The minister for home would have us believe that the crossfire deaths that have occurred in the government's pursuit to combat the menace of drugs and narcotics are not due to crossfire but occurred when the law enforcing agencies fired in self-defence only, in pursuit of the drug dealers.
The law enforcing agencies have a lot to answer for the incidences of abduction and disappearances, a phenomenon that has assumed alarming regularity. Reportedly, there are over 300 victims of enforced disappearances who remain traceless. Predictably, the families point fingers at the law enforcing agencies—the manner in which they were picked up, as described by the families, leaves very little to the imagination as to the likely identity of the abductors.
WE wonder when, if ever, the police would learn to treat a citizen with due respect and civility.
IN a macabre attack with a hammer, a former college teacher was murdered in her apartment in the capital on Monday.
Authorities has recovered 113 tortoises from two Indian nationals at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in Dhaka.
The minister for home would have us believe that the crossfire deaths that have occurred in the government's pursuit to combat the menace of drugs and narcotics are not due to crossfire but occurred when the law enforcing agencies fired in self-defence only, in pursuit of the drug dealers.
The law enforcing agencies have a lot to answer for the incidences of abduction and disappearances, a phenomenon that has assumed alarming regularity. Reportedly, there are over 300 victims of enforced disappearances who remain traceless. Predictably, the families point fingers at the law enforcing agencies—the manner in which they were picked up, as described by the families, leaves very little to the imagination as to the likely identity of the abductors.
WE wonder when, if ever, the police would learn to treat a citizen with due respect and civility.
IN a macabre attack with a hammer, a former college teacher was murdered in her apartment in the capital on Monday.
Authorities has recovered 113 tortoises from two Indian nationals at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in Dhaka.
