Crossfire (Bangladesh)

Crossfire is a form of staged extrajudicial killings in Bangladesh, often used to refer to the death of a person by gunshot while under the custody of a law enforcement agency. In March 2010, the hitherto director-general of the country's counterterrorism force Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) stated that since the unit's foundation in 2004, 622 people had been killed by RAB. The Human Rights Watch has described RAB as a Bangladeshi government death squad. Odhikar, a Dhaka-based human rights organization, reported at least 1,169 people having lost their lives in extrajudicial killings between January 2009 and May 2016. According to Odhikar, 24 people were the targets of extrajudicial killings in June 2016 alone. Human rights group Ain O Salish Kendra claims that 79 people were killed by "crossfire" while in the custody of Bangladeshi authorities in the first half of 2016. The police were involved in 37 of these deaths, of which seven had been in killed in crossfire with Detective Branch (DB) officials. In May 2018, the Bangladeshi police shot and killed 130 people as part of the 2018-2019 Bangladesh drug war.

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