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victoriareyloficlists · 3 years

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26/11/2020 Additions to Reylo Work Environment

These fics have been added to the Enemies-to-Lovers list located here.

Boss/Employee Relationship

The Christmas Conundrum by Zoa (AO3 2019 Rated T Complete, 9 Chapters, Modern AU, Quick Synopsis: After getting fired from her job right before the holidays, Rey is accidentally mistaken for an abandoned baby’s mother and is forced to take care of him. Ben Solo is the boss guilted into giving Rey her job back. Confusion, chicanery, and romance ensue.) that's where you take me by blessedreylo (AO3 2020 Rated E Complete, 2 Chapters, Modern AU, Quick Synopsis: Single dad Ben asks his daughters nanny Rey to live with them during quarantine so she can help take care of her while he works remote. Lots of domestic proximity and mutual pining ensues.) Clumsily Yours by Hellyjellybean (AO3 2020 Rated M Complete, 3 Chapters, Modern AU, Quick Synopsis: Rey is injured at work. She is shocked when her boss Ben Solo carries her to his car and takes her to hospital much to her embarrassment. He is over-bearing and over-protective of her during her stay and Rey doesn’t understand...although it is sort of sweet in a way...could it be that the big bad executive Ben Solo actually likes her?) Threads by Hellyjellybean (AO3 2020 Rated M Complete, 2 Chapters, Modern AU, Quick Synopsis: Ben Solo is a cantankerous boss known for throwing away any gift his underlings give him. When newbie Rey decides to knit everyone a scarf for the start of fall, she's warned that Solo will not appreciate it. Everyone is surprised when he shows up the next day wearing it.) Go And Catch A Falling Star Chapter 5 by Ayearandaday (AO3 2020 Rated G Complete, One-Shot, Modern AU, Quick Synopsis: Ben reluctantly helps his friend Kaydel pick up lingerie. In the dressing room, he runs into his intern Rey as she's trying out some items.) You Make Me Weak by Hellyjellybean (AO3 2020 Rated E Complete, One-Shot, Modern AU, Quick Synopsis: Rey decides to faint to get her boss's attention.) Not your omega by riseofskyloren (AO32020 Rated E Complete, One-Shot, Modern AU, Quick Synopsis: Rey Johnson and Ben Solo cannot stand each others, she's way too joyful and he's just so cynical. They're definitely not mate material, not a chance. But what happened when the person you despise the most in the entire world becomes the one your body's craving?) Anonymous by andabatae (AO32019 Rated E Complete, 4 Chapters, Modern AU, Quick Synopsis: At the annual Halloween office party, Ben and Rey hook up, but neither one knows who the other is because of their costumes.) He Made It Through the Wilderness (somehow he made it through) by LovesBitca8 (AO32019 Rated E Complete, One-Shot, Modern AU, Quick Synopsis: Rey has a one night stand with Ben Solo, her hot, moody, and cocky coworker. It's the most awkward lay of her entire life.) Devil Spawn by OptimisticBeth (AO32020 Rated E Complete, One-Shot, Modern AU, Quick Synopsis: After a hot anonymous encounter at The Annual Organa Halloween Ball, Rey realizes she slept with the horrible guy who is her new boss. But he doesn't recognize her! And he asks her to track down his mystery hookup, which she totally agrees to do (wink wink, haha, she's lying). But then she finds out she's pregnant! ) Unmasked by SageMcMae (AO32018 Rated E Complete, 5 Chapters, Modern AU, Quick Synopsis: When Rey meets a masked guy at Maz's annual Halloween party, she is instantly smitten. Her mystery man is perfect -- compassionate, protective and a dedicated Star Wars fan. It's like he was made for her. There's only one problem. She doesn't know Kylo Ren is actually her asshole coworker, Ben Solo.) Miss Johnson & the Professor by ElegyGoldsmith (AO32020 Rated E Complete, One-Shot, Modern AU, Quick Synopsis: Professor Ben has his TA Rey accompany him to a conference in Japan but she accidentally booked a single room.) If You Can't Beat Em'.....Join Em' by PrinceofDarkness15 (AO32020 Rated E Incomplete, 4 Chapters, Modern AU, Quick Synopsis: "I really fucking hate you." She grits. "Oh, sweetheart believe me." says Kylo with a sensual smirk that makes her cunt clench. "The feeling is entirely mutual.") The Elevator by someonesbeenhere (AO32020 Rated M Complete, 6 Chapters, Modern AU, Quick Synopsis: A dirty one-shot turned multi-chapter fic. Hard working Tech Support Rey is working late one evening when she gets stuck in a broken elevator with a complete stranger. He manages to distract terrified Rey through some rather promiscuous means. Unfortunately for Rey, her seductive saviour isn’t a random from another department but none other than the CEO of the First Order company, Ben Solo himself.) Coworkers

