By Liu Caiyu in Global Times Published: 2017/3/29 21:28:4 The live-fire drills of the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) in Southwest China’s Yunnan Province near the Myanmar border on Tuesday serves as a warning to both the Myanmar government and ethnic militias that their conflict should not cross over to China, Chinese experts said. The exercises, part of the training for army units of the PLA’s Southern Theater Command, aims to test the military’s capabilities, including…
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by Josh Ye in South China Morning Post, Mar 30, 2017 Explosions that killed at least five people and damaged or destroyed 83 homes in northern China last week were sparked by illegally stored explosives, state media reported. Media reports had initially suggested that the blasts on Saturday in Baotou in Inner Mongolia, which also injured 25 people, were caused by a gas pipeline explosion. The explosives were stored in a residential block in the…
Report in The daily star, Mar 30, 2017 Another day, another militant hideout. Three to be precise. Hours after the nearly five-day siege at a militant den in Sylhet ended on Tuesday evening, police said they tracked down three more terror hideouts — two in Sylhet’s neighbouring district Moulvibazar and one in Comilla. Police cordoned off the two Moulvibazar dens in Nasirpur and Borohat areas early hours yesterday and the one in Comilla in the…
by Tarek Mahmud in Dhaka Tribune, Mar 30, 2017 New Jama’atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (New JMB) has adopted a new strategy of setting up its hideouts in Hindu-populated neighbourhoods across Bangladesh aiming to deceive law enforcement. This trend was detected after several New JMB hideouts were found this month in Chittagong’s Sitakunda, Sylhet and Moulvibazar areas. According to police, New JMB members Kamal and his wife Arjina, who were arrested alive from Sitakunda, confessed that the…
By Mohiuddin Molla & Arifur Rahman Rabbi Comilla/Dhaka: Law enforcers on Wednesday discovered a den of terrorists at south Bagmara village in Kotbari of Comilla Sadar south upazila, while two other suspected militant hideouts in Borohat and Nasirpur areas of Moulvibazar Sadar upazila had already been cordoned off the same day. They have laid a siege to the suspected hideout, Superintendent of Police of Comilla Shah Abid Hossain told reporters. Preferring to be anonymous, an…