[Bangla Daily Star] Two suspected criminals, including a leader of outlawed Purbo Banglar Communist Party...the
Proletarian Party of East Bengal, a Maoist party that has seen better days. It supported independence in 1971 and has periodic shootouts and fisticuffs with the Bangla Jamaat-e-Islami, but has fallen on hard times, with many of its leaders rubbed out by the RAB or indignant citizenry. It is also subject to factionalism, to the extent that it may have more factions than it has actual members...
(PBCP), were killed in "shootouts" between their cohorts and law enforcers in Khulna and Jessore yesterday.
Including them the number of extrajudicial killings comes to 17 in this month. At least eight were killed while they were in jug of law enforcers. Police versions of the "shootouts" were found more or less similar.
Extrajudicial killings should be stopped immediately, said Sultana Kamal, executive director of Ain o Salish Kendra, a rights body that provides legal aid.
"If they are really accused [of crimes], they should be punished through a proper judicial process," she said, adding such extrajudicial killings should not be allowed in any democratic country.
Meanwhile,
...back at the palazzo, Don Smilzo looked for an avenue of escape. The only window opened a hundred feet above the moat. The nearest of the hired assassins hold a bloody axe.
The window was looking better all the time....
expressing concern over the recent spate of extrajudicial killings, Human Rights Watch
... dedicated to bitching about human rights violations around the world...
called for an independent investigation into the incidents.
Yesterday, Touhidul Islam Sabuj, 28, the second-in-command of PBCP, was killed in an exchange of shots between his party members and police in Phultala upazila of Khulna, according to police.
Sabuj and his associates were holding a meeting at Chatiantola in the upazila around 3:30am. On a tip-off,
"Hello? Is dis da cops? Lissen, dis is Mahmoud the Weasel..."
a police team led by the officer-in-charge of Phultala Police Station went to raid the area. A "shootout" ensued as they fired at the law enforcers, said the OC, Mohammad Elias Fakir.
"You may [BANG!] fire when ready, [BANG!] Sergeant Shafiq! [BANGETY BANG!]"
After the firing that lasted for nearly an hour, police found Sabuj lying in a pool of blood while his associates managed to flee.
"Cheaply made flip-flops, don't fail me now!"
He was taken to Phultala Upazila Health Complex where he departed this vale of tears nearly eight hours after the incident, the OC added.
"Dr. Quincy to the white courtesy phone! Dr. Quincy!"
However,
death is not the end. There remains the litigation over the estate...
Monjur Morshed, upazila health and family planning officer, said he had heard from the doctor, who was on duty at the hospital at the time, that Sabuj was brought in dead.
"He's dead, Jim!"
Sabuj was accused in nine murder cases and three others filed under the Arms Act.
He had the death sentence on twelve systems!
Police said they had recovered two firearms, 19 bullets, six handmade bombs and two machetes from the spot.
In Abhaynagar upazila of Jessore, Rabiul Islam, 28, a member of a local gang, Mesbah Bahini, was killed in a "shootout" with the joint force, police sources said.
"It is the joint force! Open fire, men!"
This is the gang that had hacked and then burnt alive Chaitanya Kumar Mondol, 48, the youth and sports secretary of Magura ward Awami League, on Sunday night.
Police tossed in the slammer
You have the right to remain silent...
Rabiul yesterday in connection with a mugging case.
"Stick 'em up!"
Acting on the information extracted from him,
"Ow! O-w-w-w-w! Make him stop! I confess! I killed Jon Benet!"
a team of the joint force conducted a drive at Ziadanga village in the upazila around 2:00am to recover arms, Syed Mostafa Kamal, assistant superintendent of police in Jessore, told The Daily Star.
"Yessir, that's what they done!"
As the law enforcers reached near a bamboo cluster of the village, cohorts of Mesbah-ur-Rahman, leader of the gang, opened fire on them, the ASP said.
"You'll never take me alive, coppers!"
The join force members fired back.
[BANG!] We knew that! [BANG!]
During the "shootout" Rabiul tried to run away
"I'm outta here!"
and got injured in the firing.
"Aaaaiiiieee! I am undone!"
He was rushed
"Is the ambulance here yet?"
"Patience! It's on its way! See the blinky light?"
"Ummm... That's a rickshaw!"
to Abhaynagar Upazila Health Complex where doctors declared him dead.
He's dead, Jim!
Rabiul was accused in several cases, including murder and mugging charges.
"Aye, sir. He wuz a bad un!"
Three police personnel also sustained minor injuries during the firing.
"Whoa! Rafiqul! That's gotta hurt!"
"You betcha it does. Loan me your nail clipper!"
A pistol and two bullets were recovered from the scene.
"No, wait a minute! Three bullets! I found another one!"
"That's not a bullet! It's a... a... musket ball?"
"A musket ball's a bullet."
"No, it ain't."
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