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January 1
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Nyamat Ali alias
Nyiat, a cadre of the Purba Banglar Communist Party (PBCP)
–Janajuddha faction, is killed during an encounter with the police
at Alamdanga in the Chuadanga district.
The PBCP (ML faction)
reportedly killed its cadre Imran alias Hasan to 'avenge' the
killing of the outfit's leader Mofakkhar Chowdhury.
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January 2
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Sayed Kawsar Hussain
Siddiki Raja, ‘chief’ of the Islamist terrorist group, Shahadat-e
Al Hiqma, is remanded to police custody in Rajshahi district for
the third time.
The High Court stays
for another three weeks the Government’s ban on Ahmadiyya publications.
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January 3
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Alleged suicide bomb
squads threatened to kill former Prime Minister and Leader of
the Opposition, Sheikh Hasina Wajed, and blow up her Sudha Sadan
residence for bringing her son, Joy, into politics.
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January 6
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A regional leader
of the PBCP, identified as Iqbal Hossain alias Shaikat, is killed
during an encounter with the police at Gilatala in the Khulna
district.
Bangladesh Rifles
(BDR) personnel seize a cache of arms and ammunition, including
11 AK 47 rifles, 53 magazines and 1,506 bullets, from Naikkhongchhari
in the Bandarban district of Chittagong region.
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January 10
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Abdul Hai, ‘zonal
leader’ of the PBCP is killed during an encounter with the security
force personnel in the Abhoynagar area of Jessore district.
Rapid Action Battalion
(RAB) personnel shot dead ‘vice president’ of Rajshahi Division
of the PBCP-ML, Moslem Mollah, at Jigrihat in the Natore district.
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January 12
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At least 35 people
are wounded during bomb attacks on two cultural functions in the
Jamalpur and neighbouring Sherpur districts.
Two leaders of the
proscribed Gono Mukti Fouz (GMF), including its former ‘general
secretary’ Billal Hossain and an ‘advisor’ of the outfit in Kushtia
region, Mahamudul Haq Dilu, are killed during an encounter with
the police at Swastipur village in Kushtia district after being
arrested from the Motijheel area of capital Dhaka.
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January 14
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Ajmat Ali, regional
leader of an unspecified left-wing extremist organisation, is
killed during a shootout between Rapid Action Battalion (RAB)
personnel and cadres of the outfit at Hideshkhol village in Pabna
district.
According to Daily
Star, widows of PBCP leaders in Khulna district have formed a
suicide squad to avenge killings of their husbands in reported
encounters with police during the last one year.
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January 17
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Didarul Islam Palash
alias Shyamal, ‘operational commander’ of the Khulna Metropolitan
city unit of PBCP Janajuddha faction is killed during a shootout
with police personnel at Sonadanga in Khulna district.
Delwar Hossain Dulal
alias Dayal, ‘regional leader’ of the GMF and Sirajul Islam alias
Ilu, ‘arms commander’ of the Jashod Gono Bahini (JGB), who were
earlier arrested on January 16 from Ratulpara village and Blackpara
of Iswardi municipality area respectively, are killed in crossfire
while leading the RAB for recovery of arms in Bakapul area of
Kushtia district.
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January 22
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Three cadres of
the vigilante Islamist outfit, Jagrata Muslim Janata Bangladesh
(JMJB), are killed
by an angry mob following the killing of Mahbub Hossain Dewan,
the Awami League publicity secretary, at ward no. 9 of Taherpur
municipality and a subsequent attack on a local body chairman
in the Bagmara area of Rajshahi district.
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January 26
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Dipankar Sarkar,
a leader of the New Biplobi Communist Party (NBCP), is killed
during an encounter with the police at Wapda in the Khulna district.
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January 27
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Former Finance Minister,
Shah AMS Kibria, and four other Awami League (AL) activists are
killed and at least 70 persons sustain injuries during a grenade
attack on an AL rally at Boidder Bazaar in the Habiganj district.
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January 28
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A regional leader
of the PBCP, Entaj alias Enta, is killed during crossfire between
police and his accomplices at Khirpota village in the Natore district.
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January 30
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Three senior cadres
of the Janajuddha faction of PBCP are killed in two incidents
of crossfire with the police and Rapid Action Battalion (RAB)
in the Chuadanga district.
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January 31
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According to Daily
Star, preliminary investigations by the security agencies have
revealed a section of the ruling Bangladesh National Party (BNP)
and Jamaat-e-Islami activists to be the prime suspects in the
January 27-grenade blasts that killed former Finance Minister,
S A Kibria, and four others in the Habiganj district.
A businessman, identified
as Bishu Aich, is reported to have died as suspected Islami Chhatra
Shibir (ICS) cadres
lobbed an unspecified number of bombs at a shopping centre in
the Kotwali area of Chittagong.
The Natore police,
reportedly with the help of villagers, arrested 12 Jamaatul Mujahidin
activists and followers of vigilante Islamist leader, Bangla Bhai,
from the Pirganj Sadhupara mosque in the Natore district.
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February 2
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The South Asian
Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) summit, scheduled
for February 6 and 7, 2005, was postponed indefinitely after India
announces that the Prime Minister, Manmohan Singh, could not attend
the meeting due to poor security conditions in the Bangladeshi
capital, Dhaka, and recent developments in Nepal. Earlier, the
summit, scheduled from January 9 to 11, was postponed in the wake
of the Tsunami.
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February 3
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According to Daily
Star, the 12 Jamaatul Mujahidin activists arrested in Natore district
on February 2 have links with the Jamaat-e-Islami and its student
front, the Islami Chhatra Shibir (ICS).
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February 4
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Police arrest three
Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) activists and detain 18 people
for questioning from Habiganj and Sylhet in connection with the
January 27-grenade blasts at Habiganj.
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February 5
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Four journalists
are injured during a bomb explosion at the press club premises
in Khulna.
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February 7
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A regional leader
of the PBCP-Janajuddha, Shahin Mollah, is killed during an encounter
with the police at Shihala village in the Kushtia district.
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February 8
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Three PBCP-ML extremists
are killed in ‘crossfire’ between police and their party cadres
at Jugipara in the Rajshahi district.
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February 9
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In Rajbari district,
the second-in-command of a left-wing outfit, Tikka Bahini, identified
as Abul Kalam Azad, is killed and six persons are injured during
an encounter in Pangsha.
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February 11
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The Khulna Bureau
Chief of Daily Sangram, Shaikh Belaluddin Belal, succumbs to injuries
sustained in the February 5-bomb attack in Khulna. In a letter
to two Khulna newspapers, the PBCP claims responsibility for the
attack.
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February 12
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PBCP-Janajuddha second-in-command,
Mohidul Islam alias Samim Malitha, is killed in an encounter with
the police at Lalonnagar village in Kushtia district.
