The National Human Rights Commission has called upon authorities concerned to immediately stop extrajudicial killings going on in the name of “shootout” and “crossfire.”
“There should be no extrajudicial killing whatever the reasons may be. It should be stopped immediately,” NHRC Chairman Prof Mizanur Rahman said yesterday at a programme in the capital.
He made the statement at a time when two suspected criminals were killed in a “gunfight” with police in the capital’s Jatrabari area yesterday.
“We started raising our voice against all sorts of extrajudicial killings after taking over [NHRC office] in 2010,” he said claiming that such incidents had come down to almost “zero percent.”
Mizanur, a professor of law at Dhaka University, also said: “People today hear and read about cooked up stories of gunfight.
“The stories are all similar. Only the names of victims, places of occurrences, times, dates and the names of the officials involved are different,” he said.
These incidents indicate deterioration of human rights situation in the country, he said.
