Bangladesh
The state of grief in Bangladesh after the terrorist attack
They hacked their victims to death before they found in the ball hail of the police of the death. After the bloody hostage-taking in a restaurant in Dhaka, the fear of a spiral of violence is growing in Bangladesh.
According to the
Islamist terrorist attack with at least 22 fatalities has ordered the government in Bangladesh for this Sunday and Monday a two-day state mourning. Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, called on the roughly 160 million citizens of the Muslim people’s Republic, to oppose extremism, and in particular, to protect children from Islamist ideologues.
The greatest threat to international peace
The UN security Council condemned the “heinous and cowardly terrorist attack” in Dhaka. In a statement, it said again that “terrorism is the greatest threat to international peace and security”. UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon hopes that the ones behind this crime are identified and held accountable.
The European Union and the German government warned the international community to intensify the fight against Islamist terrorism and expressed to the Victims of their compassion.
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Deadly end to a hostage situation
Foreigners were the target
An alleged terrorist command of the so-called “Islamic state” (IS) was detained in a Restaurant in Dhaka for hours, hostages, and a minimum of 20 visitors and two policemen killed. 13 hostages were freed in an assault by the army and police, six of whom were shot. According to arms data, the victims have been hacked predominantly “to death”. Among them are
nine Italians, seven of the Japanese, a U.S. citizen and an Indian.
The government denied, however, that the IS had committed the act of violence in Dhaka and the local extremist group Jamayetul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) was responsible. According to the Minister Asaduzzaman Khan said finally, once inside to the AFP news Agency. These Islamists have no Connections to the “Islamic state.”
“It has become fashionable”
The government published the names and photos of the six-shot attacker. A seventh man was arrested and interrogated. According to Khan, all the attackers were well-educated young men, who is studying at the University, and mostly from wealthy families had originated. None of them had gone to an Islamic school. On the question of why the men were radicalized, Khan said: “It has become a fashion.”
The banned JMB is made by the government of Bangladesh again and again for attacks. In the past few weeks, there had been a series of bloody attacks on secular activists, bloggers and journalists as well as members of religious minorities. To known most of the attacks of the IS and the South Asian offshoot of Al-Qaeda network.
Since the beginning of 2013 Bangladesh under a series motivated attacks on the Islamist suffers. Many of the more than 50 victims of religion, critics, intellectuals and members of religious minorities. Two weeks ago, the Bangladesh police had arrested in a controversial action, more than 12,000 people in a large-scale operation against extremism.
stifab (dpa, APE)