National Human Rights Commission chairman Mizanur Rahman on Monday suggested for the appointment of a commission to find out a mechanism for the restoration of vested properties to their owners or their successors.
He made the suggestion while speaking at a news conference jointly hosted by Global Human Rights Defense and Bangladesh Institute of Human Rights at Dhaka Reporters Unity on the occasion of publication of ‘Human Rights Report 2010: Minorities in Bangladesh.’
He also suggested for appointing economist Abul Barakat as the head of the commission as he had worked on the issue for long.
He said that the commission should be required to submit an annual report to the president of the republic on March 31proposing to return the vested properties to their owners, implement the Chittagong Hill Tracts Peace Treaty and to ensure constitutional recognition of the ethnic minorities.
He called for treating all incidents of human rights violations without any discrimination.
He said that human rights violations should not be seen from the angle of religion or ethnicity as some quarters tend to do.
He blamed the bureaucracy for not providing the required personnel to the human rights commission, even after prime minister gave her approval in October, 2010.
He said that it would be a miscalculation to think that by withholding its personnel vested quarters would succeed in keeping the human rights commission inactive.
Mizan said that extrajudicial killings and torture in custody were continuing and that it would take time to bring it to ‘zero level’.
GHRD observer Rabindra Ghosh said that in 2010 1653 incidents human rights violation were recorded and 200 more in January and February 2011.
BIHR president Mohammad Alamgir, Bangladesh Hindu-Buddhist-Christian Oikkya parishad general secretary Rana Dasgupta and BIHR executive director Shahanur Islam also addressed the ceremony.
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