{"id":363803,"date":"2018-06-02T16:07:44","date_gmt":"2018-06-02T15:07:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/over-100-killed-in-bangladesh-anti-drug-crackdown\/"},"modified":"2018-06-02T16:07:44","modified_gmt":"2018-06-02T15:07:44","slug":"over-100-killed-in-bangladesh-anti-drug-crackdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/over-100-killed-in-bangladesh-anti-drug-crackdown\/","title":{"rendered":"Over 100 killed in Bangladesh \u201canti-drug\u201d crackdown"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content\">\n<h3 class=\"nomargin\">\u00a0<\/h3>\n<h2>Over 100 killed in Bangladesh \u201canti-drug\u201d crackdown<\/h2>\n<h5>\n<p>    By<br \/>\n    Wimal Perera<br \/>\n    <br \/>2 June 2018<\/p>\n<\/h5>\n<p>Over 100 people have been killed and around 12,000 arrested so far in an \u201canti-drug\u201d crackdown launched last month by the Bangladesh government of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina. The operation has been compared with the murderous so-called anti-drug war conducted by Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte from mid-2016 to early 2017.<\/p>\n<p>Under the pretext of \u201csaving the country from the drug menace,\u201d hundreds of police officers and Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) personnel have been mobilised against residents in slum areas of the capital Dhaka and other major cities. The RAB is notorious for brutality and has been widely condemned by human rights groups.<\/p>\n<p>The real purpose of these police-state style operations is to strengthen the state apparatus against growing anti-government opposition by workers, youth and other oppressed layers, in preparation for mass social struggles against the Bangladesh capitalist elite.<\/p>\n<p>Virtually all those killed in the crackdown were supposedly shot during \u201cgunfights,\u201d \u201ccrossfire\u201d or \u201cshootouts\u201d with law enforcers. Not a single police or state security officer has been killed in the military-style operations.<\/p>\n<p>On May 26, heavily-armed RAB personnel raided the poverty-stricken Stranded Pakistanis Relief Camp, popularly known as the Geneva Camp, in Dhaka\u2019s Mohammadpu area. Over 150 people were arrested. More than 40,000 Urdu-speaking people are housed in miserable conditions in the settlement, with an average of 90 people forced to share a single toilet.<\/p>\n<p>Later that night, 52 people were arrested during raids on Dhaka\u2019s Kamlapur and Korail slums. Police claimed to have recovered marijuana, methamphetamine tablets and locally-made liquor.<\/p>\n<p>Prime&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wsws.org\/en\/articles\/2018\/06\/02\/badr-j02.html\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 Over 100 killed in Bangladesh \u201canti-drug\u201d crackdown By Wimal Perera 2 June 2018 Over 100 people have been killed and around 12,000 arrested so far in an \u201canti-drug\u201d crackdown launched last month by the Bangladesh government of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina. The operation has been compared with the murderous so-called anti-drug war conducted by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2526,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-363803","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363803","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2526"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=363803"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363803\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=363803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=363803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=363803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}