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tv   Close up  Deutsche Welle  April 4, 2023 11:30pm-12:01am CEST

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ya, head out of the big chest, so there's no way of people knowing you. in case of the incident, when you were in the 77 percent. oh wow. in 60 minutes on dw lutely, now we've got some hot tips for your bucket list. ah, magic corner chat, hot spot for food and some great cultural memorials to mood w, travel off we go. 2 ah, this phone call capture something you were never supposed to hear it
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started with this woman trying to find out where her husband was, but it revealed a lot more i. ringback ah, the man being killed is akram hogan. earlier that day he had been taken by rod 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 there. thank gather bundle bows. accounts of the victims, every damn bill, like putting the gun on my head run 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, but usually the trigger is pulled from a short distance is good at the heart robe is definitely
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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 well of the prime minister, it is very unlikely that the whole minister will give an 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
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u. s. government and also the british goblin, the creed to them that production batavia and that provided them trade in 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 condition was but think that they have this mindset that it takes a lot of time to prosecute somehow and buy a drug gum live did cough foot with the puckett, and sometimes people post bail and return to criminal activity will be about up what i've got here. that's why they ignore the law. i did kill people hooked like i'm double did the phone book at the boy. mm. we're here to shed light on these crimes. our 1st lead is hawks murder. and the 1st person we want to talk to is his wife. ah,
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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 barrel. 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 going see. lemme ah me. if not, let me figure out his daughters 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,
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he would leave his meetings and come back home. do you want to go a little after? ah, her husband was killed in 2018 but their modest house is still filled with grief for his absence. ne usher gossip is painful. my father wants us to do well and that is wholly trying to for his leg utterly past the debt. tell me 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 ramadan and it was late one another. but we just had them because he was not involved in anything and they were not going to cause any trouble. if he medic validated at the is he low listener told me i will return. god willing you both sleep. i'm coming asked to
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sink 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 lose. i can get hold of god. 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 oliver sounds on the bottom of the thing i look at. yeah. well it was it again,
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this is direct evidence of how an operation is staged conroy. but it is, is essentially stage to go performance. so source days for 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 robber, they would go any extend to punish me. it would be even a study, michelle kimmie bagley. that's where i'm hiding my face while i'm talking to you. i got a little boy. that's because live the 1st ever to have served in rob and speak out . i did day 5, been a steady,
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michel keeping dog joe investigations that a moderate all the things that i've seen during my time include children with criminals, should out what us feeling killings and bride taking with. 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 hawks 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
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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 acting as a life that addicted di bonaza family. it went back again to good addict, a body, but aunt at a place in society. she took in columbus. 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 woods. and this is the water body. first, vin e to lanta and stop over here. big booty. very good here and here we stop on kind of movement ah,
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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 hocks. last phone call. photo. going 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 him with people not no shuttle to soft cost. so towels are typically used to avoid leaving any mark on the body of good ok shuttle blue. usually the trigger is cool from a distance of one or 2 feet dental or your 3 module so that the muzzle flash doesn't attach the targets, clothing or scale at all when it's done right. for philip way. oh, lou. after the target has been
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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 to you. the r o n entity cartridges are scattered around the back. oh 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. the 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. blue
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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 issued 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 struck vacaville, and the port 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,
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easy to patrol, camera free and inspected several times. due to the shot, i use no signs. time and again to reduce administrative hassle at a speed on all the right hand side about about how to put it back according to the whistleblowers. these are some common execution sites. yes, i believe like these are yeah. and these area 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 green one day. i timed it with my watch during an operation. i lead it, dick, at least 20 minutes. at least 20 minutes. doing diminished for 20
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minutes. you hear the sound of groaning that brought us then slowly it stops. no. m. o. 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 away the performers both pick all these are there are points allocated for each operation. marcy gordon, 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 bottom what our other whistleblower confirmed. the existence of these grim competitions. they both
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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 shoot outs 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 reporting 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? not just the current on the dash government that all bangladesh, governments in power during the existence of the rob have been quiet and had 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
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there is a problem or even that that there needs to be an investigation. that's a me suggest 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, rab 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. wrap up, picked up my brother and dennis is missing. this is sandita islam to lee the spokes person of an association of families whose fathers,
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brothers and husbands were taken by rob. oh, it's called maya dark mothers call. i was the younger one. anyway, i'm going, he was to hold my hand so i couldn't do that gives me that. i couldn't do anything . i still couldn't find me. what is happening with him. so i real till my last breath. whatever happens i've, i put in they often meet and hold rallies, determined to pressure the government to act up of if i give i learned that much. i love. yeah, i agree with it.
