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Suspected militant held near Rohingya camps in Bangladesh
[DAWN] Bangladesh police on Sunday placed in durance vileMaw! They're comin' to get me, Maw! a suspected bully boy from the border district of Ukhia, near camps where thousands of Rohingya Moslems fleeing a military crackdown in Myanmar have taken shelter. The Rapid Action Battalion  (RAB), an elite police tasked with tackling extremism in the country, said it detained 30-year-old Sharful Awal for allegedly communicating with international Jihadist groups.Awal was freed on bail in January after he was charged with anti-terrorism and explosives-related offences in the Chittagong region, RAB local chief Ruhul Amin said in a statement. But after his release, Awal "communicated with various international bully boy groups through social media in an effort to establish Khilafat (a caliphate) through so-called Jihad," Amin said. Police allege Awal is a member of a new faction of the Jamayetul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB), a homegrown group, and was involved in organising local bully boys. The new JMB faction has been blamed for a wave of attacks on foreigners and religious minorities, including the deadly attack on a posh Dhaka cafe last year in which 18 foreigners were shot and hacked to death. But the RAB’s Amin said authorities have not found any connections so far between Awal and Rohingya refugees. Posted by: Fred 2018-01-02 |
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