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February 13
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An ICS cadre, Hossain
Ahmad alias Foyez Munna, is killed during crossfire between RAB
personnel and his accomplices at Mirerkhil in the Khulna district.
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February 14
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At least 16 people,
including 12 Dhaka University (DU) students, are wounded as four
bombs exploded at a Valentine's Day gathering in front of the
DU Teachers-Students Centre.
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February 16
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In separate incidents
of bomb attacks carried out by Islamist extremists since February
13, eight persons have been injured in different parts of the
country.
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February 18
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Anwarul alias Zihad,
a regional leader of the Janajuddha faction of PBCP is killed
in an encounter between police and extremists at a village in
the Chuadanga district.
In the capital Dhaka,
police confiscated some copies of two newly published books, allegedly
containing seditious content, written by the Awami League leader
and former minister, Prof Abu Sayeed, from his residence. One
of the books titled Aghoshito Juddher Blueprint (Blueprint of
an Undeclared War) in Bangla explains the rise of communalism
and Islamist militants in Bangladesh. The second, Brutal Crime
Documents, in English portrays the alleged brutalities suffered
by opposition parties since the 2001 elections. The books reportedly
claim that approximately 50,000 militants belonging to more than
40 groups are currently controlling a vast area of Bangladesh,
with help from ruling coalition partner, Jamaat-e-Islami, and
a section of the Bangladesh National Party.
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February 20
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Twelve suspected
Islamist extremists are arrested during separate raids at the
Jahangirnagar University in Dhaka and Joypurhat district.
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February 21
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The United Nations
announces a Level-1 security warning in Bangladesh for its officials
asking them to inform the Dhaka office before making a visit to
the country. The warning has been issued amidst a Level-2 warning
earlier imposed for the Cox's Bazaar since October 28, 2004.
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February 22
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A regional leader
of the PBCP, identified as Moazzem Ali alias 'Koshai' Moazzem,
is killed by the police during an encounter at village Dakhalpur
in the Jhenidah district.
12 suspected militants
of the Jamaatul Mujahideen are arrested in Gaibandha.
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February 23
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The Ministry of Home
Affairs announces a ban on the vigilante Islamist group, Jagrata
Muslim Janata Bangladesh (JMJB), and Jamaatul Mujaheedin. "The
two banned organisations have been engaged in killing, dacoity,
bomb attacks, issuing threats and other subversive activities
in different parts of the country, endangering the lives of the
common people and destroying their property," said a press note
issued by the ministry.
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February 24
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Eleven alleged activists
of the banned Islamist militant group Jamaatul Mujahideen are
arrested from different places in the Dinajpur and Thakurgaon
districts.
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February 25
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The jailed United
Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA) leader, Anup Chetia, whose prison
term ended on the day, asks the Bangladesh Government to hand
him over to a 'neutral' country, preferably in Europe.
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March 1
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A regional leader
of the left-wing extremist group Gono Mukti Fouj, identified as
Ijjat Ali, is killed in 'crossfire' between his accomplices and
police at Char Milpara in the Kushtia district.
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March 2
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Mohammad Nasiruddin
alias Gittu Nasir, a senior Islami Chhatra Shibir cadre, is killed
in 'crossfire' between Rapid Acton Battalion and his gang at Chaira
Havilderpara village in the Chittagong district.
Manjur Rahman Sardar,
a cadre of the Lal Potaka faction of the PBCP is killed in 'crossfire'
between police and his associates in the Moshai Beel area of Rajshahi
district.
Ten persons are injured
during a bomb explosion at a religious gathering in the Parulia
Narsinghapur village of Narsingdi district.
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March 4
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Abdus Sattar, a
regional leader of the Jashod Gono Bahini, is killed in a shootout
between his accomplices and the police at Kushlibasa village in
the Kushtia district.
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March 6
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A regional leader
of the left-wing extremist Jashod Gono Bahini, identified as Ruhul
Amin, is killed in crossfire with the police at Kanchanpur village
in the Kushtia district.
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March 7
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The RAB personnel
kill Abdus Samad Tikka of the left-wing extremist Gono Mukti Fouz
group during crossfire between his accomplices and the police
at village Dahkula in Kushtia district.
Islamist activists
of the International Khatme Nabuwat Movement Bangladesh announce
a programme to besiege the Ahmadiyya establishment in Gaibandha
on March 11 at a meeting held on Al-Falha Madrassa premises on
March 7.
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March 8
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A cadre of the left-wing
extremist New Biplobi Communist Party is killed in an encounter
with the police at village Dhuliarchar in the Rajbari district.
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March 9
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A cadre of the left-wing
extremist group, Jashod Gono Bahini, is killed during crossfire
between his accomplices and the police at village Salgharmadhua
in Kushtia district.
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March 14
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The BDR personnel
recover seven sub-machine guns, 29 land mines and seven communication
devices from a remote area of Naikkhongchhari sub-district in
the Bandarban district
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March 13
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Four cadres of the
Purba Banglar Sarbohara Party are killed and six police personnel
sustain injuries during an encounter at Laskardia village in the
Rajbari district.
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March 15
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Prime Minister Khaleda
Zia, while speaking in the parliament, warns the donor agencies
and foreign nations against interfering in the country's domestic
affairs. She said, "I want to tell them firmly that we won't put
up with such interference. I want to tell the foreigners categorically
that Bangladesh will not be run by any diktats or orders of any
foreign force."
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March 17
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According to Daily
Star, a high-powered Government investigation has identified eight
ruling BNP cadres as responsible for the January 27-grenade attack
on an Awami League meeting at Baidder Bazaar in the Habiganj district
that killed five people, including former finance minister Shah
AMS Kibria, and injured 70 others.
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March 18
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A local ‘commander’
of the Janajuddha faction of the PBCP, identified as Mashud, is
killed during an encounter between his accomplices and the police
at village Kasba-Bhatpara in the Meherpur district.
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March 20
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While refuting claims
that his country’s soil was being used by terrorists from India’s
Northeast, the Bangladesh Deputy High Commissioner, Touhid Hossain,
says in Shillong that an invitation sent to New Delhi two years
ago to assess the ground realities still remained ‘unaddressed’.
Addressing the media after his three-day tour of Meghalaya, he
said India’s plea for the United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA)
terrorist Anup Chetia’s extradition was a court case, and added,
"The matter is sub-judice. Nothing can be done now."
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March 21
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Two regional leaders
of the Lal Pataka faction of the PBCP, identified as Abdul Majid
alias Jihad and Rafiqul Islam alias Tinu, are killed during an
encounter with the police at Raninagar in the Naogaon district.
