Former Indian High Commissioner to Bangladesh Veena Sikri has questioned the credibility of the second arrest warrant issued by the International Crimes Tribunal (ICT) against former Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on charges of enforced disappearance.
In an interview with Indian news agency ANI, she questioned the credibility and evidence of these allegations.
Veena Sikri said, this is the second arrest warrant against Sheikh Hasina. This is on charges of enforced disappearance…if you talk about the first arrest warrant, it was on charges of so-called genocide. But no evidence or information was presented. When the UN Human Rights Commission was asked to report on the people who lost their lives in July-August, they said that we were not given any evidence…is there any FIR? What is written in the FIR? What evidence is there? Nothing…!’
She also said that the extradition application is a long legal process. You have to provide evidence of the crimes that have been committed…but none of these have been done. Now, in the case of the allegations of disappearances, you are just naming a few people in some way and saying that they have been disappeared. RAB is responsible and accused for these disappearances.
It is worth noting that on Monday, the International Crimes Tribunal issued arrest warrants against 10 people, including Sheikh Hasina, her former defense advisor Major General (retd) Tariq Ahmed Siddique, and former Inspector General of Police (IGP) Benazir Ahmed. They have been charged with extrajudicial killings and disappearances.
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