on youtube, a d. w documentary inside bangladesh is elite force rob for the 1st time, 2 former commanders, a no investigative documentary, they describe human rights violations. the government has always denied wrong. brought to you on o. d. w platforms. this is did other news asia coming up to dave extrajudicial killings eventually carried out by bunk that they should elite police squad especially the double investigation reveals how bribe the rapid action battalion which was set up to fight terrorism, takes the law into its own hands. class, later in the program of robot elephant for an indian temple activists and engineers

work together to create a robotic version of the gentle giant for temple ceremonies. it looks real costless and his cruelty free. ah, by british vanity, welcome to dw news. asia ledger could join us. we're beginning bunger. there's where the dw and nitro news investigation has uncovered details of killings linked to the country's elite police force. the rapid action battalion or r a b was set up in 2004 as part of the us led war on terror. it was trained and equipped by the u. s. and other western countries to fight extremist violence. the r a b has long faced accusations of great human rights abuses, claims which the bangladesh government has repeatedly denied, but neither of those investigative unit together with sweden based thought nurse

spoke to insiders, who for the 1st time dreamed evidence of how the force commits extrajudicial cummings, some heroes might find this following report disturbing. 2 the phone call you about to hear kept us in alleged murder in southern bangladesh. it was recorded in 2018 bash, begum. she connected to aspen phone only seconds before he was killed. oh ah. 3 early in the day i common hack had been taken by the rapid action battalion, an elite unit of the bag, reddish police, long accused of kidnappings, torture and hundreds of killings. i'm. it's a 30 day holiday. i want justice. how was my husband killed and why the who gave the order? not only the recording continues for another 10 minutes. we're sirens and orders to

plant ammunition and rugs close to the dying man. more shots are fired. later the official police report stated that a common hack died in his shooter between drug dealers. he ordered some little d of his audio is classic evidence of how an operation is staged. i did take part in extra judicial killings and torture. torture. this whistleblower is one of 2 former rab commanders who are the 1st to speak up about the rab systemic human rights abuses which been letters government has long denied in detail. they describe how the elite squad has abducted torture and kid revealing the raps, playbook for extra judicial killings. ah, it dark. in some cases, the scenes are made up beforehand or sometimes afterwards in white, but all the evidence is planted to blood. god, i hope it will, it is,

and there's nothing written about it. well, no, no order is given in writing 4 months, d, w, and netra news investigated the rapid action battalion a thaws of $13000.00, which was originally founded to fight terrorism and crime in bangladesh. but according to the whistleblowers, it is also used as a political tool to silence opponents of the government. political, the engagement decision on any political target would come at the very least from the ministry of home affairs, whom he needed was a must to get clearance from home affairs. little it won't hurt us too. and if the home affairs minister gave such an order, it's very unlikely that prime minister of bangladesh, it didn't know about it, recall as there's no paper trail, it's hard to verify that claim. but he corroborated the whistleblowers. testimonies was victims, accounts, medical records, police reports and data from human rights organizations. when confronted with our

findings, bangladesh, prime minister did not respond. the rap referred us to the ministry of home affairs, which cited their own investigation and denied all allegations as baseless and uncle. the band with his government keeps denying to these abuses of record. it is these testimonies once again, show them that they need to stop, deny, and start holding secret deposits account back in soften by gladish. i shabby. eagle shows us the glasses, her husband, when he was killed, lady she received them with his body. since then she says, rap officers have pressured herd her family to remain silent on air desk. he said, just one thing. he said, your husband has died and you could die at any moment to the body. but i shall begum once a proper investigation. she says she will continue to speak up until those who killed her husband are held to the count. and gentlemen,

also more d w, it shows out of islam. he's part of the team that brought you this investigation. a welcome. thanks for being here. what repetition does the rapid action battalion have amongst all the issues when it was formed back in 2004 that terrorism or the problem involve, it was a big problem. and this force was created as a counter terrorism port, and it has shown success in the beginning. and i like it as successfully eliminated terrorism and walk to pretty efficiently, i would say, but at the same time, since then, it has also been accused of violating human rights while conducting the aids against like criminals, or militants or others. and this concern is, this is the beginning, and now this was a last decade. we have seen that this force has also been used to re put reportedly as a political tool, especially by the ruling party and the government. and that has, you know, it has also been accused of using this for, for, for their own interest. why?

