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Hasinur Rahman Bir Protik is a former
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and
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officer. He had the rank of Lieutenant Colonel when he was sacked from the army. He was a victim of
forced disappearance in Bangladesh Extrajudicial killings and enforced disappearances in Bangladesh refer to extrajudicial executions carried out by law enforcement agencies without due legal process and to abduction cases in which the government directly or indirectly kidnaps p ...
(from August 2018 to February 2020) and had been missing for 16 months.


Career

Hasinur was commissioned in the 10th long course of
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in June 1984. On 3 January 2004 Hasinur, then a commander in
Bangladesh Rifles Border Guard Bangladesh (abbr. BGB; ) is a paramilitary force responsible for the border security of Bangladesh. The BGB is entrusted with the responsibility to defend the border of Bangladesh with India and Myanmar. It was formerly known as th ...
, seized 40 anti-personnel and anti-tank mines. They also seized rocket launchers and chargers after a gunfight with tribal insurgents. Hasinur served as the commanding officer of Rapid Action Battalion 5 in Rajshahi. On 3 September 2005, he arrived in Chittagong with two squads of RAB personal from RAB-5 and meet with officials of RAB-7 in
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. He set out with an additional squad from RAB-7 to Naikhongchhari Upazila where they were joined by a team from
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. They recovered 20 AK-47 rifles and nearly 8 thousand bullets after searching the area. In 2005–6, Hasinur commanded RAB-7 in Chittagong. In November 2006, he recovered bombs in Cox's Bazar. In April 2006, he led Operation Pahartoli to arrest members of
Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh ("Assembly of Mujahideen–Bangladesh", abbreviated: JMB; ) is an Islamist militant terrorist organisation operating in Terrorism in Bangladesh, Bangladesh. It is listed as a terror group by Bangladesh, terrorism i ...
. Hasinur was dismissed from Bangladesh Army on allegations of involvement with insurgency. He was stationed at the
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when he was sacked. He had been charged with sedition. Hasinur joined
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on 10 September 2023 along with 23 other retired defense officers.


Disappearance and aftermath

On 8 August 2018, Hasinur was picked up in
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near his house by 14 or 15 men. According to his family members those who picked him up were wearing jackets of
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of Bangladesh Police. His family members filled a General Diary with Pallabi police station. Bangladesh Police recovered his licensed pistol from the site of his abduction and raided his house looking for his licensed shotgun, which according to his family he had sold. On 22 February 2020, Hasinur was dropped off home. He was speaking incoherently and according to his family had high blood pressure. He had been missing for 16 months. According to him, he was detained at
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's secret prison,
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.


See also

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* List of kidnappings * List of murder ...


References

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