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War on drugs: Kingpins on the run as pressure mounts
[Dhaka Tribune] About 10,000 suspected drug pushers have been either detained or tossed in the calaboose
Yez got nuttin' on me, coppers! Nuttin'!
 since the government-sponsored aggressiveanti-narcotics drives into known drug dens or dealing spots across the country. However,
a woman is only as old as she admits...
 in most cases, law enforcement agencies have failed to catch the big fishes who control the narcotics trade worth crores of taka.
The taka is the currency of Bangladesh. 1 taka = US $0.01. Crore translates as ten million. So 1 crore taka is $100,000.
These so-called godfathers have somehow managed to elude capture right before coordinated raids conducted based on intelligence following a list of drug pushers in every division.

Luck, however, was not in favor of Bachchu Mia, alias Yaba Bachchu, a top drug pusher in Tongi, as he was killed during a reported shootout
...shootout having replaced encounter, which itself replaced our beloved crossfire. Bangladeshi euphemisms proceed apace, but the bad guys continue to accidentally meet their precipitate ends in a statistically improbable bullet behind the right ear, sparing all involved exposure to Bangladesh’s notably corrupt courts...
with Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) personnel in Narayanganj’s Araihajar area on May 22.

Officials said Bachchu was planning to flee to India through the Sherpur border.

Nazrul Islam, alias Nozu Sarder, 42, the drug lord who ruled the Chalantika Jhilpar slum in Mirpur, Dhaka, was killed in a "shootout" with police detectives in that area in the early hours of May 28.

Like Bachchu and Nazrul, several other drug lords around the country have also been killed in similar firefights.
The participants in said firefights, except for the deader and the RAB men, of course, having disappeared as completely as the proverbial snows of yesteryear, leaving not so much as a piece of brass or drop of blood behind.

Posted by: Fred 2018-06-01
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