Bullet-riddled bodies of six unidentified youths, aged between 25 and 35, were found at Araihazar and Turag areas in Narayanganj and Dhaka yesterday. Of them, four were found in front of Panchrukhi Government Primary School besides Dhaka-Sylhet highway in Narayanganj and the law enforcers also recovered two pistols and a microbus from the spot. Rest two decomposed bodies were found from a feathergrass field at sector 16 under Turag Police Station.
Officer-in-charge of Araihazar Police Station said heads of four were smashed. The forensic doctor at Narayanganj General Hospital after autopsy said that the youths were shot on the forehead from point-blank range by shot guns. And they were killed on Saturday late at night.
None of the law enforcement agencies so far has claimed the killing as they usually announce after ‘gunfight” or “crossfire”. What is highly disturbing is that, bullet-hit bodies are now being recovered from beside the highway which exposes the actual condition of law and order situation in the country. Nobody knows about the victims’ whereabouts and where or why they were killed. Is it possible in any civilized country to find six bullet-ridden bodies were recovered in a single day? It makes one thing clear — that taking lives of people or killing political dissidents is nothing serious nowadays in our country.
Apart from the secret killings, the country is now passing through the era of extrajudicial killings. A total of 275 people were killed during ‘gunfight’ and ‘crossfire’ with law enforcers, in custody of law enforcement agencies, or being shot by law enforcers, across the country between January 1 and June 30 this year, the human rights organisation Ain O Salish Kendra (ASK) had said. No doubt, the number of dead in police action is likely to be doubled in the meantime.
We do appeal to our police not to help to make this country liveable for dangerous people only.