Lizzy Solo by Hellyjellybean (AO3 2020 Rated M Complete, 3 Chapters, Modern AU, Quick Synopsis: Its bring your kids to work day and little Lizzy Solo meets Rey for the first time. "Are you the same Rey that my dad told Uncle Hux he was half in love with?") A Child and a Mortgage by AverageEpaulet (AO3 2020 Rated T Complete, One-Shot, Modern AU, Quick Synopsis: It was bring your child to work day. Whoever came up with that bright idea had a special place reserved in hell for all Ben Solo cared. He loved his daughter, more than anything, but that didn't mean he liked flaunting her around like a trophy with ”Got laid at least once” engraved on it.) A Reylo Christmas Carol Chapter 2 by altargaryen (AO3 2019 Rated T Complete, One-Shot, Modern AU, Quick Synopsis: Ben and Rey find themselves under some mistletoe.) A Reylo Christmas Carol Chapter 3 by altargaryen (AO3 2019 Rated G Complete, One-Shot, Modern AU, Quick Synopsis: Ben wants to know what Rey wants for the office Secret Santa.) In Bloom by Celia_and (AO3 2020 Rated E Complete, 4 Chapters, Modern AU, Quick Synopsis: The flowers that bedeck her skin don’t lie. Ballet dancer Rey is in love with her partner, Ben. But the years go by and his skin stays resolutely, devastatingly blank. He doesn’t love her. But when his hands are on her body, she can pretend.) Spending Valentine's Day Solo by jyn-z-solo (jynzandtonic) (AO32020 Rated E Complete, 2 Chapters, Modern AU, Quick Synopsis: Rey has the hots for her coworker, Ben, and decides to send him a Valentine's Day card. While at the shop choosing one, she bumps into him. Too embarrassed to confess it’s for him, she lies about the intended recipient. Ben is in love with Rey and gutted the card is for someone else!) let's taco-bout it by kylorithic (AO32020 Rated M Complete, One-Shot, Modern AU, Quick Synopsis: Rey invites Ben Solo, resident HR grump, to eat tacos. things escalate from there.) User Not Found by violethoure666 (AO32018 Rated E Complete, 2 Chapters, Modern AU, Quick Synopsis: It's not Rey's fault that her computer literally never works, but tell that to the grumpy IT guy who never leaves the basement.) Give in To Me by LoveofEscapism (AO32018 Rated E Complete, One-Shot, Modern AU, Quick Synopsis: At the office Christmas party, Rey has one too many wines and ends up spilling her darkest secret to none other than her sexy co-worker Ben Solo. Hilarity and some sexy bathroom shenanigans ensue.) Sensual Storytime by andabatae (AO32019 Rated E Complete, 7 Chapters, Modern AU, Quick Synopsis: When Rey Johnson starts a new job, her initially antagonistic relationship with Ben Solo from IT turns into friendship... and maybe something more. Little does she know he also moonlights as Kylo Ren, the creator of her favorite audio erotica. One day at the office, worlds collide, and she realizes the sweater vest-wearing nerd of her dreams is also the tattooed fantasy man she listens to while getting off every night...) Ben, You Ignorant Slut Chapter 1 by JJJJ12 (AO32019 Rated E Complete, One-Shot, Modern AU, Quick Synopsis: Rey Johnson is forced to sit across from irritating salesman Ben Solo. He’s arrogant, prone to temper tantrums, but worst of all, good at his job. To complete the prank of all pranks, she sends him a love letter hoping to turn his world upside down.) Tits v. Porny by jeeno2 (AO32019 Rated E Complete, 2 Chapters, Modern AU, Quick Synopsis: Ben Solo and Rey Johnson are attorneys, working together to defend their client against claims of plagiarism and copyright violation brought by a published author of original A/B/O fiction. It involves them having to read a lot of online porn and leads to some pretty awkward moments.) Trapped by jeeno2 (AO32019 Rated E Complete, One-Shot, Modern AU, Quick Synopsis: Rey stares at him as she processes what he’s telling her. Then, in spite of herself, she starts to laugh. Ben Solo, the nightmare of every junior associate and paralegal in this firm, somehow got himself stuck in the copier. And now he needs her help to get free.) Client Relationship

