Bangladesh, Oct. 28 -- The government wants to end the mal-culture of enforced disappearance permanently and take effective measures to prevent enforced disappearances, extrajudicial killings, custodial deaths and politically motivated persecution in Bangladesh, Home Minister Salahuddin Ahmed said today (Wednesday).

He said the government would take necessary initiatives to address the demands of families of victims, including justice, rehabilitation, compensation and state recognition for those subjected to enforced disappearance, BSS reports.

"The government wants to ensure that such a period never returns to Bangladesh. The mal-culture and crime of enforced disappearance must end forever. There must never again be enforced disappea...