After almost two years in office, something of real significance has been suggested by the chairman of the Bangladesh's National Human Rights Commission. In the backdrop of increasing incidents of disappearances, the worried NHRC chairman, Professor Mizanur Rahman has said that 'Disappearances have emerged as a new trick of torturing citizens'   (   HRC boss worried at 'disappearances'   ).  Statistics compiled by rights group, Odhikar (   odhikar .org   ) show that while the number of so-called cross-fire deaths has fallen from 101 in 2010 to 44 during January to August 2011, number of abductions reported during the same period has risen to two per month against 1.5 in the previous year.  Invariably, victims are either ending up dead or remained untraceable.  And, the most worrying thing is that security forces have consistently denied any role in those disappearances while family members of the victims have alleged that abductors have identified themse