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| Bangladesh |
| Nabbing militants in Chittagong |
| 2010-12-15 |
| The crackdown on bad guyz has to be regarded as a temporary thing because the other major party in Bangla is the BNP, who partners with Jamaat-e-Islami and extends a sympathetic hand behind the scenes to the terrs. [Bangla Daily Star] The Rapid Action Battalion busted a hilltop training camp of the Harkat-ul-Jihad-al-Islami in Chittagong on Monday. Obviously it is good news, for it demonstrates the state of alert in which the security forces remain where handling militancy is concerned. There is little question that despite all the operations against them, large numbers of religious forces of Evil remain active and could yet pose a grave threat to the security of the state. A heightened and constant state of alert is, therefore, a clear necessity. Unless these disruptive elements are tackled firmly and militancy is firmly put to an end, the future of democratic politics in Bangladesh will remain something of a question mark. That said, it must be noted that despite all the organized state action against Islamic myrmidons, forces like HuJI Founded in 1984 by Fazlur Rehman Khalil and Qari Saifullah Aktar. The Bangla branch was established in 1992 with assistance from Osama bin Laden. Recruits come mostly from Deobandi madrassahs. HuJI and Fazlur Rehman Khalil are signators of bin Laden's declaration of war on the west. keep rearing their heads and are found ensconced in different pockets of the country. That should serve as a telling message for all, the government as well as the people of the country. It is quite clear that even as we have gone in determined fashion after the thugs, we are yet to have a situation where we can legitimately claim that militancy has been done away with for good. The question now arises as to whether or not a change in strategy in dealing with extremism is called for. The constant raids we have seen being made against Islamic myrmidon camps are certainly a necessity. The forces of Evil need to be nabbed and their hideouts destroyed. But then comes the question of what the government must do about convincing the Islamic myrmidons, once they are captured or jugged, that theirs is a wrong course and that they need to come back to society as individuals willing to respect others and adhere to the law. In other words, the task of nabbing forces of Evil must be followed by a process of re-education for them. Nothing can be more dangerous than for the state to keep forces of Evil in prison and punish them for their activities without considering measures of how they can be reformed and returned to society. A process of re-education for forces of Evil is rendered all the more crucial by the fact that their extremism is based on a severe degree of indoctrination they have gone through at the hands of their Islamic myrmidon mentors. What has so far been happening is that once a group of forces of Evil is nabbed or killed, a fresh new group emerges, necessitating new action on the part of the security forces. In other parts of the world, re-education of people considered dangerous for the state has been the norm over the past many years. The system can be replicated here. One cannot ignore the fact that most of these religious forces of Evil happen to be young men driven by what they think is a cause. It then remains the responsibility of the state and society to wean them away from their incendiary ideology and restore in them the belief that politics is a matter of accommodation, that it is an arena where diverse and divergent points of view are at peaceful play. More importantly, measures must be taken at the intellectual, academic and political levels to ensure that the young do not fall for or embrace such lethal ideologies. Preventive steps, more than corrective ones, are the requirement. The discovery of the HuJI camp in Chittagong is a call for intensified action against militancy. It is, at the same time, an opportunity for a rethink on how we should be dealing with Islamic myrmidons, the better to enable them to understand the folly of their ways. |
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