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Crossfire is a series of photographs taken by Shahidul Alam, a Bangladeshi photographer, activist, and teacher. The exhibit was curated by one of Alam’s colleagues, Jorge Villacorta, and was completed in 2010 and displayed at the Drik Gallery in Dhaka, Bangladesh. The photographs show locations and objects where extrajudicial killings happened because of Bangladesh’s Rapid Action Battalion (RAB). Human Rights Watch has called RAB a “death squad” because of these reported killings. RAB was established in 2004 as a paramilitary force to combat gangsters and thugs in the streets, but in late 2007, the battalion was accused of over 350 extrajudicial killings and the torturing of hundreds more. Before the exhibit opened to the public, RAB and local police closed the Drik Gallery because they believed the photographs would “create anarchy”.