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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 cadres. They
alleged that some teachers have a secret deal with ICS cadre Ali
Reza Faruk who is one of the main accused in BCL worker Faruque
Hossain’s killing case.
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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March 15
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An ICS cadre was stabbed while
four others were injured by brickbat as the activists of BCL attacked
the ICS cadres.and drove them out of Carmichael College in Rangpur
District.
A Dhaka court placed three HuJI-B
militants on a three-day remand in a case filed against them for
their alleged involvement in anti-state activities across the
country.
Local JeI leader of Chapainawabganj
District, Mofizul Islam, filed a case with Judicial Magistrate's
Court against a superintendent of police and 12 other policemen
of Shibganj Police Station for killing an ICS leader of Rajshahi
university unit.
ICS President Rezaul Karim retracted
his statement regarding the ‘threat on the life of one lakh (hundred
thousand) Awami League workers’ and blamed the media for 'distorting'
his comments.
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March 16
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A Special Tribunal Court of Dinajpur
sentenced two JMB militants, Mohammed Anwar Shahadat (32) and
Md Obaidullah (34), each to life term imprisonment and 10 years'
jail in a bomb blast and arms case of February 22, 2003, in Dinajpur
District.
The Law Minister of Bangladesh,
Shafique Ahmed, briefed after his visit from the US that the US
Government was examining whether there are links between JeI Bangladesh
and the Pakistan-based militant organisation LeT.
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March 17
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JeI and its associate organisations
have picked a new strategy of using Bangabandhu's (Sheikh Mujibur
Rahman) name to continue their activities among the children of
Rajshahi under a new banner called Shishu Kantha Sangsad (SKS).
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March 18
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Rajshahi Police sought a 10-day
remand for three local leaders of JeI and ICS for quizzing them
at the Taskforce Interrogation Cell (TFIC) in Dhaka.
A Habiganj court recorded statement
of a HuJI-B militant Mizanur Rahman Mithu, accused in SAMS Kibria
killing case.
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March 19
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State Minister for Law, Quamrul
Islam, said the trial of identified war criminals including JeI
leaders Matiur Rahman Nizami, Ali Ahsan Mojaheed and Delwar Hossain
Sayeedi will be held in the first phase.
Dhaka City unit leaders of Awami
League demanded immediate arrest and punishment of JeI leaders
for comparing its chief Matiur Rahman Nizami with Prophet Muhammad.
Land Minister Rezaul Karim Hira
said the previous BNP-JeI Government issued 66,000 fake certificates
of freedom fighters during its five-year rule. Mentioning that
the anti-liberation forces JeI-ICS are still active against the
freedom fighters, he urged the war heroes to remain alert against
any conspiracy of JeI-ICS.
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March 20
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Police arrested two cadres of
ICS at RU in connection with the February 9 violence on the campus.
The arrestees are Mazharul Islam, a third year student of law
and justice department and Ataur Rahman alias Akash, a second
year student of social welfare department.
Rajshahi court deferred the date
of hearing on prayers, seeking remand for three top local JeI-ICS
leaders to March 25.
JeI leaders blamed a section of
the media for whipping up propaganda and conspiring against the
party. Some newspapers distorted the remarks made by JeI’s Dhaka
city unit Ameer Rafiqul Islam Khan about Prophet Muhammad; they
said adding that it was ill motivated.
The security experts of Bangladesh
at a workshop said international terrorists consider Bangladesh
a softer destination compared to Pakistan and Afghanistan.
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March 21
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Rajshahi Police arrested three
JeI leaders during a raid at their office in the city’s Hatimkhan
area in connection with the February 9 violence in Rajshahi University
(RU).
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March 22
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The JeI cadres assaulted a freedom
fighter, his wife and son and set ablaze his house following an
altercation over ownership of a land at Kashidangi village under
Baliadangi sub-district of Thakurgaon District.
Three Jamaat-e-Islami (JeI) leaders,
arrested on March 21 in connection with the February 9 Rajshahi
University violence, were taken on a three-day Police remand.
The High Court rejected a petition
filed by detained Rajshahi City JeI leader Ameer Ataur Rahman
seeking bail in RU student Faruk murder case.
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March 23
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BCL activists stabbed four ICS
cadres, allegedly involved in the February 9 violence, on the
Rajshahi University campus handed them over to the Police.
The High Court directed the Police
not to harass or arrest over 200 cadres of JeI and its student
front ICS in the cases filed on charge of killing of Rajshahi
University student Faruk Hossain.
JeI leader and former Rajshahi
city ward councillor Gias Uddin gave another confessional statement
before a court, naming the masterminds, including four teachers
of Rajshahi University, behind the February 9 violence in the
university. He also confessed that JeI held a meeting at Islamia
College in the city's Binodpur area on February 8 and decided
to help the ICS with a view to safeguarding the party's existence.
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March 24
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RAB personnel arrested four militants
belonging to the PBCP-Janajudhha and recovered five bombs, two
shutter guns and three bullets from their possession at Shimulchara
village in Ataikula sub-district of Pabna District. According
to RAB, the militants were holding a secret meeting for future
attacks.
Six ICS cadres, who were arrested
while holding a secret meeting in Chittagong District on March
22, were remanded for one day. They were arrested along with a
number of Islamist books.
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March 25
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ICS president in the Rajshahi
University, Shamsul Alam Golap, was arrested at Patalkandi area
under Bhuapur Upazila of Tangail District. Later, he was handed
over to the RAB for his involvement with the February 9 murder
in RU.
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March 26
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Rajshahi University’s ICS president
Shamsul Alam Golap was taken on a seven-day Police remand in Rajshahi
District in connection with a case involving recovery of explosives.
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March 28
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JeI Secretary General Ali Ahsan
Mohammad Mojaheed has warned the Government of an ‘explosive situation’
if his party leaders and workers are roped in on imaginary charges.
The warning came in the wake of wide speculations that JeI leaders
would soon be brought to the dock on charge of war crimes.
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March 30
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A Dhaka court asked the JeI Ameer
and secretary general and three others to appear before it on
April 28, in connection with a case filed against them for hurting
religious sentiment of Muslims.
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March 31
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Police recovered 150 bullets from
a field at Topodhan in Sadar upazila (sub-district) of Sylhet
District.
JeI announced that it will embark
on agitating the people against the ongoing utility crisis in
the country, while the Government is preparing to indict many
leaders of the party for crimes against humanity.
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April 1
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The Government planned to deploy
around six million Ansar (voluntary Para-Military Force)
and VDP members countrywide to combat militancy and improve law
and order.
A Rajshahi court postponed the
hearing on Police prayers for remand of three top local leaders
of JeI and ICS following their petition for changing the Court.
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April 2
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The Police arrested a suspected
JMB cadre at Chowranga village in Faridganj sub-district of Chandpur
District.
ICS leader, Shamsul Alam Golap,
in a confessional statement before a Rajshahi court said that
they resorted to February 9 violence with the help of JeI to capture
Rajshahi University halls.
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April 4
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An ICS cadre, Ayub Ali Rashed
(26), was lynched by a mob in Hathazari sub-district of Chittagong
District for attempting to abduct a college girl.
The High Court rejected the bail
prayers of five JeI leaders including its chief Matiur Rahman
Nizami in two separate cases filed against them on charge of hurting
the religious sentiments of Muslims.
A Rajshahi court rejected bail
prayers of 210 leaders and cadres of JeI and ICS sued for police
assault during February 9 Rajshahi University violence.
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April 6
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The Police arrested 17 cadres
of the ICS from an apartment in the Pallabi area of Dhaka on suspicion
of planning for devastating acts.
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April 7
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A cadre of the outlawed Gono Bahini,
identified as Ashraful Islam alias Mandar, was killed in
a shootout with the RAB in the Kushtia District town.
A case was filed at Chokoria in
Cox's Bazar District against a former JeI MP and 19 others on
charges of arson, looting, rape and killing during the liberation
war in 1971.
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April 8
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The RAB arrested a Pakistani national
in Dhaka suspecting him to be an organiser in Bangladesh of Pakistan-based
LeT.
A case was filed with Cox's Bazar
District Judicial Magistrate's Court against three alleged war
criminals and another 70 unidentified militants.
Police arrested 41 JeI leaders
and cadres and imposed the Section 144 around Shaheed Abdur Razzak
Park in the Satkhira District town apprehending chaos and clashes
in those areas.
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April 9
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Police arrested four cadres of
JeI and ICS as they took out a procession in the city streets
violating Section 144 imposed by Barisal District Police Commissioner.
Awami League General Secretary
Syed Ashraful Islam asked his party men to undo the conspiracy
of war criminals who are out to hinder the war crimes trial.
Civil Aviation and Tourism Minister
G. M. Quader revealed that a western country's embassy in Dhaka
informed the Government about the possible terror attack or plane
hijacking at Hazrat Shahjal all International Airport on April
8.
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April 11
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One cadre each of the outlawed
GMF and PBCP were killed in shootouts with Police in Kushtia and
Chuadanga Districts respectively.
Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh
Hasina said the opposition's threat to the Government is intended
to protect the war criminals.
Chittagong District Central JeI
leaders had to leave the port city without holding a scheduled
conference in the face of strong protests.
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April 13
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Three cadres of the PBCP were
arrested in Sirajganj and Satkhira Districts. They were identified
as Abdul Mannan (35), Abdul Hannan (32) and Bidyut Kumar Bachchu
(38).
A Habiganj court, deferred charge-framing
against seven JMB cadres in four of the five cases for serial
blasts in Habiganj town as one of the militants, Salah Uddin aliasSalehin
of the banned outfit could not be produced before the court from
Kashimpur Jail.
Ten alleged collaborators of Pakistani
occupation forces have been sued for war crimes in Chapainawabganj
and Satkhira Districts.
Chittagong Police filed a case
accusing 1,500 to 2,000 leaders and cadres of JeI and ICS for
attack on Police at city's Anderkilla Intersection on April 12.
According to the reports of the
Government formed Commission for Judicial Inquiry into the post-polls
violence in 2001, nearly 15,000 incidents of repression and violence
took place during the regime of BNP-JeI led Government after 2001
general elections.
Chittagong city unit JeI leaders
said JeI was in the Pakistan's side during the liberation war
of Bangladesh and they don't accept the issue of trying war criminals.
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April 15
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The banned Islamist outfit Hizb
ut-Tahrir Bangladesh brought out a procession in the city protesting
US military exercise in Chittagong District.
The Detective Branch of the Police
arrested the alleged UK unit ‘chief’ of the HuJI-B, Golam Mostofa
(55), from Osmaninagar in Sylhet 14 months after he came out of
jail on a High Court bail.
A special court began trials for
624 BDR men of 13 Rifles Battalion in a case filed for February
25-26, 2008 mutiny at Pilkhana BDR Headquarters.
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April 16
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An ICS cadre, Jashim Uddin alias
5-star Jashim, was killed in a "shootout" between his cohorts
and RAB at Wajibia near Ananya residential area in Chittagong
city.
The Detective Branch took the
Bangladesh-born British citizen and a HuJI-B leader, who is also
an Afghan war veteran, on a four-day remand for interrogation.
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April 18
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Foreign militants are still suspected
to have been obtaining Bangladeshi passports using false information
to leave the country to escape or have training and take part
in 'Jihad'.
The RAB disclosed that detained
UK unit ‘chief’ of the HuJI-B, Golam Mostofa was a close aide
to another fugitive Bangladesh-born UK citizen Mustafa Faisal
and an adviser to his Green Crescent Madrasa in Bhola District.
A Rajshahi court rejected bail
prayers of 14 leaders and cadres of JeI and ICS in connection
with the Rajshahi University violence cases.
