The chief advisor to the interim government, Professor Dr. Muhammad Yunus, along with local and foreign media personnel and victims, visited the mirror house on Wednesday (February 12) morning. On this day, they visited the mirror houses of DGFI in Kachukhete, Dhaka, and the RAB in Uttara and Agargaon.
The chief advisor was also accompanied by Indian journalists on the mirror house visit. Ark Deb, editor of Inscriptidotomy, was there. He had previously worked for Anandabazar and News18 media outlets.
After visiting the mirror house, Ark Deb posted a picture of an electric chair there on his Facebook and wrote, “It is important to keep this chair under observation. This chair is kept in a room of the mirror house of the mother of fascism, Sheikh Hasina (in the Agargaon area). This chair was used to give electric shocks to high-value prisoners. The Counter Terrorism Intelligence Bureau (CTIB) of DGFI was in charge of this mirror house. A fan was always running in these rooms, and when the fan was turned off, you could hear crying and moaning. And for a while. From today, the whole world will see all the pictures of the mirror house.
In another post, Ark said that Michael Chakma was imprisoned here. He quoted Michael Chakma’s statement and said that the first two rooms that are seen are cell number 113, which is right next to the bathroom and has a CCTV camera on the left side corner when entering the cell. I was imprisoned in this cell for about two years. I was in room number 117 in the same line for a little over a year and a half. I was in room number 104 of the rooms below for about a year. After 104, cell number 105. After that, the toilet, bathroom and hair cutting cell. Hair cutting cell number 106. Apart from that, I was kept in many other rooms.
Meanwhile, after visiting the mirror house, Professor Dr., the chief advisor to the interim government, compared the Awami League regime with the days of ignorance. Muhammad Yunus. Thanking the Commission on Disappearances for discovering the Mirror Chamber, Dr. Yunus said, “There is no such thing as ignorance in these days, the previous government has established ignorance everywhere in these days.”
He said, there are such torture cells all over Bangladesh; I heard about them today. I thought that there were only a few mirror chambers here. But now I have heard that there are versions of the mirror chamber all over the country. Some say 700, some say 800. The number has not been determined. How much is known, how much remains unknown.
Professor Yunus said that the documentation of this mirror chamber will be made mandatory in the report of the Commission on Disappearances. At the same time, those who were involved in such activities will be tried. This information and evidence will be kept sealed and will be used for trial.
It is worth noting that people of different classes were forcibly taken away by law enforcement agencies and kept in special places. These places came to light when a report was published in the Swedish-based media outlet Netra News, under the name of Ainaghar. Many of the missing persons returned to their families from Ainaghar after the ouster of the Sheikh Hasina government. Their statements revealed the horrors of the Ainaghar.