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March 27
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Prime Minister Khaleda
Zia, while speaking at a public meeting in Dhaka, calls for a
movement against those co-ordinating smear campaigns at home and
abroad against Bangladeshi interests. She claimed, "Those who
are halting country's advance--by way of spreading false propaganda
through distributing leaflets abroad against the country… are
anti-independence; they have to be identified."
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March 31
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The Rapid Action
Battalion personnel recover an unspecified quantity of bombs and
bomb-making materials contained in two sacks in the Madhabdi police
station area of capital Dhaka. Three persons were arrested in
this connection.
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April 3
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Bangladesh and India
have reportedly agreed to set up new boundary pillars, to restore
the damaged ones, and resolve amicably the disputes over illegally-occupied
lands along the border. According to Bangladesh officials, an
accord was reached after a three-day joint border survey in the
Tentulia and Sadar sub-districts concluded on April 3.
Two cadres
of the Gono Mukti Fouz and another of the Janajuddha faction of
the PBCP are killed during an encounter with the police at Dahkula
village in the Kushtia district and Teltupi village in Jhenidah
district respectively.
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April 7
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Waliur Rahman alias
Raju, a regional leader of the proscribed Sarbahara party, and
his bodyguard are killed during an encounter between the police
and Sarbhara cadres at Do-Sotina village in the Magura district.
42 cadres of the
outlawed Islamist vigilante group, Jagrata Muslim Janata Bangladesh,
are released on bail from the Rajshahi central jail.
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April 9
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Sentinel, quoting
the Border Security Force (BSF) Inspector General (Meghalaya,
Assam and Manipur Sector) S C Srivastava, said that 18 northeast
insurgent leaders were presently being held captive by the Bangladesh
Government. Srivastava further said that India had provided the
names of 160 other cadres of different groups taking shelter in
that country. "The Bangladesh Government either cites a judicial
process being undertaken or blatantly denies the presence of militants
in its soil," he added.
A senior cadre, identified
as Moinal Hossain of the outlawed Gono Mukti Fouz, is killed during
"crossfire" between police and his accomplices at Bot Toila village
in the Kushtia district.
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April 12
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The Ahmadiyya Muslim
Jamaat urges the Government to provide proper safety measures
at the mosque complex located at Sundarban Bazaar in the Satkhira
district.
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April 16
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An Assistant Commandant
of the Indian Border Security Force (BSF) is killed and two BSF
personnel sustained injuries during firing by personnel of the
Bangladesh Rifles (BDR) along the Lankabari border outpost in
Tripura. "From the marks on the ground, the spot enquiry established
that assistant commandant Jeevan Kumar and constable K. K. Surendran
were dragged inside Bangladesh territory and attacked by the BDR,
resulting in the death of the assistant commandant," said an Indian
High Commission press release in Dhaka.
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April 17
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The Director General
of Indian BSF, R.S. Mooshahary, says that the BSF has handed over
a list of 190 camps of terrorist outfits in Bangladesh to the
BDR during a meeting between the two Forces, which concluded in
Dhaka on the same day. Mooshahary added that the BSF also handed
over a list of 161 terrorists taking shelter in Bangladesh and
requested the BDR to take action to evict them.
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April 19
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India lodges a strong
protest against the ‘pre-mediated and preplanned’ killing of an
Assistant Commandant of the BSF by the BDR along the border in
Tripura and warns Dhaka that its ‘repercussions’ cannot be ignored.
Bangladesh’s Acting High Commissioner in Delhi, Masud Bin Momen,
was summoned on April 19 and conveyed India’s ‘deep disappointment
and regret’ over the incident.
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April 20
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The Union Minister
for Home Affairs, Shivraj Patil, informed the Rajya Sabha (Upper
House of the Indian Parliament) on April 20 that Bangladesh has
assured India that it would investigate the killing of a BSF officer
inside Bangladeshi territory and fix responsibility for the crime.
He said, "Bangladesh Home Minister spoke to me and expressed regret
over the incident. The matter will be investigated, responsibility
will be fixed and action will be taken against the perpetrators."
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April 23
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Two cadres of the
outlawed left-wing extremist group, Gono Mukti Fouz, identified
as Jahid Hossain alias Jahid Master and Amjad Hossain, are killed
during separate incidents of "crossfire" between police and their
accomplices in the Kushtia district.
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April 24
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Abdus Sattar, a
cadre of the Biplobi Communist Party, is killed during crossfire
with the police at Nayanpur in the Kushtia district.
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April 27
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India asks Bangladesh for details
of the case involving the ULFA 'general secretary' Anup Chetia.
Indian High Commissioner Veena Sikri says in Shillong, capital
of the Indian State of Meghalaya, "Chetia's jail term expired
on February 25. But when we recently conveyed to the Bangladesh
Government India's request for his deportation, the High Commission
was told that the case is still sub-judice. So we have asked for
the nature and details of the case from Bangladesh Government."
Atiyar Rahman, a cadre of the Biplobi
Communist Party, is killed during an encounter with the police
at Radhanagar village in the Kushtia district.
Police in Jhenidah arrest two suspected
Harkatul Jihad terrorists, Masudur Rahman and Azizul Haq Chand,
along with firearms in Garaganj village.
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Suspected cadres of the Gono Mukti
Fouz abduct and subsequently kill two businessmen near Bhadalia-Bangshitala
Highway in the Kushtia district.
An armed cadre belonging to the Janajuddha
faction of the PBCP is killed by unidentified men.
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The JeI chief, Matiur Rahman Nizami,
says that his party has achieved its short-term goal of coming
into mainstream politics and asks party cadres to work towards
achieving the long-term programme of turning Bangladesh into an
Islamic state.
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Foreign Minister M Morshed Khan denies
the presence of any international terrorist group on the soil
of Bangladesh. In a statement released in Dhaka, he says, "There
is neither any international terrorist group operating from Bangladesh
nor any group having link with Al-Qaeda or any other international
terrorist group."
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May 7
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Delwar Hossain alias
Azrail Delwar, an ICS cadre, is killed during an encounter with
the police at Charia in the Chittagong district.
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May 10
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A regional leader
of the PBCP Janajuddha faction, identified as Jhankar, is killed
during an encounter with the police at village Pirpur under Sadar
sub-district in Chuadanga district.
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May 12
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Atiar Rahman, a PBCP
leader, is killed during an encounter at Sambhunagar area of Sadar
sub-district in Chuadanga district.
PBCP regional leader,
Baki Billah, is killed during an encounter at Rajghat sub-district
of Rajshahi district.
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May 13
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Kenyan police arrests
63 Pakistani and Bangladeshi nationals in the port city of Mombassa
for suspected terrorist links.
Hasanuzzaman Babu,
a suspected BCP leader, is killed in ‘crossfire’ between security
forces and his associates at Bagdanga in the Sadar subdistrict
of Kushtia district.
