56 six percent of those involved in militant activities have ‘general education’ background, according to a survey by the Police Headquarters, reports The Daily Star on June 23. “We conducted the survey on 250 people, arrested between 2015 and 2017 for their involvement in militancy, and found that most of them have come from general schools,” said Mohamad Moniruzzaman, Additional Deputy Inspector General (Intelligence) of Police’s Anti-Terrorism Unit (ATU). The initiative revealed that 22 percent of those surveyed had madrasa background. The remaining 22 percent are either uneducated or were students of English-medium schools. 80 percent of those with religious extremism and terrorism links were radicalised online through various social media platforms, while the rest 20 percent were influenced by their accomplices.