i reverse these is that you think together with sweden, based on the spent to inside this room for the 1st time, reveal the evidence of half the rapid action battalion is alleged with committed extra judicial candidates. and rational authorities have confirmed that a woman has been arrested in connection with an explosion that killed a prominent military blogger in st. petersburg, a suspect, and naturally took part. an antique will be called felice. sounds more well news of the top of the hour next on the w. more on that investigation into bangladesh is a good a thought they will grade a 22

. 2 ah, this phone call capture something you were never supposed to hear it started with this woman trying to find out where her husband was, but it revealed a lot more. ringback ah, the man being killed is akram hogan. earlier that day he had been taken by rad, a special unit of the bangladesh, police long accused of kidnappings, torture and murder. but this was the 1st time their violence was recorded on tape.

or d, w and nitro news looked into the case with an on the ground investigations. i told them to lock the door. they're trying to gather bundle bows. accounts of the victims every time they'll like putting the gun on my head. men again say that if we have any last wish said you're about to die. and for the 1st time the testimony of 2 rab insiders shot i don't know do usually the trigger is pulled from a short distance is good at the heart. red is definitely a didst watch. they claim that the crime exposed by this phone call is part of a wide spread system with complicity from the highest level. we though there were one of the prime minister, it is very unlikely that the woman is still given order, like the ministry of home affairs denies these allegations. so what is rob, and why is no one stopping it?

ah, we traveled all the way to bangladesh, to investigate the accusations against rob. this special force made up of police and military personnel was created in the aftermath of the september 11th attacks. and during the us led war on terror. at the time, bangladesh was suffering from a surge in terrorism, ah, would advise some u. s. government and also the british goblin. the creed lab did production battalion and that provided them trade in equipment today. rob has more than 13000 members because of them days, no more territory. went back about this, but it's been accused of human rights violations from the start. but minimal position was but think that they have this mindset that it takes a lot of time to prosecute. so and by act of gum led me to cough foot with the

puckett, and sometimes people post bail and return to criminal activity. will be about oprah . gotta eat. that's why they ignore the law. i did kill people hooked the gun double did the phone book, the boy. mm. we're here to shed light on these crimes. oh, our 1st lead is hawks murder, and the 1st person we want to talk to is his wife. ah, but we don't want to be noticed. we know she's being launched. so we make our way to her house, under the cloak of darkness. ah

the one on the deck, though we only had a room back then the 4 of us used to sleep in the one bed. we didn't even have enough space to approve what i for the day go see lemme ah me. if not, let me think you loved his daughter's a lot. he was very fond of them, no matter where he was, no matter how far away. if you heard that his daughters went any sort of trouble, he would leave his meetings and come back home. do you want to go to the last girl? ah, her husband was killed in 2018, but their modest house is still filled with grief for his absence. li oshkosh is painful, but my father wants us to do all that as well. we are trying to for his leg annually pap, the debt tony. the day he was killed,

a man from military intelligence kept calling him and asking to meet to discuss a land deal. his wife says, initially he resisted. it was rama done and it was late one another. we trusted them because he was not involved in anything that they were not going to cause any trouble. if he met, validated at the e t law center, told me, i will return, god willing you both sleep. i'm coming. asti think wooten? mm ah. that fateful evening. hark. drove down this road to meet the man who was loring him into a trap. we secretly filmed the lobby of this hotel where the meeting took place soon after the meeting, hock is handed over to the execution squad. that's when his wife reached him for

the last time i live. but a little dog, we don't know if he somehow managed to take her call or had went through automatically. but the call connected, his wife recorded what happened next? hello. hello. hello. i was, i was on the bottom of the thing i look at. yeah. well it was it again, ah, your view is to ranked evidence of how an operation is staged conroy but it is, is essentially stage to the performance of songs this, this, this is one of 2 whistleblowers who helped us expose rob's crimes. we spent days interviewing them, probing into their memories, cross checking their confessions. but we can't reveal much. we questioned them

separately against a bright light to conceal their face and re enacted their answers to hide their voice. all of this, to protect them from rod. they would go any extent to punish me. it would be even extraordinary shelton, largely that's why i'm hiding my face while i'm talking to you when i got home. well, that's because they're the 1st ever to have served in round and speak out. i did day for been a steady bishop keeping doctor investigations that i am awed at all. the things that i've seen during my time include shootouts with criminals, showed out what us dealing killings and bride taking that would have to we couldn't verify each detail of their accounts because the secret operations are seemingly ordered verbally to avoid a paper trial. but their testimonies and our research helped us piece together what

likely happened during the operation that took hawk's life and identify who bore responsibility for it. his murder was not an anomaly, but a stark illustration of the systematic human rights abuses committed by rabb, a macabre performance repeated hundreds of times me the opening act centers around monitoring the victim or rather the target we don't consider the person as a person, rather it target into demons. we kind of forget that the pass and where targeting. she's act them as a life that addicted di bonaza family. it went back again to good addict a body, but an act of a place in society. shit. i can throw on the we from way back about a bully day volatility. we asked our source to draw an example of how an extra

