Thirteen Bangladeshi army officers were presented before the International Crimes Tribunal-1 in Dhaka on Sunday in connection with two cases of enforced disappearances and torture allegedly committed during the 15-and-a-half-year rule of the Awami League government. The officers were brought under heavy security in prison vans, with additional army and Border Guard Bangladesh personnel deployed around the tribunal premises. Earlier, on October 8, arrest warrants had been issued against 25 current and former army officers in three separate cases, including one related to killings during the July uprising. Fifteen of those officers were produced before the tribunal in October and later sent to a declared sub-jail inside Dhaka Cantonment. The tribunal also ordered public notices in newspapers for absconding accused to appear. In related developments, arrest warrants were previously issued against former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, her security adviser Tariq Ahmed Siddiq, and five former DGFI chiefs in separate cases.