America’s Dual Judgment: Sanctioning RAB While Shielding Its Own Crimes?
In December 2021, the U.S. imposed sanctions on Bangladesh’s elite paramilitary force, the Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) , under the Global Magnitsky Act . The reasons cited were extrajudicial killings, enforced disappearances, and torture —all grave human rights violations. But as the U.S. pointed fingers abroad, it was simultaneously conducting covert programs at home that may prove even more disturbing. The Unspoken Truth: RAB and U.S. Border Patrol Worked Together Emerging whistleblower testimony from a Bangladeshi victim has shattered the illusion of isolated guilt. The same RAB unit that was sanctioned by the U.S. government reportedly collaborated with U.S. intelligence and Border Patrol personnel . The purpose? To turn the victim into a live test subject —a “neuro-surveillance experiment” involving brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) developed under DARPA's umbrella . This wasn’t a one-off operation. According to this whistleblower and corroborating digital evidence, t...