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May 14
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A suspected BCP cadre,
Ainal Haque Titas, is killed during an encounter with the police
in the Sadar sub-district of Jhenaidah district.
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May 15
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Siddiqur Rahman Gazi,
a PBCP-Janajuddha regional leader, is killed during an encounter
with the Rapid Action Battalion personnel at Chengutia in the
Jessore district.
A PBCP cadre is killed
during an encounter at Akandbaria in the Chuadanga district.
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May 20
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PCJSS cadres abduct
seven cadres of the Pahari Chhatra Parishad (PCP), an anti-peace
grouping backed by the UPDF, from Riveng Club near Dighinala sub-district
in Khagrachhari district.
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May 22
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PCJSS cadres abduct
14 UPDF activists ahead of the rally organised by the latter in
Khagrachhari on June 7 against the peace accord.
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May 23
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Fifteen UPDF cadres
are arrested from Khagrachhari town in Rangmati for suspected
involvement in an attack on a PCP cadre on May 22.
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May 26
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Foroj Ali, a PBCP
regional leader, is killed during an encounter with the police
at Sailgari village in the Chuadanga district.
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May 27
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Six Indian insurgents
are reportedly killed during a gunfight with a joint raiding party
of the Bangladesh Rifles and Rapid Action Battalion at Kamalganj
in the northeastern district of Moulvibazaar.
Ahle Hadith Andolan
Bangladesh blames the JeI for the arrest of its chief Asadullah
Galib. A statement by the outfit says that the arrest was made
to cover up JeI’s links with militant outfits.
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May 31
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Three BNP activists
and a journalist are wounded in a bomb attack suspected to be
detonated by Communist War, a new faction of the PBCP, at Alamdanga
in the Kushtia district.
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June 3
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The Border Security
Force Inspector-General of Assam, Meghalaya, Manipur and Nagaland
region, S C Srivastava, says at a news conference in Shillong
that leaders of the ULFA are running seven hotels in different
locations in Bangladesh.
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June 8
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Police recover dead
bodies of two cadres of Janajuddha faction of the PBCP, identified
as Tarikul Islam Shiplu and Zakir Hossain, from the Khanjahan
Ali and Mujgunni areas in Khulna city.
PBCP Janajuddha faction
threatens five journalists with death in Satkhira. A letter sent
to the Satkhira Reporters Club says, "Some journalists in
Satkhira have stood in our way despite repeated warnings. The
party has decided to eliminate them as they are hatching a conspiracy
against us."
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June 10
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In an interview with
the BBC, Bangladesh State Minister for Home Lutfozzaman
Babar denies allegations that Indian insurgents have camps in
the country.
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June 11
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PBCP cadre Mizanur
Rahman Mizan is killed in a 'crossfire' with police personnel
at Belgachhi Rothtola village in the Chuadanga district.
In another incident
of 'crossfire', a NBCP cadre Abdul Latif is killed at Hizlabot
village in the Kushtia district.
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June 12
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Security forces arrest
four cadres of the Myanmarese outfit, the National United Party
of Arakan, including its ‘president’ Tai Jo Khoy at Naikkhongchhari
in the Bandarban district.
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June 13
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Mazzal Hossain, a
former JMJB cadre, is killed by the outfit at Bagmara in the Rajshahi
district.
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June 15
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A cadre of the Janajuddha
faction of the PBCP, identified as Younus, is killed during an
encounter with the police at Harinakundu sub-district in the Jhenidah
district.
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June 17
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Nine militants belonging
to the Manipur-based outfit, the People’s Liberation Army (PLA),
are arrested during a raid at Kalaghata in the Bandarban district.
Fazlur Rahman, a
PBCP regional leader, is killed during an encounter with the police
near Dhopaghata Bridge in Pabna district.
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June 19
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The ML-Lal Pataka
faction of the PBCP in a leaflet circulated in the Rajshahi district
identifies 18 people as ‘class enemies’ and threatens to kill
them. The list includes ministers and members of parliament from
the Bangladesh Nationalist Party, Awami League and the Jamaat-e-Islami.
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June 20
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Jamal Uddin alias
Jamal Dakat, a GMF cadre, is killed during an encounter with the
police in the Ijangram canal area of Kushtia district.
Babul Karim Chandu,
‘regional commander’ of an unspecified left-wing extremist outfit
in Pabna, is killed during an encounter in the Ramrama area of
Rajshahi district.
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June 22
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PBCP cadres of the
Marxist-Leninist faction kill a cadre of their own outfit alleging
him to be a police informer in the Meherpur district.
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June 28
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JMJB attacks Shafiqul
Islam, correspondent of the Bengali daily Janakantha, at
Bhaniganj in the Bagmara area of Rajshahi district.
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June 29
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GMF cadre Sahinur
Rahman alias Sahin is killed during an encounter with the police
in Kushtia district.
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July 2
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Abdul Matin alias
Matin Bangal, an alleged left-wing extremist, is killed in 'crossfire'
with the RAB personnel at Hariandaha in the Motihar area of Rajshahi
city.
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July 3
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A PBCP cadre, identified
as Azizur Rahman alias Sagor, is found slaughtered at Natkundu
village in the Jhenidah district.
|
|
July 4
|
Two JMJB cadres are
arrested on charges of extortion in the Nilphamari district.
|
|
July 5
|
A PBCP cadre, identified
as Ekramul Haque Helal, is killed during an encounter with the
police at Kamta village in the Fakirhat sub-district of Bagerhat
district.
|
|
July 9
|
Golam Mortuza Chand,
a PBCP cadre, is killed during an encounter at the Belgachhi area
in Bagmara district.
A PBCP-Janajuddha
cadre is killed in an encounter with the police at Batpukuria
in Jhenidah district.
A visiting Indian
parliamentary delegation led by the Union Minister of State for
Parliamentary Affairs and Defence, B. K. Handique, says in Dhaka
that Bangladesh does not harbour any Indian insurgents, but they
might be seeking shelter in Bangladesh and some other countries.
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|
July 11
|
Three GMF cadres
are killed in an encounter between police and the outfit’s cadres
in the Kumarkhali sub-district of Kushtia district.
|
|
July 12
|
A cadre of the Kamrul
faction of the left-wing extremist Sarbahara Party is killed in
an encounter between the Rapid Action Battalion personnel and
his accomplices at Brahmmandia village in Barisal district.
|
|
July 13
|
A BCP cadre, identified
as Kala Amjad, is killed by unidentified assailants in the Arongghata
area under Daulatpur police station in Khulna district.
|
|
July 15
|
BDR personnel arrest
four Indian militants, suspected to be of Khasi origin, along
with some arms and ammunition when they intrude into Bangladesh
territory through the Atgram border in Jakiganj on the Sylhet
border.
|
|
July 17
|
Five JMJB cadres
are arrested on charges of extortion from the Dar Kharbona area
in Rajshahi city.
|
|
July 18
|
Unidentified persons vandalise an
under-construction Ahmadiyya mosque at Dakshin Khan in the Uttara
locality of capital Dhaka
|
|
July 19
|
Police arrests 11 suspected Islamist
terrorists, including two cadres of the JMJB and two Rajshahi
University students, from a training camp in the Paba sub-district
of Rajshahi district.
