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Date
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Incidents
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January 2
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Rapid Action
Battalion (RAB) recovered one foreign made rifle and three bullets
at Chandpur Bazaar in Shailakupa sub-district in Jhenidah District.
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January 3
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Police recovered
two revolvers, four bullets and a knife from Thonthonia Poschimpara
area of the Bogra District.
Police arrested
seven Left Wing Extremists (LWEs) while pasting posters at Mansha
Bazar area and at Chhuter intersection in Rupsa-Moubhog area of
Bagerhat District.
RAB members in separate drives
in Shibganj sub-district of Chapai Nawabganj District recovered
three firearms and bullets and arrested three illegal arms sellers.
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January 4
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Police arrested
'operation commander' of Bangladesh Communist Party (BCP) from
Dumuria sub-district of Bagerhat District.
Three LWEs,
including an ‘operation commander’ were arrested in two separate
incidents in Bagerhat and Natore Districts.
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January 5
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The Police
arrested an 'operation commander' of Purba Banglar Sarbahara Party
(PBSP), identified as Afzal Hossain from Fulbagan area in Natore
District and recovered a shutter gun, a pistol and four bullets
from his house.
RAB arrested an ehsar(full
time member) of Jama'atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB), identified
as Yousuf Ali from Shibganj sub-district in the Chapai Nawabganj
District.
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina that
she would not invite trouble for the country by allowing militants
and terrorists to use Bangladesh for carrying out terrorism in
another country.
The RAB claimed to have arrested
a Harkat-ul-Jihad-al Islami Bangladesh (HuJI-B) militant from
Adabor area of Dhaka city.
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January 11
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RAB arrested an Allahar Dal
militant from Kurigram Sadar area in the Kurigram District.
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January 15
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Two cadres
belonging to the PBCP-Janajuddha,
including a ‘local commander’, were killed in a bomb explosion
at a field at Baro Mangalgram village in Faridpur sub-district in
Pabna District.
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January 17
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Rajshahi Police
arrested two suspected militants from Bagmara sub-district for
their involvement in organising teens and youths under an unknown
secret militant outfit.
Rajshahi Police
arrested two cadres of a newly formed militant group Abbu Bahini
at Rayapur village of Hamirkutsa union under Bagmara sub-district.
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January 18
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Chittagong
Police arrested 12 Islami Chhatra Shibir (ICS)
cadres and recovered arms and bomb making materials from their
mess at Mistiripara in Chittagong city.
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January 19
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RAB arrested
‘regional chief’ of Red Flag faction of the PBCP, identified as
Abdul Kader, at Nurpur bypass area in Pabna town.
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January 20
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Members of
RAB recovered five locally made bombs, a pipe-gun and two bullets
from Railway Colony camp in the Rajsahi city's Boalia area.
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January 21
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A 'regional
leader' of the Janajudhha faction of the PBCP, identified as Makbul
Hossain, was shot dead at village Lakhmipur Charpara area under
Ataikula Police Station in Pabna District.
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January 27
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A boy was injured as unidentified
militants exploded bombs at Chandai village in Atghoria sub-district
of Pabna District.
Police arrested a cadre of 'Janajudhha'
faction of the PBCP in Pabna town and recovered firearms from
his possession.
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January 29
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Kushtia Police
arrested an operative of the Gono Bahini, identified
as Billal Hossain, from the campus of Islamic University
and recovered three bullets and three bombs from his possession,
reports Daily Star.
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January 28
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A court in Rajshahi District sentenced
two JMB militants to death for killing Rajshahi University teacher
Muhammad Yunus in 2005.
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January 30
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Members of RAB-6 recovered four
powerful bombs, one revolver and a magazine from the residence
of Hatkata Khaleque of Rajapur village under Rupsha sub-district
in Khulna District.
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January 31
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Meherpur Police
arrested three Left Wing Extremists in Bamundi petrol
pump area of Gangni sub-district in Meherpur District.
The arrestees, identified as Jamrul Islam, second-in-command
of Purba Banglar Maobadi Congress [a new faction of
the PBCP, and his accomplices Halim and Mohirul.
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February 1
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JMB cadres
stabbed a former JMB operative, Rashidul Islam, to death in the
Uttara Khan area of Dhaka.
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February 3
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At least 12 more former cadres
of the JMB, hiding in Uttara and Gazipur in Dhaka, are suspected
to have been on the hit list of the Islamist outfit.
A bomber belonging to Janajuddha
faction of the PBCP, identified as Habibur Rahman alias 'Bomaru'
Habi (28), was arrested by the Khulna District Police from Dumuria
bus stop in Khulna District
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February 5
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Police arrested three operatives
of the banned Hizb-ut-Tahrir in front of three mosques in Dhaka
while they were distributing leaflets containing provocative statement
against the Government and the Prime Minister Sheikh.
The Police arrested two cadres
of the same outfit at the main gate of the Ambarkhana Mosque in
Sylhet city while they were distributing leaflets after Juma
(Friday congregation) prayers.
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