‘Wait never ends’ for families of the forcibly disappeared in Bangladesh

Bangladeshi children whose fathers were abducted and remain missing, at a demonstration in Dhaka [Faisal Mahmud/Al Jazeera]

Dhaka, Bangladesh – Adiba Islam Hridi says she is tired of holding a placard showing her missing father. She is only 12.

Hridi’s vacant eyes betray strain and weariness as she sat with around 20 other children inside an auditorium in Dhaka on Wednesday to mark the International Day of the Victims of Enforced Disappearances.