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|
July 21
|
An army squad recovers one locally-manufactured
gun, six magazines of various firearms, one magazine of AK-47
rifle, three pistol covers, one long antenna, four pairs of uniforms
and one briefcase full of documents written in Marma language
from a tribal Jhum house at Chakmapara under Ruma sub-district
of Bandarban district.
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|
July 23
|
BDR personnel in two separate operations
in Naikkhangchhari and Thanchi subdistricts of Bandarban district
recover firearms and ammunition, including four anti-personnel
mines, rocket shells and SBBL guns.
Three tribal arms smugglers are arrested
by the army from Parjatan Motel at Meghla in the Bandarban district.
A JMJB cadre, Shahidul Islam, who
worked as a driver to the outfit's leader Bangla Bhai, is arrested
along with two of his accomplices from Kaliganj Bazaar in the
Rajshahi district.
BDR personnel destroy a camp of
the Myanmarese rebels at a forest near Naikkhangchhari leading
to the arrest of a rebel and the recovery of four anti-personnel
mines and 16,000 rounds of ammunition.
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|
July 24
|
A statement by BDR claims that 26
fugitive rebels from Myanmar were arrested along with weapons
and ammunition including 31 AK-47 rifles from Bandarban district
during the month of July.
|
|
July 25-26
|
Army personnel arrest seven Chakma
tribals and recover 17 firearms and a large number of bullets
from the Sinduchhari area of Mahalchhari sub-district in Khagrachhari
district.
|
|
July 27
|
BDR personnel arrest two Myanmar
citizens subsequent to a gunfight at Alekhang in the Bandarban
district and recover an American-made M-16 rifle, a European-made
G-3 rifle, 51 round bullets of M-16 and G-3 rifles, a mobile phone
set, different military equipment and dresses from their possession.
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|
July 31
|
Three PCJSS activists are shot dead
by the UPDF in the Logang Amtali area of Khagrachhari district.
|
|
August 3
|
A court in Natore acquits 12 cadres
of the Islamist group Jama'atul Mujahidin Bangladesh, who were
arrested on February 1 in connection with a bomb attack on local
theatre show in the Boraigram sub-district.
|
|
August 5
|
One person is killed and an unspecified
number of them sustained injuries during a gunfight between activists
of the Parbatya Chattagram Jana Sanghati Samity and United People's
Democratic Front at Kalapahar village in the Mahalchhari sub-district
of Chittagong district.
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|
August 9
|
Three suspected Myanmar nationals
are arrested subsequent to a four-hour gunfight with the Bangladesh
Rifles personnel from Alekkhong in the Naikkhangchhari sub-district
of Bandarban district. One M-16 rifle, one light machinegun, 400
bullets, few combat uniforms and documents were recovered from
the arrested persons, identified as Aung Thui Ching, Kew Ching
and Aung Zhai.
|
|
August 11
|
According to Daily Star, Maoists
have organised a three-day meeting in an unknown part of Rajshahi
division to plan for the 2005 annual conference of the Coordination
Committee of Maoist Parties and Organisations in South Asia (CCOMPOSA)
to be held in Bangladesh. The report quoted an advisory level
leader of the Purba Banglar Communist Party's (PBCP) Marxist-Leninist
Red Flag faction as saying, "we are sitting today somewhere along
the Bangladeshi frontier with India in Rajshahi division to hold
the CCOMPOSA meeting successfully."
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|
August 12
|
One person is killed and 50 others
sustain injuries after several bombs were thrown at the Hazrat
Shah Syed Ahammed shrine at Akhaura in the Brahmmanbaria district.
Police said the home-made bombs were thrown during a religious
festival where thousands of worshippers gather each year at the
shrine.
|
|
August 13
|
Three cadres of the Biplobi Communist
Party, Raju alias Killer Raju, Abu Bakkar alias Mujibar and Alamgir
alias Killer Alamgir, are killed in separate encounters with the
Rapid Action Battalion personnel at Landari in the Khulna district
and Shankarpasha in the Jessore district.
|
|
August 14
|
Two PBCP cadres, Feroz Mollik and
Bablu Khan, are killed in an encounter with the police at Mohonpur
in the Rajshahi district.
|
|
August 16
|
Two cadres of the Lal Pataka faction
of PBCP, identified as Mujibur Rahman and Panu Mia, are killed
at Daripara in the Pabna District.
|
|
August 17
|
Two persons are killed and an estimated
100 persons sustain injuries in approximately 459 bomb explosions
spread over 63 of Bangladesh's 64 districts. The proscribed Islamist
militant outfit, Jama'atul Mujahideen Bangladesh, claimed responsibility
for the blasts through leaflets left at the site of the explosions.
|
|
August 18
|
At least 100 crude bombs were recovered
from a house at Baligaon in the Tongibari area of Munshiganj district,
the only district in the country that did not witness any explosions
a day earlier.
|
|
August 19
|
Twenty-five persons, including three
Imams (priests), are arrested from the Rajshahi, Chapainawabganj,
Dinajpur, Barisal and Nilphamari districts in connection with
the serial bombings.
|
|
August 20
|
The Jamaat-e-Islami chief and Industries
Minister, Matiur Rahman Nizami, blames Indian and Israeli intelligence
agencies for the countrywide serial bomb attacks on August 17.
|
|
August 21
|
Foreign Minister M. Morshed Khan
says that it is too early to speculate whether Islamist terrorists
are present in the country or not, as the investigation is still
going on. He says, "Let the investigation complete. We all must
wait and see who are responsible for it."
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|
August 22
|
The Government orders the arrest
of JMB leader Abdur Rahman "at any cost."
A former Director of the Islamic
Foundation Bangladesh, Maulana Fariduddin Masud, is arrested at
the Zia International Airport in Dhaka for suspected involvement
in the August 17 serial bombings.
|
|
August 23
|
Azad Joardar alias Azi, second-in-command
of the proscribed Gono Bahini, is killed in an encounter with
the police in the Jhenidah district.
Abid Hasan Milon alias Akash, a regional
PBCP leader of the Janajuddho faction is killed in an encounter
with the police near Alaipur bridge under Rupsha sub-district
in the Khulna district.
|
|
August 24
|
Abdur Rashid alias Sagar, second-in-command
of the PBCP's Nuruzzaman alias Laltu group of the Janajuddha faction
is killed in a shootout between the police and PBCP cadres at
Mirpur sub-district in Kushtia district.
