Human Rights Violation by the Law Enforcing Agencies: Bangladesh Perspective

Abstract

In today’s era of globalization, human right has become a world wide concern. In a second, in a single button-press of remote, people can know the human rights situation around the world. Bangladesh is not out of the bad image regarding human rights violation. Unfortunately, the situation in Bangladesh is worsening and frequently it has been becoming the headline of international press and electronic media. It is really frustrating to know that the state itself is the worst violator of human rights instead of being protector of it. To many extents, law enforcing agencies are held responsible for massive violation of human rights. Torture, assault, arbitrary arrest, police brutality in the peaceful assembly and atrocity towards the women are a common phenomenon in our day to day life. Extra judicial killing in the .name of cross-fire, encounter, line of fire have become very popular weapon in order to maintain law and order situation in a short-cut way. RAB, Chetah, Kobra all these elite forces are supplemented to mainstream police force under unconstitutional way in the name of curbing terrorism. Role of judiciary is significantly ignored by the law enforcing agencies since the weapon of cross-fire is in their hands. Army deployment in the aid of police department is a very favorite event for the government and it never cares how many peoples died of heart-attack under such deployment. The procession of death in cross-fire started with the killing of Pitcchi Hannan (an alleged top terror) and still it is a never ending story.

Alarmingly, people do not have any faith on the law enforcing agencies about their honest will, skill and capability. Rather they consider that a situation could be more easily handled if the police would not be involved in the matter. They never treat police as friend rather an enemy, alien.

This article is to look into the root causes behind the non-confidence of people on the law enforcing agencies as their aide and to find a way out of the problem making them pro-people, public-friendly and ultimate guardian of human rights.