When Bangladesh’s men in black arrive, usually late at night, it’s like death has come knocking on your door: Bangladesh’s Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) is an elite police unit that was founded in 2004 to fight terror and crime.
For years, the United States and other Western countries played an important role in training and equipping the force – despite allegations of wide-spread human rights violations. It would take until 2018 for the US to stop funding RAB, followed by sanctions in late 2021.
Now, for the first time ever, two insiders of Bangladesh’s elite force claim how RAB systematically and with explicit backing from the highest political level has been committing murder, torture, and abductions.
For this story, DW teamed up with Netra News.
An Investigation by Chris Caurla, Naomi Conrad, Arafatul Islam & Birgitta Schülke
Additional Research
Julett Pineda and several others who, for security reasons cannot be named
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Birgitta Schülke & Arafatul Islam
Edit/Motion Graphics/Sound Design
Chris Caurla
Illustrations
Aleksandra Kononova
Senior Editor
Mathias Stamm
Head of DW Investigations
Sandra Petersmann
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Nafiz Mohammed Alam, who appeared in this documentary, was arrested in his home on April, 9th. He is now being held in jail in Dhaka, as DW has established.
https://www.dw.com/en/bangladeshi-who-spoke-to-dw-about-police-brutality-arrested/a-65270642
This government is fully covered by corruption, killing opposition partie's leaders, Over showing country side development that is making the country day by day as bailout.
100% right information…🤦♀️🤦♂️😭
From my Heart thanks to DW🙏🙏, this was the truth. Now not only RAB, our government using police, cid, pbi for who protest government’s illegal Act. Now our people are helpless 😭😭😭
It's just an iceberg
Thousands of such activities have occurred in the ciuntry
More to focus and let know the world community
Bangladesh has become a Fascist country
We still support RAB, , ❤
False information
This is true.thanks DW
Nobody Can Support Such An Extra judicial Killings!Very Unfortunate!Gov't Used Elite Forces For their own Interest!Not Only iqramul ,thousands of iqramul Are out of count.Truth Are Always Enemy Of Current Gov't Specially S.Hasina !!
We want to freedom country. Please help us
Thanks to DW for exposing RAB. Now there like a monster.
Thanks to DW for exposing RAB it’s not noly RAB is Bangladesh police mor dangerous form RAB
Great documentary DW.
Its will have a serious impact on human right issues in Bangladesh.
Thank you DW and netra news
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Thanks for this❤
Thank you DW 💜
Date 26 January 2015,,
My friend was tortured and killed overnight RAB Special Force😢
Many people killed OC prodip in the chittagong bangladesh.please give us that documentary
Hahaha,we all know this is only a hypocrisy of America,, we all know what happened in levea…
Seven murder of Narayanganj are more dangerous
ISI from Pakistan is way more dangerous and brutal. I'm being a Pakistani citizen, request DW to please make a documentary on Pakistani establishment, under the umbrella of ISI, their atrocities committed against own people and also against the people of our neighbours.
thanks to bring it out
@DW Is this report can stop RAB serial killing mission? No never they will escalate their Extrajudicial killings because they unissued by the current dictator government to kills the opposition. May Allah save us from this dictator government 🤲🏼 if you can just make one documentary regarding to previous national elections at least world will know about our demon 😞