judicial killing is carried out. consider it as it rhodes. and this is the water body. first, vin eat will enter and stop over here. the booty very good here and here is stop on kind of movement. ah, color bless you civilian bands with tinted windows. each of rob's operations is unique, but they share props and procedures that also take center stage in hawks last phone call for. i don't want to put it equal to person who was talking to him before opening file was probably trying to keep him distracted. doesn't get a conversation deluxe either loop or not. not shuttle to soft cost. so towels are typically used to avoid leaving any mark on

the body. i've got a hook shot i don't know. do usually the trigger is cool from a distance of one or 2 feet dental or your stitch model, so that the muzzle flash 1000 tosh, the targets. clothing, all skin at all. i'm right for philip way. oh ah. after the target has been shot and while he's bleeding to death, the 2nd act begins the cover up of the murder as a shoot out. ah, demo we, for example, a weapon is placed in the individuals and you the o. an entity cartridges are scattered around the pillow. oh yeah, we identified 2 voices in the recording as that of men who served at rab at the

time of the murder. their involvement directly implicates rob in the case. judy eda, if they want to make it look like a drug related case if they definitely plant drugs either in his pocket or inside the bag, he is carry the bag mother medic, idella. oh lou fox, death is shrouded in mystery. according to the police report, rab got a tip off about a drug deal. all the drug dealers were able to slip away apart from one who got killed in a shoot out, a cruel hawk. but his wife reject these allegations around oakland, always another girl. he was never involved in anything like that. he was always again struggling to look on the and the report is full of discrepancies with a recorded phone call, which it doesn't even mention from this reconstruction. it's clear that rob takes

every measure to ensure that their crimes leave no implicating traces, but they do because their procedures are so systematic, they create distinct patterns that reveal rob's hand. let's go back to this drawing. a location like this is not so easy to find. it needs to be isolated, easy to patrol, camera free and inspected several times. through the shop, i used no signs of time and again to reduce administrative hassle at a speed on all the right hand side about about how could attack him according to the whistleblowers, these are some common execution sites. yes, i believe like these are yup. and these are you

this matches with what we found in hawks case. he was executed in one of these sites here on the marine drive of the south east coast of bangladesh. or even glory one day. i timed it with my watch during an operation, i led it dick, at least 20 minutes. at least 20 minutes. doing diminished for 20 minutes. you hear the sound of groaning that brought us then slowly it stops. own. according to the 2 former rab commanders, most victims are not killed instantly but left to bleed to death. we managed to get hold of hawks post mortem report. it shows the same pattern, bullet wounds in the upper body. death due to hemorrhage.

and as the final act draws to a close, rewards await the performers bull nickel, these are there are points allocated for each operation must use it ordered at the end of the month of every battalions, points are tallied. and the one with the most points it is declared the winner that up. but on our other whistleblower confirmed the existence of these grim competitions. they both told us that to get ahead of other teams. rab officers tried to score as many points as possible towards the end of the month. after trawling through the data of reported shootouts compiled by activists, a trend emerges almost half of the killings occurred in the last 3rd of a month. this data relies on media reports and might be under reported the phone call, our sources and the data paint oblique portrayal of wraps crimes which begs

the question, why isn't anyone putting a stop to it? we're not just the current bangladesh government, but all bangladesh governments in power during the existence of the rob have have been quiet and have never been willing to acknowledge these. these concerns about human rights violations within the rob. the fact that the government has been unwilling to acknowledge that there is a problem or even there that there needs to be an investigation that to me suggests that the government has some in the high school and the government in bangladesh means shay casino. ah, she's the head of the alarming league. and for the last 14 years, the prime minister under her rule route has been accused not only of stage shootouts, but also more covert operations, such as abductions and torture. who the ministry of home affairs told us that

according to their investigations, the allegation made appears not to be authentic. ah, back in the capital dot com, we are meeting someone who blames the government for rob's crime rad. picked up my brother. and dennis is missing. this is sandita islam to lee the spokes person of an association of families whose fathers, brothers and husbands were taken by rob. it's called maya dark mothers call. i was the younger one. anyway, i'm going he was to hold my hand. no, i couldn't do that, gives me that. i couldn't do anything. i still couldn't find him. what is happening with him? so i will till my last breath. whatever happens at my foot, or they often meet and hold rallies,

determined to pressure the government to act up of every i love that much. i love it. i did with it. ah, just like said jesus brother, many of those abducted were local activists for b and p, bangladesh, main opposition party and were picked up in the run up to the 20142018 elections. this seems to align with what the whistleblowers claim. rab act on government orders. ah, why did he go digging gauge meant decision for any political target would come at the very least from the ministry of home, a fast hole ministry,

if you had to get clearance from the home ministry before doing a shoot out, i don't know, it won't hurt us to look if the home minister gave such an order it is highly unlikely that the prime minister of bangladesh didn't know about it because they also carry a sombre message. a don't feel the message. this interview was a message for those who are waiting for their beloved ones to return. if they had been gone for a year or 2, then the chance that they will return alive is one percent less than one percent debt that i will be sure they actually keep the ministry of home affairs dismissed the allegations of political involvement as mallet fighting and politically motivated, we had to cut our meeting with son judah, islam short this, this doll, this store there was standing on this store, but that to parson was incredible. yeah. 8 us that my pi several

