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2018 Figures

A Year of Protest, Control, and Contested Legitimacy

Full list of figures, martyrs, coordinators, and collectives associated with 2018.

Est. 1947 · BengalA Bilingual Archive

Full Figure List

4 profiles

Hasinur Rahman

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Former army and RAB officer; enforced-disappearance witness

A contemporary case linking security institutions, alleged enforced disappearance, and accountability debates.

His case is cited in public reporting and later tribunal testimony in debates over alleged enforced disappearance, secret detention, and accountability in Bangladesh.

Human-rights and security-institution debates around alleged disappearance, RAB and DGFI-linked detention allegations, and post-2024 accountability efforts.

His reported disappearance, return, and later testimony made his case part of wider public discussion about state power, detention practices, and institutional accountability.

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Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal

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Former home minister linked to security-force accountability debates

A senior security-policy figure in the former government, later named in reporting on the 2024 crackdown accountability debate.

As Bangladesh's home minister during major protest, election, and security-crackdown periods, he became a central political figure in debates over policing, border-force deployment, arrests, and state accountability.

Security governance under the Awami League government, the 2018 protest-control and election period, and July-August 2024 crackdown accountability debates.

His tenure is tied to public arguments over whether security agencies were used to suppress dissent and how command responsibility should be assessed after the 2024 uprising.

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Benazir Ahmed

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Former RAB director general and police chief linked to sanctions and rights-abuse allegations

Former RAB and police chief named in the 2021 U.S. Treasury sanctions action.

As former RAB director general and later inspector general of police, he became a central security figure in debates over enforced disappearances, extrajudicial killings, sanctions, and institutional accountability.

Bangladesh's security-force accountability debates, RAB's human-rights record, and the 2021 U.S. sanctions designation.

His designation by the U.S. Treasury made RAB-linked rights-abuse allegations an international accountability issue and shaped later debate over security-sector reform.

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Ziaul Ahsan

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Security and intelligence figure linked to disappearance and surveillance allegations

A security figure frequently named in allegations around disappearance, detention, surveillance, and accountability.

As a senior security and intelligence-linked officer, he became a recurring name in public allegations about enforced disappearances, secret detention, surveillance, and post-2024 accountability.

RAB, intelligence, and security-sector accountability debates around alleged enforced disappearance, Aynaghar, and surveillance in Bangladesh.

His profile connects security-sector command structures to wider arguments about secret detention, digital monitoring, and accountability after the 2024 political rupture.

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