The Rohingya Disappearances Bangladesh Didn’t Investigate
How Bangladesh’s disappearance commission overlooked a UN-recognised case
Dil Mohammed, a Rohingya community leader, was seized in Bangladesh in January 2023. For four months, he was held in secret, without access to family or lawyers. In August 2025 (and published November 2025), the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention concluded that this amounted to an enforced disappearance involving Bangladeshi security agencies, including RAB and DGFI.
In August 2024, Bangladesh establishes a commission to investigate enforced disappearances with a mandate covering “all cases” carried out by state agencies since 2010. On paper, the case fits squarely within that remit.
And yet, when the commission’s findings emerge, there is no trace of it.
His son says he raised the case directly with a commissioner, only to be told not to pursue the matter, and later met with silence even after the UN decision was formally shared.
At the same time, other Rohingya detainees linked to the “No Man’s Land” incident describe months of secret detention and torture in facilities known as “Ayna Ghor,” suggesting this may not have been an isolated case.
In my latest piece for Dhaka Tribune, I examine how the case of Dil Mohammed appears to have been omitted despite the UN ruling being communicated to the authorities and what this reveals about the limits of accountability when the victims are Rohingya.
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Further Reading:
Landmark UN ruling demands Bangladesh free detained Rohingya leader Dil Mohammed.
International Spotlight on Bangladesh as Rohingya Leader’s Case Heads to the UN
The Disappearance and Arbitrary Detention of Rohingya Refugee Leader Dil Mohammed
The Disappearance of Dil Mohammed: A Voice for the Rohingya Silenced
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