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Crises within Crises
The Enemy Within
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Weekly Fatalities: Major Conflicts in South Asia March 1-7, 2004
BANGLADESH ISI using Bangladesh to create Islamic state in northeast India: An Asia Times Online report quoting Indian intelligence sources has said that Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) is attempting to realize its plan for a sovereign Islamic state in India's Northeast with support from fundamentalist elements within the Bangladesh Government, army, bureaucracy and intelligence agencies. Quoting unnamed sources, the report added that after the cease-fire on the Kashmir border, terrorist outfits are increasingly using Bangladesh as the training ground rather than Pakistan occupied Kashmir (PoK). Pakistani nationals owing allegiance to different terrorist outfits have been allegedly using Dhaka as a transit point for entering India and Nepal, and also as an escape route. Asia Times , March 6, 2004. INDIA
Seven
persons
killed
in
Fidayeen
attack
outside
jail
in
Jammu:
Seven
persons,
including
four
police
personnel
and
two
under-trial
terrorists,
were
killed
and
six
persons
sustained
injuries
when
a
lone
suicide
terrorist
(Fidayeen)
attacked
a
police
bus
carrying
13
under-trials,
mostly
terrorists,
from
the
district
jail
to
the
Court
complex
in
Jammu
on
March
3,
2004.
The
lone
Fidayeen
was
shot
dead
within
a
few
minutes
of
the
attack,
thus
thwarting
the
terrorist's
attempt
of
facilitating
escape
of
the
under-trials,
said
Deputy
Inspector
General
of
Police
(DIG
Jammu-Kathua
range)
Farooq
Ahmed.
He
said
that
the
terrorist
appeared
outside
the
district
jail
at
around
10.10
AM
and
started
indiscriminate
firing
on
the
security
picket
and
a
police
vehicle
in
which
the
13
detenues,
including
three
Pakistanis
and
other
terrorists,
were
being
taken
to
the
Courts
for
hearing.
Before
being
killed,
the
terrorist
had
injured
12
persons,
including
three
police
personnel
and
two
detenues.
All
were
rushed
to
the
Government
Medical
College
Hospital
where
five
of
them
were
declared
brought
dead.
Two
of
the
injured
succumbed
to
injuries
later.
The
jail,
located
at
Amphalla
in
Jammu
city,
houses
500
inmates,
about
100
of
whom
are
undertrials
suspected
to
be
involved
in
terrorist
activities.
Daily
Excelsior,
March
4,
2004.
NEPAL
32
soldiers
and
37
Maoist
insurgents
killed
in
Bhojpur
district:
Reports
quoting
the
Minister
for
Home
and
Information
and
Broadcasting,
Kamal
Thapa,
said
that,
in
a
fierce
battle
between
security
forces
(SFs)
and
a
group
of
Maoist
insurgents
numbering
around
1500
to
2000,
32
SF
personnel
and
37
Maoist
insurgents
were
killed
in
the
Bhojpur
district
on
March
3,
2004.
The
insurgents
also
looted
an
unspecified
quantity
of
rocket
launchers,
self-loading
rifles,
semi-automatic
rifles
and
other
weapons
from
the
troops
before
fleeing.
They
also
reportedly
caused
damage
to
properties
worth
Rupees
25
million.
Nepal
News,
March
4,
2004.
PAKISTAN US
court
convicts
three
Lashkar-e-Toiba
cadres
for
terrorist
conspiracy:
Three
American
Muslims
belonging
to
what
the
US
Government
calls
a
"Virginia
jihad"
were
convicted
on
March
4,
2004,
of
conspiracy
to
wage
war
on
America
and
provide
material
support
to
the
Taliban,
charges
that
carry
a
possible
life
sentence.
US
Attorney
General
John
Ashcroft
said
in
Washington
that
the
convictions
were
handed
down
against
Masoud
Khan,
Abdur
Raheem
and
Seifulla
Chapman
in
US
District
Court
in
Alexandria,
Virginia,
by
Judge
Leonie
Brinkema.
"The
defendants
convicted
today
were
associates
of
Lashkar-e-Taiba,"
said
Ashcroft.
Hindustan
Times,
March
5,
2004
SRI LANKA LTTE splits as 'Colonel' Karuna defies chief Prabhakaran: Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam's (LTTE) military leader for the East, 'Colonel' Karuna, has quit over alleged differences with his leader Velupillai Prabhakaran. Karuna had reportedly refused to send 1,000 armed cadres to the North as ordered by Prabhakaran, the Sri Lanka Broadcasting Corporation stated in its news bulletin on March 3, 2004. After quitting, Karuna alleged that cadres from the North enjoy all the privileges, while on the other hand, LTTE members from the East have been suffering and nearly 2,300 had died in the protracted ethnic conflict. He also said that he would operate separately with a breakaway group of LTTE members in the East and promised to continue observing the cease-fire. Meanwhile, LTTE Political Wing leader S.P. Thamilselvan announced at a news briefing in Kilinochchi that Karuna had been removed from his post. In a series of new appointments, the LTTE high command has appointed T. Ramesh as the 'Special Commander' of the Batticaloa-Amparai region (the LTTE's nomenclature for their eastern region) in place of Karuna, while Kaushalyan has been appointed as the Political Wing leader. Ram and Prabha have been appointed as the deputies of Ramesh in the military wing. Daily News, March 4, 2004 and March 7, 2004.
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Sectarian Violence in Pakistan
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