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i just like some she does, brother. many of those, abducted were local activists. for b, n 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 rabb acts on government orders. ah, wanted to go digging gauge meant decision for any political target would come at the very least from the ministry of home, a fast hole minister that you had to get clearance from the home ministry before doing a shoot out sort of demo. it also does trauma give the home menace to 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 does you it a message, this interview as a message for those who are waiting for their beloved ones to return. if they had been gone for a year or 2 more than the chance that they will return alive, is one percent less than one percent? did that up?
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we should. they asked me if the ministry of home affairs dismissed the allegations of political involvement as mallow, fighting and politically motivated. we had to cut our meeting with sandita islam short this, this doll this door. they were standing on the store, but that no person was available. yeah, aid 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 call the embassy phone. i told them to lock the door there drank gather, i think in front of those. oh
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ah, we don't know if we had been followed or not, but it wouldn't be anything unusual for san gita. 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 forget it, like knock that knock on my door that opening the handle and getting bust on the face. i cannot fog distance. this is no fees mohammed along. 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
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taken after his arrest bowl. the fournier auto robin had orders for the 1st round floor in the right corner and did the doctor so that andrea, this sill one fainter. this is the open space. there is a chair and there is a whole to hang up i was getting horrified like what kind of place is this? and like when i was taken to the sales, i got flawed that i did. this is a very well organized and managed dr. booked, it does limit a is a hidden sound system in every room. he done some system. lithography is always also your mostly to watergate, psychologically sound room. like what we identified. one of the sounds played in the cells for the
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next 36 hours. alum says he was tortured and tortured by one person, specifically. made another loo, navi kaiser is considered one of rob's tortures. we confronted him with the allegations, but he did not respond. now because i need kaiser is a bit arrogant. i'm not aware of any one 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 proved that he was there. on the 10th, they also had a playstation in that room and a tv. so when i was getting beaten, ah, now that guy thought of playing jessica's 3 on the playstation, he instructed them to put the hoop on my late in the handcuffs. finally and
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navigator pressed 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 associated 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 were like,
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beating the place till they threw each other the floor, 3rd money getting like shouts of joy like everyone out there. so at, 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 moral hawk. the fit was remarkable, almost immediately the number of killings went down. what's more, many bangladesh, he's welcomed them as the 1st sign of a long awaited reckoning for a force that his wielded power with near impunity. and even though you gonna say anything, i guess 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.
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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 wraps 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 their cup. as far as i know, everyone has gone on a peacekeeping mission after serving and rather good. and even though the number of killings went down after the sanctions, rob is still committing crimes with general electron
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scheduled to take place by early next year. they could become even more dangerous. for the doctor need about john. johanna ashi on bank or any national election, jewish until the human rights situation in bangladesh did 018 didn't. but to me that the business got to looking into. but from our experience of the last 3, 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 rap just i could have it. 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
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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 goldman bar it lesson them in a wrong bar. it lesson them to kill general people about this, do abduct, and i'll talk to 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 the 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,
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in particular, what could be done to put an end to rob's crimes that but 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 to do this should be in a minute. there should not be any such kind of organization in the county like bangladesh. 2 do the 2 i
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