The victims of forced disappearances have since come forward and spoken about what went on inside these jails, called ‘Aynaghor’, literally translated as the ‘House of Mirrors’. While many were reportedly killed and their bodies discarded, some were put in secret military detention centre -- code-named the 'House of Mirrors', The New York Times reported. Zaman was able to pinpoint the military garrison in Dhaka on Google Maps, which has now been marked as Aynaghor - Bengali for House of Mirrors. The goal behind this was to torture the mind, The New York Times stated. Bangladeshi barrister Ahmad Bin Quasem, who was detained in 2016, was blindfolded, handcuffed, and bundled out of the secret prison after eight years.

Source: International New York Times October 18, 2024 15:46 UTC