Justice (retd) Moyeenul Islam Chowdhury

In Bangladesh, August 30 has become a test of whether the state has learned anything from the evidence on enforced disappearance now before it.

Bangladesh does not suffer from a shortage of solemn words against torture. Article 35(5) of the constitution prohibits torture and cruel, inhuman, or degrading treatment.

According to Modi’s “Medical Jurisprudence and Toxicology” (12th ed.), the object of the post-mortem examination of a body is to establish its identity when not known, and to ascertain the time since death and the cause of death; natural or unnatural, homicidal, suicidal or accidental.