Washington has raised concerns with regards to enforced disappearances and extrajudicial killings during the second Bangladesh-United States Partnership Dialogue that ended in the capital on Monday. The US side also brought up the issues relating to murder
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Lawmen go unpunished
Extrajudicial Killings Lawmen go unpunished Says HR Commission in its report for UN HR Council Extrajudicial killings, forced disappearances and torture by law enforcement agencies continue in the country with impunity, says a report on human rights conditions. The report, prepared by the National Human Rights Commission, also says while child labour continues to be ... Read more
Crossfire killings necessary
Wikileaks Crossfire killings necessary Rab’s former second man Bari told US envoy Chowdhury Fazlul Bari, former second-in-command of Rab, during a June 2005 conversation with US embassy officials had described extrajudicial killings in the name of “crossfire” by the force as a necessary, short-term expedient, according to a diplomatic dispatch. An influential figure during the ... Read more
‘One falls victim every 4 days’
Extrajudicial Killing ‘One falls victim every 4 days’ At least one person on an average becomes the victim of extra-judicial killing in every four days, a human rights watchdog reveals in a report. Odhikar, the rights organisation, on Friday, disclosed the report prepared on the basis of news published in the country’s 12 dailies, says
33 extrajudicial killings in 3 months: Odhikar
At least 33 people were killed extrajudicially in the first three months of 2011 of whom 28 were killed in so-called ‘crossfire’, cites the January-March quarterly report of rights organisation Odhikar. The organisation called on the government to bring all involved in extrajudicial killings before justice and demanded that extrajudicial killings must be stopped as ... Read more
No end to extrajudicial killings: HRW
International human rights watchdog Human Rights Watch has said that the Awami League-Jatiya Party alliance government has not yet ended systematic human rights abuse, including extrajudicial killing, despite promises. In its World Report 2011, released in New York on Monday, the organisation said,