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Extrajudicial killings decline

Claims home minister

Staff Correspondent
Newly appointed Home Minister Mohiuddin Khan Alamgir has said he neither supports extrajudicial killing nor considers the loss of lives at the hands of law enforcers as extra-judicial murder.
"We do not support any extrajudicial killing. But if it has really happened, we will probe how it happened
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and who ordered to do so," he told a press briefing after his first visit to the Rapid Action Battalion headquarters in Uttara yesterday.
"We cannot term it an extrajudicial killing if militants or criminals are physically harmed in action by the law enforcers to catch them," he added.
Mohiuddin Khan Alamgir, who replaced Shahara Khatun on September 15, also claimed incidents of extrajudicial killings came down during the present government's tenure, if compared with those of the previous government.
Asked to explain how, the minister said the govern-
ment was handling the law enforcers cautiously to reduce such killings to a great extent.
On missing BNP leader M Ilias Ali, he said, "It is yet to be ascertained if Ilias is a victim of secret killing or if he went into hiding. Besides, there were several allegations against Ilias of terrorism and killing."
Former BNP lawmaker Ilias Ali and his car driver Ansar Ali remain missing since April 18.
"Many people were killed during the Operation Clean Heart and we will also investigate the incidents of the killings in the name of Operation Clean Heart," the minister said.
Between 16 October
2002 and 9 January 2003, some 50 people were killed across the country in the army-led Operation Clean Heart.
The Rab in its first meet-ing with MK Alamgir demanded a permanent office on its own land, two more battalions and a helicopter, meeting sources said.
The home minister assured the elite force of fulfilling their demands, the sources added.
Inspector General of Police Hassan Mahmood Khandker, Director General of Rab Mokhlesur Rahman and Commanding Officers of different Rab units, among others, were present at the briefing.