Matchmaker, Matchmaker by meeda (AO3 2019 Rated E Complete, 10 Chapters, Modern AU, Quick Synopsis: Rey Niima Compatibility Application Results - NEAR PERFECT MATCH If her brain wasn’t so busy being shocked, Rey probably could’ve calculated how much of a statistical anomaly this result truly was. There in black-and-white was the name of the unlucky bastard that had the honor of being her match: Benjamin Organa Solo.) say it with a braid by reylo_mo (writermo) (AO3 2020 Rated T Complete, 2 Chapters, Modern AU, Quick Synopsis: An AU where hairdresser Ben loves to style actress Rey’s hair in braids for events. There’s even a particular type he always goes for.One day Leia texts to ask him why he hasn’t brought his fiancée over for dinner. Thing is... he’s been giving Rey Alderaanian wedding braids.)

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fuckyeahphysica · 4 years

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[U.S. Nuggets Problem 1] The overall game ushered in a revaluation possibility, NetEase rushed towards 100 billion US dollars

On Friday, I saw that Xiaomo raised the prospective cost of $NetEase (NTES)$ to $600, and believed that NetEase could increase to market value of $100 billion in the future. The reason distributed by Xiao Mo will be that the globalization of cellular games and NetEase's strong openness can continue to grow, and reach a market value of 100 billion US bucks within 2 to 3 3 yrs. This time around I quite trust Xiaomo. Netease is really a business that I always think will be undervalued. It could not take 2 to 3 three years for the market value of 100 billion US bucks. In the next 2 to 3 3 months, there should be a high probability. Realized quickly. $ NetEase-S(09999)$ To begin with, a very simple thing, NetEase is definitely seriously undervalued, the price-income ratio is about 20. Now any Internet business with a P/Electronic ratio of less than 30 (except Baidu), you're embarrassed ahead out and inform others. How will be NetEase's financial report? 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When NetEase breaks through the $500 integer pressure degree, the creativity above could be reported to be infinite. NetEase's company is mainly divided into four main segments: games, e-commerce, schooling and songs. Portals and news take into account too reduced a proportion, so I won't talk about it right here. For online schooling, since NetEase Youdao was already listed, I won't talk about it here. After all, the market has recently given sufficient prices. The three businesses I want to analyze are usually games, e-commerce, and songs. NetEase's gaming field is obviously seriously undervalued. Presently, NetEase's P/Electronic ratio is around 20 times. Since the market's valuation of NetEase basically originates from games, we can simply compare NetEase with sport companies in the US shares. The three main game concept stocks in the US shares Activision Blizzard, Take-Two and EA all possess average P/Electronic ratios above 20. The higher P/E ratios of the three major game concept stocks are generally due to the fact that they all have world-class IPs. Activision Blizzard has "Contact of Duty" and "Diablo", Take-Two offers "Grand Theft Auto", EA also has "Need for Velocity", "The Sims", etc. These IPs possess accumulated a large user group of fans and have been working stably across systems for a long period. This is actually the major reason why NetEase is underestimated. NetEase's well-known brands such as "Westward Journey", "Fantasy Westward Journey", and "Tian Xia", but not regarded world-course IP, have already been working in the Chinese market for more than a decade. The stickiness is not weaker than that of the three main game giants. Recently, mobile games such as "A Chinese Ghost Story", "Onmyoji", and "Backwater Cold" are also prosperous. From the perspective of the regular development of NetEase sport revenue, development is by no means weaker than that of the Big Three, however in comparison, NetEase's P/Electronic ratio is obviously at a low level. From the perspective of game concept stocks in the Hong Kong currency markets, NetEase's industry placement is among the top two in comparison to other online game companies such as Tencent, Kingsoft, NetDragon, and IGG, and deserves a slightly higher valuation high quality, even claiming to be "Little NetEase." "The A-talk about listed business Sanqi Mutual Entertainment includes a P/E ratio higher than 43 moments. Tencent, which ranks initial in the Chinese sport market, includes a P/Electronic ratio of close to 50, and 37 Interactive Entertainment, which ranks 3rd, includes a P/Electronic ratio of 43, but NetEase, which ranks 2nd, is 20, that is obviously significantly underestimated. The global design of NetEase games will also bring new imagination to this established business. As early as Q3 2018, NetEase games' overseas income accounted for more than 10% of total sport revenue. In the current App Annie's newly announced set of the very best 52 worldwide publishers, NetEase rated 2nd, and in the April set of Chinese manufacturers' overseas income, NetEase ranked 19, this time only in Tencent. Among them, star games such as "Operation Wilderness" continued to execute well in overseas marketplaces such as Japan, and rated 3rd in the Q1 China overseas sport revenue list. 2020 is really a new switching stage for the overall game industry, because the new PS 5 and XBox will undoubtedly be released one after another. For Chinese sport giants who've skipped the golden 10 years of console games, this is an unprecedented brand-new opportunity. It isn't difficult to find from NetEase's recent advancements that NetEase has also steadily returned its