Escalating threats to secularism in Bangladesh
Islamists have ignited contemporary identity wars in Bangladesh because they can't abide secularism, with hard-line clerics inciting violence to overturn constitutional principles and the rule of law.
Bangladesh police gun down militant linked to cafe massacre, slaying of Japanese
Bangladesh police on Tuesday shot dead a suspected militant commander and a close aide of the mastermind of the cafe attack last year that killed 22 people, mostly foreigners, a police official said. Police said Abu Musa, 32, was a close associate of Jahangir Alam, ...
Bangladesh court charges seven from banned Islamist group with slaying of Japanese farmer
A court in Bangladesh on Tuesday indicted seven members of a banned Islamist group in the killing of a Japanese man last year, a prosecutor said. Kunio Hoshi, 65, was gunned down by motorcycle-borne gunmen while on his way to visit a grass farm project ...
Bangladesh nabs four militant suspects, including pair linked to Japanese farmer's slaying
Bangladesh police on Sunday arrested four suspected Islamist militants, including two linked to the slaying of a Japanese man one year ago, in a raid on their hideout in an abandoned brick kiln. The Jama'atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) militants threw homemade bombs, wounding three police, ...
