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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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February 9
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RAB personnel arrested a cadre
of the Red flag faction of the PBCP at Purba Malshadah village
under Gangni sub-district of the Meherpur District.
The Marxist Leninist faction of
the PBCP threatened to take avenge of the killings of its cadres
including its ‘general secretary’ Jamal Uddin alias Robi
alias Nuruzzaman Sumon.
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February 10
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A PBCP "Janajudhha"
faction cadre, identified as Abdus Salam, was killed in a bomb
attack in Goyashbari village of Pabna District.
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February 11
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A leader of the ICS, Hafijur Rahman
Shahin, was shot dead by the Police during an encounter in Chapai
Nawabganj District.
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February 12
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A BCL leader was shot dead by
a group 10 unidentified assailants at Manikdi under Cantonment
Police Station in Dhaka.
Around 200 leaders and activists
of the Jamaat-e-Islami and ICS were arrested by the Police in
Dhaka, Chittagong, Sylhet and several other Districts as part
of a countrywide combing operation following violence at Rajshahi
University and Chittagong University (CU).
Police arrested seven suspected
ICS cadres, including a teacher and four Secondary School Certificate
(SSC) examinees, in Brahmanbaria District following a bomb explosion
in a hostel of Brahmanbaria Residential School and College.
Rajshahi city Ameer (chief) of
ICS, Ataur Rahman along with his 10 accomplices were taken on
a five-day remand in connection with three cases filed for February
9 Rajshahi University violence in which BCL activist and Rajshahi
University student Faruk was hacked to death.
The RAB arrested a terrorist from
Paikpara Bridge area of Narayanganj District and seized an Indian
pistol from his possession. The arrestee was identified as Asaduzzaman
alias Heera.
The Police had recovered one pistol,
seven bullets and two magazines from Shibganja sub-district.
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February 13
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Unidentified militants exploded
two bombs in front of an electricity office at Kotchandpur sub-district
of Jhenidah District, injuring two civilians.
The Police arrested 133 more cadres
of Jamaat-e-Islami and its associated student organisation, ICS,
in the ongoing countrywide combing operation. The Police recovered
bombs and books on jihad and filed cases of attacking Police,
barring them from duties, and involving in destructive activities.
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February 16
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Police arrested 35 cadres of ICS
across the country as part of the ongoing drive after the killing
of two students at Rajshahi and Chittagong universities. With
this, the Police have so far arrested 435 Jamaat-e-Islami (JeI)-ICS
cadres in the last five days. Dhaka court trialed 16 ICS cadre
on two-day remand in connection with a case filed on charge of
militant activities. Around 100 ICS cadres have so far been detained
from different parts of the capital Dhaka.
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina said
that her Government is fighting against terrorism and extremism
as people voted her party to power to do so.
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February 17
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Rajshahi city unit JeI ‘general
secretary’, Abul Kalam Azad, was arrested in connection with Rajshahi
University violence on February 9. Rajshahi Police also arrested
seven ICS cadres while six more JeI-ICS leaders and cadres were
arrested at the capital, Dhaka, and elsewhere in the country.
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February 18
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ICS cadres clashed with the Bangladesh
Chhatra League (BCL) members for over establishing supremacy in
the campus in Sylhet Government College in Tilagarh District.
Out of 25 injured in the clash, 20 were ICS cadres and five were
BCL members.
The Police seized a huge quantity
of publications of JeI during a raid on the dormitories of Eden
University College in Dhaka.
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February 19
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Two ICS cadres were arrested in
connection with Rajshahi University violence in separate raids
at Chatmohar and Atghoria sub-districts of Pabna District.
Four progressive students' organisations
of Rajshahi University formed Secular Democratic Students' Action
Council with a view to resist JeI-ICS cadres in the universities
and colleges. The students' bodies are Bangladesh Chhatra League
(BCL), Jasad Chhatra League, Chhatra Moitree and Chhatra Union.
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February 22
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Police arrested four more cadres
of ICS at Rajshahi University in Rajshahi District.
24 leaders of ICS, including its
secretary general Abdullah Al Mamun Chowdhury, quit from the students'
body apparently due to internal conflict over the Rajshahi University
violence on February 9.
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February 23
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Two bombs exploded
in front of former Prime Minister and BNP Chairperson Khaleda
Zia's Gulshan office in Dhaka.The Police arrested Pradip Saha,
an activist of Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal, in relation to the blast.
The Police filed
cases under Arms Act against 10 of the JeI and ICS cadres who
were arrested by the Police earlier in February. The Natore District
Police Superintendent said the case was filed against the JeI
and ICS Cadres because four knives were recovered from the bags
of the arrestees.
The Police along
with the authorities of Shaheed Habibur Rahman Hall of Rajshahi
University, in Rajshahi District, found a list prepared by ICS
and containing names of 15 leaders and activists of Bangladesh
Chhatra League. During a raid on ICS controlled rooms in the hall,
the law enforcers also seized over 200 books on religion including
a few on jihad, CDs and a flash drive from the rooms.
