House of Mirrors’: Shocking Details From Inside Sheikh Hasina’s Secret Jail
Months after a student-led protest in Bangladesh snowballed into a full-blown anti-government movement and led to Sheikh Hasina’s ouster, horrifying details have emerged about the secret prisons where the former Prime Minister’s dissidents were held. 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.”
As Bangladesh and its 170-million-strong population prepare for a new future under an interim government, among them are also those who once thought they would never be a part of the free world again.During Hasina’s regime, which began in 2009, hundreds of people were allegedly picked up by the security forces, sometimes for even the smallest of demonstrations against the state. 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