company focus to the overall game business. In fact, Tencent can be making efforts to host games. If it could effectively occupy a location in this market, then NetEase's new creativity will undoubtedly be completely opened up. NetEase's fundamentals in the US stocks aren't weaker compared to the three main game concept stocks of Take-two, EA and Blizzard, and could be much better than them somewhat. Take Blizzard for example, net income in the initial quarter was US$1.79 billion, and net revenue was approximately US$505 million. Both these statistics are slightly worse than NetEase, and Blizzard's P/Electronic ratio is 40. Given that the worldwide market is crazy, I really believe that NetEase will shortly usher in crazy buying of money, in the end, what bargains are in the market now. The second quarter financial report has not yet been announced, but everyone understands that NetEase will normally not be an exception to the explosive growth of the overall game business through the epidemic. So I believe NetEase's P/Electronic ratio is expected to increase from 20 to at least 30 in the next 8 weeks, corresponding to at least 50% upside possible. If the second quarter earnings report is good, NetEase Proudly can dual. I don't really want to talk about the e-commerce company. After all, it is fifty percent alive. When viewing NetEase, nobody pays focus on this sector. I believe the more important things is the cloud songs company. In the initial quarter's financial report, in accordance with NetEase's CFO Yang Zhaoxuan's interpretation in a conference call, NetEase's cloud songs attained a three-digit year-on-year income development in the initial quarter, the number of paid members and member revenue. Continued growth, live life broadcast revenue can be growing quickly. The income of innovation and other businesses was RMB 3 billion, a year-on-year increase of 28%. NetEase Cloud Songs played a job in driving development. An individual base of NetEase Cloud Music is not weaker than that of Tencent Music. It's that copyright restricts its placement in the market. However, one thing worthy of our attention is certainly that NetEase Cloud Songs has strong public attributes, which some other music streaming systems don't have. When you have it, it can be stated that the moat is very strong. Recently, NetEase Cloud Songs is wanting to start a new public app for strangers. After Momo's transformation of live life broadcasting, China does not have any decent social items for strangers. This can be a chance for NetEase. Tencent Music's current market value is definitely 28.6 billion US dollars, and combined with the tendency of electronic music payment, there's still great potential for growth. I believe it could rise to 40 billion US bucks in the future. NetEase Cloud Songs is the 2nd in the market. Coupled with the concept of public networking, if it is split, the market value of US$15 billion should not be a problem, especially given that it still maintains a three-digit revenue development rate. The following is actually super easy to calculate a merchant account. Looking at the overall game business alone, games accounted for 79% of the overall income. After calculating the core online business game service income in the initial quarter was 13.52 billion yuan (1.92 billion US bucks), the revenue should exceed 5 100 million U.S. bucks, because other businesses of NetEase are usually losing money, it is easy to figure out this account. Revenue, revenue and growth rate are much better than Blizzard, and Blizzard's market value will be 62.6 billion US dollars. Therefore, it is estimated that NetEase's sport business will probably be worth 70 billion U.S. dollars, nonetheless it is not a big problem. NetEase Cloud Music's business will probably be worth 15 billion U.S. bucks, and NetEase Youdao's current market value in the US currency markets is close to 5 billion U.S. bucks. Adding e-commerce, portal, and email solutions can also be worth 5 billion U.S. bucks, which adds up to almost 950. One hundred million U.S. dollars. For why I said that NetEase includes a big idea in the next 2 to 3 3 months, you can find four main reasons: 1. The current NetEase US stocks will undoubtedly be carried by Hong Kong shares, and the prices power is completely on the Hong Kong shares aspect. Judging from the specialized form of NetEase's Hong Kong shares, last Thurs, it closed a long Yang line with an upper shadow, nonetheless it did not shift NetEase's upward tendency. It closed down somewhat on Friday, but finally closed a confident cross. Everything will be under the handle of the bulls. The epidemic scenario in Hong Kong is really a bit serious now, and nearby stocks aren't performing well. Therefore, market money will rush to get new economic concepts. Recently, everyone has also experienced it. This will undoubtedly further advertise NetEase's valuation. With regards to capital, NetEase offers inflowed 2.7 billion yuan in the last 20 trading days, also it closed down on Friday and in addition inflowed 250 million yuan, indicating that the bulls remain buying goods. As soon as August enters, NetEase includes a big probability of getting into the Hang Seng Index, which should provide a certain premium. 2. The aviation, journey, and banking sectors of the US shares all broke through the dropping wedge, and the S&P also effectively broke through the large-degree convergence triangle. The upside folks shares has been totally opened, also it can increase to around 3400 in the next month. Corresponding to about 10% of the upside, in this instance, the complete market will have a good performance. In such an atmosphere, it isn't possible for NetEase to make a deep callback.

