‘House of mirrors’: How Sheikh Hasina treated her critics; chilling accounts from secret underground jail in Bangladesh – Times of India
Chilling details have emerged from a secret underground jail in Bangladesh, raising serious concerns over how former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina treated her critics.Since Hasina's regime began in 2009, hundreds of people have reportedly been taken by security forces, often for minor demonstrations against the state. While many are said to have been killed and their bodies discarded, others have been held in a secret military detention center known as the 'Aynaghor,' literally translated as 'House of Mirrors,' according to The New York Times.Who were the inmatesHasina, who fled to New Delhi after student protests in the country which turned violent, was once seen as a symbol of democratic aspirations, only to be transformed into an autocratic leader using state power to eliminate any threa...