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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 logical join us. we're beginning bunger, there's but a d, w, and an id through 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 grave. human rights abuses, claims which the bangladesh government has repeatedly denied. but neither of those investigative unit together with its sweden based partner spoke to inside as who

for the 1st time revealed evidence of how the force commits extrajudicial killings . some viewers might find this following report disturbing. 2 the phone call you about to hear captures in alleged murder in southern bangladesh . it was recorded in 2018 basha, begum. she connected to aspen phone only seconds before he was killed. ah. 3 6 really the day i coming back had been taken by the rapid action battalion in elite unit of the bag, reddish police, long accused, have kidnappings, torture and hundreds of killings. i mean, they typically, there whole other. i one justice little how was my husband killed and why the who gave the order already?

the recording continues for another 10 minutes. we're sirens and orders to plant ammunition and trucks close to the dying man. more shots are fired. later the official police report stated that a criminal act died in a shoot out between drug dealers. he audio dumb, little g of his audio is classic evidence of how an operation is staged. i did take part in extra judicial killings and torture. torture this visser glow is one of 2 former rab command us who are the 1st to speak up about the wraps systemic human rights abuses which been letters, government has long denied in detail. they describe how the elite squad has abducted torture and kit revealing the raps playbook for extra judicial killings. ah, it dark. in some cases, the scenes are made up beforehand or sometimes afterwards and but all the evidence is planted to blood. god, i hope it won't better, and there's nothing written about it. when all the no order is given in writing.

for months, the 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 once hostile is the home affairs minister gave such an order. it's very unlikely the 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 we corroborated the whistle blowers, testimonies with 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 until the bound with his government keeps denying that these abuses the record. it is these testimonies once again, show them, though they need to stop deny, asked at holdings ago, was of the canton megan southern bangladesh. i shabby. eagle shows us the glasses her husband wore when he was killed luggage. she received them with his body. since then she says, rap officers have pressured herd her family to remain silent on her 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, and her those who killed her husband are held to the count. and gentlemen, also more

d w a shows out of islam is part of the team that brought this investigation out of the 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 in bottom of it was a big problem. and this force was created as a counterterrorism force, and it has shown sucks is in the beginning. and i like it as successfully eliminated terrorism and walk to very 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 repeatedly 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 because you know, because as you correctly pointed out, the force was raised 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 heard of and pass it is in power as the prime minister since 2009. so basically just a 5, yes after this course was created, it is a way of working under the leadership of chic. uh, you know, with this, the chicago as so you say there is a clear connection. and since last 14 years, this force has been acting based on the needs but by this date and sometimes based on the needs of the government. and of course the go in means to shake us, you know, why is this happening? what is the connection here? mainly, i mean this force 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 part of human rights violations. that many times like a human ex was named this force that gets caught because the way it was, i mean now working the way it was eliminating a resume or any other stuff or shooting or encountered with criminals. every time you see a similar pattern like that, there was a cross fire 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 is, you know,

as being for the longest time, the prime minister of a boundary vision. therefore, her name keeps getting connected to the web in many ways. is she being viewed as trying to potentially establish a one party state, some a international observers see it like this? so, but at the same time, and you have to see that it has been doing a remarkable job of poor country. like, i mean, she has successfully completed many maker projects that the people among others are getting benefited from and the countries focusing economically and it's a stable country despite all this concerns. so these things are, they are like that is stability that are like more opportunities for the 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, seen as the not free and field is 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 favor of the political this ruling political party and also reported the police. and there are also involved in this process, especially one ambassador, japanese ambassador, last year, last year i made a comment on that. like he has neighborhood something like these that you so it involved in vote, really leaking in a country. does the opposition believe that the rab has 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 election period 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 deed of lou documentary chandler and r 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 its ceremonies, it's using a huge robot. one over concerns about the treatment and welfare of life. 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. and i live in. 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 perfect. the goal is clear, the artificial temple elephants of the future can both move and talk about a candidate 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 even though 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 today. there's more stories on the region on our website, the devil of pamphlets, pledge asia back again. tomorrow it's you then bye. oh, if you feel you read 60 is a sex drugs and rock and roll. b. rob m o l e s. innovative braking all the time. the rolling stones,

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