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Khulna Rab on high alert as outlaws gets united to hit back

STAFF CORRESPONDENT, Khulna
Rapid Action Battalion-6 (Rab-6) has been put on high alert in the wake of reports that all the 12 outlawed organisations in southwestern region have united on a '20-point action programme' to avenge the killing of their cadres in 'crossfire'.
The action programme is mainly aimed at attacking the elite anticrime force using remote-controlled explosive devices, sources said.
The outlaws' planned offensive
will be led by Janajuddho faction of Purbo Banglar Communist Party (PBCP) that appears to have emerged stronger than the 11 other organisations.
Police sources said 50 extremists were killed in crossfire in Khulna region in the last one year.
Outlaws have killed around 3,000 people in the last 10 years and 300 in the last three years in the region, many of them from Khulna city and
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district. The victims included Journalists and political leaders.
Records available with police said Janajuddo cadres claimed responsibility for more than 100 murders in the last one and a half years. They also killed 14 policemen in Khulna and Bagerhat districts during the period.
Janajuddho shifted its main hideout to Khulna last month and is 'recruiting' drug addicts and wayward and jobless youths in the organisation, providing them financial support. They are being trained to carry out destructive activities using bombs and arms.
Meanwhile, a reported row between police and Rab in Khulna centring their authority is affecting maintenance of law and order, particularly containing murders. Officials of the two law enforcing agencies however termed it 'misunderstanding'.
Rab remained inactive in Khulna city in December and January for
reasons yet to be known. Unconfirmed reports said police did not help Rab to nab criminals. But police alleged that Rab operated in an unauthorised way, affecting police action.
High officials of police and Rab-6 yesterday held a closed-door meeting to sort out the problems and create a congenial atmosphere to crush criminals.
Police-Rab row figured prominently at the meeting. It also took up exchange of fire between the two sides on Khulna judge's court premises on September 7 last year and assault of two Rab members by the additional superintendent of police at his office on Monday night, sources said seeking anonymity.
Deputy Inspector General of Police Abdul Aziz Sarker, Director of Rab-6 Lt Col Farhad Ahmed and metropolitan police commissioner Javed Patwary could not be reached over telephone for their comments on the meeting.