Over 3 thousand victims murdered in 11 months

Murders, snatching, gang-rape, abductions and robbery have hit news headlines over and over again during last more than one year. Newspapers and social media platforms spill over with news items, photographs and video clips showing unrestrained crimes all over Bangladesh almost everyday. An absolute lawless situation has gripped the country putting ordinary citizens in a state of panic. Victims being chopped to death are being uploaded on social media every now and then triggering fears and worries.

Attacks on women and girls have also escalated at an unnaturally staggering pace. Robbery and gang-rape are happening in various parts of Bangladesh every week according to news coverage. Even in some places members of law and order forces are also being subjected to dreadful crimes.

Civil society members have commented that police personnel need to be rejuvenated to enable them to resist crimes and to get hold of criminals quickly. Trepidations about the plight of law and order across Bangladesh ahead of general elections have become all the more intensified. Law and order forces must make the best of their efforts and work with highest dedication and professional skills to sustain rule of law as elections are approaching.

Data from Police Department shows that during last 11 months 1 lakh 68 thousand 505 people fell victims to different sorts of crime in Bangladesh. These crimes include assaults on women and minor girls, mugging, extortions, kidnapping, beating up people in broad 

daylight etcetera. Reportedly 3509 people have been killed by miscreants during last 11 months. It is being complained in discussion programs and being reported in newspapers and transmitted on television channels frequently that mob violence broke out in a gruesome way right after the downfall of the immediate past government on 5 August 2024.

Mob outfits have unleashed a reign of terror in all parts of Bangladesh including big cities and small townships and even in villages. Mob gangsters have cracked down on the houses and offices of political opponents to extract vengeance, burned assets belonging to minorities, molested hundreds of girls, exhumed dead bodies from graves and vandalized tombs and shrines in many places across the country. Allegations show that members of law and order forces either looked on while heinous crimes were being committed standing idle or arrived on the spot much later.