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...progress, there is growing concern that the cure is proving just as poisonous as the ailments. A new report from New York-based Human Rights charges that the Caretaker Government has trampled over basic human rights to achieve its goals. The report, which focuses on the testimony of Tasneem Khalil, a prominent journalist for the English-language Daily Star newspaper and for CNN and a part-time consultant to Human Rights Watch, paints a depressing picture of abuse at the hands of Bangladesh's military intelligence agency. Khalil, who had been writing about the security forces' alleged role in extra...
...Human Rights Watch says that tens of thousands of people have been arbitrarily detained and abused by security forces over the past 13 months - most of them without the connections Khalil had to help set him free. "Rampant illegal detention and torture are clear evidence of Bangladesh's security forces running amok," said Brad Adams, Asia director of Human Rights Watch, in launching the report. "Tasneem Khalil's prominence as a critical journalist may have prompted his arrest, but it also may have saved his life. Ordinary Bangladeshis held by the security forces under the emergency rules have no such...
...detention, Khalil said he was kept in a small windowless room and beaten with batons, including two that had electrified wires sticking out the end. "I saw what looked like a metal bed frame," he says in the report. "It was the same size as a normal single bed, but it was placed on a platform with steps up to it. The bed had straps fitted at the top and bottom, presumably for tying people on to it. There was a wheel to change the angle of the bed to lift it up or down. There were spikes...
...well. "Anticipation of the rising prices of essentials has Bangladeshis really worried," says Indra Nath Mukherji, an Honorary Visiting Professor of South Asian Studies at Jawaharlal Nehru University. "People are also saying elections should be taking place soon, they want the chance to have a say." The revelations of Khalil's treatment are only likely to add to the growing sense of disgruntlement...
...rebels helped too. Neither of the two main rebel chiefs, Timan Erdimi and Mahamat Nouri, wants the other to become President. The French weapons now pouring into Chad on Libyan aircraft will not seed stability. Many will flow into the armory of Déby's Darfurian ally Ibrahim Khalil, leader of the Justice and Equality Movement, encouraging him to escalate his war in Darfur...