A report published by the American think tank Atlantic Council on 16 December 2021 said that within two years of its founding, international human rights organisations alleged that the RAB was engaged in unlawful killings and enforced disappearances. “Reports by Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International published in December 2006 and 2009 documented allegations and underscored the impunity enjoyed by the force,” wrote Atlantic Council’s Ali Riaz. So why are Dhaka’s America watchers happy? Because Menedez and Republican Senator Todd Young had led eight of their Senate colleagues in asking for a ban on Bangladesh’s elite paramilitary force, the Rapid...