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Human chain in front of Bangladesh Rifles headquarters

Activists hold a photo of a grieving woman as they form a human chain in front of Bangladesh Rifles headquarters on March 2 in Dhaka. The Bangladesh military on Tuesday launched its own probe into a savage mutiny by troops against their officers, raising fears of a power struggle between the army and the newly elected civilian government.


Picture:(AFP/Munir Uz Zaman)

BDR incidence 2009 – May be the revenge of JMB

Who is Bangla Bhai ?
Siddique ul-Islam , known popularly as Bangla Bhai ( 1970 – 30 March, 2007), also known as Aziz ur-Rahman Azizur Rôhman, was a Bangladeshi Islamic terrorist and the military commander of the Al Qaeda affiliated radical pseudo-Islamist organization Jagrata Muslim Janata Bangladesh (Awakened Muslim Masses of Bangladesh), known in popular usage as the JMJB. Most active in the north-western section of Bangladesh around the Rajshahi region, Bangla Bhai gained a nationwide and worldwide notoriety for bombings and other terrorist activities.
Siddique ul-Islam fought in Afghanistan in the 1980s as a Mujahedin fighter, some believe directly reporting to Osama Bin Laden. Upon his return to Bangladesh, he taught Bengali language for some time. Islam joined the ranks of the JMJB and became the commander of military affairs and an acting member of the Majlis-e-Sura, its decision-making committee. Bangla bhai became infamous for the torture and intimidation of the opponents of JMJB and the minorities.

On August 17, 2005, JMJB, under Islam's leadership, launched a nation-wide attack by exploding 500 makeshift bombs. Along with Shaykh Abdur Rahman, Islam is alleged to have masterminded the bombing. In late 2005, a series of suicide bomb attacks rocked Bangladesh. JMJB and Jamaat-al-Mujahedin Bangladesh have claimed responsibility of these attacks.

Police say that more than 50 people have been arrested in connection with the blasts.
Prime Minister Khaleda Zia condemned the attacks as "cowardly".

In each incident, bombs were set off in crowded spots, mainly at government offices, journalists' clubs and courts, between 1030 and 1130 local time.

Mr Babor said timing devices were found at the scenes of blasts but most of the bombs were small, homemade devices - wrapped in tape or paper.

Leaflets from the Jamatul Mujahideen Bangladesh have appeared at the site of some of the blasts.
"It is time to implement Islamic law in Bangladesh" and "Bush and Blair be warned and get out of Muslim countries", the leaflets say.

the British High Commissioner in Bangladesh was hurt in a grenade explosion at a Muslim shrine in the north-eastern town of Sylhet.

Bangla Bhai Interview





OPERATION MUKTAGACHHA

On 6 March, 2006 the Rab intelligence team and Rab-9 rushed to Mymensingh in the early hours yesterday and captured Bangla Bhai's wife Fahima and minor son Saad from a house on RK Mission Road in the town at about 5:00am. Acting on her information, the Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) men led by its intelligence wing chief Lt Col Gulzar Uddin Ahmed encircled the house of a village doctor Umed Ali at Rampur in Muktagachha, 30 kilometres off Mymensingh, at about 7:00am and started searching for Bangla Bhai.

As Rab Sergeant Rafiq, who was posted in an adjacent tin-roofed house, tried to peep into the room to see who were inside, Bangla Bhai shot him once in the head with a submachine carbine. The Rab men then took the wounded sergeant away to safety.


"When Bangla Bhai hit Sergeant Rafiq, our runner Sattar identified him [Bangla Bhai] and raised an alarm," Commander Mahsuk Hasan, Rab media wing chief, told reporters at Mymensingh.


At this point Rab intelligence wing chief Lt Col Gulzar Uddin Ahmed asked Bangla Bhai on a loudhailer to surrender saying that Rab has encircled the whole area. "Bangla Bhai, you have no way to escape. It will be better for you to surrender," Gulzar said.


Source:http://www.thedailystar.net/2006/03/07/d6030701011.htm



Bangla Bhai, five other militants to hang

In the period of Caretaker govt. of Bangladesh (2008) Six militants including Jama'atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) chief Shaikh Abdur Rahman and his number two, the dreaded Siddiqul Islam alias Bangla Bhai wereto hang for murdering two judges after the Supreme Court rejected their review petition .


Provable relation between Bangla bhai and BDR incidence 2009
BANGLADESH'S BORDER security force, Bangladesh Rifles (BDR) mutinied in capital Dhaka on Wednesday (February 25) morning asking for better pay and facilities. The soldiers of BDR shouted slogans against the government and are reported to have taken Major General Shakil Ahmed as hostage.
The mutiny by BDR men triggered several gun battles in the capital city leading to a number of casualties. 180 officers have also been killed at BDR headquarters located in Dhaka's Pilkhana area including Major General Shakil Ahmed and Colonel Gulzar Uddin who had captured Bangla Bhai.

Actually it was a tremendous loss for JMB who was working convert Bangladesh into a terrorist country and Bangladesh Army was quite responsible for this. BDR incidence 2009 may be the revenge.

New Bangladesh graves uncovered after mutiny

More bodies are being found in the capital Dhaka, at the scene of a violent revolt by border guards. Those killed are to be buried with state honours.