3. Games, e-commerce, songs streaming, public and online schooling should all function as hottest concepts at the moment, and benefit from the public isolation of the epidemic, and they are specifically the the different parts of NetEase's fundamentals. The second-quarter financial report has not yet been released, however the game company that accounts for NetEase's overall income must have explosive development. According to data released by Unity, because the epidemic pass on, global mobile sport in-purchase income has enhanced by 24% year-on-year. In terms of the number of sport installs, the year-on-year development reached 84%. Now it's the summer vacation, and the development of the overall game business will not slow down. 4. NetEase has effectively promoted the RPG and card games it is good at to japan and Korean marketplaces, and explored the whole process of IP selection, sport growth, distribution, and advertising and operation, and successfully prolonged to FPS without content material IP blessing Class. Based on the company's latest game layout, a number of blockbuster new games will be released from the second half of 2020 to 2021 and will be deployed in the worldwide market, such as "Diablo: Immortality", "Westworld: Awakening", "Ha Liberty: Magical Awakening" etc. We estimate that the company's overseas mobile sport revenue is expected to triple in 3 years. Basically, a new space for creativity has been opened up.

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Yaba: The cheap synthetic drug convulsing a nation

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Hundreds of thousands of people in Bangladesh have become hooked on yaba – a mixture of methamphetamine and caffeine sold as cheap red or pink pills. The official response has been harsh, with hundreds of people killed in alleged incidents of “crossfire”.

