C T Online Desk: A two-member team of United Nations Resident Coordinator Office in Dhaka on Tuesday met the founders of Maayer Daak and inquired what exactly had happened to them during the visit of United States ambassador Peter Haas on December 14, 2022.
The UN senior right advisor Huma Khan and rights officer Zahid Hossain met Hazera Khatun, the co-founder of Maayar Daak, a platform of the families of enforced disappearance victims, at Shahinbagh in Bangladesh capital Dhaka in the morning.
‘They wanted to know about the situation after the December 14 incident over US ambassador’s visit to meet enforced disappeared victim families,’ said Sanjida Islam Tulee, a co-founder of Maayer Daak.
She was informed that the UN working group and the team always raise the human rights violation such as enforced disappearances and extra judicial killings.
The rights team also inquired whether they were facing difficulties or harassments, she added.
The UN officials confirmed their visit.
On December 14, 2022, the United States ambassador to Bangladesh, Peter Haas, hurriedly concluded his meeting with families of the victims of enforced disappearance in the capital’s Shahinbagh following security concerns triggered by the gathering of some ruling party supporters surrounding his meeting place.
The ambassador went to the house of Hazera Khatun at about 9:00am and held a 35-minute meeting with the families of 24 disappearance victims before he hastily left the place following requests from his protection unit.
He rushed to the foreign ministry following the development and urgently met foreign minister AK Abdul Momen to express his concerns.
Later on December 24, a police team attempted to enter the building resided by Maayer Daak cofounder Sanjida Islam Tulee and her family in the capital’s Shahinbagh in the early hours saying that they were checking whether there was any foreigner there.
