Wikileak: Britain training death squads in Bangladesh

[Mr Gribbs]

UK training Bangladesh 'death s
British officials in Bangladesh have confirmed Wikileaks reports that the UK is training a police force in the country accused of being a death squad.
Rapid Action Battalion members have been taught "interviewing techniques" and "rules of engagement" by the UK authorities, said the leaked cables.
One message says the US would not offer tactical training to the RAB because of its alleged human rights violations.
UK officials told the BBC the focus of the training was on human rights.
Set up in 2004, the 9,000-strong RAB is accused of more than 550 killings.
The whistle-blowing website Wikileaks has obtained a cache of about 250,000 US diplomatic cables, which it has released to several newspapers, including the Guardian.
In a cable dating from May 2009 published by the Guardian, the US ambassador to Dhaka, James Moriarty, writes: "The US and UK representatives reviewed our ongoing training to make the RAB a more transparent, accountable and human-rights compliant paramilitary force.
"The British have been training RAB for 18 months in areas such as investigative interviewing techniques and rules of engagement."
In another cable, Mr Moriarty notes it would be illegal for the US to offer anything other than human rights training to the RAB because of the force's alleged crimes.
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Reminds me when Churchill was throwing women and children into concentration camps across the world.

[billy the kid]

no surprises there really.

[Bower]

Reminds me when Churchill was throwing women and children into concentration camps across the world.

Are you that old ?

[ItsRobsLife]

No, no surprises, that's what UK plc do best. Good on Wikileaks though, this is what it's all about, revealing these insidious bastards plying their trade.

[zygote1]

There is no factual basis in which to make the claim that the UK is training death squads. The UK is trying to train the Bangladeshis in proper interrogation techniques.

You're a bunch of hypocrites. The USA which most of you regularly bash and criticize indicates a hesitancy for the training and you latch onto it as it being the gospel truth and a means to piss all over the UK. Are you going to bash Australia for training Indonesian police despite the US reluctance? Are you going to bash Canada for training Haitian police?
Get a grip. The only way to stamp out human rights abuses by the police is to train them properly and to educate them. That's what the UK is doing. Do any of you have a more constructive suggestion to improve the quality of policing in Bangladesh?

[ItsRobsLife]

So the Bangladeshi police a being trained in interrogation techniques, because they care? And the UK is training them out of the goodness of their hearts..? Get a grip.

[Gallowspole]

They're just there to get any future immigrants up to speed with UK policing.

[good2bhappy]

are they any good?

[Mid]

Reminds me when Churchill was throwing women and children into concentration camps across the world.

Given that your not a Brit ,

why are you commenting ?

You should worry and concern yourself with your own country.

[FlyFree]

There is no factual basis in which to make the claim that the UK is training death squads. The UK is trying to train the Bangladeshis in proper interrogation techniques.

Have to agree in this case. The thread headline is totally out of line, intimating intent to train death squads, which is bullshit. Training a police force, accused by some to be a death squad (which it probably is), in interviewing techniques and rules of engagement (quotes used to intimate a dark side to what is probably simply an attempt to improve the police) seems like a good idea.

No basis at all to claim negative intent. Challenged Gribbs is scraping the bottom of the barrel now... isn't he always...

[Nostradamus]

It can't be that difficult to master lashing buttocks with a rattan cane and wiring a car battery to a man's testicles surely?

[Mr Gribbs]

Reminds me when Churchill was throwing women and children into concentration camps across the world.

Are you that old ?

No, but my great-uncle was held as POW by the UK during WW2, and was subjected to forced labor and mistreated. Barak Obama's grandfather was held in British concentration camp and tortured in Kenya.

[ItsRobsLife]

There is no factual basis in which to make the claim that the UK is training death squads. The UK is trying to train the Bangladeshis in proper interrogation techniques.

Have to agree in this case. The thread headline is totally out of line, intimating intent to train death squads, which is bullshit. Training a police force, accused by some to be a death squad (which it probably is), in interviewing techniques and rules of engagement (quotes used to intimate a dark side to what is probably simply an attempt to improve the police) seems like a good idea.

No basis at all to claim negative intent. Challenged Gribbs is scraping the bottom of the barrel now... isn't he always...

Rapid Action Battalion members have been taught "interviewing techniques" and "rules of engagement" by the UK authorities, said the leaked cables.

How to capture your enemy without killing everybody and how to torture them without them dying before a confession is made.

What do think, they stop pulling fingernails at 11 o'clock for tea and biscuits?

[Bower]

Reminds me when Churchill was throwing women and children into concentration camps across the world.

