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Bangladsesh police accused of abusing Rohingya

Rohingya refugees listen to a speaker during a “Genocide Remembrance Day” rally marking the fifth anniversary since they fled Myanmar, at a refugee camp in Ukhia, Bangladesh on Aug 25, 2022. (AFP File Photo)

An elite Bangladesh police unit is engaged in the rampant extortion, harassment and wrongful arrests of the Rohingya refugees it has been tasked with protecting, Human Rights Watch said Tuesday.

The Armed Police Battalion (APBn) operates in camps housing nearly one million members of the stateless minority, most of whom fled neighbouring Myanmar after a military crackdown that is now the subject of a United Nations genocide investigation.

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