According to media reports, 59 BDR (Bangladesh Rifles) members arrested in the wake of the mutiny of February 2009 died in custody. Family members of the victims alleged that they died after being tortured. According to Odhikar, several BDR members taken into custody claimed the RAB and police physically assaulted and beat them, administered electric shocks, blindfolded them, and hung them upside down while in custody; NGOs alleged that army personnel also were involved in custodial deaths.75 The government announced an investigation and promised to publish a report by July 2009 regarding the nature of the deaths but failed to publish any such report. The government investigation ruled that only two members died due to torture and that the others died because of illness or suicide. So far, the government has not taken any action regarding the deaths or allegations of torture of the BDR personnel. Responsibility to Protect: On the night of July 17, 2011, six college students were beaten to death at Amin Bazaar in Savar by a group of people following a false alarm from a mosque that a gang attacked their locality to commit a robbery. Later, the judicial enquiry commission formed to probe this case found that “[t]he victims were not robbers. They were completely innocent”.76 The probe body concluded that if the policemen had 76 77 62 The Daily Star. The Daily Star, July 28, 2011.

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