men, some in uniform. we're approaching her house. we left with a different car to divert their attention. it needs to be of this before i told them to lock the door, they drank together. i think in vogue about oh oh, we don't know if we had been followed or not, but it wouldn't be anything unusual for son judah. just a taste of the continuous harassment she and her friends are facing. these families live hoping to see their loved ones again, not knowing what happens after rob knox at your door. but we also talked with someone who knows it very well. that night i cannot

far good legs. not that knock on my door that opening the handle and getting past on the face. i can not forget december, this is no fees. mohammed alarm, he was arrested on november 3rd 2021. as this news report shows, he was accused of illegally selling alcohol, a controlled substance in bangladesh. we filmed the building where he says he was taken after his arrest. all the form via around had orders for the 1st round floor in the right corner. there the doctor, so this is the and re of the cell one for enter. this is the open space. there is a chair and there is a who to hang up. i was getting horrified like what kind of place is this? and like when i was taken to the sales and i got flawed, that this is

a very well organized and managed dr. booked. it does limit a is a hidden sound system in every room. he does so system little dog is always also you're mostly a to create psychologically solar. look what are we identified? one of the sounds played in the cells for the next 36 hours. alum says he was tortured and tortured by one person, specifically major novel novel kaiser is considered one of rob's tortures. we confronted him with the allegations, but he did not respond. navea garcia need kaiser is a bit arrogant. i'm not aware of anyone who has a good relationship with him. donna alam says that his torture asked the

journalists not to film his face, but with this screen shot, we identified him up there in the corner. that proves that he was there on the team . they also had a playstation in that room and a tv. so when i was getting beaten ah novice, i thought of playing dust 'cause 3 on the playstation. he instructed them to put the hoop on my leak. in the handcuff miley and navigator pissed a switch. and the hook was like pulling me up, pulling me up. he says he was beaten and given electric shocks. but his life was spared wrapped file charges against him and handed him over to the police. he was imprisoned, still bearing the wounds of torture on shore of what lay ahead. went on december 10th, 2021. at the stroke of 7 p. m. unexpected news brightened his day. he

us has announced new sanctions against a dozen officials of foreign governments for their alleged rolls in human rights abuse sanctions against dozens of people and entities tied to china, bangladesh against individual associates with the police. both in bangladesh, accused of extra judicial killings. you have no idea like people in the deal and the like, the prisoners were like shouting with joy. they're like beating the place still play through each other the floor, 3rd money. getting like shouts of joy like everyone out there so happy. despite providing it with training and equipment for many years, the u. s. had imposed sanctions on rap for their involvement in a gross violation of human rights, namely the extra judicial killing of after a more hot oh, the fit was remarkable. almost immediately,

the number of killings went down. what's more, many bangladesh is welcome them as the 1st sign of a long awaited reckoning for a forced at his wheel to power with near impunity. and even though you can say anything as they were in bolivar, the other countries in the world are like they are concerned that these things are going on. it was really our light at the end of the tunnel for us. but impunity remains pervasive for as important as the sanctions were. they only targeted 7 high ranking officials by name countless others got away with literally murder abductions and torture. i remember this face novit kaiser. one of raps alleged tortures was not included in the sanctions lest in fact he was given extra responsibilities. those we identified

who were present at hawks murder were also not on the list. and the man who lord him into the trap was even awarded a lucrative posting. as a un peacekeepers, i'm out of debt. come as far as i know, everyone has gone in a peacekeeping mission after serving and rotten. and even though the number of killings went down after the sanctions, rob is still committing crimes with general electron scheduled to take place by early next year. they could become even more dangerous for the doctor need about john donna ashate. welcome back. or any national election tuition for the human rights situation in bangladesh deteriorates in didn't. but to look at the be cisco got to look in it. but from our experience of the last thing, especially the last 2 elections. there are enough reasons to believe that those in power will try to stay in power by any means dick gonna broke out without a cold and rack up just i couldn't.

2 2 2 like rab was created in big part to fight terrorism, but it's now itself terrorizing many in bangladesh to these types of entities. unfortunately tend to be hard wired for the use of violence in great part because they do enjoy impunity. evidence suggests not only that, rob uses its special powers and tools to circumvent the court system and commit crimes. but also that the force itself is used as a political tool. i'm blaming go men bar it less than them. you know, wrongly bar it lesson them to kill general people about this,

do abduct, and val tortured them to maintain their power. while these accusations are not new, our investigation, and the unprecedented testimony of to rob insiders make them harder to ignore. bad is what makes thee so important. the fact that these testimonies come from the inside from those that know exactly what is going on on the inside. there's going to be a lot more questions now. and one question, in particular, what could be done to put an end to robs crimes? in the book that everyone who is responsible needs to be identified and be placed on the sanctions list. if it means targeting the highest level of the state, it needs to be done to about why should they should be in a minute. there should not be any such kind of organization in the county like bangladesh did

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