cadres from the lower court to the Supreme Court of the country. Human rights activists call people the gallows in the name of judgment as judicial killing. The Bangladesh Secretariat is the focus of the administrative system of the country, but Sheikh Hasina partisized it in such a way that if a general citizen used to travel through the secretariat or government office, he thought it was the head office or office of a political party. She influenced the bureaucrats in such a way that when they read their speech statement, it seemed that they were her party leaders or activists.

We may know that the body can be found after death, accidents, abnormal deaths, bodies can be mourned, relatives can mourn the neighboring neighbor, but disappearance is a heinous crime that has no chance of getting the body of the victim. It is a cruel pain that cannot be felt for the victims. There is no sign of the river breaking, just as there is no evidence that the victim of the disappearance is found. In this case, the death certificate of death is collected from the appropriate authority, but it is not found in the case of the disappearing victim. Moreover, those who are disappeared have to suffer a lot of legal complications with the property in the inheritance. Not only that, the son of the disappeared admitted to the school college or interviewing the job, but it is not certain that the disappearance of the disappeared person is not alive or death.

During the fascist Hasina government, all the associates like Ziaul Ahsan, Harun, Biplob Kumar Sarkar, Monirul Islam disappeared innocent people, and the image of Bangladesh was seriously damaged by introducing innocent common people as make "Militant" with the help of India's intelligence agency RAW. They also bagged many personal awards from the state by creating bogus criminal and so-called terrorists or militants. They also strengthened and prolong the Hasina fascist power by decorating Bangladesh as a militant state in the world. In the future, it should be stopped so that no one dares to create an Aynaghor (mirror house), and should be to ensure exemplary punishment of the criminals as soon as possible.

The writer is a, Banker and Columnist