Jallad: Death Squads and State Terror in South Asia

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Extrajudicial execution, enforced disappearance and torture 8211these are the tools used by death squads across South Asia Across the region, human rights abuses are perpetrated behind the closed doors by the 'jallad', or hangmen, of secret detention facilities, while death squads roam the streets with impunityBy using firsthand experience and newly discovered sources, Tasneem Khalil connects these abuses to a disturbing factthat Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka are national security states connected to an international system of state terror, patronised by sponsors like the United States, the United Kingdom, China and IsraelLooking at infamous 'enforcers' such as The Rapid Action Battalion of Bangladesh, the 'encounter specialists' of India, army units of Nepal, the Frontier Corps of Pakistan and 'the men in white vans' of Sri Lanka, Khalil reveals a huge system of specialists in violence deployed by the state in campaigns of state terror, a bloody logic of

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