RAB may be formed afresh with new name, uniform: Home Adviser

Home Adviser Lieutenant General Md Jahangir Alam Chowdhury (Retd.) today said if there is the need, the Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) will be formed afresh changing its name and uniform.

“If required, the RAB will be formed anew. A discussion about the force was held and we presented a proposal – an idea regarding a name and a uniform. All have to think about it. The next meeting will decide the course of action,” he said.

The Home Minister made the remarks while replying to a question after coming out of a meeting on law and order at the ministry’s conference room at Bangladesh Secretariat here.

He said they would take the decision in this regard after holding a meeting with all concerned.

The United Nations rights organ OHCHR has suggested restructuring of Bangladesh’s security and policing systems as it released its fact-finding report on violence during the July-August Uprising on Wednesday.

“Disband the Rapid Action Battalion and return personnel not involved in serious violations to their home units,” said the report of the OHCHR or the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights. (BSS)