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Rights Group Calls on Bangladesh to Stop ‘Knee-Capping’ Detainees

Human Rights Watch is calling on Bangladesh to stop “knee-capping” detainees arrested by the country’s security forces. In a report published on Thursday, the watchdog group detailed accounts of officers “deliberately shooting” opposition party members and supporters in their legs at close-range, causing the alleged victims permanent damage and in some case amputation of their limbs. “They’re adopting tactics similar to those once used by the Irish Republican Army and engaging in ‘kneecappings’ of people they have arrested, apparently because they belong to or support an opposition party,” Human Rights Watch’s Asia director Brad Adams said.

 

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