The InternationalCovenant on Civil and Political Rights: A Study on Bangladesh Compliance performed their duties properly, the lives of six students could be saved. In some instances, police provoked the mob to beat the suspects. In one of these incidents, police let a mob beat a 16-year-old boy, Shamsuddin Milon, to death on suspicion of being a robber at Tekerhat in Noakhali on July 27, 2011. The boy was forced by the police to get off the van before the mob started beating him mercilessly. According to one witness, the policemen were repeatedly telling people to kill the boy. Following this incident, three policemen including a sub-inspector were suspended for negligence in duty after Milon’s mother Kohinoor Begum filed a case against the policemen and two locals.77 According to the New Age, on July 18, 2010 a mob lynched six suspected robbers in the village of Enayetpur in Gazipur. Similarly, it was reported in the Daily Star that a mob beat two suspected kidnappers to death in Kushtia Sadar on August 30, 2010. Police were able to detain two members of the mob. In similar fashion, a mob killed a suspected robber in Naranpar village in Comilla in July 2009; a carjacker was beaten to death by a mob in the Pallabi area of Dhaka in September 2009; and an alleged regional leader of an outlawed faction of the Purbo Banglar Communist Party in Roypur village in Gangni upazila was beaten to death in November 2009. Apart from these killings by the mob, inter-party as well as intra-party clashes frequently contribute to the increasing number of killings. According to information gathered by 63