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…
Posts published in March 2017
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…
Report in Global Times, Mar 28, 2017 at 15:03 Public security officials in Northwest China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region released information on 11 new cases involving suspects who spread extremist, separatist and other illegal content online, as efforts to clean up cyberspace in the region continue. The regional public security bureau arrested 12 people between January and March, Xinjiang’s cyberspace administration office announced via its WeChat account on Monday. The suspects allegedly spread information on…
By Shaheen Mollah and Mohammad Jamil Khan The militants at Atia Mahal were expert bomb makers and the Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs) found in the Sylhet den were all homemade, investigators have said. The detonators of the IEDs were assembled in various militant hideouts in Sitakunda of Chittagong and then brought to the Sylhet den. And the nitrate gel used as explosive was smuggled into the country through Chapainawabganj border from a neighbouring country where…
By Kamrul Hasan & Tarek Mahmud The Counter-Terrorism and Transnational Crimes (CTTC) unit of police suspects that one of the four militants killed during the joint operation of security forces in Sylhet’s Shibbari could be Mainul Islam Musa, the alleged chief coordinator of New JMB. CTTC investigators told reporters on Tuesday that a photo of one of the dead militants bore strong resemblance to Musa. On Monday, Bangladesh Army recovered two of the four bodies from…
By Aminul Islam Khan Rana in Dhaka tribune, March 28, 2017 at 9.28pm Sirajganj: Vandals desecrated three idols of Hindu goddesses at two temples in Belkuchi upazila of Sirajganj overnight on Monday. The unidentified miscreants decapitated the idol at Baroari Kali Temple and vandalised a Kali idol and a Sarashwati idol at the Kalipada Sarker family temple in Khidra Joknala village of Bhangabari union of the upazila. A team of police have already visited the…
Report In The daily Star, Mar 11, 2017 The next generations will grow up on the footmark of Hefazat-e-Islami, a Qawmi madrassa-based organisation, if the communal things “inserted” in school textbooks were not removed. The speakers of a discussion also demanded that the government should immediately discard all the communal elements from the textbooks. “The poison of communalism is infusing into the children gradually. On one hand, the government says it will root out fundamentalism…
Report In The daily Star, Mar 11, 2017 Militant outfit “Neo JMB” has at least three more dens in Chittagong, and has chosen the district as its base, finding it difficult to operate in the capital. Investigators have gleaned the information from two detained suspected militants — Mahmud Hasan and Ahmed Azwad Imtiaz Talukder alias Omi — who attacked police at a checkpoint in Comilla on Tuesday. Acting on information from the duo, police on…