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April 19
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The Special Court-1 of the BDR sentenced 56 accused
of 7 Rifle Battalion to different terms of rigorous imprisonment
for their involvement in mutiny in Nildumur of Shyamnagar upazila
(sub-district) of Satkhira District. The court set up at 41 Rifle
Battalion also acquitted four accused as the prosecution could
not prove the charges against them.
The District and Sessions Judge of Sylhet Mohammed
Momin Ullah rejected the bail prayers of six ICS cadres and sent
them to the jail in a case filed in connection with clash with
BCL men.
JeI high-ups have agreed to replace high-ranking
leaders of the party after the possible arrest of some of its
leaders for their alleged involvement in war crimes in 1971.
National Board of Revenue (NBR) sought information
on the bank accounts of JeI central leader Delwar Hossain Saidee
and the acting editor of the daily Amar Desh Mahmudur Rahman and
his wife Feroza Mahmud.
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina said that further
enquiry is needed to find out the reason why Opposition Leader
Khaleda Zia had "gone into hiding" just before the BDR mutiny
in 2009.
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April 20
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Police arrested Hizb ut-Tahrir Bangladesh chief
coordinator Mahiuddin Ahmed from the capital Dhaka on charges
of plotting subversive and terrorist activities.
Detective Branch of Police arrested the publicity
secretary, Mir Nurul Islam, of Natore District unit JeI on charges
of being involved in a bid to foil the Government's move to try
crimes against humanity.
Intelligence wing of the RAB arrested Kazi Morshedul
Huq, ‘second-in-command’ of banned Islamist outfit Hizb ut-Tahrir
Bangladesh, from his Mohammadpur house at Dhaka .
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April 21
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Dead body of Mohammad Selim (28), a cadre of outlawed
PBCP-Janajuddha faction, was recovered from Shibpur in Atgharia
sub-district of Pabna District.
RAB arrested a 'regional leader' of outlawed PBSP
from Mridhar More (intersection) area under Chhilar Char sub-district
of Chittagong District and recovered a rifle, two bullets and
two machetes from his house following his confession.
United Kingdom unit chief of banned Islamist outfit
HuJI-B Golam Mostofa was taken on a fresh five-day remand by Detective
Branch of the Police.
JeI chief Motiur Rahman Nizami claimed that the
country's mainstream Islamic parties don't have any link with
militancy. The militancy issue was cooked up to bring foreign
forces to Bangladesh just like Afghanistan, said Nizami, blaming
its creation on Mossad of Israel and Research and Analysis Wing
of India.
Police recovered two powerful bombs from near
the house of a retired Government official at Dewanpara area in
Goalanda municipality of Rajbari District. None was arrested in
this connection.
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April 22
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The detained chief of the banned Islamist outfit
Hizb ut-Tahrir Bangladesh, Mohiuddin Ahmed, revealed that about
20,000 leaders and cadres of the outfit are active across the
country. He also said that the outfit spends around USD 4341 a
month, collecting the amount from its sympathisers for the conduct
of its cadres.
The convener of the War Crimes Facts Finding Committee
(WCFFC) said that, "It is possible at this moment to arrest around
20 alleged war criminals on the basis of evidence and documents,
but many identified war criminals are fleeing the country since
there is no vigilance against them."
US Deputy Secretary of State James B. Steinberg
said that some questions like the trial of war criminals have
to be resolved through the internal political process of Bangladesh.
Police arrested a JMB cadre, Hamidul Haque Babu
(38), from Bamonitola village of Atrai upazila (sub-district)
in the Chapainawabganj District.
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April 24
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A military team recovered 21 grenades and 18 mortar
shells from a site where labourers were digging into a hill at
Ghagra Bazar under Kaukhali sub-district of Rangamati District.
RAB arrested an Imam (religious leader) turned
militant, Tofazzol (50), from Badiapara in Gangni upazila (sub-district)
in Meherpur District and recovered two bombs from him. RAB said
that he was operating for the Janajuddho faction of the PBCP-ML.
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April 25
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Mohiuddin Ahmed, chief of the banned Islamist
outfit Hizb-ut Tahrir Bangladesh, was taken on a fresh remand
for four days in three separate cases under Anti-Terrorism Act-2009.
Investigators are likely to provide prosecutors
with reports on allegations against some identified war criminals
by May to start the long-awaited trial.
JeI chief Motiur Rahman Nizami claimed that people
who talk about the trial for crimes against humanity do not think
about crises of countrymen.
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April 26
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Police arrested 18 leaders and
cadres of ICS on charges of bringing out militant procession Bogra
District.
Khagrachhari District Chief Judicial
Magistrate's granted bail to a leader of the District unit of
JeI Mohammad Eakub Ali Chowdhury, who was arrested on March 10
for his alleged role in February 23 Khagrachhari violence that
left one Bengali settler killed and 50 others injured.
43 persons were sued on charge
of killing three people during the Liberation War in 1971 in Rajshahi,
Bagerhat and Jessore Districts.
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April 27
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27 among 675 accused of the 44
Rifle Battalion of the BDR were in particular focus as they were
hauled before the BDR Special Court-5 in civil dress.
Criminal Investigation Department
investigators confirmed another BDR sepoy's involvement and he
was brought to CID headquarters from Thakurgaon.
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April 28
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The Police arrested Mohammed Rajai
(35), a 'regional leader' of the PBCP-Janajudhha faction from
a remote village of Atghoria Sub-District in Pabna District.
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April 29
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The Police arrested 40 cadres
of JeI and ICS in Paltan area of Dhaka as they tried to hold a
rally obstructing traffic and causing suffering to the people.
Nayek Subedar Torab Hosain Khan,
a male nurse, confessed before the BDR trial Court on Mutiny at
Pilkhana about his involvement in removing over 40 bodies of slain
Army officers from the Darbar Hall in Dhaka.
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April 30
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Gias Uddin, the ‘second in command’
of the outlawed GMF was killed in a shootout between his cohorts
and the Police in Shailokupa Sub-District of Jhenaidah District.
Police arrested 12 operatives
of banned Hizb-ut Tahrir from Dhaka’s Dhanmondi, Mohammadpur,
Tejgaon, Paltan and Sutrapur areas and seized around 600 leaflets
from their possession.
Three JeI leaders were arrested
on charge of delivering anti-State speech in a meeting of the
party's women workers in Gobindagnaj sub-district of Gaibandh
District.
25 ICS cadres out of 55 who got
bail from the High Court were released from Rajshahi Central Jail.
The ICS cadres were arrested from Uttara and Shahbag areas in
Dhaka in connection with the case filed by the Police following
the February 9 ICS atrocities at Rajshahi University.
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May 2
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Three separate cases have been
filed against 23 people in Kishoreganj and Bagerhat Districts
on charge of war crimes in 1971. A case was filed with Kishoreganj
court against a former Army Captain Mohammud Nasir (60) on charge
of killing during liberation war.
Government would investigate if
the chief investigator of the agency probing war crimes had been
a member of Islami Chhatra Sangha, pre-independence student wing
of JeI.
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May 3
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Police arrested two JMB militants,
A.T.M. Ali (50) and his son Jamal Uddin (26), at Shafikpur of
Raninagar sub-district of Naogaon District. They were close associates
of Siddique ul-Islam alias Bangla Bhai.
Trial of 75 accused BDR soldiers
of 9 Rifle Battalion resumed after it was adjourned on February
18 at special Court-4 at the BDR sector headquarters in Rangamati
District. Twelve witnesses, including eleven civilian, gave their
depositions against all the accused before the three-member makeshift
special Court.
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May 4
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A leader of the Gono Bahini outfit,
identified as Abdul Alim (32), was killed in a shootout between
his cohorts and Police in Mirpur Sub-District of Kushtia District.
11 criminals were sued in Noakhali
and Gopalganj Districts on charge of war crimes including murder,
looting and arson in 1971. A case was filed against Mohammed Belal
(60), an allegedrazakar (collaborator) of Pakistan occupation
forces, with the court of Judicial Magistrate ASM Shahidullah
of Noakhali.
Special Court-4 of BDR adjourned
the trial of 75 accused BDR soldiers of 9 Rifle Battalion at the
BDR sector headquarters in Rangamati District and scheduled January
10, 2011 for next hearing. The tribunal resumed its proceedings
on May 3 after a gap of 73 days and was again adjourned for eight
months after receiving the depositions of 25 witnesses out of
100.
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May 5
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Police arrested two HuJI-B militants,
Noman and his brother Arif Billah, at their house at Baniachang
sub-District of Habibganj. They were produced in the Judicial
Magistrate's Court, Habiganj with a prayer for 10 days' remand.
A parliamentary body asked the
education ministry to remove war criminals and razakars
(Pakistani Supporters during 1971 War of Liberation) from the
top posts in all educational institutions as well as from the
managing committees, if there are any such elements.
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May 6
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A cadre belonging to PBCP-Red
Flag, identified as Mithu Pramanik (34), was killed by its rival
Janajuddha faction of the same outfit PBCP-Janajuddha at Ataikula
in Pabna District.
Two Harkat-ul-Jihad-al Islami
Bangladesh (HuJI-B) militants, who were arrested from their house
at Baniachang sub-District of Habibganj on May 5, were placed
on a three-day remand in Judicial Magistrate's Court in Habiganj.
President Zillur Rahman asked
the International Crimes Tribunal to speedily accomplish the trial
of war criminals for their misdeeds during the country's Liberation
War in 1971.
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May 7
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Police recovered 768 rounds of
bullet of SLR from a pond at Shilmuri village in Barura sub-District
of Comilla District.
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May 8
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A case was filed
with Batiaghata Police station against 12 people on
charge of murder and gang rape during liberation war in 1971.
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May 9
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13 militants, including a private
university teacher, of the banned Islamist outfit Hizb ut-Tahrir-Bangladesh
were arrested on Dhaka University campus and at Badda of Dhaka.
Police also arrested four students of Dhaka University for their
alleged link with the outfit from Surya Sen Hall.
Villagers of Shaharpur of Ishwardi
sub-district of Pabna District captured four women, allegedly
the members of outlawed 'Hizb ut-Tawhid. The mob caught them on
suspicion when they were selling 'Dazzal,' a book of their organisation.
Later they handed the four over to Ishwardi Police.
The outgoing Director General
of BDR, Major General M. Mainul Islam, said that the ‘Pilkhana
Mutiny’ of February 2009 was not a planned one. "A number of over
enthusiasts triggered the mutiny of border guards last year by
spreading rumours", said outgoing Director General of BDR.
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May 10
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RAB arrested two JMB militants
in Mymensingh. They were identified as Mohammed Abdul Hannan (23)
and Mohammed Tuel (25).
Police charged baton on a human
chain formed by JeI and ICS and arrested nine cadres
from Seroil bus stand area in Rajshahi.
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May 11
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Nine militants of the banned Islamist
outfit Hizb ut-Tahrir-Bangladesh who were arrested on May 9 were
taken on a three-day remand.
Group of students of Arabic Department
at Dhaka University kept the office room of the
department's Chairman and two other rooms locked for seven hours
demanding removal of three teachers for patronising pro-JeI students.
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May 12
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Police recovered 10 bombs from
a suspect Anarul Mollah (36), who was arrested at Amla bazaar
area in Mirpur Sub-Distrct of Kushtia District.
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May 14
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A Gono Bahini cadre, identified
as Abdul Malek alias Kata Malek, was killed in an encounter
with the RAB at Faila village in Ataikula area of Pabna District.
The Police arrested a cadre of
the Gonomukti Fouz outfit along with a firearm and two bullets
at Alampur village under Sadar sub-District of Kushtia District.
