Crimes such as stopping passenger buses by putting up
barricades on roads in broad daylight and robbing passengers and abducting
people at gunpoint from markets and taking them to the hills to demand ransom
are occurring regularly in Ukhiya and Teknaf in Cox’s Bazar. Drug and arms
trafficking, smuggling, human trafficking, extortion and mugging are also
increasing in the border and hilly areas. Yet the police have been unable to
play an effective role in controlling these crimes. Only 183...
