Thousands of Bangladeshi protesters marched on August 30 demanding information on hundreds of people they say security forces have abducted during Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's nearly 15 years in power. Opposition supporters of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party and its allies joined families of those missing to mark the International Day of the Victims of Enforced Disappearances, many with black gags …
Experts believe there are wider implications of last week’s US sanctions against Bangladesh’s notorious paramilitary force. So far, Dhaka’s reaction to the US sanctions against the RAB has been visceral and sporadic, with Bangladesh’s foreign minister saying the US “possibly invited only weak democracies” to the summit and the home minister saying the sanctions against the paramilitary force was based …
