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2019-06-04 Bangladesh
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With 300 militants out on bail, is Bangladesh safe?
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| No. But Bangladesh was not safe when they all were behind bars, so that’s ok. |
[Dhaka Tribune] Despite years of vigorous and continued success in detaining gunnies or thwarting their nefarious plans, law enforcement agencies have been unable to follow through on ensuring long-term punishment in the court of law.
The July 1, 2016 terror attack on the Holey Artisan Bakery, an upscale cafe in Gulshan, Dhaka, was a wake-up call not just for Bangladesh's law enforcement agencies, but the entire nation.
Since the attack, law enforcement agencies have conducted a rigorous anti-militancy campaign around the country to curb the growing risks of bully boy movements, including raids and public awareness programs.
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After three years of rigorous anti-militancy drives, law enforcement officers can say bully boy groups have mostly been neutralized, but as 60% of the jugged
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are now out on bail and in hiding, a major threat looms overhead.
Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) Director General (DG) Benazir Ahmed on Sunday said the elite force arrested 512 gunnies after the Holy Artisan attack but around 300 of them were on the lam after they were released on bail.
However,
a woman is only as old as she admits...
the RAB chief did not explain what circumstances led to the court judges granting bail to the bully boys. He also did not say if the police or RAB had submitted sufficient evidence or cooperated with the prosecutors to secure strong sentences against the arrested.
Furthermore, the RAB DG also did not shed any light on whether law enforcement agencies keep track of gunnies who receive bail.
But he referred to the lawyers who represent gunnies in courts, and said: "Those who are advocating for gunnies can also be attacked by them. Militants have attacked lawyers on court premises in the past."
THE RULE OF LAW
Supreme Court lawyer Jyotirmoy Barua repudiated the RAB chief’s remarks, saying: "The Constitution of Bangladesh guarantees every citizen the right to justice. It is the court’s decision to grant bail, not lawyers. A person only becomes a criminal when convicted by the court.
"Pointing fingers at lawyers is completely unjustified. The lawyers are just fulfilling their functions by providing legal assistance to those who seek it."
Human rights activist Nur Khan Liton told Dhaka Tribune that if law enforcement agencies investigated properly and submitted sufficient evidence to the court, then the accused would not have been granted bail.
He further said: "Law enforcement officers should not point fingers at lawyers without properly investigating first. They can always track people who get out on bail."
LATEST ATTACKS
The year 2019 was quite uneventful before at least two people were killed in a blast at a suspected bully boy den in Dhaka’s Bosila in April during a RAB raid.
The elite force members claimed the two men could have been members of banned bully boy outfit Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh
The JMB is said to be the youth front of Al Mujahideen, the parent organization that began working toward establishing Bangladesh as an Islamic state in the mid 1990s, which remains obscure and probably defunct today. Other organizations, such as Jama'atul Jihad, JMB, Jagrata Muslim Janata Bangladesh (JMJB), Harkat-ul-Jihad-al-Islami (HUJI), Hizbut Tawhid, Tawhidi Janata, Islami Jubo Shangha, Islami Shangha, Al Falah A'am Unnayan Shanstha and Shahadat-e al Hiqma are believed to be part of the Al Mujahideen network. The JMB at its peak was reported to contain at least 100,000 members, and an alleged 2,000-man suicide brigade, few of whom actually exploded. JMB allegedly received financial assistance from individual donors in Kuwait, UAE, Bahrain, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and Libya. Reports have claimed that funding of JMB by international NGOs like Kuwait based Society of the Revival of Islamic Heritage (RIHS) and Doulatul Kuwait, Saudi Arabia based Al Haramaine Islamic Institute and Rabita Al Alam Al Islami, Qatar Charitable Society and UAE-based Al Fuzaira and Khairul Ansar Al Khairia. The top leadership of JMB was captured in 2005 and hung in 2007, which pretty much shot their bolt.
(JMB) considering the manner in which they exchanged fire with RAB personnel and had the bombs went kaboom! .
Hours after the operation, two traffic police constables and one community traffic member were maimed in a blast in Dhaka's Gulistan.
On May 26, a female assistant sub-inspector of police and two others were maimed in a bomb kaboom near a police vehicle at the Malibagh intersection in Dhaka.
The Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
claimed all three attacks.
DO LONE WOLF ATTACKS HAVE ANY CONNECTIONS?
In its March 2019 issue, a Telegram app-circulated magazine "Lone Wolf," revealed a threat that Islamists gunnies have now targeted Bangladesh and its neighbour India for their future lone wolf attacks.
It even featured a possible list of targets in Bangladesh, which include eminent historian Prof Muntasir Mamun and president of Ekattorer Ghatok Dalal Nirmul Committee, Shahriar Kabir, and human rights
...which often include carefully measured allowances of freedom at the convenience of the state...
activists Sultana Kamal.
In response, Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan dismissively said: "The citizens of Bangladesh are not afraid of threats published in the ’Lone Wolf’ magazine."
Meanwhile,
...back at the dirigible, the pilot and the copilot had both hit the silk.
Jack! Cynthia exclaimed. Do you know how to drive one of these things?
Jack wiped some of the blood from his knuckles.
No, he said. Do you? ...
Inspector General of Police (IGP) Mohammad Javed Patwary in May said gunnies are targeting law enforcement officials, including police, with an increasing trend of "lone wolf" attacks.
"Militants are now using the 'lone wolf' system all over the world. The trend of lone wolf attacks has gone up compared to that of coordinated attacks, and it is almost impossible to stop this trend," he said.
The IGP also claimed that no foreign bully boy organizations are active in Bangladesh.
"Militant organizations like Islamic State (IS) are not active in Bangladesh, but they may have communicated their ideology to some people." 
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