Death toll of Bangladeshi war on drugs exceeds 100

DHAKA, May 30 (NsNewsWire) — The casualties of the war on drugs being waged by Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina continue to mount, with latest figures showing that more than 100 alleged drug users and drug dealers have been killed since she ordered the bloody campaign earlier this month, reports Xinhua.
With a dozen more suspects killed early Tuesday in police operations in parts of the country, the drug-war death toll reportedly climbed to 108.
Almost all the alleged peddlers were killed in what law enforcers termed “shootout.”
Law enforcers have also been claiming since the beginning that all of the dead were involved in drug trafficking, but human-rights groups and opposition parties already voiced deep concerns, terming these “extrajudicial killings”.
Thousands of people have also been arrested in raids that have also been taking place in capital Dhaka.
Security forces intensified their crackdown on drug dealers in Dhaka over the last couple of days when several dangerous neighborhoods in the capital city were raided with seizures of a huge quantity of narcotic drugs including yaba tablets, marijuana and heroin.
Also on Tuesday afternoon police raided a place in Dhaka.
However, there has still been no official announcements of the total deaths from the ongoing drug war.
Bangladesh’s anti-crime elite force Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) earlier this month announced the countrywide anti-narcotics drive under orders from Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina who on several occasions this month had asked the law enforcers to go tough against the drug peddlers.
Last week she said raids to eliminate drug trafficking in Bangladesh supervised by RAB were similar to the ones conducted against militants.  Enditem