BRCT treats trauma victims in Nilphamari

A 'mobile clinic' of BRCT provided the free treatment.

Talking to newsmen, BRCT Regional Co-ordinator Khan Md Rustom Ali said most of the victims who came for treatment said they were tortured in custody by police at different times including the Operation Clean Heart period last year.

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The victims also included some activists of ruling BNP's student wing Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal and opposition Awami League's student front Chhatra League.

Most of the political activists said they were tortured by law enforcers during the Operation Clean Heart, but declined to be named fearing reprisal, Ali said.

Some victims of torture by the then Rakhhi Bahini in the early 1970s also come for treatment, he said.

The BRCT will send some of the victims to Dhaka for better treatment, Ali said.