The RAB personnel recovered a
foreign made rifle from three suspects arrested in Khalispur Crescent
area of Khulna city. A case was filed against them under the Arms
Act.
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May 15
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Two activists of the Parbatya
Chattagram Jana Sanghati Samity (PCJSS) were shot dead allegedly
by a group of four to five cadres of the United People's Democratic
Front (UPDF) at Jurachhari sub-District in Rangamati District.
A regional ‘commander’ of the
Gono Bahini outfit was shot dead by the RAB personnel during an
encounter in Kushtia District.
An operative of the Gono Bahini
outfit was shot dead by the RAB personnel at Faila village in
Pabna District.
The Police arrested a fugitive
JMB cadre, Biplob, from his residence at Jagodishpur Bariahati
village under Nolganda sub-District in Natore District. He was
a close aide to Bangla Bhai and was sentenced to 18 years' imprisonment
in an arms case.
The Chittagong Police raided the
residence of Chittagong regional coordinator of banned Islamist
outfit Hizb-ut Tahrir Bangladesh in the city's Khulshi area and
seized documents, party and anti-government leaflets and posters.
However, the coordinator Maruf Russell (35), could not be arrested.
Over a dozen leaders and activists
of Bangladesh Chhatra League of a Dhaka University hall received
leaflets by mail from the Hizb-ut Tahrir Bangladesh outfit calling
upon them to join the organisation.
Personnel of the RAB arrested
two arms peddlers and recovered one shooter gun and six bullets
from them at Telkupi frontier village of Shibganj sub-District
in Chapainawabganj District.
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May 16
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A leader of Parbatya Chattagram
Jana Sanghati Samity was killed and another injured in a gun attack
in the Rajasthali sub-district of Rangamati District. Locals said
a group of activists of anti-peace treaty group United People's
Democratic Front (UPDF) fired on PCJSS men at about 11:00pm over
the issue of PCJSS capturing the new UPDF office.
Two persons, identified as Eftekhar
Alam Babu (27) and Dhola (25), were arrested along with one shutter
gun and six bullets during a raid at Telkupi village in the Shibganj
sub-district of Bogra District.
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May 17
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The SFs recovered 1,974 rounds
of bullet of SLR and MG at Shilmuri village of Barura sub-district
of Comilla District. The bullets were kept in two sacks in an
abandoned condition from near a graveyard of the village. With
this, 10,164 rounds of bullet were seized from the same village
in four phases.
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May 18
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A regional leader of the PBCP,
Asadul Islam (38), was killed in an encounter between the Police
and his cohorts at Nehalpur village under Sadar sub-district in
Chuadanga District. Sub-Inspector of Sadar Police Station was
also injured during the encounter.
Two operatives belonging to Janajudhho
faction of the PBCP, identified as Mohammed Moksed Ali (35) and
Mohammed Johir Udin (32), were arrested after an encounter with
the Police at Kuabashi-Chakmarom village in Chatmohar sub-District
of Pabna District. They were injured during the encounter.
The Rapid Action Battalion arrested
five JMB cadres when were holding a secret meeting beside a mosque
at Chariakona in Katiadi sub-District in Kishoreganj District.
In Chapainawabganj, a court order
to free a JMB cadre on bail was deferred till June 23 after the
Public Prosecutor filed a prayer to cancel the order.
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May 19
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Law Minister Shafique Ahmed said
that investigation into the crimes against humanity during the
country''s Liberation War in 1971 was going on smoothly, although
Abdul Matin, a senior investigator, has resigned from the office.
He also said that the Government will appoint more investigators
and prosecutors if the existing investigators and prosecutors
feel it is a necessity. The Law Minister further said that all
forms of crimes against humanity in 1971, including the killing
of intellectuals, would be tried in the international war crimes
tribunal.
Personnel of the RAB recovered
a shooter gun from three persons arrested at village Basirampur
under Assassuni sub-District in Satkhira District.
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May 23
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At least 15 JeI cadres, including
the ameer of the party's Patuakhali District unit, were injured
in an attack by the BCL and Jubo league activists at Baufal sub-district
headquarters. JeI Baufal sub-district unit arranged a meeting
at Baufal High School and over 100 JeI cadres attended the meeting.
Police recovered 10 bombs from
Jessore and Thakurgaon Districts. According to the Police sources,
they arrested two criminals and recovered nine powerful bombs
and a sharp weapon from a village in Sharsha sub-district of Jessore
District.
The
Police raided a JMB hideout located in a flat in Sylhet District
and arrested its military wing chief Shiblu.
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May 24
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A military commander belonging
to the PBCP-J (ML), Siddiqur Rahman alias Tiger
(35), was shot dead by the Security Forces during a 'shootout'
in Kushtia District. Siddiqur was accused in nine
cases including five for murder filed with Mirpur and Bheramara
Police stations in Kushtia.
Eight petrol bombs were found
outside the boundary wall of a house at Khalipapara in Rangpur District.
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May 25
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Police arrested JMB chief Maulana Saidur
Rahman, his wife and three other top leaders of the outfit in Dhaka and
Narayanganj.
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May 26
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JMB has been hoping to attract
new recruits by signalling its re-emergence through a series of
explosions in the capital Dhaka. "Due to the arrest of the group's
current chief, their reorganising efforts will fail," IGP Nur
Mohammad said.
The detained chief of the JMB,
Saidur Rahman, claims during interrogation that
the outfit has 400 full-time members across the country and a
military wing capable of launching spectacular attacks.
A freedom fighter was hacked to
death near Lal Hospital at Khalishpur of Khulna
District. The victim was identified as Altaf Hossain (60), son
of Anwar Hossain Molla of Khalishpur Housing Estate. Altaf was
a retired soldier of Bangladesh Army.
13 people have been sued for killing
a FF during the liberation war in 1971. A petition case was filed
by one Aleya Begum accusing the 13 in the court of Senior Judicial
Magistrate of Bagerhat Mohammed Rakibul Islam.
Security Forces arrested two suspected
militants of banned Islamisat outfit Allar Dal from village Kismat
Bagchi under Sadullapur sub-district of Gaibandha District.
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May 27
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Police arrested an ICS cadre,
Firuz Hossain Mintu (35), from Rajshahi University campus in connection
with February 9 violence on the campus.
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May 28
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A group of JeI cadres assaulted Officer-in-Charge
of Nirbahi sub-district, Abdus Samad, for imposing section 144
over the meeting scheduled to be held at Fultala Madrassa field
under Shajahanpur sub-District of Bogra District.
The Police arrested Rafiqul Islam
(38), regional leader of PBCP-J with firearms at Kuabashi village
under Chatmohar sub-District in Pabna District.
The detained chief of the JMB,
Saidur Rahman, disclosed the interrogators that he himself is
worried that hardliners who have taken control of banned Islamist
outfit JMB. He also said it would be more destructive in his absence
as chief. In the last two days of his six-day remand, Saidur told
interrogators that Sohel Mahfuz became JMB's acting
chief and Nazmul alias Bhagina Shahid is now
the military wing commander.
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May 29
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The Detective Branch of the Police
arrested a regional commander of the Hizb ut-Tahirr, Amiruzzaman Parvez (31),
in Dhaka’s Mohammadpur area. Police also seized
500 anti-Government leaflets, a laptop and two mobile phones from
his possession.
The Bogra District Police filed
a case against eight people including Shahjahanpur sub-district
JeI Chief Anisur Rahman and Secretary Abdul Latif on
charge of attacking Upazila Nirbahi Officer Abdus Samad
and Officer-in-Charge (OC) Anisur Rahman and creating
obstacle to discharging Government duty.
The US congratulated the Bangladesh
Government on the arrest of JMB chief Maulana Saidur Rahman.
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May 30
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JeI’s secretary general Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mojahid declared
at party office at Bara Moghbazar that the party would hold
its scheduled rally at the Paltan Maidan of Dhaka on
May 31 despite the ban imposed on rallies or processions in and
around the venue.
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May 31
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The Ameer of the JeI, Fakhor Uddin
Khan, was assaulted by unidentified assailants in Patuakhali District.
At the same time the District office of the JeI was also ransacked.
A court in Khulna District sentenced
seven members of militant Islamist outfit JMB to seven years rigorous
imprisonment for their involvement in the serial bomb blasts on
August 17, 2005.
The Law Minister Shafique Ahmed
said that the Government is determined to conduct the trial of
the 1971 crimes against humanity in accordance with international
legal and human rights standards.
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June 1
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The court gave a five-day remand
to JMB chief Maulana Saidur Rahman and his two accomplices after
they were produced before it on completion of their six-day remand.
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June 2
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Police arrested two JeI leaders
in connection with May 28 attack on Upazila Nirbahi Officer Abdus
Samad and Officer-in-Charge of Shajahanpur Police Station Anisur
Rahman in Bogra District.
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June 3
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The RAB arrested two people, Mohiuddin
Ahmed and his brother Salahuddin Ahmed, on charge of providing
shelter to the militants of Pakistan-based Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM)
from outskirts of Dhaka.
Militants of the banned Islamist
outfit Hizb-ut-Tahrir took out a protest procession in Topkhana
and Matshabhaban areas of Dhaka, carrying the banner written with
"Protest procession of Hizb-ut-Tahrir for Israeli attack
on Gaza-bound relief ship".
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June 4
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The Police arrested two criminals
and recovered firearms and bullets from them on June 4 at Purbatengri
village in Ishwardi sub-district of Pabna District. The arrestees
were Arman (27) and Jony (26), of the village.
The Mongla Police arrested a cadre
belonging to the Marxist Leninist faction of the PBCP, identified
as Zahid Fakir (24), from Mirpur of Dhaka.
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June 5
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The BNP and its key political
ally JeI would hold a meeting amid wide spread speculation whether
the issue of war crimes trial will come up in the discussion.
The Detective Branch of the Police
arrested a top leader of the JMB identified as Shahed bin Hafiz,
from Dhaka’s Sabujbagh area.
Bangladesh Police arrested a ULFA
leader, Ranju Chowdhury alias Rattan Sarkar,
from Mymensingh District months after the chief of the separatist
outfit Arbinda Rajkhowa was handed over to Indian authorities.
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June 6
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JeI formally endorsed BNP anti-Government
programmes to protest against "the wrongdoings" of the ruling
grand alliance. The decision came at a meeting of JeI’s executive
committee at the party's Moghbazar office in Dhaka.
A cell phone caller introducing
himself as a leader of outlawed PBCP gave death threat to ten
persons including academics, journalists, a political leader,
a businessman and a senior police officer of Khulna if they fail
to give toll as per demand.
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June 7
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The Police arrested eight ICS
cadres at Rajshahi University (RU) in connection with February
9 violence on the campus.
Police arrested 1,699 people on
various charges in separate drives across the country in 24 hours.
JeI finally agreed to accept the
Parliament's plenary power to make laws by omitting a phrase from
its charter that said people must not accept anyone except ‘Allah’
as the maker of laws. It also agreed to include a provision in
its charter to reserve 33 percent posts in all committees of the
party for women, according to a letter it submitted to the Election
Commission.
The BDR personnel recovered arms
from a house at Naopara village in Hakimpur sub-district of Dinajpur District.
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June 8
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31 persons were sued on charge
of killing two freedom fighters in Morelganj sub-district of Bagerhat District
during Liberation War in 1971.
A large number of ICS cadres gathered
in Binodpur Bazar area triggering tension at RU.
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June 9
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One person was injured in a clash
between the activists of BCL and the ICS at Sunamganj Government College in
Sunamganj District.
