More than 8000 arrests in Bangladesh

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More than 8000 arrests in Bangladesh

“We” – that is the message of the security forces after a series of murders in Bangladesh. But critics fear it is the Wrong meeting could be. Only a tiny minority are Islamists.

Police officers during a RAID in the capital, Dhaka

After a series of murders in Bangladesh, which was directed against activists, members of religious minorities, and artists, has taken the police since Friday, more than 8000 people. In the case of country-wide raids were made according to official figures, in just the past 24 hours more than 3,200 Suspects. On the weekend, there were a total of approximately 5300 persons, the police announced.

The Opposition accuses the government of using the raids on political opponents silenced. The authorities rejected the accusations. According to a statement by the Deputy police chiefs, Shahidur Rahman, the majority of the detainees are ordinary Criminal, against whom a warrant of arrest existed.

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Banned Islamic Group

As Rahman said., form the radical Muslims are a tiny minority among the suspects. Since Friday, only 119 people had been with an Islamic reference taken, including many members of the banned Islamic group Jamayetul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB).

The government makes the JMB for the majority of some 50 killings which have been recently perpetrated by a suspected religious or political motives. To had known most of the attacks, the jihadist organization “Islamic state” (IS) and the South Asian branch of the terror network Al-Qaeda. According to the assessment of terrorist experts between the JMB and the IS in close contact with.

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