“I was awake for seven, eight, even 10 days at a time. I was taking yaba in the morning, the afternoon, in the evening, again late at night, and then working all night and not going to bed.”

Mohammed was an addict. After staying awake for so long, he would crash.

“I would black out. I totally went down. After two or three days I would wake, have food, and go to bed again. But if I had any yaba, I would take it – if you have a single pill left, you will take it.”

Mohammed’s yaba habit started at work in Dhaka.

“Our import business was with Japan so we had to work at night because of the time difference. One of my colleagues told me about yaba. He said that if I take it, it will help me stay awake, be more energetic and to work hard in the morning and late at night.”

At first, Mohammed experienced the benefits his colleague described. But they were short-lived. Mohammed began behaving erratically, and came close to breakdown.

“In the early stages of using yaba it has a lot of positive effects. Everything is enhanced with yaba,” says Dr Ashique Selim, a consultant psychiatrist specialising in addiction.

“You become more sociable… You enjoy music, cigarettes and sex more. In Bangladesh there’s a very unhealthy association between yaba and sex – you’re awake longer, you’ve got more energy, you feel more confident. If you stop using yaba, there are no withdrawal symptoms, it’s not like alcohol or heroin. But it’s the effects of yaba that are really addictive. It’s a very, very dangerous drug.”

Yaba first appeared in Bangladesh in 2002 and its use, and abuse, has steadily risen since then. Manufactured illicitly in industrial quantities in Myanmar, it is smuggled into Bangladesh in the far south-east of the country, where the border partly follows the River Naf.

It was across this river that hundreds of thousands of desperate Rohingya refugees fled into Bangladesh in 2017, to escape from the Burmese military. Now nearly a million destitute refugees live in makeshift camps in the region and dealers have succeeded in turning some of them into mules – often women, who smuggle packages of pills inside their vaginas.

Experts believe the dealers see an unmissable business opportunity. At a time of rapid growth – Bangladesh has one of the world’s fastest growing economies – traffickers are dumping huge quantities of yaba, and selling it cheaply to create a captive market. Anecdotally, it seems its use is becoming more prevalent among go-getters riding the economic boom.

“I was totally dependent on it,” remembers Mohammed.

His wife, Nusrat, who was caring for a new-born baby at the time, says his behaviour became more and more unpredictable.

Image caption Mohammed and his wife

“He used to come home and blame me for everything regarding food, friends, my job… This was very unusual, and it’s not actually like him,” she recalls.

After she found some yaba tablets in the house, she tackled Mohammed about them.

“He screamed at me. I tried to convince him to get some treatment, but he was still denying it. He said, ‘You don’t trust me, you want to go away with someone else, you want to be apart from me.’ I had a tough time. And at the same time I knew he could do anything – he could even kill us.”

According to Dhaka psychiatrist Ashique Selim, yaba has filled a unique role in Bangladesh, a nation where alcohol is not freely available, and drinking is often frowned upon.

“I had a gentleman who came to me who’d led a pretty straight life. His parents were very conservative. So when his friends would go out and have a few beers, he wouldn’t do that because he didn’t want to come home smelling of drink. Then in his 30s he came across yaba. So there were no visual changes in the way he looked, and there was no smell. And when he was having small doses there was no effect the day after.”

Image caption Officers stop rickshaws near Cox’s Bazar

But yaba users struggle to keep their habit purely recreational. And it is the drug’s widespread availability, and the chaos it is causing, that provoked the Bangladeshi government to ratchet up the penalties for yaba possession, and to declare “zero tolerance” – a policy that some claim involves summary execution by law enforcement agencies.

“I was coming back from the mosque, when I saw a lot of policemen in front of my gate,” remembers Abdur Rahman, who lives in Teknaf, the town at the heart of the yaba trade in the south-eastern district of Cox’s Bazar.

“They entered my house, and found my son, Abul Kalam in the bathroom. They grabbed him and handcuffed him. I said, ‘Please release him, what has he done?’ The policeman told me, ‘If you talk too much, we’re going to shoot you.'”

Abul Kalam had recently served a prison sentence for human trafficking, not drugs. He was held in the police station for five days before his father got some very bad news.