Rajshahi Police arrested
two ICS cadres, Ali Reza Porag and Anisur Rahman Sumon,
from the city's Laximpur area in connection with the
February 9 murder of a BCL worker at Rajshahi University.
Maulana Saidur Rahman,
current ‘chief’ of the JMB, was shown arrested and remanded
in a case filed for his alleged involvement with killing of a
JMB cadre in the Uttara area of Dhaka on February 1.
RAB recovered a foreign made revolver
and a bullet from Hugalbaria area in Natore District.
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June 13
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Thirty two cadres of the JeI and
ICS were arrested by the Sadar Police in Jheniadh District over
a clash with the activists of the Bangladesh Chhatra League.
At least 35 persons were injured
in a clash by combined cadres of the JeI and ICS with the activists
of the Bangladesh Chhatra League in Jheniadh District.
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June 14
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A former member of a reformist
group of PCJSS, identified as Suvas Chandra Chakma, 37, was shot
dead allegedly by the armed cadres of PCJSS at his house at Moddhyam
Pakuzzachhari under Baghaichhari sub-district of Rangmati District.
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June 15
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Police arrested a top cadre of
GMF, identified as Somir Mondol (40), and recovered firearms and
ammunition from his possession.
A Sylhet court framed charges
against HuJI-B chief Mufti Abdul Hannan and five others in a case
filed against them for grenade attack in the city AL rally on
August 7, 2004.
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June 16
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A supporter of the PCJSS, identified
as Swapan Tangchangya (35), was killed and another injured in
a gun attack allegedly by the activists of UPDF at Modanpur village,
about 10kms off Rajasthali sub-district headquarters of Rangamati
District.
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June 17
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The authorities of Rajshahi University
of Engineering and Technology with the help of SFs raided Ziaur
Rahman Hall of the university and seized lethal weapons, leaflets
and books on Jihad from four ICS-controlled rooms.
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June 21
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The RAB in the last two days arrested
two HuJI-B militants, identified as Abul Kashem alias Abdullah
and Abdul Haque alias Jahangir, who had been sentenced to 12 years'
imprisonment for possessing illegal firearms and explosives from
Mymensingh.
BCL activists assaulted an ICS
cadre at Rajshahi University (RU) and handed him over to Police.
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina accused
the BNP-led opposition of plotting to protect the 1971 war criminals.
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June 22
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A Dhaka court sentenced two leaders of JMB to
32 years' of rigorous imprisonment for the serial bomb blasts
on the Mymensingh court premises in August 2005.
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June 24
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A cadre of the GMF, identified
as Ehsan Kazi (40), was killed in a shootout between his cohorts
and the SFs in Sadar sub-district of Kushtia District.
The Police arrested a top cadre
of the PBCP-Red Flag, identified as Asadul (28), in Chuadanga
and recovered a cocktail and bomb making materials from the house
of Pabna District.
Police arrested seven ICS cadres
at RU in connection with February 9, 2010, violence on the campus.
ICS cadres exploded 10 or 12 hand
made bombs during the demonstration staged on the RU campus in
presence of law enforcers defying the authorities’ restrictions.
The CID of the Dinajpur District
submitted two separate charge sheets to Joypurhat Judicial Magistrate
court against 60 JMB cadres in an arms loot case in August 2003.
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June 25
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A case was filed against 150 ICS
leaders and workers of for their alleged involvement in creating
anarchic situation at Rajshahi University, Rajshahi.
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June 26
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At least 10 people were injured
in a clash between the activists of AL and cadres of JeI during
pro and anti-hartal campaigns at Palashbari in Gaibandha District.
A civilian was injured as a bomb
exploded inside the Sadar Police station in Chuadanga District.
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June 29
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Three JeI leaders were arrested
from Dhaka hours after a Dhaka court ordered the move.
The Shahbagh Police filed a case
against JeI acting ‘secretary general’ A.T.M. Azharul Islam, ‘senior
assistant secretary general’ Muhammad Kamaruzzaman and five other
top JeI leaders in connection with obstructing the arrest of JeI
ameer Motiur Rahman Nizami.
Indian missions in Bangladesh
and Nepal are under threat from a possible terror attack from
Pakistani terrorist outfits. The alert suggests the Harkat-ul-Jihad-al-Islami
(HuJI) and the Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) are planning to attack
Indians working on different projects in Bangladesh and could
try and create a hostage like situation. A similar threat also
looms on the Indian mission in Kathmandu, Nepal.
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June 30
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At least seven persons, including
two Police personnel, were injured as armed ICS cadres clashed
with the Police in the Shaheb Bazar area of Rajshahi District.
Five ICS cadres were also injured in the clash. Police arrested
six ICS cadres, including acting city unit ICS general secretary
Abu Bakar Siddik, from the incident site.
Around hundred leaders and activists
of the JeI and ICS were arrested in different areas outside the
capital, as JeI-ICS men blocked traffic and engaged in unruly
activities during their programmes protesting the arrest of three
top Jamaat leaders on June 29.
The special court-3 of Bangladesh
Rifles (BDR) framed charges against 45 BDR personnel, including
11 still at large at Srimongal headquarters in the District for
their alleged involvement in the BDR mutiny.
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July 1
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The JeI came up with a fresh two-day
programme including protest rallies across the country demanding
immediate release of its three top leaders. The JeI would also
observe "doa [prayer] day" on July 2 seeking release of its leaders.
The RAB recovered four firearms,
including two shutter guns and two light guns, from Indranipara
at Gayeshpur village under Sadar sub-District in Jhenidah District.
The Police sued over 200 leaders
and activists of the JeI, including its District ameer (chief)
and secretary, in connection with creating panic and trying to
deteriorate law and order in Pabna District.
The BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia
demanded immediate release of top JeI leaders and termed their
arrests "a heinous example of political repression in an autocratic
manner".
JeI Ameer Mian Golam Parwar and
nine others of the same party were taken on a two-day remand for
interrogation in two separate cases filed with Khulna Sadar Police
station on June 30. In addition, nine ICS cadres were remanded.
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July 2
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The Law Enforcers arrested 365
JeI-ICS cadres from across the country on June 29-July 1, said
sources at the Police headquarters. Of them, 121 were arrested
on June 29, 128 on June 30 and 116 till 3:00 pm on July 1. The
report adds that Kushtia District Police arrested 30 more JeI
activists in the District raising the total to 34. The Police
in six sub-Districts of the District raided different places on
June 30-July 1 and arrested them. Police produced all the 34 arrestees
before District Judicial Magistrate Court on July 1 and the court
sent them to jail.
The Police said that detained
JeI Secretary General Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mojahid would be brought
face to face with JMB chief Saidur Rahman for interrogation in
connection with the killings of intellectuals in 1971, to verify
Saidur's claim that Mojahid had often boasted at JeI meetings
that he was one of the masterminds behind the brutal murders of
the intellectuals.
JeI threatened a tough movement
to oust the Government if the arrested leaders of the party are
not released. Terming the Government autocratic, they alleged
that it is torturing and repressing the opposition parties in
order to cover up its "failures".
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July 3
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The Police interrogated two detained
JeI leaders, Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mojahid and Delwar Hossain Sayedee,
keeping in view the JeI’s links with the JMB. Sources said that
Saidur told interrogators that there are at least 25 JeI Rokan
[highest position in the party's primary level] members who are
concurrently holding posts in JMB.
Leaders of different political
and social organizations said that war criminals have been hatching
conspiracy by creating law and order situations at different places
of the country to hinder their trial hunching they would be brought
to the book immediately.
United People''s Democratic Front
(UPDF) cadre was arrested by troops on charge of extorting money
from transport owners in Matiranga sub-District of Khagrachhari
District.
Three ICS cadres were also arrested
as they along with a few others brought out a procession in the
Brahmanbaria town.
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July 4
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The Police recovered dead body
of a cadre of the Sarbahara Party from a jute field at village
Devinagar in Sreepur sub-District in Magura District.
The JeI-ICS cadres rampaged through
streets in the Chittagong city and destroyed over 100 vehicles
during a protest demonstration demanding the immediate release
of three JeI leaders. Subsequently, locals assaulted an ICS cadre
at Halishahar in the port city.
The Police arrested 13 persons
when JeI cadres held a protest rally as part of their central
programme in launch ghat area of Barisal district. An old person
was wounded when the Police charged batons on the demonstrators.
The Police arrested seven ICS
cadres, a leader, from a students' dormitory in the Kushtia town.
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July 5
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The JeM alleged that AL party
activists and its front organisations ransacked and 'set ablaze’
on inventories of JeI's Hizla sub-District office in Barisal District.
A leader of the PBCP identified as Moslem Moral
alias Navy, also ‘second-in-command’ of 'Salam Bahini', who was
injured in a mob beating during robbery at Atulia Bazar in Tala
sub-district in Satkhira District on July 3, subsequently succumbed
to his injury. The Police said that he was
wanted in several cases including that of murder. The Police arrested
102 more cadres of the ICS in the Chittagong city in connection
with the July 4 violence by the JeI.
Khulna city chief of JeI, Mian Golam Parwar, and
nine others of the party were sent to Khulna District Jail. The
Police interrogated them after taking them on remand twice since
their arrest on June 30. During the interrogation, the arrested
JeI and ICS leaders have given much important information about
their plan for carrying out destructive activities in the city.
Further, three detained JeI leaders disclosed
during interrogation that they took up a three-month-long campaign
across the country to foil the move of trying the war criminals
of 1971.
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July 6
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The Police arrested 25 leaders and cadres of
the JeI and ICS when they were holding a meeting at a hotel in
Chittagong city. Searching the arrestees' cell phones, the Police
found text messages sent to certain people inviting them to join
July 4 rampage in the port city.
Four cadres of the Hizb ut-Tahrir were arrested
by the Police while fleeing from a rally in the Love Lane area.
They were identified as Kazi Ahmed Irfanul Karim, Mozammel Hossain,
Mohammad Hossain and Badsha Mia.
JeI ameer Motiur Rahman Nizami was interrogated
about 10-turckloads of firearms and ammunition seized in Chittagong
on April 2, 2004.
The High Court granted anticipatory bail for four
months to eight JeI leaders and cadres including the party's acting
secretary general A.T.M. Azharul Islam in a case, filed against
them on charge of obstructing policemen in discharge of their
duty.
Leaders of Samprodayeekota-Jangibad Birodhi Mancha
(SJBM), a platform against fanaticism and militancy, in a press
release called on the people to resist JeI unitedly from creating
disorder ahead of the war crimes trial.
An accused in a war crime case was arrested in
Khulna District while two cases were filed on the previous day
against 17 on change of war crimes in Bagerhat District.
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July 7
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A Dhaka court sentenced two associates of Bangla
Bhai, the executed second-in-command of banned Islamist outfit
JMB, to 37 years of rigorous imprisonment each for possessing
arms and ammunition. According to the prosecution, a team of RAB
arrested Bangla Bhai along with Rouf and Chand Miah from a house
at Rampura in Muktagachha of Mymensingh District on March 6, 2006.
At least 19 cadres of the JeI and ICS were arrested
in three districts.
The Interrogators are interrogating detained JeI
trio Nizami, Mojahid and Sayedee on the information divulged by
detained JMB chief Saidur Rahman. Saidur, former Jamaat Chief
of Habiganj District, said at least 25 Jamaat high-ranking field
operatives are actively involved with JMB and that Jamaat provides
physical and small arms trainings to its health department members.
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July 8
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The RAB recovered arms and ammunition including
bombs in separate drives conducted in Chuadanga and Kushtia. The
arms include three light guns, 19 bullets and two bombs.