Police arrests four JMB cadres at
the Zia International Airport in Dhaka.
|
|
August 26
|
The Government officially discloses
that the JMB was responsible for the August 17 serial bomb blasts
across the country.
11 Sarbahara Party cadres are arrested
along with firearms from the Doulatdia KKS School premises of
Goalundo area in Rajbari district.
|
|
August 27
|
Seven JMB terrorists are arrested
from the Barpakhia Kwami Madrassa at Delduar and adjoining areas
in the Tangail district.
|
|
August 28
|
Khagrachhari police arrests four
suspected JMB leaders and activists and recover bomb-making material,
remote control devices and JMB literature from their possession.
Security force personnel recover
a huge amount of arms and ammunition from Lemuchhari in the Bandarban
district. The cache includes thirty-two foreign-made pistols,
5,000 bullets and 64 empty magazines of pistols.
|
|
August 29
|
The 'Rajbari region Chief' of the
left-wing Sarbahara Party, Lokman Hossain Lal alias Mithu, is
killed and three police personnel are injured in an encounter
between police and his accomplices in the Undharmanik area under
Goalundo Police Station of Rajbari district.
|
|
August 30
|
A BCP regional leader, identified
as Takbir alias Lata, is killed in a shoot out between his accomplices
and the police at Kotchandpur sub-district in the Jhenidah district.
Police arrest the President of AHAB-Chittagong
unit, Sadrul Alam, who is a nephew of the outfit's chief, Asadullah
Al Ghalib, in connection with the August 17 serial bombings from
Chittagong.
|
|
September 1
|
Rapid Action Battalion and Bangladesh
Rifles personnel, in a joint operation, recover 20 AK-47 rifles
and 7,716 bullets from a forest in the Bandarban district.
|
|
September 3
|
Amirul Islam alias Sutki Amir, a
'regional leader' of the Janajuddha faction of the PBCP, is killed
in crossfire between the outfit's cadres and police in the Chuadanga
district.
|
|
September 4
|
State Minister for Home Affairs,
Lutfozzaman Babar, says that the JMB and Janajuddha faction of
the PBCP are primarily responsible for the August 17 serial bombings.
Saifuzzaman alias Shoaib alias Ripon, second-in-command of PBCP's
Janajuddha faction, is killed in a shootout with the Rapid Action
Battalion personnel at Katakhali crossing in the Rupsha sub-district
of Khulna district.
|
|
September 5
|
A local-level leader of the PBCP's
Lal Pataka faction, identified as Zia, is killed in a shootout
between the police and PBCP cadres at Ramchandrapur in the Santhia
sub-district of Pabna district.
Bangladesh Nationalist Party Joint
Secretary-General, Tarique Rahman, refutes the comments he had
made on the involvement of Al Qaeda in the August 17 country-wide
bombings during an interview with the British Broadcasting Corporation's
Bangla service on September 4.
|
|
September 6
|
A JMJB cadre, Abdul Jalil of Naogaon
district, is shot dead by suspected PBCP-Red Flag faction cadres
at Tilakpur in the Joypurhat district. Two of the PBCP cadres
involved in the killing were subsequently arrested.
|
|
September 7
|
Two PBCP cadres, Ruhul Kuddus alias
Chhoto Bhai and Sajal Sazzad, arrested in connection with the
JMJB cadre's killing in Joypurhat district on September 6, are
killed in a shootout at Keshail in the Naogaon district.
|
|
September 8
|
Bangladesh Rifles personnel recover
a large cache of arms and ammunition, including eight AK47 assault
rifles, four light machine guns and 3,559 bullets, during a raid
in the Murangtila area of Naikkhangchhari sub-district of Bandarban
district.
|
|
September 10
|
Government announces reward for information
leading to the arrest of JMB leader, Abdur Rahman, and JMJB leader,
Bangla Bhai, both accused of masterminding the August 17 countrywide
blasts.
PBCP-Janajuddha, in a leaflet titled,
"The 17th August bomb attacks and our political stands", denies
its role in the blasts. The leaflet, circulated in Jessore district
reportedly said: "We are astonished by the countrywide bomb attacks
on August 17… The alliance government led by Khaleda-Nizami is
patronising communal militants and repressing the rebel progressive
people."
|
|
September 11
|
Two explosive manufacturing units
are neutralised in the national capital Dhaka's Nawabpur and Jagannath
Shaha Road locality and raw materials and tools for making explosives
recovered.
Police arrests Moulana Obaidur Rahman
Ibne Fazle, younger brother of the JMB chief Abdur Rahman, at
Madarganj sub-district in the Jamalpur district.
|
|
September 13
|
Three Sarbahara Party cadres, Golam
Dastagir Farid, Abdullah Al-Mamun and Ruhul Amin, are killed in
separate shootouts between Rapid Action Battalion personnel and
Sarbahara cadres in the Barisal and Narayanganj districts.
|
|
September 15
|
Police arrests two top JMB
cadres, identified as Maolana Shahidullah Faruk, 'section commander'
in Chapainawabganj, and Mohammed Tufan, an explosives expert in
Chapainawabganj, from Rajshahi district.
|
| September
21 |
The military
intelligence launches a fact-finding mission to look into the alleged
nexus of serving and retired military personnel with the August
17 country-wide bombings. |
| September
22 |
Two unidentified cadres of the left-wing
extremist Sarbahara Party are lynched by a mob at Aag Jaintapur
village in Faridpur sub-district of Pabna district.
A JMB hideout, used to manufacture
at least 60 bombs used in the August 17 bombings, is neutralised
at Batiaghata in the Khulna district.
|
| September
24 |
Asadul,
a 'district commander' of the PBCP-Janajuddha faction, is killed
in crossfire between police and the outfit's cadres in the Mirpur
sub-district of Kushtia district. |
| September
27 |
An inquiry
by the military intelligence into the alleged links of retired and
serving army personnel with the JMB concludes that no such nexus
exists between the two. |
| September
28 |
A PBCP-Janajuddha
leader, identified as Shah Alam, is killed in crossfire with the
police in Bagerhat. Azizur Rahman, a top PBCP cadre, is killed at
Eidgahpara graveyard under Ganni sub-district in the Meherpur district.
|
| September
29 |
Bangladesh Rifles Director General,
Maj. Gen. Jahangir Alam Chowdhury, speaking at a press conference
in New Delhi claims that some "criminal elements in India" had
colluded with similar groups in Bangladesh to stage the August
17 countrywide blasts.
