Killing of Ekramul Haque
extrajudicial killing
Killing of Ekramul Haque refers to the extrajudicial killing of Ekramul Haque, councillor of Teknaf Municipality Ward three, by a unit of the Rapid Action Battalion. He was elected as councilor in Teknaf Municipality three times in a row as a candidate of the Awami League. Haque was a former president of the Teknaf unit of the Jubo League, the youth wing of Awami League, for 13 years. During a Bangladesh government crackdown on the narcotics trade, the death of more than 100 suspects took place in shoot-outs with law enforcement agencies. Since 2018 more than 200 individuals were killed in extrajudicial shootings by law enforcement agencies in Teknaf alone.
On 27 May 2018, Ekramul Haque was killed in a gunfight with the Rapid Action Battalion. Major Md Ruhul Amin, company commander of Rapid Action Battalion-7, said there was a gunfight and then they found his body. They also recovered 10,000 pieces of Ya ba and two guns. Ranjit Kumar Barua, officer in charge of Tekhnaf Police Station, told the Dhaka Tribune that Haque was a listed as a drug dealer by the Ministry of Home Affairs. Haque's brother, Ehsanul Haque Bahadur, said that his brother was picked up by intelligence agents, who told him that they wanted to discuss a real estate deal.
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