"August 2021"--Table of contents page. "This report was researched and written by a consultant to Human Rights Watch"--Page 57. Includes bibliographical references.
Contents:
Security force abuses: part of a slide to authoritarian rule -- Entrenched impunity -- Role of the UN and concerned governments -- Methodology -- 1. History of security force abuses in Bangladesh -- Elections -- Prime Minister Hasina's "War on Drugs" -- The rapid action battalion (RAB) -- Police -- Surveillance as a tool for security force abuses -- II. Patterns of enforced disappearances -- Enforced disappearances targeting the political opposition -- Disappearances as a tool of repression -- Torture -- Family members threatened and harassed by law enforcement -- III. Denial of justice -- Denying abuses -- Failure of redress mechanisms -- IV. International and national legal standards. -- Functional legal immunity -- Recommendations.
Summary:
Enforced disappearances by Bangladesh security forces have become a hallmark of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's more than decade-long rule, with nearly 600 cases documented by human rights groups since she took office in 2009. While some victims are released or produced in court after weeks or months of secret detention, others are subject to extrajudicial killings that authorities falsely claimed to be deaths during gunfights. Scores are still missing. This report demonstrates a persistent refusal by authorities to investigate enforced disappearances and hold perpetrators accountable. Instead, members of security forces accused of grave abuses appear to have been promoted and decorated, while authorities continue to deter legitimate investigations and the government repeatedly ignores calls by donor governments, the United Nations, human rights organizations, and civil society to address the culture of impunity.
OCLC:
(OCoLC)1290886293
Locations:
OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)
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