Bangladesh drug war

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Bangladesh drug war
Date 2018-present Location Bangladesh Status Ongoing
Belligerents
Bangladesh Bangladesh Police Rapid Action Battalion	Drug dealers gangs Haque gang Islam gang	Harkat-ul-Jihad al-Islami Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh
Commanders and leaders
Mohammed Shahabuddin Muhammad Yunus Jahangir Alam Chowdhury SM Kamrul Hassan Waker-uz-Zaman Mohammad Nazmul Hassan Hasan Mahmood Khan Mohammad Ashrafuzzaman Siddiqui Md. Moinul Islam Former: Mohammad Abdul Hamid Sheikh Hasina  Asaduzzaman Khan  Akhtar Hossain Bhuiyan Abdullah al Mohsin Chowdhury Md Abu Hena Mostafa Kamal Md Mahfuzur Rahman Waker-uz-Zaman Mizanur Rahman Shamim Aziz Ahmed SM Shafiuddin Ahmed Mohammad Nizamuddin Ahmed Aurangzeb Chowdhury M Shaheen Iqbal Masihuzzaman Serniabat Shaikh Abdul Hannan Md Shafeenul Islam Shakil Ahmed A K M Nazmul Hasan Mohammad Javed Patwary Benazir Ahmed Chowdhury Abdullah Al-Mamun	Kamrul Islam  † Akramul Haque  † Riazul Islam  †	Shah Sahib
Strength
12000[1]
Casualties and losses
800+ deaths[citation needed]

The Bangladesh drug war or Bangladesh's war on drugs is an ongoing campaign against alleged drug dealers and users by the government of Bangladesh under Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina. The extrajudicial killings of alleged drug dealers by the elite anti-crime unit Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) and the police have been criticized by human rights groups and foreign diplomats.^[2][3]