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WikiLeaks: U.K. & U.S. Embrace Bangladeshi Death Squad

HeadlineDec 22, 2010

While WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange remains under house arrest in Britain, the whistleblowing website is continuing to publish more secret U.S. diplomatic cables. One new cable reveals that the British government has been training a Bangladeshi paramilitary force condemned by human rights organizations as a “government death squad.” Since it was established six years ago, the Rapid Action Battalion force has been accused of carrying out more than 1,000 extrajudicial killings. Despite the killings, U.S. and British officials have embraced the unit. In one cable, the U.S. ambassador to Dhaka, James Moriarty, writes that the Rapid Action Battalion is the “enforcement organisation best positioned to one day become a Bangladeshi version of the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation.”

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