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149 killed in extra-judicial action in '08

Staff Correspondent
At least 149 people were victims of extra-judicial killings while 454 women and children the victims of rape across the country in 2008, shows a report revealed by Odhikar, a human rights organisation.
Odhikar’s Adviser Farhad Majhar presented the report at a roundtable meeting at Jatiya Press Club in the city yesterday morning.
Of the killings, 59 were killed by police, 68 by Rapid Action Battalion (Rab), one by Bangladesh Rifles, four by coast guard while 15 killed in police-Rab joint operations.
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custody across the country, says the report.
Of the raped victims. 202 were women while 252 female children. Sixty eight women and 30 children were killed after rape, it adds.
It says at least 75,480 people are now staying in jail custody against its accommodation capacity of 27,368 across the country'.
About 133 people became acid victims in the year. Of them, 73 were female, 26 children and 34 male, the report also says.
It says arbitrary arrests and detentions took a new turn' as 60,215 Tpeopirwul JMMied from May 28 midnight to June 30, 2008 in the form of 'mass arrest'.
The speakers at the meeting urged the government to take necessary steps against the human rights violations in the country.
Odhikar believes that the caretaker government system as contemplated in the Constitution has to be reexamined and replaced to make space for the institutions to work, the report says.
"A caretaker system disrupts constitutional development. Also the tenure of the caretaker government has to be addressed as well so that in future, people don't live under un-elected oppressive regimes, "it says.
Odhikar demands that the next parliament should not grant blanket impunity and ratify acts of the army-backed caretaker government.
There are a number of ordinances such as the Anti Terrorism Ordinance 2008, Right to Information Ordinance 2008 and other ordinances promulgated during the caretaker regime that should not be approved without major reviews and changes, the report suggests.
Journalist Ataus Samad, Mahfuz Ullah and Matiur Rahman Chowdhury, Prof Mizanur Rahman, Mahmudur Rahman, chairman of the Amar Desh Publications Ltd, and advocate Adilur Rahman Khan, secretary general of Odhikar. among others, spoke on theoccasion.