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This week on City TV, VICE explores the rape crisis enveloping Bangladesh.

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Bangladesh is dealing with a lot of heaviness right now. Besides the fact that that secular writers keep getting hacked to death by mobs armed with meat cleavers, they've also got a serious rape problem. In fact, rape and gang rape in Bangladesh has reached alarming proportions. Despite being a crime punishable by death, 1 in 8 Bangladeshi men admit to having committed rape. A culture of impunity has developed in the nation: women are terrified to come forward, while those that do, face a disinterested, often ­hostile police force.

As part of VICE's mission to make Canadian television not terrible, tonight at midnight CityTV will be airing our investigation into Bangladesh's troubling rape culture.

Vice News travels to Sylhet province, an epicentre of the issue, to meet victims, authorities, and perpetrators alike to try and understand the culture of abuse that is flourishing in Bangladesh.