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Where outlaws call all the shots

Law and order takes a tumble in the southwest

Quazi Amanullah, Khulna
The law and order in the southwestern region of the country has taken an alarming turn with the armed cadres of some outlawed organisations attacking the law enforcers and looting their arms.
Activists of the outlawed Purbo Banglar Communist Party (PBCP) and Biplobi Communist Party (BCP) killed nine policemen in the
region in the last 16 months and also looted arms. But none of the killers and looters could be nabbed as yet.
The situation has become worse particularly in Khulna, Bagerhat, Satkhira, Kushtia, Jhenaidah, Meherpur and Chuadanga districts.
Police blame politicians for the situation, who in turn blame police, while people hold both
responsible.
Sources said the PBCP has branded police as the main 'class enemy' and put them on its hit list. Even they throw challenge to police, distributing leaflets in different areas. They loot arms and ammunition virtually without any obstruction and go away raising slogans of their party.
"It seems the situation has gone beyond the control of police and people have no option but to live at the mercy of the outlaws," one source said.
A top official of the Khulna district police admitted that armed PBCP cadres looted rifles and bullets at Daulatpur Jute mills and at Fakirhat and killed two constables, throwing a challenge to police. They did it because district police repeatedly raided their hideouts in Rupsha, Terokheda and Digholia upazilas in the last one year and police firing left one of their cadres, Sabuj (34), killed last month.
Officials of Khulna Metropolitan Police and District Police say their men are 'losing morale' in the face of a series of armed attacks and arms looting. Most of the police personnel do not try sincerely to nab the outlaws because their ringleaders are sheltered by some influential leaders of the ruling party. "We are not rewarded but rebuked for taking action against those elements," one official said, seeking anonymity.
But leaders of political parties and socio-cultural organisations say apart from getting protection from some ruling party leaders, the outlaws are also protected by their beneficiaries in police department.
However, people in the region feel that both politicians and police are responsible for the sharp deterioration in the law and order.