Anisur Rahman, a regional leader
of the Jasad Gono Bahini, is killed in crossfire between police
and the outfit's cadres at Katdah village in the Kushtia district.
|
| September
30 |
Two persons
are arrested from the Harinmara village in Chittagong district and
one rocket launcher, one grenade launcher, 167 bullets of M16 assault
rifle and a modern wireless set are recovered from them. Police
in a press release says that Myanmar based militant group National
Union Party of Arakan had left the arms and ammunition in custody
of the arrestees. |
| October 1 |
RAB officials arrest the 'operation
commander' of the Bangladesh chapter of the Harkatul Jihad, Mufti
Abdul Hannan, from Madhya Badda in Dhaka city.
Two persons are killed and three
others sustain injuries as unidentified persons lob explosives
on a fish depot at Daliya market in Tala sub-district of Satkhira
district.
|
| October 3 |
Two persons
are killed and 38 others, including a district judge and one police
personnel, are injured in five bomb explosions targeting courtrooms
and court premises in the Chandpur, Laxmipur and Chittagong districts.
|
| October 6 |
The police
raid a militant hideout at Chandpur town and arrest Shamim Hossain
alias Ghalib, a 'sector commander' of the JMB in charge of operations
in Chandpur, Comilla, Luxmipur and Noakhali areas. |
| October 8 |
A regional leader of the Biplobi
Communist Party, Nurul Islam, is killed during an encounter with
the police in the Mongla port area of Khulna district.
A cadre of the Janajuddha faction
of the PBCP, Mizanur Rahman Mizan, is lynched at Kalpataru Market
in Daulatpur.
|
|
October 9
|
The HuJI threatens
to blow up key installations in the Khulna city if its leader
Mufti Abdul Hannan is not released unconditionally. A caller identifying
himself as a HuJI regional leader warns that the attacks will
be more devastating than the August 17 bombings.
|
|
October 12
|
The dead body of
a PBCP cadre, identified as Tutul, is recovered from a field at
Debottarpara village in the Ataikula sub-district of Pabna district.
|
|
October 14
|
A PBCP 'regional
leader', Abdul Halim, is killed in crossfire with the police at
Poylarchar in the Chowhali area of Sirajganj district.
|
|
October 17
|
Government proscribes
the HuJI, branding it a ‘self-confessed terrorist outfit’. A Home
Ministry statement to this effect said: "Based on the existing
information, the Bangladesh government has banned Harkatul Jihad
Al Islami."
The JMB threatens
to blow up 17 offices and important establishments in the Kushtia
district if police continued to arrest and harass its activists
and their activities are obstructed.
|
|
October 18
|
The Sylhet Divisional
Speedy Trial Tribunal Judge, Biplob Goswami, is injured in a bomb
attack carried out by a JMB cadre in front of the judge's residence
in Sylhet city.
|
|
October 19
|
Police recover bomb-making
materials from the rest house of a mosque (Bhangatikor Haji Buru
Mia Jame Masjid) in Sylhet town’s Sheikhghat area and subsequently
arrest the Imam (chief priest), Moulana Saifuddin, and
a former student of the Shahjalal Dargah Madrassa.
|
|
October 20
|
A ‘regional commander’
of the Red flag faction of the PBCP, Abdus Sattar alias Killer
Sattar, is killed in an encounter with the police at Dakkhin Kuchiamora
village in the Pabna district.
JMB threatens to
bomb the office of the Tangail district jailor and the hospital
within a week. The local administration declares a ‘red alert’
in the district court and jail areas following the delivery of
a letter to this effect from the outfit.
|
|
October 21
|
A Bangladesh Rifles
team recovers two .303 rifles, 2500 bullets including 230 fresh
ones, 40 magazines of AK47 with 200 bullets, four broken LMGs
and some firearms making materials after excavating a place in
the remote hilly area of Naikkhangchhari in the Bandarban district.
|
|
October 22
|
A regional PBCP leader,
identified as Hossain Ali, is killed in an encounter with the
police at Sirajganj.
|
|
October 23
|
The Bangladesh home
ministry issues an order to prepare a list of Rohingyas illegally
living in the inaccessible hilly areas of Bandarban district and
to arrest those involved in criminal activities.
The JMB, in a letter
sent to the Deputy Commissioner of Sylhet, threatens to blow up
two police stations in the Khulna district, Kanai Ghat and Zakiganj,
within the next 15 days.
|
|
October 24
|
A suspected PBCP
cadre, Hasanuzzaman Milon Biswas, is killed in an encounter with
the police in Khulna city.
|
|
October 25
|
The JMB threatens
to blow up all police stations in Bangladesh unless Islamic law
and Islamic constitution are implemented. A JMB leader, Maulana
Hafizur Rahman, sends a letter to this effect from Chapainawabganj
district to the police commissioner in Rajshahi.
|
|
October 26
|
A senior PBCP- Janajuddha
leader is killed by cadres of the same outfit at Koatchandpur
sub-district in the Jhenidah district.
Afaz Uddin, a farmer
of Adabaria village in the Kushtia district, is killed at his
house by the PBCP- Janajuddha cadres.
Police arrest 14
persons, hailing from Myanmar, from two hotels in Chittagong city’s
Kotwali area for illegal entry into Bangladesh.
|
|
October 26-27
|
Cadres of the PBCP-Janajuddha
kill five workers of the ruling Bangladesh Nationalist Party in
the Kushtia, Chuadanga, Jhenidah and Narail districts in a span
of eight hours.
|
|
October 28
|
International Khatme
Nabuwat Movement Bangladesh threatens to oust the BNP-Jamaat-e-Islami
coalition Government if it fails to pass a bill in the Parliament
declaring the Ahmadiyyas as non-Muslims by December 23.
The Government is
reported to have announced a reward of $152,000 for information
leading to the arrest of JMB chief Abdur Rahman and JMJB leader
Bangla Bhai.
|
|
October 31
|
An activist of the
PBCP-Janajuddha faction, Abdul Mazed, is reported to have died
during an encounter with the police at Katchubaria village in
the Mirpur area of Kushtia district.
|
|
November 1
|
Police, in two separate
raids, seize a light gun, eight kilograms of explosives and arrested
four persons in this connection in the port city of Chittagong.
|
|
November 2
|
Police seizes one
kilogram of RDX, 500 grams of ammonia and 500 grams of sulphur
from a private courier consignment belonging to the JMB in Rajshahi
district.
|
|
November 3
|
Security forces seize
explosives weighing nearly eight kilograms from a truck carrying
wheat in the northwestern district of Chapainawabganj. The truck,
heading for Bogra town from Sonaimuri on the India-Bangladesh
border was intercepted at a checkpoint and four people including
the driver detained.
