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29 killed, 52,027 held in one month of emergency: Odhikar Three were tortured to death in police custody Monday February 12 2007 08:41:20 AM BDT Twenty-nine people were killed by law-enforcing agencies and 52,027 were arrested in the first month of emergency, declared on January 12, said a report of human rights coalition Odhikar published on Sunday.(The New Age BD) Eleven of the 29 people were killed in connection with the Rapid Action Battalion, nine with the police, six with the army and three with the joint forces, the report said. Ten were killed in the 'crossfire' of the associates of the crime suspects and the Rapid Action Battalion and four in the 'crossfire' of the police. Three were tortured to death in police custody. One, arrested by the battalion, later died in hospital, and two died in hospital after being arrested by the police. Four were tortured to death in army custody, one died when he tried to get away from an army van, one jumped off a six-storey building and died while he was in the custody of the joint forces, two, arrested by the forces, later died in police custody and one died in hospital after being arrested by the army. Five of them activists of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party, two of the Awami League, four of the ultra-left Purba Banglar Communist Party (Janajuddha), one of the Purba Banglar Communist Party, one of the Biplobi Communist Party, one of the Gana Mukti Fauz, and one of the from Sramajibi Mukti Andolan. One of them was farmer, one suspected drug peddler, one under-trial prisoner, one freedom-fighter, one bus driver and nine were crime suspects. Odhikar demanded independent inquiries of all the extra judicial killings or deaths and that the report of such inquiries should be made public. Odhikar also expressed its concern about the arrests made under the Special Powers Act. It also expresses its concern about detaining people without charges, which is a violation of human rights. It expresses its grave concern at the eviction of slum dwellers, in which thousands of the poor people became homeless, without their rehabilitation. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -------------------------- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -------------------------- Brooks Isoldi, editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: osint@yahoogroups.com Subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