Are you that old ?

No, but my great-uncle was held as POW by the UK during WW2, and was subjected to forced labor and mistreated. Barak Obama's grandfather was held in British concentration camp and tortured in Kenya.

Your great uncle, Obamas grandfather.

All 7 of my grandfathers brothers died in WW1 3 of my fathers sisters died in the blitz in wW11.......... My uncle Bob a doctor was chopped up by the Mau Mau, this forum could be overun by family tragedy if we started that.

[Bower]

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Rapid Action Battalion members have been taught "interviewing techniques" and "rules of engagement" by the UK authorities, said the leaked cables.

How to capture your enemy without killing everybody and how to torture them without them dying before a confession is made.

What do think, they stop pulling fingernails at 11 o'clock for tea and biscuits?[/quote]

You dont think it possible that UK forces may teach interviewing techniques to extract valid intel without torture ?

[Mr Gribbs]

Reminds me when Churchill was throwing women and children into concentration camps across the world.

Are you that old ?

No, but my great-uncle was held as POW by the UK during WW2, and was subjected to forced labor and mistreated. Barak Obama's grandfather was held in British concentration camp and tortured in Kenya.

Your great uncle, Obamas grandfather.

All 7 of my grandfathers brothers died in WW1 3 of my fathers sisters died in the blitz in wW11.......... My uncle Bob a doctor was chopped up by the Mau Mau, this forum could be overun by family tragedy if we started that.

I don't want to come off as being rude and cold, I trule have sympathy for all victims of violent crime, but your uncle was an occupier in Kenya. He represented a racist and brutal empire power that raped and pillaged a sovereign people. We in the US morally oppose Bush and his crimes for the most part, while the British hold Churchill as a hero. Bush was actually a choir boy compared to Churchill, who brought death and despair to millions of people in multiple continents because he considered them primitive because of the hue of their skin tone.

[ItsRobsLife]

Rapid Action Battalion members have been taught "interviewing techniques" and "rules of engagement" by the UK authorities, said the leaked cables.

How to capture your enemy without killing everybody and how to torture them without them dying before a confession is made.

What do think, they stop pulling fingernails at 11 o'clock for tea and biscuits?

You dont think it possible that UK forces may teach interviewing techniques to extract valid intel without torture ?

It doesn't say who is doing the training, SIS MI6 SAS PARA ?

A think tank from Scotland Yard..? Not likely.

Bottom line, the use of UK forces in Bangladesh was a a secret.
Why? Who exactly is involved? What is the hidden agenda?

[Stinky]

There is no factual basis in which to make the claim that the UK is training death squads. The UK is trying to train the Bangladeshis in proper interrogation techniques.

You're a bunch of hypocrites. The USA which most of you regularly bash and criticize indicates a hesitancy for the training and you latch onto it as it being the gospel truth and a means to piss all over the UK. Are you going to bash Australia for training Indonesian police despite the US reluctance? Are you going to bash Canada for training Haitian police?
Get a grip. The only way to stamp out human rights abuses by the police is to train them properly and to educate them. That's what the UK is doing. Do any of you have a more constructive suggestion to improve the quality of policing in Bangladesh?

Spot on Zygoat, a sensational headline worthy of the finest gutter press, and some folk that should know better bit on it.

Griggs your op title alone is worthy of a red or two

[Mr Gribbs]

There is no factual basis in which to make the claim that the UK is training death squads. The UK is trying to train the Bangladeshis in proper interrogation techniques.

You're a bunch of hypocrites. The USA which most of you regularly bash and criticize indicates a hesitancy for the training and you latch onto it as it being the gospel truth and a means to piss all over the UK. Are you going to bash Australia for training Indonesian police despite the US reluctance? Are you going to bash Canada for training Haitian police?
Get a grip. The only way to stamp out human rights abuses by the police is to train them properly and to educate them. That's what the UK is doing. Do any of you have a more constructive suggestion to improve the quality of policing in Bangladesh?

Spot on Zygoat, a sensational headline worthy of the finest gutter press, and some folk that should know better bit on it.

Griggs your op title alone is worthy of a red or two

They are training a police force that has a history of human rights violations longer then Manute Bol's arm.

[Mid]

by the way

https://teakdoor.com/world-news/84353...shi-death.html (Wikileaks: UK confirms training Bangladeshi "Death Squads")

[Kurgen]

It can't be that difficult to master lashing buttocks with a rattan cane and wiring a car battery to a man's testicles surely?

The Castle in Pattaya give lessons, apparently