Bangladesh

October 2005 | Risk Summary

Police have arrested nearly 400 suspects after a co-ordinated wave of bombings around the country in August. Two banned Islamic groups, Jagrata Muslim Janata Bangladesh and Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen, are suspected of involvement in the terrorist attacks, with copies of a leaflet found at most bomb sites carrying a call by the parties for the introduction of Islamic rule in Bangladesh. Teachers and students of madrasas, Islamic religious schools, have also been arrested. Despite the crackdown, the government has been criticised for not doing enough to trace militants, with opposition parties accusing minority Islamic parties in the coalition of involvement in the

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