Detective Branch of Bangladesh arrested a Professor
of Dhaka University, identified as Syed Golam Maola, who introduced
the Hizb ut-Tahrir outfit in the country, from Dhaka’s Elephant
Road area. Deputy Commissioner of Detective Branch Mahbubor Rahman
said, "Maola, an adviser of Hizb ut-Tahrir, was playing a pivotal
role in the functioning of the banned outfit since Tahrir chief
coordinator Mohiuddin Ahmed was arrested on April 20, 2010." Maola
is accused in three cases filed with Uttara Police Station under
Anti-Terrorism Act, he said.
A Dhaka court summarily rejected three separate
petitions for staying remand of JeI Chief Motiur Rahman Nizami,
its Secretary General Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mojahid and Nayeb-e-Ameer
Delwar Hossain Sayedee in three cases.
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July 9
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Founder leader of Hizb-ut-Tahrir Bangladesh (HuT-B)
Syed Golam Maola, who was arrested on July 8 by the Detective
Branch, during preliminary interrogation said that he played a
significant role in distributing provocative leaflets regarding
the Army at the BDR headquarters in Pilkhana in February 2009
just after the mutiny.
Security Forces arrested six members of two banned
Islamist outfits in Khulna and Gaibandha Districts. Police and
RAB night arrested five cadres of 'Muslim Ummah Millati MaZhabul
Quraan' from a house at Khalishpur of Khulna District.
Syed Golam Maola told interrogators that they
tried to capitalise on the discontent among Army personnel caused
by the killing of 57 army officials in the hands of the paramilitary
jawans during the mutiny.
Army recovered arms, ammunition and various documents
from a house at remote Paillabanga of Ramgorh sub-district in
Khagrachhari District. Police said, Army raided the house and
recovered two guns, one bullet and a receipt book for collecting
monetary contributions.
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July 10
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At least 32 leaders and cadres of the JeI and
ICS were arrested from Brahmanbaria, Joypurhat, Naogaon and Satkhira
Districts.
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July 11
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13 JeI and ICS cadres, arrested on charge of vandalism
in the Chittagong District’s Halishahar area on July 04, were
placed on remand. With this, a total of 140 JeI and ICS have been
remanded in two cases filed with Double-mooring and Halishahar
Police stations.
The JeI announced fresh agitation programmes
from July 13 demanding release of its top three and other leaders
and cadres. Acting secretary general of the party A.T.M. Azharul
Islam announced the series of programmes at a press conference
at its central office. The programmes include rallies and demonstrations
across the country from July 13-15 to protest 'oppression' by
the Awami League (AL) Government.
Chapainawabganj District Police arrested a JMB
cadre, Golam Rasul (52), at Shimulia village under Atrai sub-district
in Naogaon District.
The detained adviser of the banned Hizb-ut Tahrir-Bangladesh
Syed Golam Maola, told interrogators that their link with the
JeI was established when the immediate past caretaker Government
approved the National Women Development Policy in 2008.
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July 12
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At least 13 ICS cadres were arrested
with arms and books on jihad at a madrasa (religious school) hostel
in Narsingdi District.
47 JeI and ICS cadres were charge
sheeted in a case for attacking Police in Khulna District on June
30, 2010, while seven ICS cadres were, arrested on July 9 in Joypurhat,
taken on remand.
The Detective Branch took JeI
Ameer (chief) Motiur Rahman Nizami on a four-day remand in a case
filed in connection with torching of an auto-rickshaw that killed
its driver on the eve of June 27, 2010, strike called by the Bangladesh
Nationalist Party (BNP).
The Police arrested the acting
chief, Vagne Shahid alias Nazmul, and 10 other cadres of the JMB
from Bogra, Joypurhat and Gaibandha Districts.
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July 13
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JeI leaders Muhammad Kamaruzzaman
and Abdul Quader Molla were arrested on charges of killing 345
people during the Liberation War in 1971.
Three detained JeI leaders were
brought face to face with JMB chief Saidur Rahman for interrogation
at the Detective Branch office in Dhaka. The interrogators were
questioning them to see if Saidur's statements regarding the "four-party
alliance backing in militant activities" add up.
The Police arrested cadre of ICS
on charge of threatening a teacher of Dinajpur Government College
while another ICS cadre was arrested in connection with the campus
violence on February 9, 2010.
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July 13/14
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The Police arrested a JeI leader
and two cadres from Jessore District and recovered a huge number
of leaflets and posters.
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July 14
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Police pressed charges against
six JeI and ICS leaders in the case for creating panic in Rajshahi
city by bringing out a militant procession and blasting petrol
bombs on June 30, 2010.
The detained acting chief of the
JMB Anwar Alam disclosed to the investigators that JMB has a hit
list of 12 top political figures, mostly ruling party leaders,
to kill.
The detained chief of JMB and
former Habiganj unit JeI ameer (chief) Saidur Rahman disclosed
the JMB link with JeI. He said that he took the help of JMB as
per the Jamaat ameer's directive.
Police arrested a cadre of the
Gono Bahini outfit, identified as Mannan Ali alias Dhali Mannan,
with a gun at Madhupur village under Sadar sub-district of Kushtia
District.
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July 15
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Seven JeI leaders and cadres were
arrested at their houses in Sadar sub-district of Satkhira District
on while two arrested cadres of the party sent to jail in Natore
District.
The JeI now struggles to come
up with an effective strategy to face the current crisis arising
from the large number of arrests of its party leaders across the
country.
JMB has destroyed all the explosives
it had in northern region, claimed detained outfit leader Anwar
Alam.
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July 16
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A Satkhira District court sent
14 JeI cadres including its District ameer (chief) Mohaddes Abdul
khaleque and secretary Nurul Huda to jail in a case filed with
Sadar Police station for plotting subversive activities in the
city on July 15.
Officer-in-Charge of the Police
station Shah Jahan Khan filed the case accusing 89 JeI cadres.
The detained JeI leaders Motiur
Rahman Nizami, Ali Ahsan Muhammad Mojahid and Delwar Hossain Sayedee
might soon be shown arrested in a case filed in connection with
the recovery of nine grenades from a JMB origin den in Dhaka’s
Kadamtoli area on June 24.
Khulna District Police arrested
Jalal Fakir, 30, a cadre of the JMB and an Imam of Bogi Jame Mosque
under Sharankhola sub-district of Bagerhat District on charge
of attempting to kill his wife Ayesha Akhter, 24.
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July 17
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The personnel of RAB arrested
two ULFA militants from Bhairab in north Kishoreganj area of Dhaka.
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July 18
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During an interrogation by the
Detective Branch of Police, the detained acting JMB chief Nazmul
alias Bhange Shahid told interrogators that he and executed JMB
military commander Ataur Rahman Sunny were there when JMB cadre
stabbed eminent author Prof Humayun Azad in front of Bangla Academy
in February, 2004.
A Gopalganj Court granted a three-day
fresh remand for banned HuJI-B chief Mufti Abdul Hannan in Baniar
Char church bombing case on June 3, 2001. Five other accused in
the case are Maolana Obadur Rahman, Shipon, Kamruzzaman, Ahad
and Amir Khan.
The Police arrested seven cadres
of the JeI in Dinajpur and Satkhira Districts. Of them, four were
arrested in Satkhira while the rest in Dinajpur.
Three cadre of the banned Islamist
outfit, Hizb ut-Tahrir-Bangladesh (HuT-B) were arrested from a
procession brought out by them near the press club in Dhaka.
A Dhaka Court placed JeI Ameer
(Chief) Motiur Rahman Nizami on a five-day fresh remand in a case
filed for killing 345 people during the country's Liberation War
in 1971.
Police arrested two women cadres
of Islamist outfit Hizb-ut-Towhid Bangladesh in Kalihati.
Five arrested cadres of JMB confessed
to their involvement in serial blasts on August 17 in 2005 and
other criminal acts before a Gaibandha court under Section
164.
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July 19
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Five suspected cadres of the outfit,
arrested in Joypurhat on July 13, were remanded.
The detained JMB leaders Anwar
Alam alias Bhagne Shahid and Jamai Rafiq said that JMB is now
without a chief and sura (Advisory) committee. Detective Branch
officials said, during interrogation JMB acting Chief Bhagne Shahid
claimed that the outfit has became without a chief in the face
of massive drives against JMB activities. DB officials said they
had placed Shahid face-to-face with detained JMB chief Saidur
Rahman during the interrogation.
Four JeI leaders, including its
secretary general Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mojahid, were taken on a
three-day remand each in three criminal cases filed with different
Police Stations on different charges. The other leaders are Jamaat
Nayeb-e-Ameer Delwar Hossain Sayedee and two assistant secretaries
general Abdul Quader Molla and Muhammad Kamaruzzaman.
15 JeI and ICS cadres, arrested
in Satkhira on July 15, were placed on a three-day remand while
charge framing against 47 cadres of the two organisations in Khulna
was deferred to July 25.
Bangladesh authorities have registered
four cases against ULFA militant Ranjan Chowdhury and his associate
whose arrest was announced on July 16. A court in Kishoreganj
in northeastern region remanded the two to three-days custody
of the paramilitary RAB. The cases have been registered against
Chowdhury under arms, explosive substances and anti-terror laws.
The Bogra District Police arrested
two JeI cadres at a rally in Sadar sub-district.
Reviewing cases filed against
JeI leaders with different Police stations in connection with
crimes in 1971, the Home Ministry found no legal bar to sending
the cases to the International Crimes Tribunal for trial. However,
the investigation officers of the cases would decide whether to
have the trials at the tribunal. Once the IOs appeal to the tribunal
to take the cases, the tribunal can decide, said Home Ministry
sources.
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July 20
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The Supreme Court upheld a High
Court order that asked the Police not to torture JeI Chief Motiur
Rahman Nizami, its Secretary General Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mojahid
andNayeb-e-Ameer Delwar Hossain Sayedee in any manner during remand
in a sedition case.
Police sources reports that militants
belonging to Red Flag faction of the PBCP shot dead three Policemen,
identified as Sub-inspector Kafil Uddin, Nayek Abdul Wahed and
Constable Shafique, in Bera sub-district of Pabna Distrct. Locals
hinted that the PBCP-Red Flag might have killed the Policemen
to take revenge for continuous crackdown on them by the Police.
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July 21
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Two Assistant Secretaries General
of the JeI Mohammed Kamaruzzaman and Abdul Quader Molla, were
shown arrested in two more cases filed for preventing the Police
from discharging their duties during hartal on June 27. Metropolitan
Magistrate Abdul Majid passed the order following applications
by two Sub-Inspectors of Paltan Police Station where the cases
were filed.
The acting Chief of JMB Bhagne
Shahid alias Nazmul was shown arrested in connection with a case
filed for making an attempt to kill late Professor Humayun Azad
on February 27, 2004. The order came following a petition of CID
Inspector Mostafizur Rahman, also the investigation officer of
the case, for showing Shahid arrested in the case.
The Dhaka court sent JMB chief
Moulana Saidur Rahman to jail. He was produced before it on completion
of a three-day remand in a case filed with Kadamtoli Police Station
for subversive activities.
Two leaders of the ULFA arrested
by the Bangladesh authorities on July 17, remanded in Police custody
for another seven days by a court order in northern Kishorganj
District.
The Police recovered a huge number
of lethal weapons from different dormitories of Hajee Danesh Science
and Technology University of Dinajpur District. The arms include
billhooks, cleavers, daggers, long knives, iron rods and hockey
sticks. However, none was arrested during the drive.
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July 21/22
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Eight leaders and cadres of the
JeI and ICS were arrested in Pabna and Naogaon Districts.
A Satkhira District Court sent 15 leaders and cadres
of the JeI and ICS to jail on expiry of their remand.
