Five Decades of Enforced Disappearances
Kalpana Chakma was 23 years old, an organising secretary for a hill women’s rights group in the Chittagong Hill Tracts, when armed men in military uniform dragged her from her home in Rangamati on the night of June 12, 1996. Her brothers, who witnessed the abduction, identified the officer in charge. Thirty years later, she […]
The Yasmin Tragedy (1995): How a Teenager’s Murder Ignited Mass Revolt in Dinajpur
On August 24, 1995, the rape and murder of a teenage domestic worker by policemen in Dinajpur sparked a historic mass revolt, leading to the establishment of National Women’s Safety Day and a landmark legal battle for accountability.