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Bangladesh: Dhaka slams United States human rights report
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DHAKA, 18 April 2022, (TON): The government said the US human rights country report heavily underplayed Bangladesh's existing system of accountability over law enforcement agencies while Dhaka remains intensely engaged with the UN mechanism and US recommendations to protect human rights.
A statement of foreign ministry said "the report appears to encourage creating a society of lawlessness to destabilise the society and the government.”
It added “the legal system of Bangladesh does not allow killing by arbitrary use of firearms.”
The statement pointed that the death sentences to the 16 Rab officials in the Narayanganj seven-murder case and recent death sentences to two police officials in the Major Sinha murder case in Cox's Bazar are examples of accountability and non-impunity to law enforcers.
It added " magistrate requires members of the law enforcement agencies to account for every single use of firearms, without lawful explanation of which faces legal action.”
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