TORTURE: ASIAN AND GLOBAL PERSPECTIVES | OCTOBER 2013
VOLUME 02 NUMBER 04
INTERVIEW: TORTURE & OTHER INHUMAN PRACTICES
BANGLADESH A Deteriorated System
Soldiers of the Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) in Bangladesh. According to the Bangladesh government, the RAB is an elite anticrime and anti-terrorism unit of Bangladesh Police. It was created on 26 March, 2004, and commenced operations on 14 April 2004. Rights groups accuse the RAB of illegal engagement in human rights abuse in the country. (AHRC File Photo)
Basil Fernando, Director Policy and Planning, Asian Human Rights Commission, recently spoke with a Bangladesh human rights activist (name withheld for security reasons). The activist has explored the challenges he has been facing in his work and has delineated a clear picture of human rights realities in Bangladesh.
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Basil Fernando (BF): You come from Bangladesh. Can you describe what is going on? Abdur Rahim (AR): What is going on now is near irreconcilable fragmentation and partition division of the whole society. It is expressed in abstract and obscure political