[If tallied, the number of people detained in the crackdown since Thursday midnight stands at 11,648. Around 145 among them are suspected militants mostly belonging to JMB," a police headquarters spokesman said.]
I/III. http://fayetteadvocate.com/2016/06/top-jmb-militant-arrested-in-anti-islamist-clampdown-in/ Top JMB militant arrested in anti-Islamist clampdown in Bangladesh Joanna Estrada fayetteadvocate.com 16:19 | Wednesday, Jun 15, 2016 Fayette Advocate The attacks.html?_r=1" target="_blank">arrests of 103 radical Islamist militants were made on charges mostly connected to firearms and narcotics, the country's national police chief A.K.M. Shahidul Hoque told Reuters. Police in Bangladesh have arrested more than 5,000 people since Friday in a massive effort to crack down on the growing number of attacks against minorities and academics in the country. Deputy inspector general AKM Shahidur Rahman said only 34 of those arrested on the third day of the campaign were militants and the others were ordinary criminal suspects. Thousands of policemen and members of paramilitary units are taking part in the crackdown, which is targeting suspected militants and people with criminal records, according to police. Bangladesh police have arrested 3,155 people in 24 hours following a spate of gruesome murders. Eight of them belong to the outlawed militant outfit Jamaatul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) while another belongs to Jagrata Muslim Janata Bangladesh (JMJB), said Shariful Alam, assistant superintendent of police in Rajshahi. The killing caused a furor among Bangladesh's political establishment, many of whom considered her as one of their own. Almost all the attacks have been claimed by transnational Islamist extremist groups, including the Islamic State group and various affiliates of al-Qaida. ISIS has claimed responsibility for 21 of the attacks since its first claim in September a year ago and al Qaeda has claimed most of the rest, according to Site Intelligence Group, a US -based monitoring service. "All terror in Bangladesh for the last four years, the answer is very simple", Information Minister Hasanul Haq Inu told CNN in a recent interview. The Bangladesh arm of al Qaeda in the Indian Subcontinent, or AQIS, issued a statement on Friday condemning the killing of the wife of a senior police official in the southern port city of Chittagong. Police believe the homegrown militant group Ansarullah Bangla Team is behind the revolt against online critics of religious extremism. United Nations rights chief Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein said he was concerned about the killings and urged the government to do more to protect the affected groups. But the leading opposition party, the Bangladesh Nationalist Party, accused the government of using the crackdown as an excuse to round up opponents. Hasina's government, however, says transnational armed groups have no presence in the majority-Muslim South Asian nation of 160 million. II/III. http://www.msn.com/en-in/news/other/bangladesh-clerics-sign-fatwa-against-islamist-killings/ar-AAh1Zo0 Bangladesh clerics sign fatwa against Islamist killings >From Anisur RahmanDhaka, Jun 14 (PTI) Over 100,000 clerics in Bangladeshhave signed a fatwa against the brutal attacks by Islamists onminorities and secular writers in the Muslim-majority nation,terming them as "un-Islamic". "The fatwa clearly said what they (Islamists) are doingare anti-Islamic and it will lead them to the path of hell,not divinity...these killings of non-Muslims, minorities andsecular activists are forbidden in Islam," Bangladesh UlemaCouncil chief Maulana Farid Uddin Masuod told PTI describingthe essence of the edict. The fatwa denouncing the clandestine attacks onminorities and secular activists has been endorsed by over100,000 Muslim scholars and imams. "The synopsis of the 62-page fatwa is to portrayperpetrates of terrorism in the name of Islamic jihad asenemies of Islam, Muslims and humanity," Masuod said. He said the fatwa titled "the edict of peace forwellbeing of humanity" would be formally issued on June 18. He said the process to launch the fatwa began inJanuary this year after the attacks on liberal and secularactivists and religious minorities including Hindus andChristian by suspected Islamists sparked an internationaluproar. Authorities in Bangladesh are under mountinginternational pressure to halt the violence, which in the pastthree years has claimed the lives nearly 50 people - Hindus,Christians and secular bloggers - many of them bymachete-wielding attackers. Though most of the attacks were claimed by the IslamicState or its affiliates and other similar extremist groups,the Bangladesh government has repeatedly dismissed the claimsand said the attacks were carried out by homegrown outfitslinked to the opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP). Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Friday told a meeting ofher ruling Awami League party that police would stamp out theviolence and she vowed to catch "each and every killer". During the past three days over 11,000 criminal suspectshave been arrested as part of an intensified crackdown againstextremists in the country. Masuod aid the anti-militancy security campaign wasimportant but the motivational campaign by Islamic scholarsdenouncing the terrorism in the name of Islam was morecrucial. "They (militants) believe, their actions will take themto heaven but they are required to be made understand theyactually are destined to hell because of their act...themeaning of jihad in Islamic term is entirely different fromwhat they are doing," he said. PTI AR NSA AKJNSA III. http://www.firstpost.com/world/hindu-lecturer-survives-assassination-attempt-by-suspected-islamists-in-bangladesh-2836972.html Hindu lecturer survives assassination attempt by suspected Islamists in Bangladesh PTI Jun 15, 2016 22:11 IST Dhaka: A Hindu lecturer on Wednesday survived an assassination attempt when suspected Islamists barged into his home and hacked him with lethal weapons, critically injuring him in Bangladesh, the latest in a series of brutal attacks on minorities and secular activists in Muslim-majority nation. Ripon Chakrabarty, a 50-year-old Mathematics lecturer at the Nazimuddin Government University College, was hacked with lethal weapons by the attackers who stormed his residence this evening in Madaripur in southwestern Bangladesh, police said. Chakrabarty, who was hacked by three assailants in his head, neck and shoulders, raised an alarm, prompting local residents to grab one of the attackers while others fled. "The detained attacker is now being questioned in our custody. We suspect he could be a member of a militant group," Madaripur police superintendent Sarwar Hossain told PTI. A police sub-inspector said three assailants knocked at Ripon's house and attacked him soon after he opened the door. Chakrabarty, who was seriously injured, is being treated at a state-run hospital in southwestern Barisal. He is the only Hindu victim to survive an attack by the Islamists, who have hacked to death four other members from the community in recent months. Suspected Islamists killed a number of secular activists, Hindus and other minorities across the country in recent months, prompting authorities to launch a nationwide anti-militant clampdown since Friday. Bangladesh authorities have detained nearly 12,000 people in a nationwide crackdown to halt a spate of deadly attacks on minorities and secular writers in the Muslim-majority nation. Some of those arrested were linked with outlawed Jamaatul Mujahedeen Bangladesh. ***"If tallied, the number of people detained in the crackdown since Thursday midnight stands at 11,648. Around 145 among them are suspected militants mostly belonging to JMB," a police headquarters spokesman said.*** [Emphasis added.] Authorities are under mounting international pressure to halt the violence, which in the past three years have claimed nearly 50 people - Hindus, Christians and secular bloggers - many of them by machete-wielding attackers. Though most of the attacks were claimed by the Islamic State or its affiliates and other similar extremist groups, the Bangladesh government has repeatedly dismissed the claims and said the attacks were carried out by homegrown outfits linked to the opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP). -- Peace Is Doable -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Green Youth Movement" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/greenyouth. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
