Human rights violation
The United States is concerned about the Human rights situation in Bangladesh. In their report they referred to various sensitive issues like extra judicial killing, detention without legal support, compulsory retirement of the security forces, physical and mental torture of the detainees etc. The report also states that there were 396 extra judicial killings last year, among which 340 were in crossfire. The report also added that the attack on journalists is the sign of limitation of freedom of expression.
When the law minister was asked about the concern of the US about the human rights violations in Bangladesh, he said, "The truth of the base of preparing this report should be scrutinized." On the other hand, these incidents were certified as true by Dr.
Shah Deen Malik. (BBC Bangla, March 9, 2006).
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