Bangladesh’s International Crime Tribunal (ICT) on Wednesday ordered 15 serving army officers to be sent to jail. They were accused of enforced disappearances during Sheikh Hasina’s tenure. The officers denied the complaint.
The army officers were taken to a sub-jail inside the Dhaka Cantonment. Earlier, the officers, who were in the custody of the Bangladesh Army, were brought to the tribunal around 7:00 am and produced before ICT-1 amid tight security.
The officers are: Maj Gen Sheikh Md Sarwar Hossen; Brigadier Generals Md Jahangir Alam, Tofayel Mostofa Sarwar, Md Qamrul Hasan, Md Mahbub Alam, Md Mahbubur Rahman Siddique, and Ahmed Tanvir Majahar Siddique; Colonels Anowar Latif Khan, AKM Azad, Abdullah Al Momen, and Md Sarwar Bin Kashem; Lieutenant Colonels Md Moshiur Rahman Jewel, Sa