Editorial Desk :
Anti-terrorist forces killed 12 suspected extremists in raids at four houses in Gazipur, Tangail and Baipail of Dhaka on Saturday bringing shock to the nation once again while leaving many to wonder why they kill such suspects instantly in murky circumstances instead of arresting and producing them before a court for fair trial.
As per report seven suspects were killed in joint operation at their village homes in Gazipur while two each were killed in raids in homes or locally rented house at Gazipur and Tangail. The casualties were confirmed to media by Assistant Inspector General of Police (Confidential) M Moniruzzaman.
Another militant suspect Abdur Rahman and claimed to be financier of
JMB was arrested injured in a raid at Baipail in the outskirt of the city at his home and died at Enam Medical College Hospital at Savar at night. Questions have meanwhile arisen whether he was wrongly picked up as Abdur Rahman Masud Malik whom police said was on wanted list for the last two years.
Saturday’s operation appears to be the biggest so far in term of casualties beginning with the Holey Artisan attack where six militants were killed on July 1. Later, nine were killed in another raid at Kalyanpur on July 26 and three more last month at Narayangonj in which Bangladeshi leader of IS backed militant group Tamim Chowdhury was also killed.
What is noticeable is that one of the two suspects killed in Gazipur and identified as Towhidul Islam was a student of Dhaka University of Engineering and Technology. None of three victims such as Faridul, Towhidul and Rashed, was on the list of missing people recently published by RAB Unit in the area.
With the latest killings at least 40 extremism suspects were killed since September 2015 when the extremists started targeting foreign nationals and Bangladeshi academics and members of religious minorities.
The way police are killing young people raiding homes and alleging them to be militants makes their claim not convincing beyond doubt. Our police must not be oblivious of their image as law enforcers.
Suspected terrorists when they are not in action and found confined in houses it should be easy to catch them alive. To kill human being is the easiest thing to do. One does not need training. So why our rigorously trained police officials have to kill them instead of catch them alive to know more about activities of others.
For killing suspects it is necessary to prove that lives had to be sacrificed in self defence.
Our Human Rights Commission should have a role to play to know about such killings and report that our law enforcers are not being irresponsible in killing people.
Anti-terrorist forces killed 12 suspected extremists in raids at four houses in Gazipur, Tangail and Baipail of Dhaka on Saturday bringing shock to the nation once again while leaving many to wonder why they kill such suspects instantly in murky circumstances instead of arresting and producing them before a court for fair trial.
As per report seven suspects were killed in joint operation at their village homes in Gazipur while two each were killed in raids in homes or locally rented house at Gazipur and Tangail. The casualties were confirmed to media by Assistant Inspector General of Police (Confidential) M Moniruzzaman.
Another militant suspect Abdur Rahman and claimed to be financier of
JMB was arrested injured in a raid at Baipail in the outskirt of the city at his home and died at Enam Medical College Hospital at Savar at night. Questions have meanwhile arisen whether he was wrongly picked up as Abdur Rahman Masud Malik whom police said was on wanted list for the last two years.
Saturday’s operation appears to be the biggest so far in term of casualties beginning with the Holey Artisan attack where six militants were killed on July 1. Later, nine were killed in another raid at Kalyanpur on July 26 and three more last month at Narayangonj in which Bangladeshi leader of IS backed militant group Tamim Chowdhury was also killed.
What is noticeable is that one of the two suspects killed in Gazipur and identified as Towhidul Islam was a student of Dhaka University of Engineering and Technology. None of three victims such as Faridul, Towhidul and Rashed, was on the list of missing people recently published by RAB Unit in the area.
With the latest killings at least 40 extremism suspects were killed since September 2015 when the extremists started targeting foreign nationals and Bangladeshi academics and members of religious minorities.
The way police are killing young people raiding homes and alleging them to be militants makes their claim not convincing beyond doubt. Our police must not be oblivious of their image as law enforcers.
Suspected terrorists when they are not in action and found confined in houses it should be easy to catch them alive. To kill human being is the easiest thing to do. One does not need training. So why our rigorously trained police officials have to kill them instead of catch them alive to know more about activities of others.
For killing suspects it is necessary to prove that lives had to be sacrificed in self defence.
Our Human Rights Commission should have a role to play to know about such killings and report that our law enforcers are not being irresponsible in killing people.
