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Bangladesh
Tales from the Crossfire Gazette
2012-07-28
This is a short tale, a teaser, but it's all we have...
A man was shot dead and another one injured during crossfire with Rapid Action Batallion (RAB) in city's Mirpur Zoo Road area on Thursday night.

Shah Ali Thana Sub-Inspector Masud Rana confirmed the incident to the news agency.
The RAB has always taken care of the press...
The crossfire incident took place at 9:00pm
A little early...
between RAB and the alleged terrorists.
Now now, they're 'miscreants'...
However, the identities of the victims could not be known immediately, he added.
What, no manly alias for any of them?
It's the new efficiency drive. They've already expanded to something like twelve Rab battalions, and besides, they need manpower for the trials of the miscreants in the 1971 war and that thing on the docks in 1994 or so whose details I can't remember. So there's no time just now for the acts of formulaic creativity we've grown to know and love if the journalist is not prepared to pick up the slack.
Posted by:Steve White

#4  poetic licence

good one G
Posted by: manversgwtw   2012-07-28 16:01  

#3  Why would the crossfire have to be contrived, since it always happens there anyway?
Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain   2012-07-28 12:13  

#2  Bravo! LOL!
Posted by: Steve White   2012-07-28 11:22  

#1  A dacoit went strolling in Mirpur,
with his criminal colleagues to confer,
R-A-B arrived,
crossfire was contrived,
as always in Bangla does occur.
Posted by: gromky   2012-07-28 06:52  

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