Political violence in the country took 289 lives in the last nine months, compared to 84 in the last year, a statistical report by rights group Ain o Salish Kendra has showed.
Citing information collected by ASK staff and from the news reports in the national dailies, the report said from January to September this year, a total of 13,075 people were injured in at least 533 incidents of violence around the country.
According to the report, an alarming number of 23 Bangladeshis were killed by the Indian Border Security Force (BSF) during the period. Eleven among them were shot and 12 tortured inhumanly to death.
The report was sent to different media houses in the form of a press release Monday.
BSF also injured 68 people and abducted 132 during the period. Among the abducted, BGB brought back 39 through negotiation while the remaining could not be traced.
Based on newspaper reports, ASK sketched that 32 people were killed in “crossfire” with law enforcers in the nine months. Among them, Rapid Action Battalion killed 18, police 13 and BGB killed one.
The ASK report cited family members to claim that some 33 people had been picked up by law enforcing agencies during the period and the five of their bodies were found later.
During this nine months, two journalists were killed, 25 received death threats from political goons, government officials, criminals and unnamed persons. Moreover, 248 journalists were tortured in different ways.
Apart from those, 99 people were lynched and 54 were killed in custody. Among them, 29 were convicted and 25 detained.
The report said the government had imposed section 144 at least 105 times in different places in the country in the last nine months.
Repression on Women
The report said 92 women committed suicide because of repression by family members, employers, local goons, criminals and influential people.
Among them, 13 committed suicide after being raped. Moreover, four men and three women were killed because they tried to resist torture. 219 people, who protested tortures on others, were harassed.
The report showed that 21 women were tortured following arbitration and among them, two women were lashed.
A total of nine domestic helps succumbed to the injuries that they had suffered in the hands of their masters over the last nine months. Furthermore, two others were raped and killed and the reasons for the deaths of 23 others could not be known.
Five other domestic helps committed suicide.
Centering dowry, three fell victim to acid terror, 127 were tortured to death and 21 committed suicide. Apart from them, 39 women committed suicide after failing to bear with domestic violence.
A total of 239 women were killed by their family members or relatives during this nine-month period.
According to the report, 702 women were raped in the country and 69 of them were killed.
Twelve women took their lives after being raped and criminals attempted rape on 166 women.