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July 22
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A Dhaka court placed two detained
assistant secretaries general of JeI, Mohammed Kamaruzzaman and
Abdul Quader Molla on an 11-day remand each in four separate cases
against them. Meantime, JeISecretary General Ali Ahsan Mohammad
Mojahid was sent to jail after he was produced before the court
of Metropolitan Magistrate in connection with a case filed on
sedition charge.
A Dhaka court sent to the International
Crimes Tribunal a case filed against JeI chief Motiur Rahman Nizami,
its secretary general Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mojahid and seven others
for killing freedom fighters in 1971. Senior Judicial Magistrate
Taibul Hassan passed the order after Officer-in-Charge of Keraniganj
Police station Mohammad Asaduzzaman, also the investigation officer
of the case, submitted a petition before it seeking an order to
transfer the case to the International Crimes Tribunal.
Police arrested two cadres belonging
to Red Flag faction of the PBCP identified as Nader Pramanik and
Wajed Ali, in connection with the killing of three Policemen on
July 20, in Pabna District as they launched an intensive hunt
in Pabna and adjoining Districts to capture the assassins.
Seven militants with suspected
terror link were arrested from the Tangail District's Kalihati
sub-district. Yunus Ali Miah, officer-in-charge of Kalihati Police
Station, disclosed that the suspects during primary interrogation
introduced themselves as members of an organisation called Quran
Education Foundation.
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July 23
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The detained JeI leaders
Motiur Rahman Nizami, Ali Ahsan Muhammad Mojahid and Delwar Hossain
Sayedee were shown arrested in a case filed against JMB leaders
in connection with anti-state activities. Detective Branch personnel
prayed before the Metropolitan Magistrate's Court seeking to show
the top JeI leaders arrested.
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July 24
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The Police arrested 24 cadres,
including two leaders, of the Allahar Dal, an Islamist
outfit, in Rother Bazar under Sadar sub-district
of Gaibandha District. The Police also seized some
books on Islamic revolution during the drive. Meanwhile, they
were taken on a three-day remand on July 25.
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July 25
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Meanwhile, two militants of JMB
were jailed each for 20 years in a 2003 bomb blast case by a Dinajpur
District Court.
Detectives questioning detained
ICS cadres claim that the cadres of the ICS are gathering in the
capital, Dhaka, with explosives and firearms to carry out subversive
activities in revenge for the recent arrests of JeI leaders. According
to the Police Commissioner, Mohammad Moniruzzaman of Detective
Branch, they arrested several ICS cadres in the last few days
who revealed that some central leaders of JeI and ICs are hatching
the plot.
The charges against 47 JeI and
ICS cadres could not be framed in Khulna District as Police could
not arrest most of the accused. The Speedy Trial Tribunal again
deferred the charge framing date to August 1 as 24 charge sheeted
accused are still at large, Court sources said.
The Kushtia District Police arrested
a top cadre of Janajuddha faction of the PBCP identified as Mazharul
Islam Swapan alias Moza (34), from a village under Gangni sub-district
in Meherpur District. He is accused in several cases including
that of two murders filed with Gangni Police station.
Two more militants were arrested
in connection with killing of three Policemen in Bera sub-district
of Pabna District on July 20.
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July 26
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A court in Kushtia District sentenced
four cadres of GMF including two female
cadres, to life imprisonment in an arms case.
A Dhaka court placed JeI Ameer Motiur Rahman Nizami and
its Secretary General Ali Ahsan Muhammad Mojahid on
a three-day remand each in a case filed against JMB leaders in
connection with anti-State activities. Metropolitan Magistrate Rokhsana Begum
Happy passed the order after Detective Branch Inspector Sheikh
Mahbubur Rahman, also the investigation officer of the case,
produced them before her with a ten-day remand prayer for each.
A Dhaka court fixed August
29 for hearing on a five-day fresh remand prayer for Sayedee in
connection with a case filed against him for making an attempt
to kill late Prof Humayun Azad.
JeI criticised and protested
issuance of warrants of arrest against its four top leaders who
are now detained in jail. In a statement, Jamaat said
the issuance of warrants of arrest by the International Crimes
Tribunal is "politically motivated as members of the prosecution
team are loyal to the Government".
The International Crimes Tribunal
issued arrest warrants against already detained four JeI leaders,
Ameer Motiur Rahman Nizami, Secretary General Ali Ahsan
Muhammad Mojahid and senior assistant secretaries general
Muhammad Kamaruzzaman and Abdul Quader Molla,
on charges of committing genocide and crimes against humanity
and peace during the Liberation War. "Warrants of arrest should
be issued against these four people to ensure effective and proper
investigation," Tribunal Chairman Justice Nizamul Huq said
allowing the prosecution prayer after submission of Chief Prosecutor Golam Arif Tipu.
The Trial of 24 mutineers of 31
Rifles Battalion under Rangpur sector began at special
court- 2 of BDR at the battalion headquarters in Lalmonirhat.
The plaintiff, Subedar Major Habibur Rahman read
out the charges against 24 jawans while prosecutor Lt Col Aslam Hossain,
also the commanding officer of 31 Rifles Battalion, placed his
submission before the three-member court headed by BDR Director
General Maj Gen Rafiqul Islam.
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July 27
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The Supreme Court in its judgment
on the Fifth Amendment to the Constitution paved the way for preventing
military takeover in future and restoring secular spirit of the
original constitution except for a few changes. Islam, however,
shall remain the state religion as per the Eighth Amendment, which
is not covered by the judgment. The SC released the full text
of its judgment, around six months after it upheld the High Court
verdict declaring illegal the Fifth Amendment.
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July 28
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A Dhaka Court rejected bail
petitions of detained JeI Ameer Motiur Rahman Nizami, its Secretary
General Ali Ahsan Muhammad Mojahid and its Nayeb-e-Ameer Delwar Hossain Sayedee in
five criminal cases filed with different Police stations. Of the
cases, three were filed with Paltan, one with Uttara and
the other one with Ramna Police Stations on February 12&17
and June 26 & 27 on charges of preventing police from discharging
their duties, for killing a passenger and on sedition charge.
The Fifth Amendment had legitimised
the Governments and military rule since killing of then President
Sheikh Mujibur Rahman on August 15, 1975, to April
9, 1979. The Governments during the period were led by Khandker Mushtaque Ahmed,
Abu Sadaat Mohammad Sayem and Major General
Ziaur Rahman.
Islamist parties in Bangladesh
face a ban from politics after the Supreme Court ruled religion-based
organizations cannot participate in political life, said Law Minister
Shafique Ahmed. Bangladesh banned religion-based politics after
it gained independence from Pakistan in 1971, but an amendment
to the country’s constitution in 1979 allowed Islamic parties
to operate again. In a ruling released, the Supreme Court struck
down the 1979 amendment saying it contradicted secularism, one
of Bangladesh’s four founding pillars. "The ruling has paved the
way for banning the political parties, which use religion as their
main ideal and propagate it," Shafique Ahmed said.
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July 29
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At least 15 people, including
five Security Forces, were injured in a clash between Security
Forces and ICS cadres in Dhaka. The clash erupted
when Police tried to block a Shibir procession brought out demanding
release of the top JeI leaders. Five ICS cadres were arrested
in this incident.
A Dhaka court placed JeI Nayeb-e-Ameer Delwar
Hossain Sayedee on a one-day fresh remand in connection with a
case filed following an attempt on Prof Humayun Azad's life. He
was also placed on a three-day remand in connection with a case
filed against JMB leaders for anti-state activities.
The International Crimes Tribunal
directed the prison authorities to produce the four detained top
JeI leaders before it on August 2. The leaders are Ameer Motiur
Rahman Nizami, Secretary General Ali Ahsan Muhammad Mojahid and
two senior assistant secretaries general Muhammad Kamaruzzaman
and Abdul Quader Molla. This is the first ever step made by a
tribunal in the history of Bangladesh in connection with war crimes
during the 1971 Liberation War.
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July 30
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The SFs neutralised a militants'
hide out at Mirpur in Dhaka and seized a firearm, ammunition
and bomb-making materials. They also recovered 35 kilograms of
powder of explosives. They recovered a homemade grenade, 36 grenade
cases, a pistol, a sub-machine-carbine, 18 bullets, batteries
and wires, 150 to 200 clocks and three bags of metals, which Police
believe are meant for use as splinters. There were 35 books on
jihad and Bengali translation of Quran as well.
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July 31
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The Police arrested two cadres
of the Hizb-ut-Touhid outfit while distributing leaflets in Barakupot
area in Shyamnagar sub-district of Satkhira District. Police recovered
leaflets, jihadi books, mobile phone, and some papers from their
possession. Quoting locals Police said the arrested cadres were
distributing leaflets asking people to join jihad or militancy
at Noabiki market.
Police arrested four more ICS
cadres form Rajshahi University in connection with the campus
violence on February 9.
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August 1
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Separately, a Dhaka Court placed
JeI Nayeb-e-Ameer Delwar Hossain Sayedee on a two-day fresh remand
in connection with a case filed following an attempt on the life
of Prof Humayun Azad. Metropolitan Magistrate SK Tofael Hassan
passed the order after CID Inspector Mostafizur Rahman, also the
investigation officer of the case, produced him before it seeking
a five-day fresh remand.
Three cadres
of the ICS were arrested at Satiadi village in Pakundia sub-district
of Kishoreganj District various charges. The arrestees were identified
as Mohammad Omar Faruk (25), magazine secretary, Kishoreganj District
unit,Ershad Ullah, Pakundia sub-district unit president and M.
Rafiqul Islam (23), Patuabhanga union unit secretary.
The Speedy Trial Tribunal in Khulna
District again deferred charge-framing against 47 JeI and ICS
cadres in a case filed under the Speedy Trial Act. Judge Abu Shamim
Azad of the Speedy Trial Tribunal deferred charge framing against
the JeI and ICS cadres, including city ameer (chief) and former
lawmaker Mian Golam Parwar, to August 8 as 16 of the accused are
still at large.
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August 2
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The Police recovered two bomb-like
objects from Gopalganj District and Sessions Judge Court premises
while RAB seized firearms and gunpowder from a passenger bus in
Meherpur. Quoting the locals, the Police said some people saw
the bombs at the main gate of the court and informed the court
officials and Police at about it.
Four top JeI
leaders were in Court as accused in the long-awaited war crimes
trial. JeI ameer Motiur Rahman Nizami, Secretary General Ali Ahsan
Mohammad Mojahid, Senior Assistant Secretaries General Mohammad
Kamaruzzaman and Abdul Quader Molla were brought to the Courtroom.
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August 3
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Two regional leaders of the
BCP were killed in a "factional gunfight" at Bhatsala
in Pangsha sub-district of Rajbari District. The deceased were
identified as Abdul Aziz (38), and Dipu Kumar Biswas, 30, of Kashba
Majail area, Police said. They were each leading a separate faction
of BCP following a longstanding dispute over party leadership.
At least 10 students were injured
as ICS cadres clashed with the BCL activists at Noakhali Science
and Technology University. Four activists of BCL were critically
injured.
A cadre of JeI of Debhata sub-district
unit of Satkhira District was arrested while seven leaders and
cadres of the JeI and ICS, arrested on July 17 in Sadar sub-district,
were taken on a three-day remand.
The International Crimes Tribunal
issued warrant of arrest against four top JeI leaders in accordance
with law, Attorney General Mahbubey Alam said. The tribunal has
not violated any provision of the law by issuing arrest warrant
against the Jamaat leaders in connection with 1971 war crimes,
he said. "
A Dhaka court placed acting
chief of JMB Anwar Alam on a four-day remand in connection with
a case on an attempt on life of Prof. Humayun Azad. He was earlier
shown arrested in the case for his alleged involvement with an
attempt to kill Prof Humayun Azad.
