| Cramming a week's worth of crossfire goodness into one pithy post. |
RAB delegation leaves for training in Kuala Lumpur
A batch of the Rapid Action Battalion left for Kuala Lumpur Monday night on a three-week training beginning on April 13. The 32-member team will stay in the Malaysian capital till May 7 and take part in a management training programme at the Royal Malaysia Police College, Kuala Lumpur. It was the second batch of the battalion taking part in the programme since its formation on March 26, 2004.
| Course material: "How to differentiate between a cadre and a cohort," and "Setting the scene--out by the docks or down by the trainyard at 4:40 am?" |
Gono Bahini cadre killed in 'crossfire'
1. Arrest.
2. Interrogation.
3. Confession.
4. Off to find the arms cache in the village at 3:30am.
5. Crossfire.
6."He's dead, Jim."
Rabiul Islam dies in 'crossfire'
1. Arrest.
2. Interrogation.
3. Confession.
4. Off to find the arms cache in the village at 4:00am.
5. Crossfire.
6."He's dead, Jim."
Three errant policemen beat up, then sent to jail
Three policemen who were caught and beaten by a mob during a suspected incident of extortion at Shyampur in Dhaka Monday night were sent to jail on Tuesday. The police produced the policemen — nayek Nooruddin Reza and constables Rafiqul Islam and Motiar Rahman — in the chief metropolitan magistrates court, which sent them to jail. The policemen, in plainclothes, of the Janatabagh camp on Monday went to an autorickshaw garage, owned by one Billal Hossain at Rayerbagh at about 7:00pm, and allegedly demanded Tk 4,000 from him. The owner raised the alarm and the local people encircled the garage and caught all the three. The people assaulted them and handed them over to the Shyampur police with which the garage owner filed a case under the speedy trial act. The policemen said they had gone to the place chasing a criminal, but the people, instigated by the criminal, caught them as 'extortionists.'