Marking the International Day of the Disappeared, observed on August 30 each year, ASK stressed on ensuring proper investigation and trial of every incident of disappearance in the country.

ASK, in a press statement, also asked the authority to find out the disappeared persons.  

Referring the media reports, the right body said at least 310 persons disappeared from 2014 to 2018 in the country. Of them, bodies of 44 people were recovered, 45 others were shown arrested while 33 returned safe later. 

“In these incidents, the victims’ families mostly claimed that the disappeared ones were taken by the law enforcers but the forces, most of the time, refute it”, they said.

The right body alleged, “If the missing person is not well-known one, law enforcers are not seen to play active role to find them out.”

Terming this type of abduction as a serious violation of human rights, ASK stressed the government to sign ‘the International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance’ especially convention number eight, which is about the safety of disappeared persons.

In 2011 the United Nations (UN) declared August 30 as the International Day of the Victims of Enforced Disappearances to express its deep concern about the increase in enforced or involuntary disappearances in various regions of the world.