Jun 19, 2011 0
Has Bangladesh’s Elite Police Force Gone Too Far?
by Christopher Shay / Dhaka
On March 27, Bangladeshi doctors amputated the leg of Limon Hossain, a 16-year-old student, four days after he was shot during a raid by the Rapid Action Battalion (RAB), Bangladesh’s elite security force. Almost everyday since, Hossain’s name has made headlines in Bangladesh, becoming a symbol of accusations that the governments paramilitary force acts as judge, jury and executioner in its official mission to clean up this south Asian nation of crime and corruption. “RAB is misusing their power,” Hossain says. “They are killing people.” Read the rest of this entry »