Image caption Abdur Rahman

“The police told me my son was killed in a gunfight,” he says.

Abul Kalam died on 9 January some distance from the police station in what the police said was an incident of crossfire. The media reported another man was killed alongside him, and that 20,000 yaba tablets and five guns were recovered from the scene.

One human rights organisation estimates that in 2018, in the first seven months of the government’s anti-drug operations, nearly 300 people were killed across Bangladesh. The local press often puts the word “crossfire” in inverted commas, reflecting a widespread suspicion that sometimes these shoot-outs are staged.

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But the Superintendent of Police for Cox’s Bazar, A B M Masud Hossain, denies there is a shoot-to-kill policy for those suspected of involvement in the yaba trade.

So how does he explain the circumstances of Abul Kalam’s death?

“Sometimes when we go for an operation, we face the yaba traders. I think that was such a type of incident,” he says.

“After arresting someone we take them to the police station. Then, after collecting information during interrogation, we go for the operation. So when you take the criminals on the operation, sometimes they fight the police with guns. So maybe he was killed at that time.”

Image caption Police superintendent A B M Masud Hossain: “I can assure you, there is no crossfire list”

And he has an explanation, too, for the fact that these deaths always seem to follow a similar pattern.

“They may be the same stories, but the incidents always occur like this. So why would I give another story?”

In February, the superintendent organised an extraordinary public event in Teknaf. In a carnival atmosphere, in front of a crowd of thousands, 102 local men – all alleged yaba dealers – surrendered to the authorities. They included relatives of the former local MP for the ruling Awami League, and of other elected representatives. Thirty firearms and packets containing 350,000 yaba tablets were laid out ceremoniously. The men who had given themselves up lined up in front of a podium decked with flowers, and each of them was presented with a single gladiolus flower by the Home Minister, Assaduzaman Khan.

“The entire country is flooded with yaba, even students in schools and colleges are dependent on it,” the minister told the assembled crowd.

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Image caption Carnival atmosphere: 102 men surrender themselves in Teknaf

Then he addressed the men who had turned themselves in, and who remain incarcerated today.

“Your very presence today is reassurance for all of us that we shall be able to eradicate yaba from Teknaf and the rest of the country.”

It sounded as though those alleged yaba traders came forward of their own volition. But one man claims that his brother, Shawkat Alam, surrendered because he feared for his life.

“The police made a list of all the people who had to be ‘crossfired’, something like that,” says Mohamed Alamgir. “And when my brother heard about it, he was so frightened that made him surrender.”

Police superintendent A B M Masud Hossain rejects the allegation that pressure was applied.

“I can assure you, there is no crossfire list. We always try to arrest them.”

And he says, since February’s surrender, yaba trading in the district of Cox’s Bazar has decreased by almost 70%.

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Image caption A border guard finds yaba in a bus near Teknaf

In 2018, Bangladeshi authorities seized 53 million yaba tablets nationally. The total value of this illicit business is estimated to be worth upwards of $1bn a year.

There are no reliable surveys of the number of drug-dependent people in Bangladesh. The Department of Narcotics Control (DNC) estimates there are four million addicts, but NGOs have put the number at nearer seven million. Of those, about a third are thought to be yaba users.

Mohammed’s yaba highs were quickly replaced by wretched lows.

“I was always confused and felt that somebody was overhearing me, somebody was looking at me.”

Paranoia is not unusual among yaba users.

As his life spiralled out of control, Mohamed was forcibly taken to a rehabilitation centre in the middle of the night by strangers employed by his family. It was traumatic, but he is grateful now. He spent four months in treatment, has been clean for more than a year, and still volunteers in the same clinic – partly to prevent his own relapse.

“Now I think he’s ready to get a job again,” says Nusrat, Mohammed’s wife. “But I never push him. And if he says he needs some help, we’re all here for him.”

Mohammed’s addiction to yaba proved a profound test to this couple’s relationship.

“But our bond has become stronger,” believes Nusrat. Mohammed agrees.

“And I have more faith in her. I know she won’t leave me!” he says.