> While the violent criminal elements are patronized by
> the ruling party as well as by the major bourgeois
> opposition party, widespread breakdown of law and
> order also creates a legitimation crisis for the
> state. One way the state is trying to deal with it is
> to create legally sanctioned death squads to
> assassinate the most unmanageable violent elements who
> either don't have enough connection with the
> establishment or who have become political
> liabilities. An elite force called Rapid Action
> Battalion (RAB) is created for that purpose. What RAB
> does is that they arrest a criminal. The next day the
> newspaper publishes a news to the effect that the
> associates of that criminal were trying to snatch him
> away from the RAB, there was! a cross fire between the
> criminal associate and the RAB , and the person
> accidentally killed in that crossfire. The same story,
> identical almost to the last details, appear in the
> newspapers several times a week. Of course, every one
> knows what happened. RAB, instead of going through
> the trouble of the usual legal process, just killed
> that person. The whole affair is such an open secret
> that the newspaper put the word crossfire within
> quotation mark.
Can you suggest some Bangladeshi secular/Left newspapers/journals available on the net?
Ulhas