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Bangladesh
Bangladesh jails militants over 2005 bombings
2009-03-23
A Bangladesh court sentenced seven militants to life in prison on Sunday for their role in simultaneous bomb attacks across the country in 2005, officials said.
Just not a good time to be a JMB hard boy in B'desh given the border rifles rebellion. These boys are going to have a short, difficult life in jug ...
Authorities say the banned Jamayetul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) was behind 400 blasts detonated on the same day in a coordinated assault that prompted a crackdown by the then government. "All seven JMB members were found guilty of carrying out a series of bomb blasts at the Rajshahi University in the city on August 17, 2005," court inspector Devendranath Das said. The multiple attacks were part of a campaign apparently aimed at forcing Bangladesh to replace its secular legal system, which dates from the British colonial era, with traditional Islamic law.

At least 28 people were killed and hundreds injured in the attacks and the ensuing crackdown saw 1,000 JMB members arrested and prosecuted. JMB leader Shaikh Abdur Rahman, his deputy, and four other members of the group's decision-making body were hanged in 2007. The life terms given on Sunday came a week after a minister of the newly-elected secular government accused militants linked with the JMB of being behind a bloody mutiny at a military base in Dhaka in February.
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