The JeI leader,
Ameer Matiur Rahman Nizami, warned the Bangladesh Government of
"dire consequences" of shutting the democratic door
on Islamic politics in Dhaka. "With a bit of a warning I want
to say that undemocratic doors will open up if the lawful and
democratic doors are closed, and that will not be good for anyone,"
Nizami added.
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February 24
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19 people, including six Policemen,
were injured in Chittagong District in a violent clash between
madrassa (seminary) students and the Policemen. The clash
erupted after Police barred members of recently formed Islamist
group Hefazate Islam Bangladesh (HIB) from erecting podium for
a rally at Laldighi Maidan and intercepted the rally-bound madrassa
students in Baluchchhara. The HIB announced to hold the rally
in protest against the Government's move to slap ban on religion-based
politics, cancellation of the 5th Amendment to the
Constitution and proposed education policy.
A large number of ICS leaders
of different tiers are actively considering resigning following
internal conflicts between top leaders of ICS and its parent organisation
JeI. An ICS leader said, "Frustrated with the internal conflicts
and countrywide onslaught against Shibir, many leaders of different
units are at the point of resigning from the party."
Rajshahi University authorities
aided by the Police seized Molotov cocktail (or petrol bomb),
huge number of jihadi books and rods from ICS-controlled
rooms of Mother Bux Hall and Habibur Rahman Hall in Rajshahi District.
The authorities also sealed 13 rooms of ICS cadre including that
of hall unit ICS president Shakhawat Hossain and Secretary Muhammad
Toha. However, no arrest was made in this connection.
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February 25
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Police along with university authorities
raided several rooms of ICS cadres at Suhrawardy Hall of Rajshahi
University in Rajshahi District and recovered bomb making materials,
hockey sticks, iron rods, stones, sticks, leaflets and fake identity
cards.. During the raid the Police also found a list of 17 leaders
and activists of the hall unit of BCL and seized an ICS action
plan including attack on BCL leaders and a photo album of BCL
leaders titled 'Warning for Blood.'
Two JeI leaders, Abdul Kalam Azad
and Siddique Hossain of Rajshahi unity of JeI, arrested over the
violence at Rajshahi University were sent to jail after end of
their remand.
The JeI cadre Abdul Kalam Muhammad
Yusuf (who was arrested earlier in Rajshahi University Violence
case, February 9, 2010), faced another case in charge of killing
two freedom fighters during the Liberation War in 1971.
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February 26
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The Rapid Action
Battalion (RAB) arrested former Rajshahi City Corporation ward
councillor and JeI leader Mohammad Gias Uddin from Rajshahi and
Rajshahi University (RU) Habibur Rahman Hall ICS unit president
Reazul Islam from Narayanganja District in cases filed in connection
with the violence and murder on RU campus on February 9, 2010.
The RAB officials claimed that during preliminary interrogation
Reazul told them that the attack on Bangladesh Chhatra League
on February 9 was carried out following a decision of JeI to capture
eight dormitories of the university ousting Chhatra League men
from there.
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February 27
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Police arrested
a cadre of ICS suspecting his involvement in the killing of prominent
fish exporter Azad Gazi.
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February 28
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Five militants of the Pakistan-based
militant outfit Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) were arrested in Dhaka.
Police arrested one JeI leader
in Gopalganj District and five ICS cadres in Rajshahi District.
The Police seized
over 5,000 jihadi books from a ICS-controlled room at Shaheed
Shamsuzzoha Hall of the Rajshahi university. During the raid,
the Police also recovered a hit list of seven leaders and workers
of the hall unit BCL along with its action plan including attack
on BCL men, one photo album, CD disks on campus violence and huge
leaflets.
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March 3
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The Police arrested seven cadres
of ICS from two dormitories atDhakaUniversityfor suspicious activities.
They were granted bail by aDhaka Court.
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March 4
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Rajshahi Police arrested three
cadres of theICS also students of Rajshahi University (RU), from
RU campus. Police also raided five ICS controlled private dormitories
for female students of different educational institutions in the
city and seized seven jihadi books from one of them.
Kishoreganj Police arrested two
JeI cadres,RamjanAli andAzizulHuq, of Kishoreganj District unit
while leading a procession in the town protesting against the
Government.
Teachers of Rajshahi University
(RU), supporting the JeI held a secret meeting on March 4 defying
the restriction on political activities on the campus. Sources
said the teachers sat in the meeting hearing the news of arrest
of former RU unit Islami Chhatra Shibir (ICS) president, Delwar
Hossain Sayedee.
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March 5
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Nannu Mia alias Belal Mandal
alias Billal, a Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) terrorist, who was
arrested by the RAB in Dhaka on February 28,2010, admitted that
he made safe passages for several terrorists, who were involved
in 1999 Indian plane hijacking, to India from Bangladesh.
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March 6
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In Chittagong, four ICS cadres
were arrested in connection with February 12 clash with the Police
in the city. Further, in Rajshahi, Motihar Police arrested two
ICS cadres at Rajshahi University (RU). In addition, Sylhet Kotwali
Police arrested four more ICS cadres from Rikabibaza College area.
