35 extrajudicial killings in over 4 months
 Two criminals, including an outlawed party leader, were killed in separate 'shootouts' with law enforcers in Chittagong and Kushtia early Monday taking the total of such extra judicial killings to 127 in over nine months from August 1, 2009 to May 14, 2010.
| We've featured most of those here at the Crossfire Gazette ... |
| Lovingly, in great detail, with footnotes. |
With this 35 extra judicial killings took placed in the year of 2010. Meanwhile, RAB DG recently said as many as 622 people were killed in 'crossfire' since the formation of RAB on March 26, 2004.
A ringleader of an infamous gang was killed in a shootout between his accomplices and police at city's Mohara Ananya residential area early Monday.
| We have no idea at all where that is ... |
| Yes we do, silly -- it's in Bangladesh. |
The deceased was identified as Ali Akkas, 35, hailed from Sitakunda Jangal Salimpur area.
We don't even get a blow-by-blow account. No pickup, no drive to the banana orchard, no miscreant accomplices, no sniffing out the RAB, no rounds of bullet zinging through the air, mysteriously whacking only Ali, no absconding of the miscreants as if they were never there in the first place, no quick hustle to the hospital to be declared dead, no slow trot to the morgue for autopsy, and no photos with the precious shutter gun.
Pah. I want my money's worth! |
| Me too. I long for the good old days when 'crossfire' writers still cared abut their readers. |
In another incident in Kushtia, an outlawed party leader was killed in a shootout between his cohorts and law enforcers near Kursha channel in Mirpur upazila early Monday. The deceased was identified as Siddiqur Rahman, 35, district commander of Purba Banglar Communist Party and son of Late Ismail Hossain of Chok village in the upazila.
See? SEE? Not even an honored Purba Banglar gets a detailed accounting of his short life and unhappy death in the back of a RAB truck.
Has no one any sense of the artistic any more? |
| *sigh* English classes just aren't what they used to be, back when we were young. |
The unlawful killings are taking place despite mounting protests by human rights activists, civil society members and political parties and repeated assurances of the government that such killings would be stopped and actions would be taken against those found responsible.
| The whole point is to whack the bad boys that the government can't otherwise handle. |
| I had it on reliable authority (his family have been bureaucrats in Bangladesh since the time of the British Raj, or thereabouts) that the Rab are well-loved because they actually achieve justice, unlike the courts. The government isn't going to do anything to stop them unless there are large numbers of dead girls and live boys involved. |
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