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Reform or disband Rab: HRW
[Bangla Daily Star]  Human Rights Watch... dedicated to bitching about human rights violations around the world... on Tuesday urged the government to disband the Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) if it fails to reform the force in the next six months. Brad Adams, executive director of the organisation's Asia division, made the call while revealing a survey report titled 'Human Rights Abuses by Rab'' at Brac Centre Inn in the city. So, Brad, hows about you discuss it with the guy pictured on the right? I'm sure he's a big teddy bear... The survey prepared by the New York-based rights organisation showed that nearly 700 people were killed in Rab 'crossfire' since its inception in 2004. Of them, 200 were killed during the present government regime. Adams said inclusion of army personnel in Rab was not right as the trainings of army and law enforcers are different. He explained that the army personnel were provided with defensive training. For this, they consider their opponents as enemies and use arms, resulting in a bigger number of deaths. On the other hand, Rab is working for the country's citizen as well for maintaining law and order. Adams termed impractical the government and Rab statement that there is no extra-judicial killing by the elite force. He claimed that there is a lack of transparency in the activities of the force. Referring to a high-level meeting of the government, he said they got information that Rab is also involved in some "contractual killing". But, they did not conduct any survey in this regard, he added.
Posted by: Fred 2011-05-11 |
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