You have commented 338 times on Rantburg.

Your Name
Your e-mail (optional)
Website (optional)
My Original Nic        Pic-a-Nic        Sorry. Comments have been closed on this article.
Bold Italic Underline Strike Bullet Blockquote Small Big Link Squish Foto Photo
Bangladesh
Tales from the Crossfire Gazette, with status report
2009-09-08
[Bangla Daily Star] An operative of outlawed Gono Bahini ...
... we have no idea who they are, but perhaps are not as honorable as the Biplobi Communists ...
... was killed in 'crossfire' between Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) and the outlawed organisation at Durbachara in Kushtia Sadar upazila yesterday.
...and we have no idea where that is ...
Pshaw! It can be seen quite easily on Old Patriot's 1:15,000 scale map of Bangladesh. He stores it the deserted high school. It didn't used to be deserted, but once the map was folded up, there was no room for the students.
The dead was identified as Asraful Islam alias Asha Mondol, 40, son of Monabber Mondol of Durbachara.
They never mention mothers ...
According to the source, a Rab-12 team raided Durbachara village where some Gono Bahini men, led by Asha, were holding a meeting around 3:45am.
No idea exactly where the meeting was being held, though it might have been in a strawberry patch.
It's a village, which implies it's not the opera house. We could describe it as proletarian, were it the Biplobi Communists, but we aren't sure of the orientation of the Gono Bahinis. They could be refined, Ali Baba type poetic banditti, in which case the champagne couldn't be far off -- or the methanol-spiked homebrew, anyway.
Sensing Rab's presence, ...
... Spidey Sense, etc ...
... the underground operatives opened fire,
... poorly aimed fire that never left a bullet hole in anything ...
... forcing the law enforcers to retaliate.
Fired into the air for effect.
After the outlaws fled the scene,
... leaving no trace whatsoever of their ever being there in the first place ...
... Asha was found dead on the spot.
"Which spot?"
"That spot!"
The Rab members recovered a pipe gun and two bullets from there.
Asha not being important enough to bring out a shutter gun ...
Police said Asha, one of the top Gono Bahini cadres, was accused in twelve systems seven cases including two for murder filed with Kushtia Sadar and Islamic University police stations.
And now the RAB brings you a brief annual status report --
A total 681 'crossfire' incidents took place in 10 districts in southwestern region since 2004. Of them, Kushtia is on the top of the list with 237 such cases.

Sixteen 'crossfire' incidents took place in Kushtia in last 13 days.
Just taking out the garbage ...
Posted by:Fred

#3  "Gono Bahini?"
I tink i read about dat in sevbnth grade health class; it was sumpin you caught from womins dat wuz infected wit that sexually translated disease, sniffilus......
since i stayed clear of my sister, i wuz purty shure i neber got none ob it....
Posted by: USN, Ret.   2009-09-08 23:48  

#2  I actually came across "Kushtia" province when I was doing some Google searches. It's southwest of Dhaka, between Dhaka and Calcutta. If the tide rose an additional six inches, half of it would be under water.
Posted by: Old Patriot   2009-09-08 23:17  

#1  "Pipe" Gun now, not "Shutter" Gun.
New translator?
Posted by: Redneck Jim   2009-09-08 01:08  

00:00