Report Cites Killings, Torture By Elite Force in Bangladesh
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DHAKA, Bangladesh, Dec. 14 -- An elite security force in Bangladesh has become little more than a government death squad, employing torture and killing more than 350 suspects in custody, according to a Human Rights Watch report released Thursday.
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WASHINGTON -- A confidential report to Army generals in Iraq in December 2003 warned that members of an elite military and CIA task force were abusing detainees, a finding delivered more than a month before Army investigators received the photographs from Abu Ghraib prison that touched off investigations into prisoner mistreatment.
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The Philippine military appears to have been responsible for many of the hundreds of extra-judicial killings in the country, a U.N. investigator said on Wednesday.
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The Bangladeshi government has announced a 160,000-dollar reward in a bid to catch the assailants who killed 20 people and injured hundreds in a grenade attack on an opposition rally last weekend.
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Two people were killed and 10 wounded in  a bomb blast in northeastern Bangladesh on Sunday, in the  latest of a series of attacks that have killed at least 107  people in the country since 2000, police said.
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DHAKA, 28 August 2004 - Bangladesh has called in Interpol to assist investigations into the Aug. 21 grenade attack on an Awami League rally which killed 20 people and wounded 300, a senior police officer said yesterday.
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Bangladesh&#39;s leading human rights group accused security forces of carrying out at least 50 extrajudicial killings since the start of emergency rule two months ago.
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The International Committee of the Red Cross released a report that called the handling of prisoners at Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, &#39;tantamount to torture&#39; and accused the US of using both psychological and physical coercion on prisoners there.
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Bangladesh's crime force Rapid Action Battalion, is responsible for more than 350 deaths, Human Rights Watch says.
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Two people were killed and 10 wounded in a bomb blast in northeastern Bangladesh on Sunday, in the latest of a series of attacks that have killed at least 107 people in the country since 2000, police said.
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The Army report released yesterday detailed 44 alleged episodes of abusive behavior by military and civilian personnel at Abu Ghraib. Among them:
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The group "Human Rights Watch" has issued a detailed report outlining allegations of torture, abuse and violence against prisoners. Prisoners who have been made to "vanish" by unaccountable agencies.
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Indonesian security forces have used torture and inhumane treatment to force confessions from suspected separatists and their sympathizers in the province of Aceh, where the government and rebels have fought a long-running conflict, a human rights group alleges in a report to be released Monday.
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Uganda's security forces routinely torture suspects, the Human Rights Commission says in its annual report.
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A Bangladesh court remanded a senior politician, a former junior minister and a top businessman in police custody for interrogation, officials said on Wednesday, the latest in a long list of prominent officials to be held in a corruption crackdown.
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Bangladesh's security forces arrested at least 13 political leaders including eight former ministers in pre-dawn raids, according to officials and reports.
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In Bangladesh, security forces are on high alert after several days of apparent political violence. More protests are expected after Saturday&#39;s grenade attack on an opposition rally killed 19 people and injured more than a hundred.