Bangladesh bombings

For more direct information on the Bangladesh bombings you can visit the Bangladeshi blog The 3rd world view. (hat tip to Sargasso)

BTW, remember last year’s bombings in Bangladesh. Haven’t had time yet to delve deeper into this, hence this small linkdump.

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About Guy La Roche

Dutch translator and subtitler living in Brittany with his three cats. Has also lived in the Flemish part of Belgium. Speaks English rather fluently and in a former life used to have a decent command of Spanish. Knows swear words in German and Russian. Not quite francophone yet, but slowly getting there. Vaguely centrist observer of the world around him, extremely naive and, sometimes, rather proud of it. Writes Venale Pecus.

6 thoughts on “Bangladesh bombings

  1. More details, almost 400 bombs all over the place. This isn’t minor organization if you can pull off something like this.

    Too bad i don’t really know much more about the political situation in Bangladesh. How were earlier police investigations into these groups “politicized”?

    “More Update at 23:00 hours: The government sources confirmed-

    * 393 bombs exploded in 63 districts out of 64 districts of Bangladesh.

    * Around 150 are hospitalized but hundreds more received minor injuries and went home after treatment. 2 confirmed dead till now.”

  2. When around four hundred small bombs explode in 63 districts out of 64 districts of a country simulteneously it shows what kind of network the attackers possess (imagine 50 states out of 51 in US). This is a total mockery of the country’s internal security system as the attacks were at the key installations.

    The ruling coalition includes the right wing Islami party who are constantly denying existence of the radical Islamic terrorist organizations that are funded by middle east and alleged to have links with international terrorists like Al Qaeda. The JI only received 5% vote in 1996 election but now coming up strong.

    Its really a paradox as who is benefitting from these terrors. More at my blog.

  3. It looks like this very serious events get very little attention. My newspaper did not even mention the hundreds simultaneous bombs.

    ….there are many reasons why Europe should pay more attention to India (and the other big southern democracies in the IBSA).
    The knowledge of developments in the surrounding muslim countries to me looks more reliable than the US intelligence that is still influenced by the humiliation by Khomeiny and the support the US gave to Bin Laden and the likes of him. (quoting an older post of my site). Just to ask attention form SAAG: http://www.saag.org/%5Cpapers16%5Cpaper1506.html

    Bangla Bai is aiming for a Taliban like regime in Bangla Desh.

  4. FG,

    Actually the EU does pay attention and has been quite involved in Bangladesh. Some of those militant islamic groups were banned partly due to external pressure by the EU. The EU is in a position to make strong appeals because Europe is Bangladesh no.1 export partner.

    http://europa.eu.int/comm/external_relations/bangladesh/intro/

    The fact that this little but influental role the EU has is totally unknown to journalists and the general public seems to speak for itself. Why doesn’t the media do a better job?

  5. OT, Off topic but I can not resist.
    Visit the link CapTVK provided with IE and with Mozilla!
    With Mozilla the site looks ugly…
    So apparently the EU supports the monopolists strategy not to comply with CSS standards!

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