The Police
arrested a militant of Islamist outfit, Allar Dal, from Gaibandha
District jail gate as he came to visit his fellows.
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August 4
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The RAB arrested four ICS cadres
from Dhaka and Gazipur and recovered a homemade gun, five shotgun
bullets, six locally made bombs, five packets of Sulphur and Potassium,
Tk 1.10 lakh, nine mobile phone sets and some books on Shibir
moral. RAB claimed to have found link between ICS and banned Islamist
outfits. The RAB claimed that ICS operatives are collecting arms
and explosives from the outlawed organisations to carry out subversive
activities in the country.
The International Crimes Tribunal
directed the prisons authority to produce detained JeI Nayeb-e-Ameer
Delwar Hossain Sayedee before it on August 10. The order came
after the hearing on a complaint case (information obtained by
an investigating agency) from the prosecution that alleged that
Sayedee committed war crimes, genocide, crimes against humanity
and peace during the Liberation War of Bangladesh in 1971.
The JeI said it would support
the trial of crimes against humanity if all the crimes committed
between 1971 and 2010 are tried. Jamaat, many leaders of which
were involved in war crimes during the 1971 Liberation War, however,
said the Government's present initiative for the trial of war
criminals and crimes against humanity is nothing but a "blue
print" to destroy the opposition parties including the Islamic
party.
A local BNP
leader, identified as Abdul Alim (44), was critically injured
in a bomb attack in Gangni sub-district of Meherpur District.
Police arrested Abdus Salam and Ariful, cadres of PBCP-J for the
attack.
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August 5
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Dhaka Lawyers' Association
filed a General Diary against former JeI lawmaker Syed Abdullah
Mohammad Taher on charges of issuing threat to the State. In the
GD, Jobayer mentioned Taher had threatened to use reserved forces
against the Government when the time comes. The Jamaat leader
was addressing a meeting at the Jatiya Press Club on July 4.
Two leaders
of Dinajpur District Jatiya Sramik League were expelled from party
for their alleged connection with local JeI leaders. The expelled
leaders are Abu Masum Mohammad Badrul Motin and Mohammad Ulfat
Hossain, labour welfare secretary and assistant secretary of Dinajpur
unit Jatiya Sramik League.
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August 6
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The Police arrested a top leader
belonging to PBCP-Red Flag, identified as Nuru Mandal, from Char
Mukuri village in Bera sub-district of Pabna District in connection
with the killing of three Policemen on July 20. "Nuru Mandal
is one of the top outlaw militant of Pabna and Rajbari region
and accused of 20 cases. He is also a convicted killer of Sub
Inspector Hedayet Ullah. He is the key person involved in the
killing of the three Policemen," said Sheikh Juillur Rahman,
Officer in Charge of Bera Police Station.
Police conducted raids at different
places in Dhaka to arrest former JeI lawmaker Sayed Abdullah Mohammad
Taher in connection with making "anti-state" statement. Meanwhile,
four general diaries were filed with different Police stations
in Dhaka and Bogra District against the Sayed Abdullah Mohammad
Taher who allegedly issued threats against the Government and
the State while addressing a meeting at the Jatiya Press Club
on August 4.
An ICS leader of Chittagong
University was stabbed and injured by unidentified assailants
in the University campus. The victim was identified as Abdullah-al-Mamun,
a fourth year student of philosophy department and also general
secretary of Suhrawardy Hall ICS unit. ICS leaders of the university
blamed BCL activists for the attack.
Two more cadres
belonging to PBCP-Red Flag were arrested at Ashulia in Dhaka in
connection with the killing of three Policemen in Bera sub-district
of Pabna District on July 20. The arrestees were Mohad Akkas Sardar
(55), Kasalia village, and Nizam Fakir (50), of Rajdhardiar village
in Dhalarchar of Bera sub-district. With the two, the number of
arrestees in connection with the killing now stands at nine.
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August 7
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A leader of the PBCP-Janajudhha,
identified as Nasir Goldar (36), was arrested on charge of extortion
and other crimes at Sajiara village in Dumuria sub-district of
Khulana District. Police said recently Nasir was released from
jail and started reorganising his cadres to collect illegal toll
in the sub-district.
Indian Finance
Minister Pranab Mukherjee said in Dhaka that the insurgency had
the potential to affect bilateral relations between the two countries.
"Insurgents and insurgent groups have the potential to affect
our relations," Mukherjee said at a press briefing to mark the
signing of USD one billion dollar soft loan from India to Bangladesh.
"We deeply appreciate the efforts of the Government of Bangladesh
to tackle this menace and we will continue to be closely engaged,"
he said.
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August 8
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Five leaders of ICS were arrested
at Khanpara under Digholia sub-district of Khulna District. Khulna
Police said they arrested the ICS leaders at Khanpara Mosque where
they were holding a 'secret' meeting.
Leaders of
Amra Muktijoddhar Santan, an organisation of freedom fighters'
children, demanded that the Government should ban JeI and ICS
from politics forever. They also demanded immediate arrest and
trial of war criminals. They placed the demands at a protest rally
organised by Uttara Thana unit of the organisation in front of
Shahjalal International Airport in Dhaka.
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August 9
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Two top leaders of JeI Rajshahi
and Chapainawabganj District units were arrested by the SFs. The
arrestees were Abdul Malek, acting secretary general of Rajshahi
JeI unit, and Mokhlesur Rahman, JeI ameer of Chapainawabganj pourasava
unit. Malek is also a member of the city JeI Majlish-e-Sura, (highest
policymaking body of the party), Police said.
A Dhaka court rejected bail petitions
of JeI Secretary General Ali Ahsan Muhammad Mojahid, its deputy
chief Delwar Hossain Sayedee, assistant secretaries general Mohammad
Kamaruzzaman and Abdul Quader Molla in four criminal cases filed
with different police stations. The cases were filed with Paltan,
Bimanbandar and Ramna police stations in February and June, 2010
and February 2004 on charges of vandalising president's vehicles,
preventing police from discharging their duties and making an
attempt to kill late Prof Humayun Azad.
Police filed a sedition case against
former JeI lawmaker Syed Abdullah Mohammad Taher. Sub-inspector
Nasim Uddin of Shahbagh Police Station filed the case after getting
approval from the home ministry. Rezaul Karim, officer-in-charge
of the station, told that the case was filed against Taher as
he had "threatened" to make the state non-functional
using "reserved forces" and take actions against some
of the Government institutions and people working in them without
naming any.
Police arrested a cadre of PBCP-Janajudhha,
identified as Mozaffar Ali Sana (32), from Panchrasta intersection
in Tala sub-district of Satkhira District. Local people caught
him from Panchrasta intersection when he came to meet his party
members.
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August 10
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A Dhaka court sentenced the wife
of executed JMB leader Siddiqul Islam alias Bangla Bhai and two
JMB cadres to 20 years' rigorous imprisonment each for possessing
explosive substances. The convicts are Fahima alias Farzana, Salahuddin
alias Saleheen and Asaduzzaman Chowdhury alias Panir.
Bogra District Judge gave life
sentence to five cadres of JMB for the 2005 Bogra serial blasts.
Bogra Additional District and Sessions Judge Nitai Chandra Saha
also fined the Islamist militants BDT 20,000 each in default of
which they will have to spend two more years behind bars.
Five leaders of ICS, arrested
on August 8 in Digholia sub-district of Khulna District were shown
arrested in police assault case while an ICS cadre was beaten
up by BCL activist in presence of the Police on RU campus.
The International Crimes Tribunal
directed the prisons authorities to produce detained JeI deputy
chief Delwar Hossain Sayedee before it on August 24 as he was
not produced due to sickness. Earlier on August 4, the tribunal
ordered the authorities to produce Sayedee on August 10.
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August 11
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The Police arrested 25 leaders
and cadres of the JeI and ICS from JeI’s office at Paltan in Dhaka.
The detainees were then produced before a Dhaka Court from where
they were sent directly to jail in the same day afternoon.
Khulna District (north) unit general
secretary of ICS, Mohammad Abdur Rahim, was placed on a two-day
remand in a case filed for obstructing Government activities..
Sub-Inspector Monirul Islam, who is investigating the case, produced
him before the Chief Metropolitan Magistrate's Court and sought
a seven-day remand in connection with the case.
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August 12
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The Police arrested an "area commander"
belonging to the PBCP-ML, identified as Bulbul Islam Rana (32),
from Kumarkhali sub-district of Kushtia District. The Police also
recovered a shutter gun and five bullets from his possessions.
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August 13
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Police arrested a cadre of the
PBCP-Janajudhha identified as Mohammad Rashed Pramanik (30), after
half an hour of gunfight with his gang at Santhia sub-district
of Pabna District. A rifle, a shutter gun, seven rounds of bullets,
11 powerful bombs, and three machetes were recovered from the
spot.
Police arrested two students of
Chittagong University on charge of helping the HuT outfit by pasting
posters in Chittagong city. While the Police arrested them with
thirteen HuT posters, two others of the outfit managed to escape
the arrest.
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August 14
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The Police arrested two cadres
of the HuT while pasting posters of the outfit in Sylhet District’s
Taltola and Court area. Police said they also seized some posters
from their possession. They were carrying posters which called
for establishing Khelafat (Islamic system of administration).
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August 15
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The Detective Branch of the Police
arrested Bagerhat District unit president of ICS, identified as
Mohammad Ibrahim Hassan (26), from the house of District assistant
secretary of JeI at Nikaripara of Sadar sub-district. Police said
Ibrahim was arrested on information that the Shibir cadres were
holding a clandestine meeting to carry out subversive activities.
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| August 16 |
A Nilphamari District Court sentenced
four militants of JMB to seven years rigorous imprisonment in
an Arms case. According to the Police, a case was filed with Jaldhaka
Police Station against the four under Arms Act. Charges were pressed
against them on January 17, 2009. After examining the witnesses,
Additional District and Sessions Judge Mohammad Ansar Ali pronounced
the verdict.
The SFs fear a backlash from JMB
despite detaining the top brass of the banned militant outfit
in recent months. The RAB and Police officials said the JMB is
still a concern for them as some dedicated operatives are active
in the organisation. Some of the militants have training on making
high-powered explosives like belt bombs.
Two detained top JeI leaders,
assistant secretaries general Muhammad Kamaruzzaman and Abdul
Quader Molla, filed a writ petition with the High Court challenging
the First Amendment to the Constitution and some sections of the
International Crimes (Tribunals) Act, 1973 under which the war
crimes trial is being held. Jamaat senior jointly filed the writ
seeking direction from the HC to stop proceedings of the International
Crimes Tribunal and trial against them.
A leader of the PBCP-ML-Red Flag,
identified as Atiar Rahman alias Ati (40), accused in a number
of cases including five for murder, was killed at Baniapukur village
in Gangni sub-district of Kushtia District. The deceased Ati was
the Meherpur District chief of Red Flag Faction of the PBCP-ML.
According to Police sources, a gang picked up Atiar at gunpoint
from the house, took him to Pirtola field and shot him dead.
Two cases were filed in Jessore
and Netrakona Districts accusing 16 people of committing war crimes
in 1971. Four people were sued in Jessore District on on charge
of killing, looting and vandalising houses at Premchara village
under Bagharpara sub-district during the war of liberation in
1971.
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| August 17 |
Five ICS cadres, all students
of the Rajshahi University, were arrested in a case filed against
them for assaulting Police during the February 9, 2010, campus
violence. Officer-in-charge Abdul Khayer of Matihar Police Station
said the arrests were made at Kajlagate area while the ICS cadres
were going to Rajshahi city from Natore District to hold a secret
meeting.