Pradeep Kumar Biswas
alias Prajapati Biswas, second in command of the NBCP, is killed
in an encounter with Batiaghata police of Khulna district.
|
|
November 6
|
JMB threatens to
blow up the Dumuria Police Station, Upazila Nirbahi Office and
the Rangpur Union Police Camp in the Khulna district before November
25. A hand-written letter to this effect is received by the Dumuria
sub-district Nirbahi Officer and the officer-in-charge of Dumuria
Police Station.
|
|
November 7
|
The Bangladesh Home
Ministry orders security agencies to arrest JMB leaders Shaikh
Abdur Rahman and Siddiqur Rahman alias ‘Bangla Bhai’ as well as
other absconding members of the outfit by November 10.
Six suspected JMB
cadres are arrested from the Bogra and Chapainawabganj districts.
|
|
November 12
|
PBCP cadres open
fire and kill a villager, identified as Fazlul Haque Sharif, at
Hasnakandi under Rajoir sub-district in the Madaripur district.
|
|
November 13
|
A hitherto unknown
Isamist outfit, Islami Ranojoddha, threatens to kill all the judges
and Deputy Commissioner in Noakhali district.
|
|
November 14
|
A JMB cadre belonging
to the suicide squad of the outfit explodes a bomb killing two
senior assistant judges and wounding three people in the district
headquarter of Jhalakathi.
|
|
November 15
|
Police recover bomb-making
materials, books and leaflets of the JMB from the house of Iftekhar
Al Hassan Mamun, involved in the November 14 suicide bomb attack
that killed two judges in Jhalakathi.
JMB, in a letter
sent to the district and sessions judge of Patuakhali, threatens
to blow up the Patuakhali district Judge Court.
|
|
November 16
|
JMB sends letters
to four judges in the Pabna, Khulna and Rajshahi districts asking
them implement Islamic laws. The outfit’s cadres also make phone
calls to a sub-district administrative officer and an assistant
commissioner in the Bhola district threatening to kill them.
Reuters reports
that Police in Bangladesh are searching for approximately 2,000
potential suicide bombers from three banned militant groups.
|
|
November 17
|
The State Minister for Home Affairs,
Lutfozzaman Babar, says that the JMB’s suicide squad has added
a new dimension to terrorism in the country. He says, “This has
made the government worried.”
|
|
November 18
|
President of Islami Chhatra Sena,
student wing of Islami Oikya Jote, Golam Mohammad Bhuiyan Manik,
is arrested in capital Dhaka.
|
|
November 21
|
Mohammad Idris Ali Khan alias Arif,
a regional leader of the PBCP, is killed in a crossfire between
the RAB and PBCP cadres at Amdabad in the Rupsha sub-district
of Khulna district.
|
|
November 23
|
Five GMF cadres, including a top
leader Swapan and his deputy Mufa, are killed and three police
personnel injured in an encounter at Baruria village in the Kushtia
district.
|
|
November 25
|
Dead bodies of two PBCP-Janajuddha
cadres, Bulbul Howlader and Ashim Kumar, belonging to the list
of 24 potential bombers in the Khulna district, are recovered
by the Metropolitan Police from Arongghata in Daulatpur and Smashanghat
in Sonadanga area of the district.
|
|
November 29
|
Nine people, including two lawyers
and a police constable, are killed and 78 persons injured in two
suicide bomb attacks by the JMB cadres in the Chittagong and Gazipur
court premises. The Gazipur suicide bomber is killed and the Chittagong
suicide bomber, Abul Bashar, is seriously injured in the incident.
|
|
December 1
|
One Government employee is killed
and 30 people sustain injuries in a suicide bomb attack by the
JMB in front of the office of the Deputy Commissioner in the Gazipur
district.
A top cadre of the PBCP-ML, Shamsher
Ali alias Sama, is killed in an encounter with the police in Chuadanga.
29 JMB militants are arrested along
with a huge amount of foreign currencies, leaflets, books on jihad
and militancy related materials in the Rajshahi, Manikganj, Rangpur
and Sylhet districts.
The second-in-command of the PBCP-Janajuddha
faction, Sumon, is arrested from the Mohammadpur area of capital
Dhaka.
|
|
December 2
|
Three UPDF cadres are killed by cadres
of the PCJSS in a remote forest area of Ramgarh sub-district in
the Khagrachhari district.
PBCP-Janajuddha faction leader, Sumon
alias Sohel alias Sharifuzzaman alias Sumon Ahmed, is killed by
the RAB in the Rupsha sub-district of Khulna.
|
|
December 5
|
A regional leader of the NBCP is
killed in an encounter with the police at Kashimnagar Beel under
Paikgachha sub-district of the Khulna district.
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December 7
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The ‘regional commander’ of the Khulna
division of the JMB and an Islami Oikya Jote leader from the Msitripiara
village, Mohiuddin Faruqi, are arrested.
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December 8
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Six persons are killed and 46 injured
by a suicide bomber of the JMB in front of the office of the Udichi,
cultural wing of the Communist Party of Bangladesh, in the Netrakona
district.
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December 9
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The leader of the Udichi, Sudipta
Pal Shelly, succumbs to injuries sustained during the December
8 explosions in Netrakona.
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December 13
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Two JMB militants, Ataur Rahman alias
Sunny, the 'operations commander' and the younger brother of the
outfit’s chief Shaikh Abdur Rahman, and Fariduzzaman Swapan, are
arrested from the Tejgaon area of capital Dhaka.
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December 14
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The JMB Chittagong 'divisional chief',
Mohammad alias Aman Ullah, and his associate, Jafar, are arrested
from a hideout at Kattali in the port city of Chittagong.
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December 22
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Three cadres of the PBCP-Janajuddha
are killed by cadres of its newly founded rival outfit, PBCP-Communist
War, in the Meherpur and Chuadanga districts.
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December 23
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57 persons, including seven police
personnel, are injured in a clash between the IKNMB, the anti-Ahmadiyya
group, and the police near the Baitul Mokarram mosque area in
Dhaka.
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December 26
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The ‘chief counsellor’ of the Rajshahi
zone of the JMB, Lutfar Rahman, is arrested from the Bagmara area
following information obtained from the arrested ‘military commander’
of the outfit, Ataur Rahman Sunny.
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December 28
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Three para-military personnel are
killed and several others injured by the PBCP cadres at their
camp under the remote Bamihalunder Singra police station in the
Natore district. 11 firearms and 139 rifle bullets are taken away
by the PBCP from the camp.
PBCP-Janajuddha regional leader,
Gazi Mohammad Shamim, is killed in an encounter with the RAB personnel
at Dumuria sub-district in Khulna.
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December 29
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Body of the PBCP cadre involved in
the Natore district attack is recovered from the East Bhengri
area of Chalan Beel in the Sirajganj district.
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December 30
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JMB claims responsibility for the
attack on the Ansar camp at Bamihal in the Natore district on
December 28.
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