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'Crossfire' killings violating constitution: Menon

Tue October 20, 2009 - 2:17pm BdST

The continued incidents of "crossfire" killings are in violation of human rights and the constitution, Rashed Khan Menon MP, president of Workers Party of Bangladesh, and a member of the ruling coalition, said on Monday. Menon, who also heads a parliamentary standing committee, blamed Rapid Action Battalion, other law enforcers and "concerned government officials", saying there was no proof that those who had died in crossfire killings were all "militants" as reported.

Bangladeshis protest 'crossfire' killings before Ban

Fri October 2, 2009 - 2:34pm BdST

Bangladeshi students in Sweden demonstrated on Thursday against the extra-judicial killing in so-called crossfire back home during the UN secretary-general's visit to Uppsala University in Sweden.

Saber places bill to stop 'crossfire' killings

Fri September 11, 2009 - 4:36am BdST

Ruling Awami League MP Saber Hossain Chowdhury has placed a bill in parliament proposing life-term sentence to perpetrators of killings in custody of law-enforcement agencies. Chowdhury brought the bill in the wake of a recent spate of killings of a number of alleged criminals by elite force RAB and police in so-called 'crossfire' and 'encounters'.