The Police in a drive arrested
three youths along with arms and bullet at frontier Baluarchar
village in Sadar South sub-district of Comilla District. The arrestees
were identified as Saddam (22), son of Ibrahim of Shaharasti sub-district
of Chandpur District, Moin Uddin Khan (22), son of Mohiuddin Khan
of Lauhajang sub-district of Munshiganj District and Shuvo (22),
son of Mustafa Kamal of Talpukurpar area of Comilla District.
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| August 18 |
The JMB acting chief Bhagne Shahid
confessed his involvement in an attempt to kill professor Humayun
Azad in February 2004. Metropolitan Magistrate A.K.M. Emdadul
Haque recorded Shahid's confessional statement and ordered to
send him to jail. Mostafizur Rahman, inspector of CID and investigation
officer of the case, said Bhagne Shahid revealed another new name
involved in the attack.
The RAB recovered one rifle, two
bullets, one matchet (a broad heavy knife) and an axe in Meherpur
District from a place where the PBCP-Red Flag cadres were holding
secret meeting. Sensing the presence of law enforcers, the operatives
managed to escape from the incident site.
In Khulna District, the Police
recovered 35 revolver bullets and two magazines from residence
of a criminal, identified as Mostakur Rahman Zahur alias Zahur
Sheikh. According to Police, Zahur Sheikh is a cadre of a militant
outfit. He managed to escape from his South Central Road residence
sensing presence of law enforcers.
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| August 19 |
RAB and Police in separate drives
seized at least five firearms in five Districts. RAB arrested
a criminal, identified as Farook Sardar with two revolvers and
six bullets in Putkhali border area of Benapole District.
RAB arrested a close associate
of the executed JMB second-in-command Bangla Bhai, identified
as Hemayet Uddin Himu, from Atrai sub-district in Naogaon District.
Hemayet Uddin Himu is a regional commander of JMB, the RAB sources
said. However, at a press conference at RAB-5 headquarters, Himu
disclosed that the Government supported the JMB in 2004. Police
and Government officials used to accompany Bangla Bhai's armed
group when he led operations for murder, torture and extortion
in Naogaon, Himu said. He also said Bangla Bhai and his militants
used Government vehicles while abducting people and taking them
to camps for torture or sending the corpses to hospitals or Police
camps.
A Dhaka Court issued arrest warrants
against JeI Deputy Chief Delwar Hossain Sayedee and party leader
Mir Kashem Ali hours after the National Board of Revenue filed
two separate cases against them for tax evasion. Sayedee was charged
for dodging income tax amounting to BDT 5.6 Million for the fiscal
years from 2005-2006 to 2009-2010 while Kashem for evading income
tax of BDT 1.1 million in the 2005-2006 fiscal year.
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| August 20 |
A close associate of the executed
JMB kingpin Bangla Bhai, identified as Sultan Miah (26) was arrested
in a drive by the Police in Mymensingh District. Police said he
is wanted in two cases. One of the cases was filed under the arms
Act with Muktagacha Police Station in 2009. Charge sheets were
pressed in both of the cases against Sultan, said duty officer
of the Police station Sub-Inspector Ziaul Haque.
A freedom fighter, Abdul Karim,
filed a general diary with Dhunat Police Station of Bogra District
against 21 leaders of BNP and JeI with an allegation of making
a plan to kill Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and seven others by
planting a remote controlled bomb at a rally.
The investigators of the August
21, 2004 grenade attack believe they will find all masterminds
of the incident making a departure from the tradition of other
grievous crime probes where enquiries are finished with main culprits
remaining unknown. "We have identified some of the masterminds
of this attack and we are still hopeful that we would be able
to find the rest," Abdul Kahar Akand, investigation officer of
the attack told.
The Police arrested a cadre of
the HuT, identified as Jamal Hossain when he was distributing
anti-Government leaflets in front of town's Kandirpar Jame Mosque
in Comilla District. Jamal is a student of Ibne Taimia School
and College in Tamsam bridge area of Comilla town.
The BDR arrested three arms peddlers
along with arms and ammunition in Puskuni area of Gomostapur sub-district
of Chapainawabganj District. The arrestees were identified as
Hasan (26), of Ajmatpur area of Shibganj sub-district, Rony (27),
of Kansat area and Farooq Hossain (26), of Kajla area of Nachole
sub-district. The BDR recovered a foreign made pistol, four rounds
of bullet and a magazine from their possession.
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| August 21 |
The Police arrested three cadres
of the ICS Chittagong University unit including its general secretary
for their alleged involvement in injuring a BCL activist on the
campus. The arrestees were CU unit ICS general secretary Nesar
Ahmad Niaji, unit president Tofael Ahmad and organising secretary
Shahidul Islam Rasel.
The Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina
claimed that the previous BNP- JeI coalition Government had direct
links with the August 21 grenade attack on an Awami League rally
in 2004. No matter how powerful the culprits might be, they would
be brought to justice, Hasina said at a rally on the Bangabandhu
Avenue commemorating the sixth anniversary of the grenade attack.
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| August 22 |
The HuJI-B chief Mufti Abdul Hannan
said that the former BNP and the four-party alliance Government
held him on trumped-up charges during its tenure. "Investigation
now shows that many of the then top leaders had hand in the August
21 grenade attack," Hannan told the court. "I was taken on remand
for 369 days in 22 cases and brutally tortured in last five years,''
he said requesting the Court not to grant any further remand.
Hannan pleaded innocent before the court and claimed he was not
the chief of HuJI-B, not even a member of the outfit. Bagerhat
District Judicial Magistrate Court-2, however, placed him on a
two-day demand in a case for bomb attack on Sheikh Helal's public
meeting at Mollahat sub-district in 2001.
A bomb exploded
near the residence of Magura District-1 constituency-l
MP Serajul Akbar at Mahila College road
in the town. Leader of Magura District unit AL leader
Abu Reza Nantu was picked up by Police on in connection
with the bomb explosion. Party insiders said the bomb exploded
at around 11:00pm when some senior leaders of District
unit AL were holding a meeting to settle a dispute between Abu
Reza and the Serajul Akbar’s nephew Mahbubul Akbar Kallol.
RAB in a raid
recovered several firearms, lethal weapons, explosive materials
and books and leaflets on jihad in Khetlal sub-district of Dinajpur District.
The recovered materials include three pipe guns, 4 daggers, 3
books and 250 leaflets. However, none was arrested in this connection.
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August 22/23
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Biplob, identifying
himself as ‘operation commander’ of PBCP-Janajudhha, now in charge
of Khulna District and Khulna metropolitan city threatened to
kill five people in the District including three Upazila Nirbahi
Officers (UNO, Officer in charge of sub-district). All the three
UNOs and two others made General Diary entries with Police Stations
concerned seeking security of life.
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August 23
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Two JeI
leaders withdrew from the High Court a writ petition that challenged
the first amendment to the constitution and some sections of the
International Crimes (Tribunals) Act, 1973 under which the war
crimes trial is being held. Jamaat assistant secretaries
general Muhammad Kamaruzzaman and Abdul Quader Molla jointly
filed the writ petition on August 16 seeking HC's directive to
stop proceedings of the trial against them under the International
Crimes (Tribunals) Act.
A team from
the International Crimes Tribunal started investigating the war
crimes charges against the former ameer of the JeI Ghulam Azam.
The three-member team was led by Matiur Rahman, additional
superintendent of Police, along with investigation officer Shyamol Chowdhury and Probir Bhattacharya.
Police arrested
Shafiqul Islam Nizami (44), Ameer of JeI Paikgachha municipality
unit under Khulna District. The Jamaat leader, also acting principal
of Paikgachha Alim madrassa, was shown arrested under Section
54 of Bangladesh Penal Code.
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August 24
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The International
Crimes Tribunal directed the prison authorities to produce detained
JeI deputy chief Delwar Hossain Sayedee before it on September
21 in connection with 1971 war crime charges. The tribunal also
fixed September 21 for holding hearing on the eight applications
earlier filed by Sayedee and four other JeI leaders, said Registrar
of the Tribunal Shahinur Islam.
The freedom
fighters and local residents in Brahmanbaria District said former
JeI chief Ghulam Azam was the chief patron of Razakar (Pro-Pakistanis
during the Liberation war), Al-Badar and Al-shams the forces collaborated
with Pakistani Army during Bangladesh''s Liberation War in 1971.
They gave the testimony before a three-member inquiry committee
of International War Crime Tribunal that passed the second day
of investigation on the war crime committed by former JeI chief
at different spots in Brahmanbaria.
A leader of
PBCP- Red Flag was killed in a 'shootout' between RAB and his
cohorts in Bagmara sub-district of Rajshahi District. The deceased
Elahi Baksh Mithu (40) of Baje Goalkandi village was the ‘regional
commander’ of PBCP-Red Flag in Chapainawabganj District. A RAB
trooper, Havildar M Abdul Wahab, was also injured in the incident.
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August 25
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Detective Branch
of Police arrested Dhaka city unit JeI chief Rafiqul Islam Khan
from his Mirpur residence in Dhaka. Earlier on August 23, Rafiqul
Islam got anticipatory bails in six cases on charges of obstructing
Police in discharging their duties and hurting religious sentiment
of Muslims.
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August 26
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A Dhaka court
placed Dhaka city unit JeI chief Rafiqul Islam Khan on a three-day
remand on in a case filed for setting ablaze a private car on
June 26 that killed one of its passengers. Third Additional Chief
Metropolitan Magistrate Mohammad Ali Hussain passed the order
after Detective Branch of Police produced Rafiqul before it with
a seven-day remand prayer. Rafiqul was also shown arrested in
another case filed with Uttara Police Station for making seditious
statement.
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August 27
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Police arrested
four JeI cadres and seized some books on jihad, raiding a JeI
cadre’s house in Patgram sub-district of Lalmonirhat District.
The Police raided the house of one Ataur Rahman where the JeI
cadres were holding a meeting, said Police.
The JeI demanded
immediate withdrawal of the Education Ministry's circular, which
came in line with a High Court order, directing all educational
institutions not to force female students to wear borkha
(veil) at the institutions. In a statement, ATM Azharul Islam,
acting secretary general of JeI, said the education ministry hurts
religious sentiments and feelings of the country people by issuing
the circular, which goes against the principle of the holy Quran
(Islamic religious text) and Sunnah.
Five armed
cadres of PBCP-Janajudhha killed Damodar Union Parishad Chairman,
Sarder Abu Saeed Badal, on August 16 in Khulana District. Revealing
this during his confessional statement to the Court of Judicial
Magistrate, ‘operation commander’ of PBCP-Janajudhha , Bomaru
Mamun, who was arrested in Narail town of Khulna District on August
26, said that he and four other cadres joined the killing operation
after receiving a big amount of money from Badal's rivals. Expelled
BCL leader Mehedi Anam Ranju played a key role in hiring the militants
and he was the mastermind behind the murder, Bomaru Mamun told
the court.
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August 28
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Police arrested
two JeI local leaders from Nimtola Bazar in Gomostapur sub-district
of Chapainawabganj District. The arrestees were identified as
Tazer Hossain (52), Jamaat chief of Gomostapur sub-district unit
and Mohammad Shamsuzzoha (52), a leader of the party. Jahangir
Hossain, Officer-in-Charge of Gomostapur Police station, said
Jamaat cadres brought out a procession from their Noongola office
around 11:00 A.M. Police arrested Tazer and Shamsuzzoha at Nimtola
Bazar as they tried to stage procession defying the order of the
Police.
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