Bangladesh disappeared: Aynaghor survivors speak out

Michael Chakma was abducted in April 2019 in Dhaka , Bangladesh .

He had campaigned for the rights of the people of Bangladesh 's south-eastern Chittagong Hill region.

He was thrown into a cell inside the House of Mirrors , a building hidden inside the compound the Directorate General of Forces Intelligence (DGFI) used in the capital Dhaka .

The small cell he was kept in, he said, had no windows and no sunlight, only two roaring exhaust fans.

Former Bangladeshi ambassador to Qatar and Vietnam Maroof Zaman was detained in December 2018 .

He describes how he was held in a room without sunlight, while two noisy exhaust fans drowned out any sound coming from outside.

He was eventually released following a campaign by his daughters and supporters in late March 2019 .

More than that, there is coming to terms with what he has missed. He was told of his father’s death a few days after his release. And yet, amid the pain, he is hopeful - even happy. “It’s more than a new lease of life, a resurrection. It feels like I was dead and have come back to life again. I cannot describe this feeling.” - Additional reporting by Moazzem Hussain , BBC .