More than 80 bodies have been recovered and authorities expect the number to rise.

Evidence is emerging that the mutiny appears to have been well-planned and well-funded.

PRIME MINISTER SHEIKH HASINA SPECH FOR NATION

Mutinies break out beyond Bangladesh capital- Reuters

Reuters said Mutinies by the paramilitary Bangladesh Rifles (BDR) have broken out in various towns around the country even as BDR violence in the capital Dhaka was being contained, police and witnesses said on Thursday.
There were shooting incidents involving BDR troops in more than half a dozen towns including Feni, Teknaf, Satkania, Sylhet, Dinajpur and Naogaon, local police officials told Reuters reporters.
No death or injuries were reported immediately.
Source:http://in.reuters.com/article/companyNews/idINDHA41586920090226

Nearly 50 people were killed when paramilitary troops in Bangladesh

A mutiny by thousands of Bangladesh's border security guards spread outside the capital Dhaka Thursday, as Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina urged the rebels to surrender immediately.(AFP/Munir Uz Zaman)

Reuters said – Nearly 50 people were killed when paramilitary troops in Bangladesh fought among themselves during a mutiny in their headquarters over a pay dispute, a government minister said on Thursday.

The mutinous soldiers have been laying down their arms after accepting an offer of amnesty from the government, but the incident on Wednesday underscores the challenges facing Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.

Hasina won elections in December that returned the impoverished South Asian country to democracy after nearly two years of army-backed emergency rule.

"Nearly 50 people have been killed in sporadic fighting in the headquarters of the Bangladesh Rifles (BDR)," Mohammad Quamrul Islam, state minister for law and parliamentary affairs, told reporters.

Officials said 50 stranded women and children were evacuated from the mutiny-hit BDR headquarters in the capital Dhaka after the rebels began laying down their arms.

No gun fire had been heard in the early hours of Thursday.

The mutiny erupted on Wednesday when at least five people were killed in shooting that broke out after enlisted men met officers to discuss a row over pay and the BDR command structure.

Source:http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090225/wl_nm/us_bangladesh_mutineers_1

22-yr-old youth rapes 101-yr-old woman!!!

In an incident that was as shameful as it was repulsive, a 22-year-old youth raped a 101-year-old woman in Salori village under Shegaon
police station in Warora tehsil on January 15.

The police have identified the accused as Pundalik Dhok of Salori village. Police sources said that Pundalik, to give vent to his pervert intentions, entered the house of the victim who was his great grandmother’s age, at 11 pm on January 15. The victim was alone when Pundalik overpowered the old woman and fled. The victim narrated the incident to her son who returned on the following day and accordingly he filed a complaint with the police. The medical examination of the old woman too confirmed of rape, Shegaon police personnel said.

Acting on a complaint filed the victim’s son, cops nabbed Pundalik on Friday evening and was booked under section 376 of IPC. Later on the same evening, Pundalik managed to give cops a slip after he and the victim were taken to the primary health centre for medical examination. Shegaon police told TOI that after the medical examination the accused walked out of small hospital to wash his hands outside the PHC as the accompanying cops waited for him. On finding that there was no cop present as he washed hands, he fled under the cover of darkness. Additional offence under section 324 has been registered against the accused and have launched a manhunt to nab him.

News Source:http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com

Tamil Tigers kill 51 soldiers

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Tamil Tigers killed 51 Sri Lankan soldiers in fierce fighting in the island's north, a pro-rebel Website reported yesterday (18 Jan 2009).
The military denied dozens of troops died and said 20 insurgents were killed.
About 150 soldiers were also wounded in clashes near Dharmapuram village in the Tamil-dominated north after the military launched an offensive Friday, TamilNet quoted the rebels' media unit as saying.
However, military spokesman Brig. Udaya Nanayakkara said 20 rebels and seven soldiers were killed in the clashes.
It was not possible to verify the battle details and the two sides are known to exaggerate casualties suffered by each other while downplaying their own losses.
Meanwhile, some 170 people have fled rebel-controlled areas in northern Sri Lanka as fresh fighting erupted across several fronts, the military said yesterday.
It said the 170 men, women and children had sought shelter in government-controlled areas in the north on Friday.
The International Committee of the Red Cross on Friday warned of a "massive displacement" of civilians, many of whom had already been forced to move numerous times.
"Tens of thousands of displaced civilians are concentrated in an area so small that there are serious concerns for their physical safety and living conditions, in particular in terms of hygiene," ICRC said.
Troops backed by helicopter gunships targeted rebels positions in the northern area of Dharmapuram on Friday, inflicting heavy casualties on the Tamil Tigers, the army said. It said a few soldiers were injured.
Government troops recently captured the capital of the rebels' de facto state and a northern peninsula the cultural centre of the country's ethnic minority Tamils perceived as the heart of the insurgents' 25-year separatist campaign.
Facing intense pressure from advancing government troops, the rebels are now squeezed into a dwindling territory in the northeast.
Authorities say they will crush the rebels and retake their remaining territory in months.
Tamil Tiger rebels have fought since 1983 to create an independent homeland for the country's ethnic minority Tamils, who have suffered marginalisation by successive governments controlled by majority ethnic Sinhalese.
More than 70,000 people have been killed in the violence.
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