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US hopes Bangladesh will examine allegations in DW report against RAB​

United News of Bangladesh . Dhaka | Published: 13:36, Apr 07,2023 | Updated: 19:53, Apr 07,2023

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The United States has hoped that the Bangladesh government would examine the allegations brought against Rapid Action Battalion in a documentary aired and an article published by German broadcaster Deutsche Welle.

‘I’m not going to preview any actions from up here. But we will examine the allegations in this article and video very carefully, and we hope the Bangladesh government will do the same,’ said Vedant Patel, principal deputy spokesperson for the US Department of State.

The perpetrators of human rights should be held accountable, the US Embassy in Dhaka quoted Patel as saying.

Meanwhile, Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokesperson Seheli Sabrin has said RAB keeps working for the interest of the country’s security and it is not being used for any political purpose.

‘For years, the United States and other Western countries played an important role in training and equipping the force – despite allegations of widespread human rights violations. It would take until 2018 for the US to stop funding RAB, followed by sanctions in late 2021,’ DW said in its documentary ‘How the elite police force RAB terrorizes the people of Bangladesh’ published on YouTube on April 3.

‘Now, for the first time ever, two insiders of Bangladesh’s elite force claim how RAB systematically and with explicit backing from the highest political level has been committing murder, torture, and abductions.’

The DW article ‘Death Squad: Inside Bangladesh’s Rapid Action Battalion’ published the same day said: ‘Bangladesh’s elite counterterrorism force is committing extrajudicial killings, DW and Netra News reveal in a new investigation.’

‘Each operation is carefully planned, sometimes for months, the target’s every move analysed and monitored by one of 15 units inside Bangladesh’s Rapid Action Battalion (RAB). Victims are usually picked up late at night and whisked away to the special police force’s facilities.’


 
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It is not the first time that BD authorities claimed that it is the US who to be blamed for RAB activities because the USA trains them.

The question needs answering if RAB is trained by the USA to kidnap and kill anti -BAL elements in the country?
 
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