particularly the government of trade? because you know, because as you could actually pointed out, the forceful rate in 2004 by that then government, and even then questions about human rights abuses were asked and then some would say, conveniently, ignored. so what is it about the particular government of because you know why her government has it is in power as the prime minister since 2009. so basically just a fight after the discourse was created. it is a way of working under the leadership of because, you know, with this issue has been a government. and so you say there is a clear connection. and since last 14 years, this force that has been acting based on the need for by the state and sometimes based on the needs of the government. and of course the government to shake us, you know, why is this happening? what is the connection here? mainly, i mean, this force i was very successful in eliminating terrorism. this is one thing that

it has done successfully at the same time and you know that that is a part of human rights violations. many times like a human ex was named this force that gets caught because the way it was, i mean it working the way it was eliminating a resume or any other stuff or shooting or encounters with criminals. every time you see a similar pattern like that, there was a crossfire and someone killed in the process or died in the process. and in most cases, you'll see this lab has been killing people in a way. and as a human rights activist said that this crossfire is performance, it's basically they're killing people and naming it crossfire. a lot of the people who are dying in these are so called cross fires, essentially political opponents. and as you said, the trick, as you know,

has been for the longest time, the prime minister of boundary vision. therefore, her name keeps getting connected to the rab in many ways. is she being viewed as trying to potentially establish a one party state. some international observers see it like the say, but at the same time you have to see that it has been doing remarkable jobs of our country. like, i mean, she has successfully completed many major projects that the people about this are getting benefited from. and the countries progressing economically and it's a stable country despite all this concerns. so these things are, they are like that is a stability that are like more opportunities for investment. i would say at the same time, the biggest concern is democracy, especially if you look at the last 2 elections and boundaries. both are, i mean, as seen as the not free and field. it's really the election that was,

that happened for 4 years ago. there was like a huge concern because many people believe even now that the election basically took place the night before the election day. that means there was massive vote rigging in front of the political this ruling political party and also reported the police. and there are also involved in this process, especially one embers, an ambassador, last year, last year i made a comment on that. like, he has neighborhood something like these that we saw it involved in vote, really leaking in a country. does the opposition believe that the rob become a political to for the current prime minister? clearly, i mean if you look at our documentary back there, we have talked to a member of i'm a family member of people who are abducted by the security forces personally by them during this

a little bit of 20142018. so there are clear pattern that many opposition activities have been abducted reportedly by deb and they have never returned. we'll leave it there for the time being. but thank you so much for joining us today. article islam from the w's investigative team and the full documentary on the did of the investigation is not available on youtube, on the dw documentary channel. and our a temple in the southern industry of carola, is forging new ground becoming what activists are describing as cruelty free. rather than using rural elephants in it's ceremonies. it's using a huge robot, one over concerns about the treatment and welfare of live animals. meet eating, just deeply ram on south india's new superstar over 3 bolen weighing in at 800 kilos. he looks like a real life elephant. he can also act like one flap, his ears cry, and even spray water from his trunk. but he's not

a real elephant at all. but in daily living, the biggest advantage is that he can't attack or rampage as often happens at temple festivals with real elephants. and for the townspeople, it is something exciting in you, in an artist, an engineer prashant and his team spent years building the artificial temple elephant financed by donations from animal rights activists. the men have tweaked and changed the design over and over using steel, rubber plant fibers and small motors overrule the boss is satisfied with his prototype, but he still thinks it can improve. ah, not a garden. i hope we can make the elephants even more perfectly. the goal is clear, the artificial temple elephants of the future can both move and talk about the planning. perfect or not. the prototype is a big hit. temple visitors are excited and the animal rights activists who originally came up with the idea of the artificial elephant feel vindicated.

madonna, other communities have already contacted us. 5 other temples also want an artificial elephant. got it in the motorized elephant has another advantage. it's cheaper than a real animal, and the money saved can be invested directly back into the festival. elephant size savings that, that's it for to very, very small stories in the region on our website. the doubled up on forward slash asia, back again, tomorrow with to them. come have a teacher. cow tv highlights you every week in your inbox. subscribe now. to live alone to get a monthly number lost over the phone with them

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