Bangladesh

March 2005 | Risk Summary

Bangladesh has charged 15 members of radical Islamic groups with sedition, accusing them of organising bomb attacks, murder and armed robbery. The arrests signal a change in the government's stance, after long denying the presence of any hardline organisations in the country and facing accusations that terrorists operated with their blessing. However, the charges do not include a series of attacks on meetings of the opposition Awami League; debilitating strikes demanding government resignation are likely to

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