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March 7
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The RAB recovered huge bomb-making
materials from a house at Jalkorpara in Kashiani Sub-District
of Gopalganj District while the RAB Jessore recovered 12 air guns
and four bombs and arrested two persons.
Detained JeM coordinator for Bangladesh
Rezwan Ahmed disclosed to investigators the 'identities' and 'whereabouts'
of three other Pakistani terrorists who are his accomplices. Rezwan
said the three- Sohel, Ali and Zawad- came to Bangladesh with
him in August 2009, for crossing over to India for terrorist activities.
Of them, Sohel and Ali have already returned to Pakistan while
Zawad left for Singapore after over two months' stay in Bangladesh,
he said.
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March 8
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The Police recovered a cocktail
(petrol bomb) from an ICS held room at a hall at Rajshahi University
and arms from the house of a Shibir cadre in Noakhali District.
A top ICS leader of the Rajshahi
University and president of Amir Ali Hall unit of ICS, Ekram Hossain,
accused of killing Chhatra League leader Faruk Hossain, said that
key central leaders of the JeI and ICS were involved in the killing.
A trial court in Sylhet District,
framed charges against HUJI chief Mufti Abdul Hannan and five
others in the case filed for the city’s bomb blast hours ahead
of a pre-poll rally of Awami League Chief Sheikh Hasina on September
26, 2001.
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March 9
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Rajshahi University ICS leader
Ekram Hossain who was arrested in connection with Chhatra League
leader Faruk murder case from Dhamrai in Dhaka District was brought
to Rajshahi and handed over to Motihar Police for interrogation.
The judicial magistrate court
inHabiganj granted seven days' remand for HuJI operative ShahMizanurRahmanMithu,
an accused in former Finance Minister S.A.M.S.Kibriakilling case.
Mithu was arrested onMarch 7, 2010.
A parliamentary body of Bangladesh
had alleged that former BNP lawmaker Abdul Wadud Bhuiyan and JeI
had instigated the recent unrest in the hill Districts with assistance
from a Pakistani intelligence agency.
The ruling AL asked main opposition
BNP to sever relations with JeI, a key partner in the four-party
coalition, for its involvement in the war crimes, especially repression
on women, during the liberation war in 1971.
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March 10
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Police a JeI leader, Md Eakub
Ali Chowdhury, at Kandirpar in Comilla District in connection
with the violence at Khagrachhari on February 23, 2010, that left
one Bangalee settler dead and 50 others injured. Arrestee Eakub
is a member of JeI Khagrachhari unit and founder president of
Parbattya Bangalee Chhatra Parishad.
A Bagerhat District Court sentenced
three operatives of banned JMB to seven years' imprisonment in
a case for serial blasts in Bagerhat on August 17, 2005. The convicts
are Ziaur Rahman alias Sabbir alias Sagar of Bagatipara in Natore,
Anisuzzaman alias Anis of Char Astail village under Mollahat sub-district
of Bagerhat, and Abu Taleb of Garfa village of the same sub-district.
Meanwhile, JeI Secretary General
Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mojahid said that the Government has resorted
to illegal and unethical acts by publishing the statement of detained
Ekram Hussain, who was taken by Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) forcibly
after his arrest.
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March 11
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The Police recovered 37 handmade
bombs from a sand heap outside district JeI office at Bhadughar
of Brahmanbaria District.
Police seized 200Jihadibooks,
documents including a hit list of 27 Chhatra League leaders and
activists, and a scheme to attack Bangladesh Chhatra League workers,
from the room of an ICS cadre of Rajshahi University dormitory.
ICS cadres, who have been detained
on charge of killing a Rajshahi University student, are delivering
statements "spontaneously" about the involvement of JeI leaders,
State Minister for Home Affairs Shamsul Haq Tuku said
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March 12
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Rajshahi University ICS leader
Ekram Hossain, who is in the Police custody, gave confessional
statement before a Rajshahi court reiterating his statement in
Dhaka that linked central leaders of JeI and ICS with the February
9, 2010, violence. Sources said that Ekram in the statement said
he took part in the attack on Chhatra League with the Shibir group
led by RU Shibir President Shamsul Alam Golap. He said that Golap
contacted several times with central JeI and ICS leaders during
the night of violence.
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March 13
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Rajshahi JeI leader Gias Uddin
gave a confessional statement before a Rajshahi court that all
tiers of JeI helped ICS in the February 9 violence at Rajshahi
University following an organisational decision.
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March 14
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RAB arrested three suspected HuJI
militants in connection with the January 20 bomb blasts that killed
five people during a CPB rally. The arrested militants were identified
as Moulana Idris Ali, Moulana Abdul Latif and Sakhawat Hossain
alias Dulal.
The leaders and activists of the
BCL at RU laid a siege to the pharmacy department office alleging
secret liaison between a section of teachers and ICS men.
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